Darin's Birthday

Darin turned 19.  He celebrated by making the most yummy white chocolate raspberry cheese cake.

Yummy

He got a ipod nano and a cell phone.

Blowing Bubbles on Easter

Usually on Easter we have ham and funeral potatoes for a nice sit down dinner.  This year we turned most of our eggs into egg salad and had egg salad sandwiches.  After dinner, Nathan wanted to blow bubbles so we went out on the back deck to blow bubbles.  It turned into the whole family blowing bubbles off the deck and Nathan chasing them.  It was a very fun and memorable time.

Darin and Melissa

Adam and Melissa

EmmaLee

DeeAnn

Nathan

The Whole gang (except EmmaLee)

Easter Morning

The Easter Bunny Came

Nathan went straight for the whole bunch of peeps, ate them and called his Easter complete.

EmmaLee loved searching for all of the eggs, especially the "special" ones she dyed.

Adam checking out the goodies.

Dying Easter Eggs

We have a family tradition of boiling a lot of eggs....usually 1 doz per person...and then getting all the new gadgety egg dyes and coloring eggs the day before Easter.  We had painting on eggs and glittery eggs and foil eggs.   Then those are the eggs the Easter Bunny hides for us to find Easter morning.

Nathan had fun painting one egg and then he was done.

Melissa and EmmaLee doing a collaboration.

Adam showing off his handiwork.

DeeAnn concentrating on her creation.

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

Every year our neighborhood has an Easter Egg Hunt.  It is normally on a Sunday and right when we are in church but this year they held it on a Saturday so the kids got to go to it.  It was fun and nice to meet some neighbors.

Nathan had fun finding eggs, until he realized what was inside and then he just wanted to open them and get the candy.

EmmaLee found a lot of eggs but none with a "prize" number.  Lucky for her someone who had two numbers shared one with her.  She choose a blue stuffed rabbit and was totally thrilled.

Adam with his "haul"

Skunk

On a very cloudy, wet, rainy April morning, Adam and I went to the Commissary on Ft. Leavenworth to go shopping.  As we pulled into the parking lot we noticed an animal rooting around in the grass next to the store.  Luckily I had my camera in my purse and so I told Adam to jump out and take a picture of it.  He, thought it was a badger at first, but as he got closer, he saw that it was really a skunk.  He did get a picture of it but he didn't want to get too close.

Snow

Like the rest of the country we had an incredibly snowy winter.  We thought it would never get warm.  Here are some of our snow pictures.

Melissa playing in the snow Christmas Eve.  We had our first ever White Christmas.

Darin

KayLee, Joshua, DeeAnn

Nathan trying to like being cold.

One day after going back to school from Christmas break and it snowed again giving us 4 very cold snow days snow days.

Most of the snow this winter was too cold and dry to make a good snow man.  Finally in February, there was just the right kind of snow.  But it melted too quickly.  Melissa and EmmaLee made this snow man which is trying to lie down on the job.

EmmaLee; Snow on March 20.