School Fun

I forgot that I typed this up, but never posted it. This happened before Easter......

Last week I was able to go on Bailey's field trip with her. We went to see the play Frog and Toad, based on the books. It was a cute play and I am glad I was able to go with her. She had a lot of fun and thought it was pretty cool that I was able to ride on the bus with her. It was a good time.

Ellie had an Easter egg hunt at her preschool, she had to bring eggs to share. She had fun helping me get them all ready. They also had an Easter bunny blow up thing in her school which she thought was pretty cool. She looked super cute and ready for her Easter party.

Happy Easter

The girls had a very fun Easter this year. They were able to celebrate for a couple of days. We went to Burley on Saturday afternoon for an Easter egg hunt at Ryan's dads, but before we left we had some fun here at home. Friday night we dyed eggs, the girls wanted to make one for brother, it says Brother on it, and they kept moving it back and forth between blue and green.

Saturday morning the Easter Bunny came to our house, the girls didn't really know he was coming so it was good that he left a sign to clue them in when they came down the stairs. Ellie was really into finding the eggs this year, it was fun to watch them run around.

That afternoon we went to the Easter egg hunt with their cousins. They dyed a few more eggs and then headed out to find their baskets, eggs, candy, and goodie bag. They had so much fun. They older kids baskets were hidden pretty good out in the boonies, there were also golden eggs, with a little cash in them for the older kids. Bay was most excited when she found hers. Ellie picked up so many hard boiled eggs she couldn't even carry her bucket anymore. They also all got a new jacket, Ellie was matching with her cousins Allie and Jaeli, Bailey loved hers and didn't take it off for the rest of the day. Thanks Papa and Dee it was a lot of fun.

Bailey with her golden egg, Ellie with all the eggs she found
The Girls in their New Jackets, and the Cousins with their Matching Jackets.

Sunday morning they got a few more goodies and got dressed up in their cute new dresses and sweaters. They both were very excited to wear their new clothes, I think they looked pretty dang cute. Bailey was sad when it was time to come home, I think that is a sign that they had a great time.

A little more loot on Easter Morning

Happy St. Patrick's Day

There isn't really anything spectacular about St. Patrick's Day, other than it is fun to wear green. We don't really have any major traditions. We usually make some of the food we eat throughout the day a lovely green color. The girls were still excited this morning, just for the day I guess. They enjoyed some cereal with tasty green milk. Ellie had hers down the front of her in about 3 minutes. This is a fairly common practice and she usually gets dressed after she eats, but Bailey was telling her she was going to get pinched if she didn't wear green, so she got her clothes on pretty quick. Bailey won this fancy blinking shamrock during a game at school on Friday, she saved it all weekend so the blinking would be ready to go for today. Some green dinner items and green rice krispie treats after family night rounded out the day. I guess we will move onto Easter, I am not loving having it so early this year but what can you do?

Girl Scout Cookies

Bring on the cookie mania. Bailey (ok mostly me) has been selling cookies for the past few weeks. It has actually been a lot of fun. I am not really a sales person, and most of our sales have been to family and friends, thanks everyone. We did order a some extra cookies so Bailey and her friend Isabelle have been selling cookies in front of our subdivision. It was my friend Kari's idea and it has actually been quite successful. Plus lets face it, it beats the heck out of sitting in front of Wal-Mart all day. The girls have had a lot of fun. Bailey loves being in Girl Scouts, it is a great organization. Plus they make dang fine cookies (yeah, we have been eating quite a few)!

Utah State vs. Boise State

Last night we went to watch the Aggies play the Broncos. It was a big game for both teams. Our friend Nefi was in town and wanted to go to the game with us. We're always glad to bring Nefi along he has good karma (we all got into the game for the low price of 6 bucks, the guy has great karma). It was especially fun for Ryan, he had someone to talk game play with (poor Nef). The girls had a lot of fun too. Bailey was torn she didn't know who to cheer for seeing that she likes the Aggies and the Broncos, so she cheered for both teams the whole night. She loved watching the score board and watching the numbers change. Ellie was excited to wear her Aggie shirt, but she got a little scared when we got there. We walked in right past the USU bench, so she saw all of the players plus all of the people and the noise and I think it scared her a little. She didn't want to take her jacket off because she didn't want the Aggie players to see it. But once we got to our seats and she had the orange pom poms to shake and popcorn, she got into it all. She informed me mid-game that she was also hoping for both teams. Fair enough it was die hard for BSU there last night, but the game was all Aggies!!! After the game we walked back past the USU players and said good game, they all gave us high fives as they were walking to the locker room. I couldn't get either of the girls to stick their hands out for a high five. Ryan shook hands with Coach Morrill, he was pretty proud of himself for that. It was a fun night. Let the Madness begin!