More Boise and Wedding fun.

Thursday afternoon we were able to meet up with some of our friends at the park. Such a cool park, the pictures do not do it justice! It had a huge playground with all kinds of things to climb on, neat teeter-totters, swings, water park for the summer, 2 covered picnic shelters, a path all around and huge fields behind it. So cool.

That same afternoon we headed up to Donnelly for the weekend. This is the house/cabin we were staying at and where the wedding was. It's 3 levels, has 5 big bedrooms, lots of TVs and media areas, large kitchen, nice dining, huge garage and lots of space around to play.

A couple of wedding photos, more to come at a later date.

We headed down the mountain Sunday and met up with friends again for a great visit, then went to back to the big park for a short stay. Monday we headed for home. They have part of our normal route down 80 closed off, so we ventured around towards Tahoe instead. Such a beautiful drive! We had to stop and stretch our legs and look at scenes like these...


We had a really good trip and will hopefully be back up in June, Payette Festival!

I can say that am not ready for the 90 degree day we are having at home today, going to be a rough summer.

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!

The boys napping, such a beautiful scene.

An early Birthday present! YAY!!

I'm just now figuring out ways to get pictures off my phone and onto the computer. UGH!

More Boise Fun...

Monday we headed back to the library for Music and Movement. The boys had a lot of fun, they really miss the classes we were taking in the late winter.

I love the way Ty looks at Cody, so cool.

Tuesday we headed over to Wings Planet Kid to get out some bottled up energy. This place is awesome! It's a gigantic play structure, with tunnels, things to climb, slides, ball pits and all kinds of fun. They boys had a blast. Especially when I braved up and down a couple of times.

It never did rain Tuesday, but it sure was windy and cold. Dad decided it was time to mow the grass and let the boys help. They had smiles plastered to their faces the whole time.

Making sure they make it around the corner.

We have a couple more days in town, then Thurs evening we head up to Donnelly for my brother's wedding. After a weekend in the mountains we are set to drive home Monday.

Hopefully next trip I'll brave up and get together with some friends. I just couldn't pop out of my shell this time. And I wonder why my kids are soooo shy in new places.

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Easter!

We had a jam packed Easter day, with egg hunts, food, family and fun.

Before the boys came out, the loot waiting for them.

Look!
New boats for the tub and pool.

Another Lego set, Cody is really taking to these.

Then they set off to hunt for the eggs the bunny had left around the house.

Surveying his take.

Enjoying the new Easter toys.

Tim and Danna came over for pancakes and eggs after the morning festivities. Then mid afternoon we headed to Danna's families house for potluck and more fun. The property was awesome, with lots of land to roam and lots of things for the boys to do. They had fun with some new friends. Then it was time for the egg hunt.
Lined up by age. Ty was the first to go, but insisted on standing next to Cody until it was time.

Look what I found!

Serious egg hunting, combing through all the bushes and trees.

More surveying of the loot.

Cody getting a lift to find some treasures in the tree.

The boys swinging with Cousin Ashlee, they love her so much!

We had a great day!

We hunted some eggs...

I love egg hunts! The craziness of them, the goodies in the end, the enjoyment of getting eggs. Total fun.

Being the egg hunting hore that I am, we hit up two today. We slid into the first one about 1 minute before they blew the whistle. This one turned out not to be hunting for eggs, but jelly candies. The catch being if you had a candy with a sticker, you could go to the prize table and get a bigger treat. Luckily both the boys had one of these special candies out of their respective age groups.

Enjoy said jelly candies and our new bucket score. Ty picked a dump truck.

On our way to the first hunt we passed by a church that was having a big celebration today, complete with 4 blow up things (bounce houses, slides, and obstacle courses), a religious based show, then an egg hunt/scramble. The boys talked about the bouncers to and from the first one, so we had to stop. They had a lot of fun playing, then we caught the last 5 min of the show, Cody thought it was cool and had a chance to dance. Then it was off for more eggs. This time it really was eggs we were getting and it was done in sections.

The bunny coming out to waive the go flag for Ty's group.



Go!

We then headed over to the next section to watch Cody. You can see his red hood behind the boys in the blue hoodie.

It was fun. We are going to a family bbq tomorrow, complete with kids and adult egg hunts. Should be fun!

Another quite time in Boise

I would like to report that we are have a wild and crazy time, really painting the town red, but we're not. It's been a quite week up here so far. We have been to two different library times and one story time at Barnes and Noble. Add in a trip to the grocery and Walmart, lunches out with Grandma and Grandpa, and a short trip to the mall. Yep that's about it!

Thursday morning we went to the new JoAnn's with Aunt Danna and helped her pick out a couple of things for the wedding. In turn she sent us home with a Bunny Hutch to decorate.

It was a ton of fun and best of all, the house came pre-assembled! That's the hardest part of these kits, so all we had to do was mix up some blue and yellow frosting, add water and mix, and decorate. It lasted until this morning when Ty ate most the candies off of it before we realized he was doing it and tonight the boys are eating part of the roof for a snack.

We have a fairly busy Easter weekend, so hopefully more interesting things to come.

Goin' Sky High

Monday we celebrated a friends birthday at Sky High Sports. This place is awesome! They have 4-5 different courts that are wall to wall trampolines. The boys had a really good time.



I think a new camera is getting closer to the top of my list, nothing fancy, just something that takes good pictures inside!

Off to Boise!

Cody's B-day at school and egg hunt

Here's Cody's Birthday Day at school. First they start of by all drawing pictures for the birthday kid for a book.

Then he is present with his crown and wand during circle time.

After singing they blow out the candles.

They they put their wand to work, excusing the kids one by one for work time. He knows that in order to be excused you have to be sitting cross legged. He skipped over a number of people that were not following the rules, then finally came back to them later. They were all down, but on their knees. I asked me why he skipped his friends and he said, "They weren't criss-cross, apple-sauce!"

That was pretty much all the added excitement, we handed out goody bags at the end of class and were off!


A new thing we have in the classroom is a writing center. They can write and draw, cut, stamp and paste things together as they please. Cody had really taken to it and his backpack has been full of scraps and envelopes. This is the only picture I have from his egg hunt day. They took a few of the kids hunting, but only about half the class had pictures. ???

Ty's Egg Hunt

Both the boys had Spring Egg Hunts at school on Friday. I'm hoping to get pictures from Cody from the class picture mom soon.

Ty's class was super full on Friday, we had a new person and a couple visiting from the Wed class.

Snack time.

It was finally time to hunt for eggs.

Look mom!

We were finished gathering our 11 eggs so we stopped for a picture.
I didn't realize his hair had gotten so shaggy! That's my homely little guy!

New Puppy

No, not at our house, but at the IL's house!

Meet Coco...

She's so cute and snuggly! The boys have been getting to know her over the last couple of weeks. She's only a couple of months old, not sure of what all she is, lab & ??? So much fun!


Been a little slack on the posting, so busy this month and it just started! Now that we have Cody's Birthday fun over with we are getting ready for a trip to Boise. We get to fly up this time, YAY!! Only a couple of hours travel instead of the regular 9.
In between all this, plus a regular school week, we've been getting ready for the Niello Ranch Run. A charity car show to benefit Ride to Walk, a wonderful organization. Keith has his hands a little bit on the planning side, then really deep into the execution of the event. My job is baking and the bake sale table, so that's what I've been up to today. Knee deep in cupcakes, muffins, brownies and cookies. Tomorrow will be Rice Crispie Treats, frosting cupcakes and packaging everything that can go easily into a package.

Our Tuesday flight time is nipping at my heals, I just hope it doesn't run me over.