Simon Says...

One of Brian's favorite games is Simon says.  He loves to catch the kids messing up.  Kolton is starting to get the hang of it too!  It's pretty hilarious to watch.  I'm grateful that Brian is a good dad.  Sometimes I, like all people, take him for granted.  I'm happy to know that our kids will have fond memories of their time spent with daddy.

Easter!

The silly Easter Bunny hid their baskets in the dryer!!  Silly, silly bunny.  Our kids were sugared up, manic, glazed over eyes for much of the day.  We did our usual egg hunt with Mark and Tosh and then we darted off to church where Brian was called to the pressing task of giving Easter Sunday talk.  He did a wonderful job! Seriously, people are still talking about it!  It rained pretty hard Easter morning, but that didn't stop the old bunny from hiding a ridiculous amount of eggs outside resulting in complete debauchery.  It turns out, he's a pretty smart guy because the rain successfully killed about half of the overstocked crazy surplus of candy.  We hosted dinner at our house that night and had family and friends join in our Easter celebration. Brian heaved a sigh of relief after preparing for his talk for much of the week, and Kolton ate enough sugar to last the rest of his life!

Pre-Easter

Our kids got to have two Easter egg hunts which, for Xiana meant that she might have eaten an extra piece of candy.  For Kolton, it meant that he ate sugar continuously for 2 solid days.  It's funny how different they are.  Xiana thinks she wants candy... I can certainly bribe her with it.  But when push comes to shove, she rarely will finish a piece.  She's never tackled an entire candy bar in her life.  Kolton, on the other hand, could eat candy every second of every day.  He has the most wicked sweet tooth I've ever seen in my life.  For both hunts he had two pieces in both cheeks, one in each hand, while he quickly moved to find and open new eggs.  Every time we thought we had the baskets up high enough, he would come around the corner with blue lips and chipmunk cheeks.... for days!  Silly little guy. He was in heaven with his "buddy" Zachary, who claims the reason Kolton adores him is because they're kindred spirits sharing a birthday.  I dare say he's right.  Zachary is so wonderful with babies.  Kolton followed him around the entire time they were here, and Zachary was so accommodating never once complaining.  Fun was had by all. We had Easter dinner at my parent's house that night, and at ours the next.  It was wonderful.  We got to have multiple lessons on the meaning of Easter.  Xiana definitely is understanding now why we celebrate Easter.  She repeatedly explains how Jesus was Resurrection so we celebrate. She understands the symbolism of the eggs and many other items due to several different egg/scripture/symbols lessons.

Dye

We got to dye Easter eggs with Cami and her family.  They did some really intricate designs including all colors of tye dye.  Kolton dyed exactly one egg, broke approximately 5, and then went on a walk with daddy so that he could be as far away from dye as possible.  We dyed five dozen eggs.  It was the first time I've ever seen the kids wear out before the eggs were gone!