Easter 2010 picture overload!

4 Easter egg hunts made for LOTS of fun & LOTS of candy!!

It all started the weekend before Easter with the primary easter egg hunt #1

Windy day, that made for a quick hunt and back in the car!

(out of order pics)

Hunt #3

Valley Center

There were at least 100 eggs for just these 2 kids to find!! They had a blast!

Egg hunt #2 with the Frys in Huntington Beach

Paige with Grandma N Grandpa Great

Fry Cousins ready to hunt!

Mason was breaking all the plastic eggs open to get the candy...and when he got to a "REAL" egg he did the same thing! His face was priceless...and he says "CHICKEN?!"

After the VC hunt with all thier loot.

Playing with thier candy and prizes for 'winning' the hunt!

So spoiled :)

Dying eggs at Grandma K's.

More Dying.....

We got our FINAL PREGNANT SISTER pic!!!

Lindseys due mid July & was sticking out her tummy to try and be as big as me....:)

Our 2 boys will have so much fun together.

Easter morning
breaking into the cadburry eggs.....

Egg hunt #4 at the Blumes

We enjoyed the Easter Sunday Earthquake right after too :)

Mason and Kendall enjoying Grandpa's ladder :)

Grateful for the Easter season and all it brings with it!

(and just FYI we did teach the kids its not just all about egg hunts haha).

Hungry Hungry

CATERPILLARS!

We have had a science experiment going on since mid March in our house.

Santa got the kids a caterpillar kit for Christmas so,

We recieved this cup of TINY TINY caterpillars in the mail & I thought they were all dead :)

They were not much bigger than an ant.

But they SERIOUSLY GREW!! Every morning they would double in size, it was starting to freak me out!

Im suprised they even survived the many drops to the floor when this little man tried to 'shake them' or love them too much.

I was kinda jealous of their "lifestyle"....eat and eat and eat....then wrap up in a cacoon and just sleep until you had wings :)

I guess I kinda have that life right now....eat and eat and eat...and one day pop out a baby hahha !!

After a couple weeks of eating...April 2nd...they Magically appeared....

We had 5 butterflys finally come out of thier cacoons and we fed them oranges and watched them try to fly and hang out for about a week.....

And last Thursday night we RELEASED THEM FROM THIER CAGE!!!

A couple hung around and let the kids hold them...and the rest instantly flew up and out of town!

We almost had a Discovery channel episode go on...as soon as we opened up the netting I swear EVERY SPARROW in the neighborhood was up on our wall looking around..how did they know!?

We didnt see any casualties lucky-

Hope the butterflys are loving life out in the free world without the torture of loving kids!

Baby Blume's Love Bear

Build A Bear Night!

Before Paige was born Craig and I made her a build a bear which we called her 'love bear'.

Paige then went with us and made Mason his bear before he was born and brought it to him in the hospital. (he was sooooo excited!)

So, Paige and Mason needed to go and make this new little man his own 'love bear'.

Mason wanted to make him a chipmunk....but we distracted him quickly :)

Stuffing it.

Putting the heart wishes in for thier 'baby brodder'.

Giving it an air bath.

Hes a cute one :)

P&M both brought thier bears to the store too...and then went and put them all in cars to push around the store.

Paiges music box in her bears hand was sounding more like the Haunted mansion music, so they replaced it for her and she was beyond happy!

The kids cant wait to take the new bear they made to the hospital when they meet thier new baby boy!

SPRING!

I love spring!

The colors, the flowers that are popping up all over & the excuse to buy new outfits for the kids to wear to church!! :)

(dont mind his socks haha).

Masons 1st class!

Paige's Dance studio also has a gymnasium across the street.

Once a week her class is in the gym building.

Mason stares through the windows at the LUCKY kids who get to go in and run around, jump on the trampolines and FALL into the Foam pit.

HE FINALLY GOT HIS WISH!!!

I signed him up for a month of Gym in the 2 year old class and he couldnt have been MORE excited!!

They start them on the obstacle course....

Here he is Learning to somersault.


Attempting the cartwheel....with NO hands!

Hes amazing already :)

Rope climbing...hes got skills!

He SNUCK into this foam pit a few times before he was 'supposed' to....

but at the end they get to run down a trampoline and get launched into the PIT!!

He kept saying AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN!!!

It was SO fun to watch him run around, 'stretch', jump and play with the other kids.

He can now officially somersault on his own....and he definately has the things on the obstacle course he 'skips' on purpose to get to the things he thinks are more fun.

Plus it gets ALL HIS ENERGY OUT for bedtime :)

My boy imitating me.

We're about to POP!!!!

Were at 34 weeks....6 weeks or less to go!

(42 days sounds a little more real.)

These kids make me laugh.

Mason in another 'blackmale' photo.

In Paige's recital costume and tap shoes when she was 2.

Fit him perfect, especially when hes in his Cars jammies haha.

As much as these two have a love/hate relationship...he LOVES to terrorize her some days on purpose and some days on accident....oh the fun of little brothers.

The times when they are playing together and happy are so fun to watch...

We call Mason "paper ears".

His ears have almost NO cartlidge in them :)

He takes them and bends them into "elf'" ears.....we have TALENT just bursting from our veins :)

All day party at Disneyland w. Daddy.

My pass expires this week so a couple weeks back we decided to go ALL DAY one last time w/Daddy....until we renew someday....no telling when that day will come :)

We got there and headed in.

First stop: Pineapple Dole Whips!! MMMMMMMMMM.

Second Stop: Pirates!! Masons favorite ride
(he likes it more after we get the water falls over with).

Third Stop: Eating soup bowls on the wharf .

Paiges request for clam chowder :)

Fourth Stop: Getting mauled by the bears.

Mason ran to the bear on the left and it put its HUGE paw around his head to hug him and Mason looks up to see GIANT mouth of teeth coming down to kiss him and it did NOT go over well :) But they made up with a high five at the end.

Pregnant at Disneyland at 30 weeks.....In my mind I can still walk for 8 hours and be 'fine'.

I almost called for a wheel chair by hour 3 :)

Cant believe we have no more than 9 weeks before we have 3 kids to tote around :)

Fifth stop: Let our 2 and 5 year olds get thier drivers licenses.

Never too early to learn right.

Paige was too excited to actually get to drive and took it very seriously!

I take it back about this boys 'favorite ride'....

autopia is probably topping pirates at the moment!

He laughs his head off the whole time while the car beats against the track.

Daddys kid!

Sixth stop: Mason's 1st pair of mickey ears with his name on them.....

and the outfit he choose the next morning....including his 'cars' backpack.

This kid is too cute :)

We always enjoy a day at the Happiest place on Earth.

So many fun traditions and memories .

Time to take a break from playing there for a while....

adding a new baby....

kindergarden in August

and everyday life will take its toll on our spare time -

and I guess thats OK for now.

:)