Easter Wrap Up 2010!

Easter weekend proved to be jam packed with fun and most importantly-family!! We were all able to go down to Grandma Brenda's for the weekend. Talk about a full house! Saturday afternoon we drove out to Aunt Diane's and Uncle Norm's to see all the cousins. There's nothing quite like the fun you can find out in the country. It helped bring back all the wonderful memories of when we were kids and every week we would alternate between their house and ours; and we always managed to find something fun to do! Well, in this case, our children were no different. On Saturday it happened to be a huge mud puddle in Aunt Diane's and Uncle Norm's driveway. Talk about cheap (oh, and did I mention dirty!!) entertainment!

Notice Drew's pants! It's safe to say he took full advantage of the carefree bliss you find while jumping in muddy water!

This little guy (thanks goodness) never found the mud hole. Instead, he was perfectly content playing with all the dogs and trucks!

Unfortunately, we never did get all the cousins together for a group picture. Almost an impossible task with 11 children 6 years old and younger! I was able to quick snap a pic of Collin and Tyson in between mud hole hopping! And as you can see, Aiden found a pretty good friend in Buddy while we were there!

When we got back to grandma's on Saturday evening it was time for some Easter egg coloring. The little guys weren't all that interested, but the big guys got the job done!

This is what Aiden was doing while the rest of us were in the kitchen on egg duty. I'm not quite sure what you would call this game. Who knew that smelling your dad's feet could be so much fun!!

Sunday morning we again attempted the near impossible with some group pics! This is the best we could do!

The little guys were having no part of it. The minute we would sit them up on the couch they started in with the screaming and crying.

Mom and her 3 girls. We were so big-not one of us threw a fit while getting our picture taken! HA!

Sisters and best friends forever!!

I snuck this pic while the boys were chillin watchin cartoons waiting to go to church!

Backing up to Saturday- the boys had been playing Wii all day, so by Saturday night they put on quite the concert. Spencer loves the Beatles, and it was so cute watching them sing and play their little hearts out!

Not to be outdone-the adults had to try and compete. Sadly, though, the younger generation had no problem takin' them to school! It was sure entertaining to watch, though!

Back to Easter morning...

The Easter Bunny brought Tyson a new bike, and boy was he excited! (after he actually realized it was for him!) He walked by it several times before we finally told him we thought the bike was for him since it was next to his Easter basket!!

The Easter bunny had the difficult duty of hiding over 60 eggs!! All the boys worked together and thankfully found all the eggs. It took Aiden a little while to warm up to the idea, but in the end he was running around picking up eggs with the big kids!

Sunday afternoon we headed to the front yard for a good old fashioned egg hunt before heading back home! Needless to say, it was early to bed on Sunday to try and recover from the busy weekend!

A Night at "R" House!!!

Tonight we were lucky enough to go to game 4 of the Conference Semi-Finals between the Rush and the Missouri Mavericks! The Rush went into the game 3-0, so just needed to win tonight to sweep the series and move on to the Conference Finals.


It was an awesome game, and the Rush ended up pulling out the win in overtime 7-6.

It was "White Out" night at the game and everyone was encouraged to wear white, and got a white pom pom to use during the game-hence Tyson's head gear!

This guy just happens to be Tyson's idol, and I have to say he picked a pretty good one!. Danny Battochio is the Rush's goalie and was the CHL's rookie Goalie of the year!! His nickname is "Batman" and you can find Tyson doing stretches and working on the splits "just like Battochio Mom."

Grandma got to go to the game with us, and I think I can safely say that everyone in attendance had a fantastic time.

Go RUSH!!!!!!!

Don't Judge!!

So this is what our days have become! Endless hours of hockey ( no matter how we have to improvise) Check out all of the accessories:
1. Helmet (a.k.a-baseball helmet)
2. Mouth guard (a.k.a-halloween teeth)
3. Pads (a.k.a-shinn guards from soccer)
4. Hockey stick (a.k.a-baseball bat)
5. Gloves (a.k.a- well...gloves)

Look out-it's getting serious!!

O.K.- Maybe not!!

And not to be outdone.....................

That's right- the little guy has to get in on the action too! I believe the accessories are self explanatory!

For those who didn't notice-yes, that is hockey on TV in the background!! Come on now-don't judge!

Mason's Park!!

We're still here!! I got to looking and it's been forever since I've updated our blog. Time has been flying by! Well today was my day off, so the boys and I ran up to cousin Mason's house and got to check out his new play area Uncle Tony is making him. It was beautiful out and the boys had a ton of fun.

It has a cute little slide the the little guys (and even the big guy) sure seemed to enjoy!

There is a thick layer of mulch just perfect for loading in Mason's trucks!

Ooooh! what a big boy coming down the slide!

" Team work-what's gonna work?" Sorry, just a little Wonder Pets there for ya!

The boys also enjoyed raking and spreading out the mulch-such good helpers!

Mason was all about having "Ty-Ty" pull him in the wagon. Noone else would do-not even Mom. He called for Ty-Ty until he finally came over and took him a few laps around the driveway. Aiden wasn't so sure about it! I guess he knew his brother gave a bit of a wild ride which was right up Mason's alley-just not for my cautious little Aiden!

Here's more his speed-the parked golf cart!!

Aunt Marla took us all for a ride on the four wheeler which was super fun!! We spent all morning outside and then even got to eat lunch with them before coming home. The boys all had a lot of fun, and it was really nice to get them all together. With our different schedules it sure hasn't happened as much as we would like. Hopefully this summer we will be able to have many more fun playdates together!

Hockey Heart!!

Tonight was the big night at the ice rink. Ever since he went to his first hockey game he has been obsessed with playing hockey. Mom and Dad thought it might be a good idea to learn how to skate first before we just jumped into hockey, so he bought a pair of ice skates last week with some of his Christmas money and was relentless all week about getting to the rink to try them out.

This was our first step out on the ice. He started with the small walker, but quickly found the big ones to work much better for him.

As for this little guy, this was as close as he got to ice skating. Instead, him and mom ran up and down the ramp to the rink about 50 times.

Talk about a trooper, he spent 90% of the time on his knees, back, or butt, but would always jump right up and keep on going. After about 30 minutes he came over to the side, so I figured he was probably exhausted and ready to go home (that or completely frustrated from falling down so much). NOPE-not our Tyson- instead he just wanted to make sure I saw: "how good I'm doing Mom!!"

There was no such thing as taking it slow. Instead, those legs were spinning just as fast as they could. It was amazing how much he improved in the 60 minutes he was out on the ice. There was a couple there skating that were quite impressed with his determination. As they said: "he has a lot of heart." I couldn't agree more!!

After skating straight for 60 minutes, everyone had to take a break for the Zamboni to come out and clean up the ice. Since it was 8pm we figured it was a good time to go home to get the boys to bed. Tyson was devastated that we had to leave. Lets just say there were tears shed, not to mention incessant begging to go back tomorrow to do it all again. We'll have to see.....