Easter Sunday

Mahlon and Sara Beth weren't sure what to think about getting "prizes" from the Easter bunny. They were so excited! They got all kinds of goodies...books, movies, bubbles, flip flops! So fun!


After church we had a great lunch with some of our friends from church.



And here is Easter photo #4! A family pic! And everyone is looking at the camera!! What you can't see is that Sara Beth's Easter dress is decorated with dry erase marker from Sunday School, Mahlon and Wesley are both covered in corn casserole(a mishap from lunch) Mahlon also has red cinnamon jelly bean down the front of his shirt and both of their booty's are covered in tan stain from the newly stained deck at our friend's house!! What a mess but what a cute pic! Glad we got this one, because we won't be wearing these outfits again!!

Fishin'

Aunt Lani gave Mahlon and Sara Beth Lightening McQueen and Princess fishing poles for Easter. So we spent the Saturday before Easter fishing! And Mahlon and Sara Beth (with the help of Aunt Lani and Uncle Brian) caught their first fish!! They were soooo excited!

Doc's farm

We spent about an hour at one of Doc's farms. Sara Beth's favorite part of course was visiting with the cows and letting them eat out of her hand.



Sara Beth and Aunt Lani

We took a short walk through Doc's garden to check out his potatoes, green beans, okra and lots of other veggies that we will be able to enjoy in a few weeks!

I think the coy were definitely a hit! They named all of them Dorothy (Elmo's fish's name) So they talked to them and tried to pet them and daddy caught one!!!

By the way these 4 coy live in the cows watering trough. And have been there for a year!

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!!