Swimming Lessons

Adam and EmmaLee are taking swimming lessons.  Adam needs to pass the BSA swimmers test and although he swims almost like a fish...he doesn't use correct strokes so he's learning them.

EmmaLee has always been almost terrified to be in the water.  She is starting at the beginning and doing great.

Although I didn't get any pictures of the actual lessons, here are some of us waiting outside the indoor pool for Adam to finish.

Nathan has to have a "leash" because he is a runner.  One day as I was helping EmmaLee change, (she was standing in the dressing room in a towel) Nathan ran out the door, down the hall, past the front desk and was almost out the front door before I caught up with him.

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.