Horse and Bunny Rides

After naptime, we drove to the mall, which is something we normally avoid like the plague.  Neither of us are keen on crowds, parking lots or shopping.  But we needed a new router and knew we could let the kids ride the carousel or do the bungee jumping as a reward standing in line at the always packed Apple store.  The bungee jumping facility had closed, so the carousel it was.

Owen chose a chatty horse and Chloe chose a stoic bunny.

"Ha ha! You can't catch me, Chloe!  I'm still ahead!"

"Better watch out, Owen.  I'm inching up closer!"

Such a happy Beanarina.  She just loved riding this Bunny, going up and down!

Riding a horse is tiring work.  Think this boy could have used a nap?

She's contemplating world hunger and wondering why more people on our street don't recycle.

Owen is looking into the future and likes what he sees.  He says he is never going to get married because he wants to live with us forever and ever.  Owen amends that statement to say he will get married, but only if his wife can live with us, as well.  Owen says when he grows up, he is going to work with Todd.  There have been tears if we bring reality into the conversation and ask what he will do if Todd has already retired.  We could not ask for a sweeter, more tender-hearted boy.

"Mommy, get me off this runaway bunny!  I'm getting dizzy!"

I convinced her to stay on the bunny and she was happy once he slowed down. ;)

Whoops, the boy still had peanut butter and jelly on his face from lunch.  Shhhh.  Just look at his baby blues and ignore the fact his parents can't clean his face properly.

Picnic and Play

After church, the kids changed clothes and we walked up to the tennis courts and playground with Dylan.  Chloe ran ahead of us.

The kids ate lunch in the shade of the deck while we watched Daddy play tennis with one of his friends.

Little mush faces!

Like their Momma, they both just love peanut butter and jelly samiches :)

After they were done eating, we walked over to the playground so they could be little monkeys.

My hamstring hurts just looking at this picture.  But the Bean is so limber.

Little Monkey and Little Dangle :)

Then is was Chloe's turn to see the world from up high.

Once they tired of the playground, we moved to the sand of the volleyball court.  They had fun burying their feet in the sand, as well as the nerf football.

It was a hot afternoon and there were some teenagers hanging out with dirty mouths, so we didn't stay very long.  Which was just as well.  I had forgotten to put sunblock on any of us.  Thankfully, the kids didn't get burned.  But I got a nasty sunburn on the back of my neck and top of my shoulders.  Sunburns in April.  Wow.

Owen's Soccer Game

This boy lives and breathes soccer. 

When he's not at school, eating or sleeping, you can bet this boy is kicking his soccer ball against the front door.

He has no problem getting in the middle of the action to get that ball.

Owen does the best playing defense.

No one has scored a goal against the blue team when Owen has been on defense.

Love the Fives and the Good Games at the end of each game.  This is also Chloe's favorite part.

Easter Bunny

Before we ate lunch, we let the kids eat a little Easter candy.  Chloe chose the big, chocolate, Easter bunny.

Hunting Easter Eggs

After we got home from church, we hid the kids' Easter eggs for them.  They had fun running around the house finding the eggs.

Chloe had to crawl under the dining room table to find one of her eggs.

They both had so much fun hunting for eggs!

Such delight on their faces when they found the particularly 'tough' eggs.

Easter Morning

Before we left for church, we snapped a few pics in front of the garage door.

We started off with smiling kids.

They were very sweet.

And then we had pouting.

And only one sweet kid.

Hike on the Nature Trail

It was really nice weather on Saturday and after Chloe's nap, we decided to go for a walk on the nature trail.  Kelley had had strep throat this week and this was the first time she felt up to walking anywhere.  It felt so good to get out and the weather was gorgeous!

Along the way, we saw a lot of poison ivy growing (at least we thought it was poison ivy).  We supposed it washed in with the floods, when the bridges were washed out.

We stopped at the stream so the kids could throw rocks in the water.

They liked making BIG SPLASHES!

Big smiles :)

When we got to the end of the trail, we hiked up the hill under the power lines.

Loved watching the girl child run with the wind in her hair. :)

I had to walk back up the hill and find my lens cap that fell out of my pocket.  This is what I saw when I turned around.

Not sure what was on Owen's fingers, but Chloe was giving Dylan some much needed love.

Owen was in an exceptional mood and stood smiling for my camera.  The lighting was perfect!

He had some crazy hair after sweating from running.

And then he got tired.

We saw these pretty daffodils growing across the street on our way home.