Toy Story Legos

 

The boys got Legos from "Auntie" Angie for Easter, including Buzz Lightyear's rocket.  Before putting the rocket together, the twins made their own rocket ships, then Carson used what was left.  They used every single Lego from the box.  I think their ships turned out pretty cool.  Fun to see how they use their imaginations with Legos. :)

Egg Huntin'

All so excited to see the Easter Bunny!

Our friends, Ella, Krista, Boden, Ryan, & Tia.

Carson and Ella scoured the area hoping to find any stray eggs.

With so many choices on where to go for an Easter egg hunt today, we decided to check out the one at our local elementary school today, where Carson attends.  We ran into neighbor/church friends and Carson's classmates.  A local church put on the event and did a fantastic job. There were lots of eggs and even more kiddos!  Our three were the only ones with bunny ears, so it made finding them on the playground or during the hunt a little easier.

Egg Decoratin'

The egg dying process is always fun for the boys and teaches them patience which they are in dire need of practicing.  We only had one casualty, so we ended up with 14 colored eggs.  (Don't ask about the amount, I just grabbed some to boil and didn't pay attention to how many.)

The twins had an Easter Egg hunt at school this morning where Gavin collected all yellow eggs aside from one green one.  Yellow is Gavin's second favorite color he tells me.  Ben's were a variety of colors.  All filled with jelly beans which they continued to taste, then spit into the sink, saying they were spicy.  They must have had chocolate in some of the eggs earlier or for a party since Gavin's face was smeared with chocolatey goodness when I picked them up.

Down Time

Daddy's German pancakes for Saturday breakfast.

Ben hopping on Brian's back while he's on the computer.

Ben sitting on Gavin.  Comfy?

Carson & Brian reading while Gavin listens.

Just some misc. pictures taken around the house this past week.  :)

Science Fair

Waiting for it to turn back into a rainbow.

Testing acidity.

Lego Robotics

Ewww.  I did not know the snake lifted his head like that until now.

He loved the turtles.  Can you tell? :)

And great fun with Flubber!

So proud of this huge bubble.  He worked hard at it.

Carson and I attended his school's science fair last night and it was a big hit!  When I was teaching, I started the science fair at my school due to inspiration from the school Carson now attends.  (Yes, Brian and I attended an elementary school science fair before we had kids.  To be fair, I was a teacher and made him go with me.)  This school puts on quite a nice fair to say the least.  The gym was full of the students' displays and a few experiment stations on pH.  Classrooms were filled with displays from the community.  There were rocks to take home from the Rice Rock Museum, dentistry tools were out for kids to play with, reptiles large and small to squeal at (that was me), a Lego robotics team and cool demonstration from a neighbor district's middle school, flubber/goop (where we hung out for an hour during my volunteer shift), and even a mini planetarium set up in the cafeteria!

Family Bike Ride

Cheap Circus Fun

Listening to the Ring Master on a very scratchy microphone.

Travis, Merrick & Anna enjoying a performance.

Gavin loved clapping after some performances.

Carson & Merrick with ladies on the ropes in the background.

The one clown joking around with the ring master.

The elephants finally made an appearance!

Tired boys by the finale & ready to head home.

We bought cheap circus tickets on Groupon and it was pretty obvious why they were so cheap, although people might have been buying them at the ticket booth for full price!  It was a fun first experience for the boys, but I think they will be AMAZED when we attend a "real" circus at some point in the future.

Circus animal count:  10 dogs, 6 donkeys, 2 elephants
Circus performers: 16    (Anna noticed that the tight rope guys were the same guys that did the motorcycle stunts!)
Clowns:  1

Even though this circus wasn't exactly up to par in our opinion, it was still super fun to go with friends and have the experience.  We sat down pretty close and unfortunately ended up on the back side.  Most performers tried to face us at times, but it was pretty obvious we were on the wrong side.  We had lots of room, though, and the boys took advantage of that, climbing back and forth a few times until we made them stop.  They were very well behaved considering how long we were there.  The 15 minute unnecessary intermission turned into 45 minutes, and Gavin was ready to head home by then.  We stuck it out and it paid off since we FINALLY got to see the elephants.

Overall, we were glad we could afford to take the boys to the circus and look forward to doing it again, just to a real one next time.  :)