Worst April Fool's Joke Ever

Universe, you've done it again!
- Tobias Funke

Easter Egg Hunt

Phoenix's first Easter egg hunt. It was so fun and so short! The eggs were just all over the grass at the park across the street from our house and the kids went crazy. Phoenix got a few, but only because Cory kick some over into a little pile by his feet. He was pretty slow at picking them up and putting them in his bag. He loved it, though. We're going to do another for him this weekend at my parent's house.

I should be packing.

But I'm not. Just wanted to post a few pics of the cutest kids ever before I get to it. Cory and I are going to Phoenix tomorrow and leaving the kids with my parents. We're excited for the warmth, sunshine, and baseball!

Special K Protein Water...

...I like it.

I can't believe how quickly Skylee is growing up. It goes by so fast!

Phoenix is a super picky eater. He won't eat bananas or peaches plain but if I put them in the blender with some huckleberries and put the "juice" in a cup (not a sippy or plastic kid's cup), he's all over it.
He looks kind of like the joker...

Tagged

It seems we have a budding graffiti artist on our hands. We finally had to throw away all of Phoenix's crayons and get him the kind that are like a pencil, that twist up and down in the plastic case. This way, he can't bite off little pieces to hide in his room to use to color the walls when he should be sleeping (exhibit A) or to color the desk when I am taking a shower (exhibit B).

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Since I cut Phoenix's hair, I get my hand wet in the morning to spike it up and then put mousse on it. When he wants to fix his own hair, he gets his hand wet and runs it through his hair, slicking it back. But he only uses his right hand. I tried to get a good picture of it, but I couldn't get him to hold still. It's so funny, though.

Phoenix loves to read. Even books that have no pictures!

Skylee is awesome, of course. She smiles a lot and loves it when we play with her hands and feet. For some reason all of her pictures keep turning sideways when I post them and I don't have time to fix them. So her pictures will have to wait for now.

Please Redbox Responsibly

We love the redbox. It's so great and cheap and easy. Unless you're behind someone who didn't get on the internet first to reserve the movie(s) she wanted. Maybe she has a promo code. Even so, everything would run much more smoothly if she would look online before hand and write down a few movies she wants to see instead of slowly browsing through all of them at the kiosk (and if it's a Friday or Saturday night, they're not going to have any new releases so she shouldn't tell her kid he can get the new mario movie, because most likely, he can't.) This will save everyone a lot of time and heartache. Also, she should know, that she doesn't have to do a separate transaction for each movie, unless, again, she has 2 or more promo codes. But someone should also tell her that those promo codes you get online rarely work and if she wants to go down the list trying all of them, maybe she should do so on a day or at a time when there aren't 5 people in line behind her standing in the cold snow waiting to either pick up their reserved redbox or return one, which takes about 20 seconds.

Twenty-Ten

I made a New Year's resolution this year to write in my journal once a week on Wednesday nights. Last week Cory said to me " I kind of thought that writing in your journal included updating the blog..." Ok. Point taken. I am going to try to update the blog once a week, but that is not one of my resolutions, so it may or may not happen.

Phoenix's first haircut. He didn't love the clippers, but he did love the sucker I gave him.

We had a 4 day weekend so I guess Cory thought he could take a vacation from shaving. He's no Tom Selleck...

Phoenix's First Black Eye. He fell and hit the windowsill. It got a lot worse looking over the next couple of days.

Phoenix loves to hold Skylee. She's not so sure about it, though.

Phoenix watching his KidSongs movie with Dad and his football (with the end bitten off). Three of his favorite things.

Phoenix wearing his cousin's clothes. We were at Cory's Parent's house for the super bowl and his sister and her husband and 2 girls were up. One of her girls was taking a bath and Phoenix was throwing toys into the tub. He threw one so hard that it launched him over the side of the tub and he got soaked. It was hilarious. Cory's sister let us borrow her 3-year-old daughter's clothes for the ride home. They actually fit him pretty well.

Skylee's Blessing Day. I saved that bracelet for this day, and it almost didn't fit her chubby little wrist! Also, she is wearing my blessing dress and that almost didn't fit her either! I had to have my mom help me do up the buttons in the back because I couldn't get them.