Easter Pic take 3!

So after several "photo shoots" this is the official Easter pic...not in our church clothes, but I have 2 happy children! I wanted to send out Easter cards, but since I got this one the day before Easter I thought I would just post it!
HAPPY EASTER!

Easter Pics Take 2

So we went to a professional to get our "bunny" pics. Mahlon was a little scared of live animals. Sara Beth has no fear! She loves any animal and was happy to be holding the bunny and the duck! Couldn't get 2 smiles at the same time!! The pictures are still pretty sweet though!

Egg Hunt # 3!

Egg Hunt #3 was at our church office! We started with the Easter story (Last supper, Crucifixion and Resurrection) taught by our favorite Sunday School teacher(and Children's minister) Mrs. Shirley. Then the kids took off to find hundreds of eggs all over the church office grounds, in bushes and even in trees!
And since we are so tall we can easily see things in trees!!

By this Egg hunt we were pros! We got lots and lots of eggs which meant lots and lots of candy!! Then we had a snacks and crafts to keep us busy after all of the eggs were found!!

Egg Hunt #2

We had so much fun at the Easter Hunt at our school we decided to have one at our house! 8 kids under 6 and plus a baby in a very slushy back yard!!! Thankfully everyone wore their rain boots and if they we had plenty to share! They had so much fun finding eggs all over the yard, in the bushes and inside and under toys!








We managed to get them to all sit still for 30 seconds to get a group picture! (it took lots of candy but they did it!)


After the egg hunt they all played and blew bubbles and then got ring pops! I think Tristen and Brycen enjoyed those the most!!

Egg Hunt #1

We loved hunting eggs this year!! Our First Easter Egg Hunt was at school the Wednesday before Easter. Basically they laid a bunch of eggs all over the grass and in the courtyard and turned a bunch of 2 and 3 year olds loose! Since this was the first "hunt of the season" they weren't quite sure what to do! Especially Mahlon, he pointed out lots of eggs and told me what color they were, but then skipped over it to find another one. Sara Beth on the other hand only hunted the pink or purple eggs! In other words we didn't have much candy to eat at the end of the hunt...better luck next time!

Looks like we may have the hang of it!


Nope, still a little confused! TURN AROUND you almost stepped on one!!

Trying to open every egg to see what we got with our friend Kaden!


This is the closest Easter bunny picture we got this year!!

Racing!

Another fun thing we did in Memphis was go to Herb Parsons Lake to see Wesley race in a 8.5 mile trail run. He did AWESOME!! He finished 16 out of 122 runners!!!

We hung around after the race for a while and played in stumps threw rocks in the lake and watched the geese!

Memphis trip

The weekend before Easter we headed to Memphis to see Gran, Daddy Day, Aunt Maggie and Great-Uncle Tete. The whole week before all the twins could talk about was who they were going to see and how they couldn't wait to go to the zoo and see the Elephants! SO Saturday we woke up to a chilly/windy morning, but it wasn't enough to keep us away from the zoo...we just bundled up and headed out the door! I think the cooler weather kept a lot of people away, and it also kept a lot of animals cuddled up sleeping!! We had a great time! We didn't take a stroller so we were all worn out walking that ginormous zoo! If you haven't been you need to go! It is worth the trip for sure!! We went to the sea lion show which was cute...a much smaller version of a sea world show. The animals did tricks and splashed the front row so it was cute!


Of the favorites were the giraffes, elephants and monkeys! And somewhere between the giraffes and the monkeys we lost Sara Beth's pink bow! I went back looking for it, but we decided the giraffe ate it...she was sitting on her daddy's shoulders almost eye level with one of the giraffes and that is the last picture with a bow!! Oh well!!



The barnyard was so much fun...they saw sheep, goats, chickens, cows, pigs and even a donkey! When they saw the donkey they yelled "look mommy it's just like Mary and Joseph's donkey!" So sweet! This goat got close enough to pet!!

Aunt Maggie and Daddy Day read a few new bedtime stories(from Gran and Daddy Day) before they crashed after their long day!



We weren't too sure of the sleeping situation since we have officially outgrown pack-n-plays...they ended up sleeping together in a "big bed"! We couldn't believe it. Now it wasn't the best sleep, "he stole my covers" or "she kicked me"woke us all up a few times!...you know how it goes, but there is a first time for everything! Look at those sweet sleeping faces!!

Easter happys!!

Doc and Cheri sent us a few early Easter happys coloring books, new monogrammed beach towels and of course the most favorite were the new Cinderella and Prince Charming dolls!! For several days they wanted to sleep with them, dance with them and Sara Beth even took off Prince Charming's gloves and tried to make them fit on her daddy's hands!! She wanted him to be her prince!! So precious! She can get him to dance much easier than I have ever been able too!! Wish I had a picture of that!
WE love opening presents!!

I love the smiles on their faces when they saw their new dolls!

Double Trouble

So for almost 3 years now when people find out I have twins they always say "how do you do it?...or you have your hands full...or I can't imagine how hard it is"...Guess what your right!! And the following pictures are just a little taste of the "double trouble" twins can get into!!!
Lately they have been trying to cut out their nap...I am sooooo not ready for this and they aren't either! They still need a short nap and so I still put them in their room for "quiet time." With two almost 3 year olds there is not much "quiet time!!"
The other day I needed to get a few art projects done so I was outside sanding and cloroxing and the baby monitor died...Wesley was inside working so I wasn't worried about them. And 10 minutes later he told me I needed to come inside. I turned the corner to see two half dressed soaking wet children!!!!
Apparently they thought it was a good idea to stuff a roll of toilet paper in the sink and turn the water on high!! Once the sink was full the toilet paper started coming off in clumps and those clumps then covered the walls, mirror, floor, cabinets etc...(kinda reminded me of those spit balls from high school!!) The entire bathroom was flooded and the floor had standing water and about a foot and a half of the carpet in their room was wet as well!! What a mess!!! 2 little minds can get into a lot of trouble!! DOUBLE TROUBLE!! These are a couple of pictures I took...
Picture one...lots of standing water and water dripping off of the counter into the drawers and cabinets...LOVELY!!

Now you can see little bits of and clumps of toilet paper EVERYWHERE!

It took about 45 minutes to clean up and we are still finding little bits of toilet paper dried up in odd places in the bathroom!!

And 2 days later during "nap/quiet time" my two little curious georges decided it would be fun to coat the lower half of their bodies in Boudreaux's Butt paste! Mahlon was Sara Beth started screaming that she needed to go potty and due to the previous incident the bathroom was locked! So I took of running to get her to the potty and walked in to see the mess!!! They were covered...especially Mahlon...and the brown rocker that he was sitting in! What a mess and what a STRONG smell!! Their nice church clothes that they were wearing now have oil stains on them!! I steamed the rocker, but it didn't help much...at least it is dark!!
These incidents happened 2 days apart and I thought for sure if things kept going in this direction I would either be bald or end up at Whitfield!!
I now have a video monitor a friend is letting me use so now I can spy on them! Thankfully they haven't gotten into anything else...knock on wood!!

Max and Ruby

Back to the pretending...I was cleaning the kitchen after dinner the other night and Mahlon and Sara Beth were in the dining room playing so well together and giggling so I thought I should peak in and this is what I found!

They moved all of the chairs in a straight line and were pretending to be Max and Ruby(a brother/sister bunny cartoon) and they said they were trying to earn "bunny scout" badges!! They are so smart!! Not sure how climbing chairs earns a badge, but maybe it was like climbing a mountain??

Now about once a week they try to earn a new badge! Guess one day I'm gonna have a little boy/girl scout!