Happy Easter 2013!

We had a great Easter!  We spent our Easter here in Chicago and had a visit from Aunt Annie and the future Uncle Evan.  We had spent a few days in TN for Spring Break, rolled in on Friday and were greeted by Aunt Annie and Uncle Evan.  They had made dinner and helped us unload, unpack and brought gifts for everyone!  Saturday we colored eggs(pictures I can show you) and Dalby and I went wedding dress shopping with Aunt Annie (pictures I can't show just yet.) Sunday was the Easter egg hunt at home and at church. 

Uncle Evan and Aunt Annie took the kids outside to play for a bit while we made dinner.  This is the look I often get from Charlie when I ask for a smile.

Dalby's face is perfect.  They all loved their Easter Baskets.  They couldn't get over how much candy the "bunny" had brought.....

This was the first item Charlie ate out of his basket.  He would have eaten it all in one setting.  He talked about which part of the rabbit he was going to eat next....it sounded a bit disturbing if you didn't know he was talking about his chocolate bunny.

Quinn loved the jelly bean filled Easter eggs.  The Easter Bunny hid the hard boiled eggs but he also hid plastic candy filled eggs too.  We have found a new favorite candy for Quinn!

Now a football jersey that fits him.....he had been trying to wear the jersey that fits Daddy....

New shades....all of hers seem to be broken or "borrowed" by her older sister.

How Quinn normally wears her sunglasses.  

Before church.  This photo session started to turn into this type of photo session.

We had to slow Dalby down.  She was very successful in finding a lot of eggs.

More Easter gifts...

This picture is one of my favorites of Charlie.  It captures how he focuses and studies his cars/trains/tractors.  He is studying a "Bob the Builder" toy.  

A theme

This was a post I seemed to have forgotten to post.......this is from a few weeks ago.....the snow has cleared and now it is rainy and cold :)

There seems to be a theme emerging here on the blog.....the snow kept coming and coming and coming. It made it very clear I need a lesson in the snow blower. I went out three times and shoveled this very long long driveway!

Home Depot Saturday Project

We spent this past Saturday doing our first Home Depot project with some fun friends here in Glen Ellyn.  It was a race car - perfect - especially for our race car loving little boy!

Our race cars seem to "fly" a lot.....

Daddy and Dalby's stickers were a little more precisely located then Charlie and Quinn's but it makes each car unique....which in theory hopefully means less arguing over whose is whose....

Showing off their work!

Another Snowstorm

We had another snow storm.  This one came on fast and gave us a lot of heavy wet snow.....fun for snowman making, not so fun to shovel/snow blow.  The kids are loving the snow!  The snowman we made with this snow isn't square because we didn't have to pack several buckets full of snow just to get a little snowman.  Daddy rolled a snowman and put it right by the back steps so the kids could keep an eye on it.  That snowman is a bit of driving hazard but it will melt soon:)  The snowman below is in the backyard. 

Snow Flopping - Feb 2013

A snow slide built from Daddy's and Mommy's snow shoveling

Our first snowman

Followed by hot chocolate and a double chocolate donut-Now that is a Saturday morning!

Creative Juices

Not sure what the girls are making but their creative juices are going. Charlie is playing with his cars after he colored his lips and hands orange with marker. Thankfully it was washable.....

A day outside

We have been spending a lot of time on our back driveway.  Sidewalk chalk and bikes are our friend.  Thankfully the weather has cooled off a bit so we can spend the afternoon in the shade of the house.

This is a look we see a lot.... Usually when he is trying to ask for something or convince us what he has done was a good idea....








Quinn LOVES to play catch and is pretty good..... Charlie loves to throw(whip) the ball at his "catch" partner.

We drew train tracks on the driveway and took turns pushing the train. When you weren't pushing the train then you were riding a bike/car and stopping at the crossings for the train engineer.

Our singing artists....