Happy Easter!

Happy Easter Vigil

Happy Easter and Good friday! We voted yesterday in the advance polls since we will be in Spokane on election night, sadly. We will have to follow the results from Daddy's blackberry.

KC and JJ and his parents came over for our traditional easter egg hunt and lunch. Tomorrow the kids are all going to their grandparents so we did it a day early to keep up with tradition. Bobs got really upset when JJ's mom came to the door and he wasn't allowed to look for eggs yet. He had to learn some patience and wait. He had been looking forward to it all week.

We hid plastic eggs with smarties inside to find out in the park next to the house. Bobs especially loves the purple ones. We repeated it three times.

Then we went to the backyard and had a BBQ - I had some salmon burgers. Mmmmm.

We also go out the watertable and everyone had fun.

The weather as you can see, is beautiful. Around 10 degrees C. It's about time!

Tomorrow we are going to Mormor and Morfar's for another Easter egg hunt. Oh my!

Happy Birthday Mads!

We had Mads's birthday party today. The way this blog works, it goes from oldest to newest. To view the photos chronologically, go down two posts to "Birthday Bash" and start there. Then to "Birthday Bash Part II".

Mmmmmm ENJOY!

We had a snowy yucky day, btw.

Birthday Bash Part II

Birthday Bash of the Century

Happy Birthday Mads! We had an Ice Cream themed party today and something like 22 adults, 8 toddlers and 8 babies came. KK and I made these ice cream cone cupcakes.

The toddlers got these special hats as a party gift and the babies got little watering cans.

There was snow outside, so it was the perfect afternoon for everyone to get together inside for a party.

Everyone loved their hats.

I made some ice cream cone decorations from an idea I saw online with cardboard paper and balloons. It was very visually stimulating for the babies.

Mads was very tired as he had a short nap in the morning and missed his afternoon nap.

He was allowed to have a cupcake, but he really didn't want it. He ended up having a banana instead.

I felt a bit bad because I was giving everyone's kids a crazy amount of ice cream and candy, and then sending them home afterwards!

Even some friends without kids came to party.

We had everything you could possibly imagine to make different ice cream concoctions with.

My parents came as well and both Jamie's friends and my friends came. It was a great mix.

I hope everyone sleeps well tonight!

Water Table

The water table is all the rage. Mads enjoyed it today as well. When it gets warmer, we can add sand on the yellow side.

We went for a nice long walk today and then mommy went for a run to train a little before the Bloomsday race on May 1st in Spokane, WA. 

Mads has been getting up at 5:30am these days. What an early start. At least there is an election campaign going on and mommy is learning how to use twitter to network with all her old political friends. Uncle Noah is running for a seat in the Palliser riding in Regina and Moose Jaw. 

Noah 4 Palliser

I was thinking of flying with Mads to Regina this past weekend to help out uncle Noah, but then I decided it would likely be exhausting. He is quite busy and with his early waking, I figured It would get too tired to help. I really wish I could do more for the campaign though. Keep a look out for the results in his riding on May 2nd!

Mattias Opens a Present Early

We had Toddler Train class, and Mattias's Jump and Jive Gym class today at Westside Rec Centre. Bobs was in his class without me for an hour and a half. He cried for a bit, but fortunately his class joined our gym class at the end and we all got to play together.

Can you believe there is another E in the class? But his name ends with a C instead of a K. Mads loves to reorganize my pantry.

Mads' birthday is coming up in less than a week! Mormor and Morfar got him a water/sand table. I put it together today. It was a heck of a time reading the directions! Bobs offered to lend me his plastic tools to put it together. How sweet.

Mads is quite tired from his class and missing a nap, so he is content sitting in his highchair watching his big brother. I think it is around 5 degrees right now as Bobs plays outside. I warmed the water up a bit.

Happenings at Home

Bobs doesn't officially nap anymore, but he falls asleep every once in awhile in random places.

After going for a run with Auntie Kristin in the double chariot today, the baby boys enjoyed sharing snacks with each other. They really get along well, considering their age.

I took the preschoolers to the playground.

Auntie Kristin has an amazing blog. Please check it out.

http://web.me.com/kristinkuzel/Site_2/Blog/Blog.html