Easter Egg Hunt

We went to our annual neighborhood Easter egg hunt this past Saturday. It's been freezing and snowy here for the past week or so, but we got really lucky and had sun and (kind of) warm weather that day. There were tons of kids there this year, but the boys still got a lot of candy. Austin found a sucker on the ground right when the hunt started, so he picked it up, opened it, put his basket down and just enjoyed the sucker instead of looking for more candy. So I had to look around and pick up a few pieces for him. Ethan had so much fun and asks me every day how many more days until the real Easter so he can find more candy. Unfortunately for him, most Easter candy either has peanuts/nuts in it or is cross-contaminated for peanuts/nuts, so Adam and I got to eat all his nutty candy. I bought him some candy from the store that I knew was safe so he still has tons of candy.

Disney on Ice

Adam has been in Las Vegas for the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament this weekend, so my mom and I took Ethan and Austin to see Disney on Ice yesterday. I was hesitant to bring Austin since he's so young, but he actually ended up enjoying it much more than Ethan did. Austin sat perfectly still in Grandma's lap and watched the whole thing. He clapped, snapped his fingers, and danced throughout the whole thing. Ethan enjoyed it, but he has a pretty short attention span for stuff like that. He kept telling me he wanted to go down and walk on the ice, and everytime the crocodile that was trying to eat Captain Hook came on the ice, Ethan would tell me what he would do if the crocodile came up into the stands and attacked him ("I would hit him! I would grab him and throw him!"). Overall it was a lot of fun; nothing like paying $10 for cotton candy



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Playing in the snow and hoping for spring...

The boys got a sled for Christmas, but sadly, we haven't had a chance to use it since Christmas. We got lots of snow for about a month after Christmas, but during that month there was always someone sick in our house, so we didn't venture out into the frigid snow. Once we finally got better, we didn't have any more snow storms. All that was left was icey, hard snow, so we didn't play in that either. Yesterday afternoon it started snowing, and Ethan begged and begged to go outside and play. But since it was so windy that the snow was blowing sideways, I told him we'd have to wait. So this morning it was bright and sunny, and even though there was only an inch of snow, we went outside and played in it. Austin was really excited to play outside, until he realized he had to wear snow pants, mittens, hat, boots, sweatshirt, and a huge jacket. He screamed and cried until I just took off all the clothes and let him stand at our back door and watch. Ethan had me pull him around on the sled all around the backyard. Wow, what a workout. Finally, just when we were ready to come inside, Austin ventured out the back door with no shoes or socks on. I told him he could only come out if he put boots and his coat on. So with about half as many clothes as he should've been wearing, he came out and played for a few minutes. Until he discovered that it's not too fun to play in the snow without mittens, so we headed inside for lunch. The snow was fun, but we're ready for spring!!

Cool Shades

At the beginning of the week, I really felt like we were on our way to spring. The weather was in the high 50's and low 60's. I was wrong though, because it snowed a little last night. Luckily, while it was still warm, we got to play outside a little. Austin found a pair of his sunglasses from last summer (that he refused to wear) and put them on and would not take them off. He pushed his huge dump truck up and down our street with his sunglasses on even though it was very cloudy. And Ethan pulled out his old tricyle and did some off-roading in the empty lot next door to our house.