3/25/13

Last weekend we went to the zoo. We've been hoarding all of our tickets we got when we bought our membership, that allow the kids to ride the carousel, train, etc, and now that they expire at the end of the month we have about 40 that we need to use up. 

Kiersten refused to go into the snake house, but wanted her picture taken with the statue anyway. 

using up a few tickets on the carousel. 

This weekend was our neighborhood Easter egg hunt in the park. Evie was so excited to see the Easter bunny. She kept following him around, and petting his fur. 

While we waited for everyone to arrive, the kids played on the playground. 

About to start hunting!

They were each allowed to find up to 12 eggs. Kara and Evie both had to put some eggs back, but Kiersten made sure to only get 12. 

Yep, Evie has a blue Easter egg in her hair. 

I thought it would be so funny to put these plastic eggs in Kiersten's hair. Then of course Evie had to have one too. I didn't think her hair was long enough, but I got it to work right on top of her head. Kiersten was a little nervous that people would think it looked ridiculous, but she got lots of compliments on it. When Kara came upstairs to get her hair done, she said, "I want a normal hairdo that looks beautiful. Jack might be there." 

So no plastic eggs in Kara's hair. 

Evie has now had about 8 Easter egg hunts in the livingroom, and is ready for the real deal this coming weekend! She thanked the Easter bunny about 20 times for the candy she got at the hunt.

We were expecting some snow yesterday, but a little surprised to get more than a foot of it. It was really good wet, packing snow, so Ben had to take the girls out to make a snowman. 

I was surprised when I looked out there and saw this huge snowball. I thought they must have decided to make something else instead of a snowman. 

But, it was a snowman, and it was huge. Ben couldn't even lift the middle section up, so he had to use a board for a ramp and roll it on there. I was worried it was going to fall off and take out one of the kids, so I hurried out to help pack it on as much as possible. He needed a ladder to get the head on.

posing with their big friend. I looked out the window this morning, and it's still standing, but the hat and scarf are buried under more new snow. Of course school is canceled today, after we just had spring break last week, and the previous friday was a no school day for teacher prep. I'm pretty ready for them to go back tomorrow. 

Ben was impressed with how much snow was on our deck.

It's a good thing I didn't get the cushions back out for the patio furniture, like I was planning to. That's Ben's new grill buried under the snow, if you can see it. We've only used it once, but hopefully it really will be spring in the next week or two, and we'll get some use out of it.