easter weekend

we had a super fun easter weekend with good friends and fun activities. the festivities begin saturday morning with a pot luck and easter egg hunt with friends at a local park. and although the weather wasn't completely ideal, it was still warm and such a blast! so much yummy food and the kids excitement, plus the great company, made everything worth it!

Sabrina and her boyfriend having fun and holding hands as they play at the park. she gets so excited when she gets to see and play with "her" Walker! 

  cute baby Sawyer munching on the yummy food! 

getting ready for the easter egg hunt! 

  and they are off!! 

after the egg hunt we spent the day running errands and heading over to the kids all time favorite store(which just also happens to be Wayne's all time favorite store too) Bass Pro Shops for their easter egg hunt. later that night we invited our good friend Courtney to come over to help color easter eggs.

  after dying easter eggs we quickly bathed and got ready for bed. the kids were super excited about the easter bunny coming in the morning!

 and I just have to remember this memory for when the kids get older. We have two glass jars that sit on top of our mantle in the upstairs and early this month I filled them with colored easter eggs. The other day Chase discovered these egg filled jars and went up to Wayne in all seriousness and said, "Daddy, the easter bunny came and laid eggs in the cups on the fireplace!" 

i think that it is so cute that he thinks the easter bunny is the one who lays all of the eggs instead of just hiding the eggs. i can't wait to share this with him when he is older!

  the kids were super excited to see what the easter bunny brought them! 

and thanks to our good friend Natalie, we have a family picture of us on easter! 

love this wild bunch I call family!! 

Happy Easter!!

 

more snow

Remember when I posted this blog post about murphy's law and Wayne being out of town? Well, the new inside joke around here is when Wayne is out of town, it's bound to snow... a lot! Like, we are stuck and can't go anywhere for a couple of days kind of snow.

We are getting pretty used to it though.

At least I had my three little helpers!
And what normally takes me an hour to shovel, now takes me three with these cute little guys, but that is okay. We have a lot of fun out in the snow. 

 And I normally don't mind the snow, especially in December and January, but I am so ready for spring and warmer temperatures! 

I don't think we will be letting Wayne take any more trips for awhile! ;)

 

fun with the bishops :: part 2

On Thursday we decided to pack our cars up and head down to our favorite place, silver dollar city in Branson. If you follow this blog at all you know we go there quite a bit and we just had to take Wayne and Amy to show them all the fun.

We spent most of Thursday stopping at local tourist places and eating at the oh so fun and so so yummy Lamberts and then checking into our hotel room for the night. Friday was the opening day for Silver Dollar City and also the opening of their new wooden roller coaster, which I might just add is AWESOME! We got there right as the park open and stayed till it closed. We had that much fun!

It was so much fun going with friends. I felt like we were able to enjoy the rides more and now that Sabrina is big enough to ride most of the rides it was nice to always have someone to watch Oliver so that we could all go on the rides together. So happy that we planned this trip, because it was perfect! 

Oliver was such a trooper and such a happy baby on our trip! 

We just loved having Wayne and Amy and little Finn come stay and visit with us. Everyday was a blast and a new adventure and we were so sad to see them leave on Saturday. But that's okay, because we are planning another Bishop/Crowder vacay in the near future. 

How about Orlando... in November? :) 

 

fun with the bishops :: part 1

Our fun and awesome friends from Utah, Wayne and Amy and their boy Finn, came and visited us for eight days during their spring break. We were so excited to have them come out and stay with us that we packed our days full with fun activities, yummy food and tours of our favorite places in our new city.

First stop was the Crowne Plaza where we had tickets to the aquarium and Lego Land. But first we stopped at some yummy bbq at Gates and then shopped a little in the plaza. The kids just love the Crayola place and we had a blast with them there.

I love this picture of my three goofy kids. They keep me laughing and smiling everyday. 

sillies. 

After we played in the mall for a bit we walked across the street to the aquarium and Lego Land. We decided on do the aquarium first and Lego Land afterwards.

  The aquarium isn't too big or fancy and I think the price might be a little steep for what you get to see but the kids just absolutely love it and love it every time we go to visit, so I can't really complain. 

  And Fisher is just in his element when he is at any aquarium. He just loves watching fish. 

And the aquarium does have this cool little area where you can touch sea urchins and star fish. 

Next stop, Lego Land. 

This was our first time going to Lego Land since they have opened it and despite the fact that their coolest and main ride was closed for the day I still thought that this place was such a fun place for the kids. There is SO much for them to do here and all of the kids just thought it was the coolest place ever. I know we will have to go back again in our near future! 

  Building cool race cars with the daddies. 

Later on in the week after many more fun trips to restaurants and bbq joints we decided to take our friends to our zoo. The weather was a bit cold but I thought it would still be fun to explore. It was, but there were hardly any animals out. At least the kids had fun and riding the tram is always a fun activity with the kiddos. 

Chase and Finn became fast friends and were so fun to watch. They played so well together and it was fun for Chase to have such a good friend around. 

running across the shaky bridge at the zoo!

  and when there are no people and no animals at the zoo it means it's time for a dance party. 

Time spent with the Bishops is always a fun time!