Easter

We didn't have much excitement this Easter.  We got sick the weeks leading up to Easter.  The boys were better, but we had passed it on to Cody and I was still sick.  That led to a pretty quiet holiday.  We didn't dye eggs.  Instead, I made a pan of rice krispie treats and cut them in to small squares.  Then we decorated those with sprinkles.  It was great.... for about 3 minutes.  I'm really glad I didn't go to the effort of preparing to dye eggs with the boys.  Here is how our day was:

Alex in grey/orange.  Ben in camo.  Here is the beginning of our journey.  Here are the neat bowls of sprinkles and nicely lined up rice krispies.

Ben carefully decorating

Alex carefully decorating

Ben examining his work

Needs to add something

Never mind, this handful is going in the mouth.

Well that was fast.  Sprinkles bowl tipped over and played in.  One lone rice krispie forgotten.

The red circles show you their sprinkles covered mouth.  The blue circle shows the sprinkles on the table and a rice krispie sitting in an empty sprinkle bowl.  The purple circle shows you just how few were decorated before things went haywire.  Full disclosure, I decorated at least 2 of those while showing them what I wanted them to do.  Great job, guys!

Yum

Our masterpiece.

Here is the cake I made for Easter.  Even though I was sick, I HAD to make a frickin bunny cake.  Cody gave me SO MUCH CRAP over buying this $5 bunny shaped cake pan.  I was not going to let the holiday pass without using the stupid thing.  He thought I should have made a sheet cake and cut out the bunny.  It's like he doesn't even know me.  I'm proud when my cakes come out square... there is no hope of me producing an acceptable cake sculpture.  Here's my bunny cake:

We moved on to eating the cake.  Alex looking at the cake

Ben and Alex looking at the cake

Yes, Ben appears to be eating cake off of a butter knife. At least he is using a utensil?

We didn't do an egg hunt.  We didn't cook anything fancy or go anywhere outside of the house and yard.  It was a good day, all things considered.

I'm going to try to do a couple more blog updates soon.  

Visiting the Farm and Hanging out with Cousin

We finally made it back to visit the farm.  It turns out we haven't been there since last spring.  Oops.  To be fair, we have traveled almost nowhere in that time frame.  There was one disaster overnight to KC, and that was it.  Anyway, we had a really good weekend.

Cousin was also visiting while his mom (Aunt C) had things to take care of.  It was a lot of fun seeing the boys together.  Cousin ended up getting a little sick, so he wasn't 100%, but they still had a good time.

We spent a lot of time up at the shop while the guys were working on a project.  The 4 wheeler was parked nearby waiting for repairs.  The boys took that opportunity to climb up and sit on it.  Here are all 3 boys and Grandma sitting on the 4 wheeler.

Cousin in front.  Alex middle, Ben behind

Colt looks like he is having a rocking good time, but they weren't moving.

Same order.  The boys went binky crazy this weekend.  I don't know why; they were almost off of them, but whatever.

I cut Grandma out in case she didn't want to be on the blog.

Alex camo, Ben orange sitting on the gator while Grandma feed some grain.  They had a lot of fun watching cows.

Alex wearing his most exciting outfit leading Cody down to a tractor.  They loved sitting in the tractor

Ben trying to close the door.

I wouldn't let him

He eventually gave up and started playing with the key.  That was when we started taking the key out when the boys played in there.

Ben using the toy vacuum to "clean up" the floor dry.  

Day 2 left the boys pretty pooped.  Alex actually fell asleep leaning on my arm.  This NEVER happens with my boys. They need their own space when sleeping.

A very attractive Alex asleep pic

One of the issues with travel was a place to sleep.  We found these cots for the boys and Grandma bought one for each of the boys.  All 3 boys ended up really liking them.  My boys are still in cribs.  This was a big step.

The first night was a bit of a disaster.  They stayed up until after midnight and woke up at 4:30.  Alex woke me up by pushing a bag of gummies in my face and saying "NUMMIES?  NUMMIES?" Little monster.  I told him to go get in bed.  He went to his bed and sat there quietly watching us try to fall back asleep.

The 2nd night was a lot better.  There was quite a bit of crying before they went down, but they went down a lot quicker and slept until after 9 am.  To be fair, they didn't go down until about 11pm.  The farm schedule is much, much different from home schedule.  We didn't even eat dinner until 9.  

The 3rd night went really well.  They were absolutely exhausted when we took them to bed, so there was a brief meltdown, but they went down quick.  Their toddler beds should get here Monday or Tuesday, so hopefully this will have helped that transition.

All 3 boys sitting with Grandma in a pickup waiting for instructions.  Alex far left, Ben, Cousin far right

If you can't tell, they spent a lot of time climbing in/on/around the equipment while we waited for things to do.  Playing in a pickup was another favorite place.

The boys were leading Grandpa around. 

Discussing bull stuff I imagine.  

So the boys came to chat.  Ben grey Alex camo

Cousin finally caught up to join the parade

small detour

Cousin and Ben chatting about water, probably.  My boys like talking about water.  or cats.  or cows.

Back in the shop playing in the floor dry

Ben cruising around on the 4 wheeler

Computer break.  Cousin wanted to watch videos about trains all weekend.  My boys were less interested, but still joined him.  Cousin was not always happy with the company.

Cousin left, Alex middle, Ben right

Alex and Cousin watching trains again

Cousin not impressed by Ben pointing at something

Cousin teaching Ben to swing like a monkey on a laundry line

Boys playing in gator.  Alex left, Ben middle, Cousin right

Putting floor dry in a can.  And dumping it out.  As you can see, they spent a lot of time playing with the floor dry.

Fighting over a can.  Good thing there are lots of cans around!  All 3 boys got their own can.

Alex and cousin

Cousin put much more floor dry in his can before he dumped it out, resulting in much larger piles.  My boys would just put a little in, dump it out next to Cousin's pile, then push it all around.

Fighting over the 4 wheeler

Grandma thought of a fun new game.  Use a squirt bottle to spray water on things.  That distracted them for quite a while. 

Alex

Ben joined

Ben and cousin in a tractor.  They eventually started battling it out over the radio.  They were still having fun here

Ben so pooped he is playing with a truck on the floor.

On the way home.  A full van, sleepy babies, and tired parents

Hopefully we can make it back again soon to visit with everyone we didn't get to see.  It was a really fast, really last minute trip.  It was actually part business trip for Cody.  We just took the opportunity to swing by the farm since Cody would be nearby anyway.  We really didn't get a chance to see anyone.  

It was a fun weekend.  Now we need a weekend from our weekend!