I lose more rolls of toilet paper that way.............

Egg-Dying 2011

The Prep:

In the Process:

Just for cuteness:

The Proud Display:

( I don't have a clue what Mick is doing in the background. Maybe having a smoke break? Lol.)

The Finished Product:

We had a lot of fun with these this year. We drew on them with crayons while the eggs were still hot out of the pan. The crayon melted and made some cool designs. Then we colored them in the egg dye. We will being doing that again next year for sure!

The Cutest Fisherman and Fisherwoman EVER!

It might be a little too chilly to be fishing in April, especially in flip flops, TORI.

St. Patrick's Day

So I planned to make these cookies with Tori on St. Pat's day. She dogged me for her friends and so I begged Mick to take pity on me and help me. When he was tiny, he loved to help me in the kitch, but about a year ago when I asked if he wanted to help me make some treats his reply was, " I am more of a taster than a maker." As I was saying, I talked him into (forced him into) making these with me. I think he ended up having fun with it. You get to work food coloring into different balls of dough and then roll them all out and layer them to make the rainbow. All very messy-right up his alley. I loved getting some one on one time with my oldest. It doesn't happen as much as it used to :)

He looks mad here, but he really wasn't.

They're magically delicious!

Happy 1st Birthday Kade

Kade Anderson Hall turned a big 1 years old on March 3. He had been very sick with the flu the entire week before so we didn't invite anyone to a his party. We celebrated it immediate family style and still had lots of fun. Before the party was over though, Jeremy Nelson and his daughter Nicole stopped by to visit which was perfect because the Nelsons have been to almost all our family's parties since we met them 5 years ago. He must have been inspired to stop by :)

Like I said, Kade was super sick the morning of his birthday and I was feeling kinda disappointed knowing that he wouldn't be very happy for his big day, but we carried on. After his afternoon nap though, he woke up acting so much better and he did actually eat cake and smile and play that night. He wouldn't open or play with his presents but he loved his balloons so much.

Things about 365 day old Kade that I don't want to forget:

-He is barely eating the first foods baby food. We have not been able to get that kid to eat solids very well at all! (He does love a good potato chip tho. He hears the bag rustle in the pantry and he is crawling as fast as he can to get one.)

-He is not walking, but could if he would just dare try. He can stand alone quite awhile until he realizes he is and he then will hurry and sit down.

-He waves bye-bye and plays pat-a-cake a lot.

-Whenever he inspects things for the first time, he flips the item with his fingers back and forth a few times.

-He loves to snuggle his momma lots! ( I love this!)

-Taking him outside will instantly turn him from a fussy guy into a grinning guy.

-He looks almost identical to Tori when she was this same age.

-He loves to raid his sister's room for toys.

-He grins a huge cheesy grin at you when he is touching something he knows he is not supposed to touch. He thinks if he smiles big enough that he won't get in trouble.

-He is a joy and we love him very much!

Tons of Good Luck

We had the potential for some serious injuries or monetary damages or both last night and escaped with only a few minor scratches. It was quite the exciting night. We had gone for a drive earlier in the evening and came home. Mick and Adam was headed out to Mick's fishing group class in the truck an hour later. I was in the office and heard this huge BOOM, BOOM, BOOM. It took only a moment to realize it was the garage door hitting my car in the garage. It had come down and hit the rear and tried to go back up but couldn't because the cord got hooked on my glass door handle so it kept pulling it back down and hitting it again. Evidently Adam hadn't pulled the car in far enough earlier. Adam saw and heard this as he was backing the truck out of the drive-way, jumped out of the truck, ran over to try to unhook the cord. Meanwhile, I was running through the house to the garage to try to stop it too. As I got out the door, Adam and I both hear Mick yelling, "DAD, DAD!" Adam had not put the truck in park when he jumped out and it was backing driverless across the road, up over the curb and was going through our neighbor's yard headed toward their house. Thankfully, Adam has been running a lot lately, cause he sprinted across the road, got the truck door open and slammed on the brake a few feet before it hit the neighbor's property. PHEW! After all this the only damage was a small scratch on my Escalade, a slightly bent garage door, and a small piece of damaged sod in the neighbor's lawn. We told them why they had tracks in their grass and they were very nice about it and everything is good. It was the first warm day in weeks and tons of kids had been playing outside all afternoon. I am so thankful none happened to be around at that minute. I am glad we didn't have to turn any damages into our insurance agent. That would have been fun to explain how our car, our truck, our house and our neighbor's house all got damaged in one accident. Especially since our insurance agent happens to be our dad ;)

Ultramarathoner

Adam finished his 50 mile race today! More details and photos coming soon...... IT WAS A B.L.A.S.T.