Easter 2013

 

Happy Easter 2013!!

 

What a wonderful day we had to finish off a wonderful week!  This was our spring break week and we took full advantage!  We started by having the boys do some artwork (see previous post)!  Then we colored Easter eggs, played at the park, made Easter cookies, went to an egg hunt in the park with some friends, went to the park again and then topped it off with Easter Sunday at church and then Grandma and Bompa's!  The boys hunted eggs and had a big time!  They also fell asleep pretty fast!

 

 

Easter Eggs!

I found this neat idea on Pinterest (love pinterest) to use Kool-Aid to color eggs for Easter!  I thought we would give it a try and it worked!  The boys had fun and they turned out pretty nice!

 

Getting the colors ready!

They were so excited!

Green first for Hudsen!

Nolen picked orange first!

Waiting for the first batch!

Nolen loved holding the eggs!

Are they ready?

They are!!!

Oh what fun!

Our eggs!

After that we got the 4-wheeler out to test ride in the backyard!  Hudsen got this for his 2nd birthday from Brian and Erin and is just now understanding how cool it is!!!

 

The Park Day 1:

There is a little park not far from our house that I love to take the boys to!  It has a fence all the way around and two play areas for them to play on!  Nolen has figured out how cool the slides are and that's all he wants to do!  They have so much fun!

 

Yay Nolen!

Yay Hudsen!

I LOVE my boys and I really LOVE getting to be with them all day!

Yay for slides!

 

Easter Cookies!

Both boys helped make cookies this time!  They helped mix and then cut out!  Nolen was sleeping when I iced the cookies but Hudsen got to decorate an egg!  It was lots of fun!

 

Hard at work!

Carrots and Crosses!

Eggs and Bunnies!  You can kinda see the flowers too!

I think his egg was the best and he was proud!

 

Egg Hunt in the Park!

We got invited to an Easter egg hunt in the park with some friends and the boys had so much fun!  They played, hunted eggs, played some more, had lunch and played some more!  We went to Grandma and Bompa's afterwards and they colored eggs with them!  It was a fun day!

 

We dropped our eggs off to be hidden and then went to play!

Nolen finding eggs!

Hudsen finding an egg!

All done!

Showing Maddox what we found!

The Park Day 2:

There is a bigger park that was just completed not far from our house but I have to have Tim with me if the boys are gonna play there!  We went Friday night after supper and took the 4-wheeler because they have a huge grass area for the boys to ride on!  They had so much fun!

 

1-2-3-Go!

Crawling through the tunnel to get to the bigger slide!

He made it!

Look at me!

Climbing!

And climbing!

Two different ways to climb up to the tunnel slide!

4-wheeler time!

He had a blast!

Nolen wouldn't wear his helmet so he didn't get to ride!

He had fun!  At one point he stopped, looked at Tim and said, "This is so cool!"

This is what Nolen liked to do!

Run up and down the hill!

 

Easter Sunday!

Today was a wonderful day!  We went to church and the boys did GREAT!  It was a long mass today and we got there early to be able to get a seat and they were so good until right before we left!  They had enough and were hungry!  We then went to Grandma and Bompa's and had lunch, hunted eggs, the boys played and had a great time! 

 

The boys ready for church!

Easter Family Picture 2013 at church!

Grandma's bunny cake!

The boys with their prizes!

 The boys hunting Easter eggs!!

Me and my boys!

 

Happy Easter to everyone!  Our Lord has Risen!! 

 

Love,

The Watts Family

 

 

Artwork

I found this idea on pinterest where you take a canvas, tape the child's name on it and then let them paint it.  My canvas was not big enough for their name so I just put their initial.  We did this last night and what fun it was!  The boys had so much fun painting and we now have a priceless piece of art from both of them!  I was originally going to hang these beautiful art pieces in our hallway upstairs.  Two nights ago I was laying in bed and looking around our room.  We don't have a lot of decor in our room, it seems to be the last room we think about.  So I decided to hang them in our room above our bed!  I can't wait to hang them today!  Our next project this week is to color eggs with kool-aid, another pinterest idea!!!!!

 

Just getting started!  I did their handprint first and then just told them to paint away but they had to stay away from their handprint!

Hudsen getting started!

Nolen getting started!

Nolen had a blast!  He got to be messy and he loved it!

Little painters!

Hudsen loved this project! 

I thought I would just help a little but quickly learned they didn't need my help!  They were doing great on their own!

Hudsen's getting close to being done!

Nolen's almost finished!

Hudsen is finished!!

Nolen had already gone in to take a bath because he had paint everywhere!

Our little artists!  Thank you Hudsen and Nolen for a fun night and for the beautiful art pieces for our room!

Their handprint is their signature but I did put their name, date and age at the bottom!!  I had been planning on doing this for a long time but was always afraid of how we would do it and the mess!  I have learned that a mess can always be cleaned and outside is a perfect place for lots of things!!!  So glad I didn't wait too long and forget about the idea!

 

 



March (so far)

This is what we have been up to this month!

 

March 1st is the day that Hudsen was baptized so we celebrated with a little cake!

The first two weekends in March, we stayed with King and Ellen!  Tim was in California for work the first weekend.  King and Tim went to the World Baseball Classic in Phoenix the next weekend.  They got to see USA play Mexico, Italy and Canada!

 

The boys playing with Spiderman!

Getting ready to watch UNLV!

Making s'mores in Grandma and Bompa's backyard!

Getting ready to take Hudsen to preschool!

The boys playing outside!

Our weekend with Grandma while King and Tim were watching A LOT of baseball!  They were able to watch the Texas Rangers play a spring training game as well!  While they were gone, King and Ellen's neighbor brought the boys this really neat tent!  She is so sweet to the boys and they really like her too!

 

They loved the tunnel!

Playing catch through the tunnel!

Sweet Nolen!

Sweet Hudsen!

We went to the mall with Grandma and Bompa after preschool one day and played!  They had the lower level decorated for Easter and the Easter Bunny was there taking pictures.  While they did not want to take a picture with the Bunny, they just wanted to wave and say bye to the Bunny, they loved standing on the bench to take a picture in front of the decorations!

Words cannot even express how much I LOVE these two boys!

Shooting spider webs!

Sweet boys!

Nolen is obsessed with putting his balls in a line!

Playing with the fun learning ball Amy and Onon got Nolen!

Hudsen got his t-ball uniform, his first Little League uniform, and he was so excited.  He wore it all day!!

Grilling some yummy food on the grill from Grandma and Bompa!



We love the table from Nanny!!!

I love these matching outfits from Nanny!  Yes, I am that mom that likes to match the boys sometimes!

Puzzle play!

Hudsen's Easter party at Preschool!

 

A visit from the Easter Bunny!  I guess since all the other kids took a picture with him Hudsen thought it would be okay if he did too!  He was the last one!

They then hunted some eggs in the sanctuary!

That was as close as Nolen wanted to get to the Bunny!  He didn't care that the other kids thought he was pretty cool!

Showing Nolen what he found!

Grandma and Bompa came to the party and I love this picture!  Everyone is looking at the camera!

This last group of pictures is from today!

 

Hudsen had all the good guys facing off with all the bad guys!

Sweet Hudsen with his Star Wars toys!

Photography by Hudsen!

Photography by Hudsen!  Hudsen loves to get the camera and take pictures of everyone and everything!


 

 

Next week is our Spring Break and since our preschool is a voting site, Hudsen will not go back to school until April 4th!  We plan on playing outside a lot and having a wonderful Easter!

 

Happy Easter everyone!  It's a wonderful day to celebrate our Risen Lord!