Easter Baskets!

A special Easter surprise! It was a sweet morning filled with goodies, before heading to church and spending a wonderful lunch and afternoon with friends! A wonderful last Easter in NE!

Cambria was the first to spot the goodies on the table. She stood and stared for a bit before begging for duckies. Her eyes lit up (as they always do when she sees a new rubber ducky) and she had a few new little friends! 2 new rubber duckies, 1 soft little ducky, new pj's and a picture book made Cambria's Easter morning a special time!


In her new pj's! I couldn't pass up Hello Kitty in glasses along with a random ducky!

Gavin added to his Vinalmation collection! A new pair of crocs for the summer (okay, maybe next year- they are huge), a new book (he LOVES to read) and candy filled his bucket!


Avalyn got a new pair of crock, a cd, a bunny, a James Avery charm bracelet with a "I Love You" and Easter egg charm and of course some candy!

Ainsley had a tiny little lamb, sunglasses, a swimsuit and the thing that excited her the most Reece's Pieces in a carrot shaped bag in her bunny basket!

Trying our her new bathing suit! It will hopefully get more use in TX!

Mahoney St. Park!

Spring break this year was the week before Easter. I was our plan to go to TX to find a house and spend Easter with family. After we found our house on-line and signed the contract (from NE) we decided to save our $ and stay for spring break. It was a little sad, but not too bad. We relaxed alot! The weather was cold and rainy, our passes to the zoo and children's museum have all expired. There was alot of tv, movies and play around the house. I was determined to do something that week. So we decided to take the kids to Mahoney St. Park activity center and the drive-thru zoo that's down the road. The drive-thru zoo was the 1st surprise and the kids weren't too impressed. The babies slept for awhile and the kids enjoyed hanging out of the sun-roof while we watched for animals. Now the activity center was a huge success! The kids LOVED it!

Sun roof on the car made the drive-thru zoo somewhat fun.

After we left the next surprise (the activity center) Avalyn said "next time we can skip the animals", Kyle and I agreed!

Daddy and Ainsley exploring the balls!

I tried to get all 4 in a picture.

Love seems like an understatement for how Cambria felt about the ball pit! She sat in it for 2 hrs, entertained herself, made a few friends with a couple of teenage girls who talked with her and ignored all the big kids that came in and out.

Ainsley was walking up the tallest swirling yellow slide (in picture below), I didn't think she was actually going to get all the way up there, but she wasn't coming down. Praise the Lord no one else came down, she made it to the top and slid right back down. No Fear for this little one!

The only thing we could think of when we left was why it took us 7 yrs to get out to this place! We'll be going back before the move!

The big "cheese"

Gavin's 7!

Gavin decided he wanted to play lazer tag for his 7th Birthday party! That was fine, we just couldn't invite everyone- like we usually do. He picked 4 friends, Avalyn picked 1 and we invited their families (Kyle and I want friends there too). The family fun center worked out great! Something for everyone, including lazer tag- not too mention I didn't have to clean.

Lazer-tag! Gavin LOVED it and is ready to go back!

Fun for the little ones!

Daddy worked hard on the cake and despite some runny icing, it survived the drive there!

Present time! He LOVED All his gifts!

His Star Wars sheets for his new room in TX! Kyle thought sheets were a lowsy gift, I think Gavin thought otherwise;) and I was happy to not add to all the toys!

Cambria cleaning up!

Gavin and best friend Elijah

Gavin and Bennet showing off their wrist prizes! Such a great friend and neighbor!

Kyle and Jess, always showing up in team spirit- this is not the first party- maybe they call eachother;)

Gymnastics

1st parent night at gymnastics this year that I actually took the camera! Avalyn is still loving all her activities- gymnastics, cheer and dance. I don't honestly think she has a favorite- I was kind of hoping she would have settled on a favorite by now. Gymnastics has been great this year! Her teacher has really worked on certain basic elements for the girls to improve on, not so much doing little bits on everything. Avalyn is one of the youngest in the class and is by far one of the best! She loves the challenge and practices all the time at home!

She reminds me so much of my little sister in this picture! Don't know if she'll be the gymnast her Aunt Kathryn was, but she definitely resembles her:)