Happy Easter

As I go through all my pictures of the kids here in each shot Henry is working on another piece of candy on that candy necklace.  You can watch it shrinking.

Megan in her Birthday/Easter dress.

The boys got hula hoops

Norman is protecting his eggs with the lightsaber.

Cruisin'

Mark surprised me with a cruise this year and it has always been my dream to go.  We went to Catalina and Ensanada and we even got brave enough to leave the boat at Ensanada for 20 minutes.  The only photos we ended up with are these.  They are all from Catalina but the Elephant towel.  I guess we had so much fun we forgot to take pictures or maybe it was because Mark slept the whole time from his meds to prevent sea sickness.  I got to do, eat and see lots of things I have never done before.  It was nice to be just Mark and me but 10 days later Mark is still moving around with the boat so we may never go again.  Good thing I have this photo of a towel elephant to remind me of it all.

Birthday Girl

Megan turned 2.  She was not a happy camper till she saw her Grandpa that day.  She was even able to blow out her own candles.

Lots of Fun.

It has been awhile so everything is getting lumped together. 

Norman and Stephen had a Lego Ninjago birthday party together.

We went to the snow.

Norman earned his Wolf.  Mark is the Cub Scout leader and he was a ring master.

Stephen's award assembly.  He is in the top middle holding his award up high.

Norman's award assembly.  He is at the top second in from the right side.

We went to a new park and found ducks and geese to feed.

This is what Megan's hair looks like all brushed out.

Norman let me french braid his hair.

Look what I can do.

I wanted to clean out my china hutch and took a picture of my slowly turning to dust wedding bouquet because I was going to trash it.  As I was taking it to the trash Stephen stopped me and asked what I was going to do.  When I told him he said no I want it.  So I thought I should at least keep some part of it.  So I broke off the roses and trashed the rest.  When I brought the dried roses back in I tried sticking them in this metal ball I had and it looked really good.  So it is still living in my china hutch but with a fresh new look.  Thanks Stephen.

This is a baby shower cake I made.

Megan is getting so big.

Henry turns 5!

Henry had a Lego Ninjago birthday party this year.

We had a Ninja training center that started off with an obstacle course.

One of our games was keep the bad guy balloons away by keeping them in the air with chop sticks.  It was all fun and games till two kids got stuck.  I should have seen that coming.

Another part was to learn to use chopsticks.  I found chopstick helpers that the kids could operate.

This part of the training was to karate chop a graham cracker in half.