Second half April 2017

The second half of April was actual Easter, soccer, more soccer, and a few other things.

Evan during one of his games. Love to watch him play!

First flashlight Easter Egg hunt we did

 

Dyeing Easter Eggs

The boys back together again - ever since Jackson moved, they have missed playing together every day!

Doing our little block flashlight egg hunt

For actual Easter church service, we went to Oma's church. They have a fun Easter egg hunt for kids, brunch, it starts later, and is a lot easier to park! 

Ryan did great in the 4 year old group. Lots of candy and eggs.

My two older ones are ready to go hunting!

Picture of all 3 dressed up for Easter.

Ryan doing some Lil Lonestar Soccer

Evan and Caitlin also participate in the Marathon Kids program at school. Every Friday, they would go and run laps before school started during the school year. Eventually, they ran a full marathon!  They do a celebration at the end of the year for those who completed it.

Ms. Hicks (their PE teacher) asked them to be part of a special group of kids that ran around first!

Picture with Ms. Hicks

Caitlin also had a lot of fun playing soccer this Spring with her Coach :)

Team Picture! Last year of scocer for Caitlin - she is too busy in the Fall to continue but enjoyed it while she got the chance to play!

Last fun activity was a sleepover with Cousin Chelsea!! 

First half of April 2017

The first half of April we had some great weather. We enjoyed lots of outdoor activities and Easter fun!

First up was the school carnival. This year was a lot of fun as the older 2 could almost go off on their own. That freed up me to just keep track of one kid for the most part.

Our nanny Kristi came for a little while with the kids

Caitlin and some friends

Ryan loved the petting zoo

This month, Bryce and I also got to go to a wedding! Our friend Chris Bakotic got married in South Austin. We had a blast hanging out with a lot of friends from the good old Motorola days.

Guys

Gals

Bryce and I all dressed up

We had a lot of fun dancing and socializing - not so fun was the drive home where we got a flat tire and had to change it at Midnight with the Blankenships!

Our neighborhood did a fun Easter celebration with egg hunt, face painting, and petting zoo.

Kids face painting - isn't Ryan's Ghostbuster awesome? Yes, he still loves Ghostbusters.

Caitlin loved petting the hedgehog - how cool for a petting zoo!

This rabbit was almost as big as Ryan! But oh so fluffy.

Trying to find eggs

Picture before the preschool egg hunt! 

Ready, set, go!

End of March 2017

After Spring Break, we started a very busy couple months. I barely had time for Bluebonneet pictures this year but somehow, grabbed a couple one early Sunday morning.

We also had a lot of soccer to play - all 3 kids!

Evan was awarded with a special Texan Award at school!

And Caitlin had a field trip to the Austin Science and Nature Center. It was a gorgeous day and a fun time!

After the field trip, I took her across the street to Ladybird Lake and we went kayaking. Never done it with the kids before and had been on my bucket list. It was so much fun and Caitlin was a great kayaking partner. We had beautiful weather.

And after some hard work, we grabbed some Amy's Ice Cream on the way home. I'd say that was a pretty terrific day!

Spring Break Part 3

We had a great week of skiing.  We dropped off the kids for ski school and they were very excited.

Ryan was in their Ski 4 program as he had just turned 4. I'm not sure how much he really learned, but he had fun every day.  We put him in ski school all 3 days.

Caitlin during her class

Evan on the mountain

Bryce and I even took a lesson the first day - as neither of us had really skied a lot before. Bryce - he is a natural! He is way better than me :)  I think I could use some more lessons but he is awesome.

We enjoyed the second day of skiing just the two of us. He graciously stayed with me.

On the third day, we took the older 2 kids with us out on the mountain. We spent the morning together all 4 of us.

In the afternoon, Bryce and Evan took off to conquer the mountain at a little faster pace. Caitlin and I stuck together and took our time on the mountain.

After a full day of skiing, I picked up Ryan from ski school and we headed up on the gondola to meet the boys.

Then, we all went snow tubing!! It was so much fun and Ryan just made the cutoff for height.

That last night, we met one of Bryce's friends who lives in Denver for dinner. He drove all the way out to Keystone to see us. It was great catching up Brian!

And then sadly, we had to pack up and leave the next day. It was a great trip. Kids already want to go skiing again. Evan has gotten the hang of it really quickly and has no fear. He was already tearing up the blue runs.  I think he's better than me! I'm much more cautious. Caitlin and I can stick together :)