Easter 2014-Part 3

The last spot was the park.  We first hunted eggs, then dyed them.

Josh had a bucket, but Macey didn't.  So....we improvised.

I lost track of how many cups of dye my kids spilled.

It's a good thing we did it at the park.

It was perfect weather!!!

Easter 2014 -Continuted

Then it was GAME ON for the scavenger hunt.  There were at least 10 kids.  About 4 to a car.....so maybe more like 12 kids?  I don't know. 

My car was L-O-U-D!

I had my 2 kids, plus 2.  Thank goodness for my 3rd row seat.

The first stop was at Granny's to get a golden egg.  It had a dollar in it!

The second stop was to go to Aunt Tera's parent's house.

THEY HAD PUPPIES!!!!!!!!

The 3rd stop was at Aunt Charlene's for a relay race.

Each group had 3 kids and there were 2 bowls-one at each end.  Then each kid had to take a sponge, dip it in the bowl full of water, run to the other end, and squeeze the water out of it into the empty bowl.

 Josh caught on right away.....at least to the running part.

It took Macey a little longer to catch on, but once she did.......

Then there was one more stop....the park to dye Easter eggs and hunt them!

Easter 2014

This year we spent Easter in Tulsa.

It's my favorite place to go.  Well, Aunt Charlene's is.  

We left early in the morning (by 8:30) and the kids were real Road Warriors.

We treated ourselves 2 1/2 hours into the journey with ice cream at McDonalds.

Stopped by Aunt Charlene's for a quick lunch, then off to Aunt Tera's for cookie decorating and a scavenger hunt.  (Tera's not really an Aunt, but it makes more sense to call her that.  I'll explain the genealogy some day when my kids ask.)

Don't 'cha just love Josh's crazy hair?!

And this is the picture I get from Josh when I ask him to smile.  He can't take his eyes off the excitement!

Hopefully the blue icing by his eyebrow WILL come off......

And there was just a little  bit of time to go outside and play.  

Macey just LOVES Kendell.  She also loved their 2 dogs.

And I love that the Brown kids are old enough to play with my kids, but not too old that they think my kids are "too babyish" to play with!  It rocks!

Windy, Windy, Windy

Boy howdy!  

We've had some W-I-N-D-Y days lately!

And with that, we've had some problems.

At first, we thought that the air conditioner blew off the cement slab and was banging the side of the house.

Then we figured it was shingles banging on the roof.

Right above the dining room table.

Not the ambiance I was hoping for.

And then there was a day when the wind was so strong, it broke a tree of ours.

But on some slightly windy days, we're able to fly kites.

The kids love them.  And we only buy kites that are cheap.  

Cuz really.....are they going to last long in Kansas?!

But all the hassle of shingles and trees and figuring out how to fly kites is worth it. 

For these two.

NOT THAT TALK YET!!!!

So.......

Everyone knows that there is a farmer that has tons of cows on our way home.   Usually they're by the street and this time of year, they have calves!

The kids have recently picked up that there's cow poop there, too.

We drive by and the conversation usually goes like this (from one kid or the other):

"Mom!  The cows are out!"

"Look there's babies!"

"Look!  Cow poop!  EWWWWWWW!"

And for a while, then they would say, "The farmer has to clean that up!"

So we had a talk about how the farmer doesn't clean up the cow poop.

Now it's just, "EWWWWW!"

But as we were driving home the other day, we added something new to the conversation.

"Look Mom!  There's two cows walking with each other!"  (These cows WERE NOT walking if you catch my drift.)

"Mom-I'll bet they're best friends!"

"They'll be friends forever."

At this point, I wasn't sure how much longer he would spend talking about the cows 'walking', so I punched it.

As I sped up, he said, "Mom, why are you in a hurry?"

Me-"Oh-I just had to speed up to reach the speed limit."

Me- "Look!  We're almost home!"

We are SOOOOOO not having that talk yet!