Easter

On Saturday before Easter we went to a local park and enjoyed a free Easter egg hunt.

 

 

And they're off! 

 

 

Post hunt.

I love that they love each other (at least in public...)

 

What's an Easter egg hunt without face painting?  Jonas got an "Easter" baseball.  :)

 

Free hot dog lunch!

 

This is Jonas' favorite park because of this "giant" slide.

 

Ezra.  :)

 

At the zoo.  I think they were pretending they had lassos.

 

Dying Easter eggs.

 

Easter morning goodies.

 

Putting together an Easter puzzle and Easter Legos. 

 

Grandpa and Judith at the Easter Sunday church service.

 

We headed to our "old" house (that's empty but hasn't been closed on yet) for a bigger hunt than we could manage in our apartment.

 

Nana and silly Judith.

 

Judith was our star hunter this year.  Look at all those eggs!

 

The boys eventually decided they would work together.  Aww.

 

Easter family photo. 

Spring Break

It's been a while since I blogged.  Most of March was a whilwind of de-cluttering/staging to sell our house,  listing our house, having a showing the next day, getting an offer the day after that, going under contract, moving minimal essentials to a 2 bedroom/2 bath apartment, getting packed out of our house, cleaning the house, and closing next week.  Whew!  The buyers wanted to take possession of the ASAP.  Although it was not ideal for us to move to a small apartment for our last 3 months in Colorado, we could not afford to pass up their offer so, move we did.

 

For Sping Break, Mom and Dad came up to enjoy the week with us.  

 

 

 

 

One day we walked around Cripple Creek but I forgot my camera so....

 

 

 

 

We headed to Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park.  Beautiful.  While some of the roads were closed for the winter, there was still quite a bit to take in from the roads that were open. 

 

The boys enjoyed seeing the elk (even though they had shed their antlers).  A big herd was laying down in the grass in the valley (behind the log a ways).

 

Jonas poses with some elk that were much closer.

 

 

A coyote crossed the road as we were heading out of Estes Park.

 

We ate at a place in Estes Park near the river. 

 

We had a good time taking in some of Colorado's treasures before we have to leave in a few months.  :(

Snow day!

It's probably hard to tell by this picture unless you zoom in a lot, but that ruler reads 7.5 inches of snow! 

 

 Judith making a snow angel.

 Up to their knees.

Seven and a half inches of snow means deck sledding!

 

Mike shoveling our driveway.  Our other car was left on the corner of our street last night as we were unable to drive up the hill to our house.  Luckily a young man who was out looking for his cat was able to piggy-back Ezra up the hill while I carried Judith and Mike carried Jonas. 

 

Ezra's 6th Birthday Party

Ezra wanted a "Wreck it Ralph" birthday party this year.   Much to my surprise, there wasn't a whole lot out there for Ralph themed parties in the way of decor or activities.  Since I usually steal ideas from other people's blogs and have no creative thoughts of my own this is the best I could come up with.  :)

We just had a couple of Ezra's friends (and their families) over.  A few more were invited but had to decline for various reasons. 

Isaac is Ezra's friend from ACES (where he receives therapy), and Karma is a friend from school.

First, we went downstairs and did a "brick smash" game.  In this picture Ezra was "Ralph".  He's said, "I'm gonna wreck it!", and then he proceeded to smash the "wall" (cardboard boxes).

Isaac was "Fix-It Felix" who was trying to repair the wall as Ezra was trying to destroy it (just like in the game in the movie).

 

Next, it was Isaac's turn to be "Ralph" and Judith was "Felix".

  

Judith seriously loved "wrecking it" when it was her turn to be Ralph.

  

Then we went upstairs for some table activities.  We put together a Wreck it Ralph puzzle,

  

and did a cord untangle.

 

 Then it was time for cake and presents. 

The cake was supposed to the be apartment building that Ralph wrecks in video game "Fix-It Felix Jr." in which he plays the bad guy.

 

  

 

Blowing out his candle.

  

The kids playing with the Angry Birds game that Ezra received as a gift.

 

 

Too much fun for this little girl.

 

 Ezra (sporting a Kool-Aid mustache) and Karma.

 Ezra with Isaac and Avonleigh.

Our first born is 6 years old!