spring surprises

for some reason it won't let me move the pictures, sorry!!

the kids enjoying a movie and popcorn

on the $3 per person merry go round that i can't believe we actually paid for

cody after sucking on then smearing 1 oreo

the ducks we found in our pool

jonathan, carson and jaden at the preschool recital

you know it's spring when...
you wake up to find 12 ducks swimming in your pool (1 duck and 11 ducklings). we woke up sunday morning to see the cutest ducklings swimming in our pool. "how did they get in there?" you might ask. the answer is...we have no idea. they are too little to fly but i guess they could have squeezed through the back gate and the mom duck could have flown over. they were stuck in the pool. the duck could get out and the ducklings did try, to no avail. so we put a little "ramp" aka a piece of wood in the pool. only two of the ducklings got out via said ramp. every time the duck got out, two ducklings got out using the ramp. the others swam under it, around it, but still did not understand how those other ducklings got out of the water to follow their mom!! i was quite cute and entertaining to watch!

anyway, you also know it's spring when...
you are in your backyard with your kids when all of a sudden there are about 5 million bees around you and your have to grab your kids and run for cover!
ok, so i'm being a little dramatic, but seriously i did grab my kids and run inside. the bees then swarmed around our tomato plant in a tight bee-ball. jonathan took a food storage can and it's lid and went out there and swept them inside!! it was quite an eerie sound to hear them buzzing inside of the can. yep, i just got the willies. and again, just thinking about them!!
so for the past couple nights, cody has woken up at 2 or 3 in the morning screaming bloody murder. no matter what i do to calm him, he won't go back to sleep. if it were my house, i would probably let him scream for a little while, but alas, it is not my house and there are 3 other people who need their beauty sleep to be refreshed and revived the next morning for work and school. (personally, i thing sleep is overrated....just kidding) so i lay in the twin bed with him for like a thousand hours until he is asleep and usually end up sleeping in there with him perpendicular to me. last night the time came for bed. we picked a lovely story about a frog who lost his hop and everything was good. i told him after the book was over, he was going to go to sleep and not get out of his crib. he said okay. so i left after the book. about 2minutes later he comes trotting into our room all smiles. jonathan put him back to bed. after screaming for about 15 minutes, i finally went and got him and brought him back to bed with us. we were waiting for the kids to go to sleep so we could watch marley and me. we started it anyway with cody in the room with us. he stayed up until 11 o'clock. at first i was a bit annoyed. but then, he was being so cute and was indicating that he wanted me to sit by him by patting the bed next to him. he kept wanting to be tickled too and would laugh the most adorable laugh that i never wanted to put him to bed! finally it was time and we were all exhausted. he gave kisses and j put him in bed. this time he stayed put with no screaming the rest of the night. i had very sweet dreams with baby smiles and laughter!! i am so blessed!! here are some random pictures!

i win! i win! i win!

i entered into a giveaway on jackie sarager's blog. i never win anything, but i entered nonetheless. she was giving away one of her accessory bags, which she made for her recently opened etsy shop. they are super cute!! this is the one i like the best!! if you want to check out her etsy shop, you can do that here!! enjoy!!

so many things to blog about!!!

first of all, i found my camera...ok jonathan found the camera. i left it in the backpack we took with us to prescott. happy and sad. happy that i have my pictures from prescott, sad because we were about to buy a new camera. a better one. no dice now! anyway, prescott was fun!! ok, so after prescott and spring break were over, we went hiking to the wind caves. but first we made a stop over at shelley goodman's house for the boys haircuts!! the boys were terribly horrible, of course and it probably took longer than it normally would, though i wouldn't know because jonathan always insists on doing the haircuts himself. yay for shelley doing them this time!! they were a much needed improvement! thanks again, shelley!! we also had fun dyeing easter eggs and making treats.we took an eventful trip to phoenix via light rail. i will never make that trip again. at least not with my kids. cody and carson kept pushing the emergency call button. oops. lots of easter egg hunts, chocolate, marshmallows and fun soon followed!! there are a million pictures, sorry!!

carson and mini wheel barrow in prescott

cody dumping out pine cones from mini wheel barrow, much to carson's annoyance

cody and carson saying cheese for the camera at the wind caves

this picture is really dark, but my sister tiff and her kids, my sister-in-law eden and my kids all hung out on friday and made some yummy treats (at least they tasted good, right?) dyed eggs, and made bunny ears. at one point, roxcy-roo lost her bunny ears and was walking around yelling,"bunny?!" so cute!!

cody loves the camera, he always leans forward though when he says cheese.

all the kids in their bunny ears:cody, roxcy, carson, mckay and jaden

i was and still am so excited about these. they are supposed to be eggs (the bigger ones look better) they have prizes inside!! the blue ones are carson and cody's and the pink ones were for avery and adelyn, but they were never claimed. i blew up balloons and papier mached them. when they were dry, i cut an x in them and put things inside. then, i mod podged colorful paper over the top and finished them off with a huge amount of spray glitter. super easy, super fun!! the boys were so excited to find these on easter morning. i am definitely going to do these again!!

the boys not looking at the camera for the sarager easter egg hunt. they had tons of fun with uncle momo helping with the search for the precious eggs

yeah, the boys didn't waste any time with their easter baskets!! they were so quiet and sneaky so i knew they were looking at them!!

carson using his super spy magnifying glass to make sure his giant egg was in fact, his

cody was excited too

this is the final easter egg hunt at my parents house. carson was looking forward to this hunt so much!! he helped pick out the eggs to stuff. they had a ton of fun: quinn, mckay, carson, cody and jaden. roxcy was asleep. more eggs for the rest of them, i guess!! yay for a fun easter!!!

spring!!

we just jumped into the pool!! we were working outside and i mentioned that i was so hot i wanted to jump in the pool with my clothes on. so, Jonathan went in and got his swimsuit and the boys swimsuits on. carson jumped in and was definitely taken by surprise!! it was so cold! he had a hard time swimming to the side. jonathan had to stick his leg out so he could grab it! then jonathan kept acting like he was going to jump in, then wouldn't. i dove in fully clothed and was it cold!! i'm sure if i would've stayed in and swam around, i would've warmed up just a little. cody was standing on the steps and putting his arms in and also throwing rocks in. jonathan kept saying he was going to jump in and after about fifteen minutes, he finally jumped in. then he swam laps. then he dove to the bottom and scooped up the rocks. then he swam laps again. when he was being a wuss and wouldn't jump in i told him so. i now retract that statement. congrats hun, you win. and i was the coldest one!!