Happy Mother's Day!

Mother's Day was a very busy and fun-filled twelve hour day. We got up and celebrated Mother's Day at home and then we headed up to LA around 9:00. We made a quick stop to visit Sharon, Tony, and Baby Aidan at the hospital (pictures coming soon) grabbed a Starbucks and were on our way. We made it to LA around 11:30 and had a quiet lunch with the family. Around 2:00 the aunts and uncles arrived to enjoy some yummy desserts. We had a nice visit and made it back home by 9:00!

Jessica's new lounge chair and basket of goodies!

Jacob modeled how the chair should be used and showed Mom how to relax with a magazine!

Olivia and Great Grandma Arnold

Jacob decorated frames using buttons and sparkles and gave them to all the Grandmas.

Happy Livie!

Auntie made us a wall hanging using Olivia's birth announcement and picture!

Easter Weekend - Part 2

Easter Sunday we got up to find the Easter Bunny brought Olivia her very first Easter basket. After we enjoyed looking at all the Easter goodies we jumped in the car and headed to LA to celebrate with everybody else. As usual the whole family was there and the kids were way too spoiled! :-)

Olivia's first basket!

Great Grandma Moon

Jacob's basket from Grandma and Grandpa!

Jacob's basket from Auntie Brandie and Uncle Sean!

Easter Weekend - Part 1

Wow as usual we can't figure out where all of our time goes! Jessica is in the final month and a half of school and is busy with all the extracurricular activities that 5th graders get to enjoy. She took the Safety Patrol to Disneyland, attended a student's award ceremony, took her class on a Floating Sea Lab fieldtrip, and is gearing up for promotion. All of which happens after normal school hours and therefore our blog has been very neglected. We've had requests for Easter pictures so we will back up to April and catch everybody up!

Last Easter we were visiting the Orlando's in Washington D.C. and we flew home to Los Angeles in time to celebrate with the family. Because we missed out on the Easter traditions we made sure to fit them all in this year. We started on Saturday at our community's annual Spring Social. The association had clowns, crafts, face painting, contests, and of course an egg hunt! The egg hunt was more of a free-for-all and Jacob was the youngest in the age grouping so he was a bit overwhelmed. He managed to get one egg which was all you needed for a treat bag so he left happy! Later that afternoon we dyed Easter eggs for the first time. After a few dropped and broken eggs Jacob got the hang of it and we ended up with 36 beautifully colored and decorated works of art.

Here is Jacob and Michael working on their craft.

The finished masterpiece!

Jacob got his hand painted instead of his face.

We got to meet the Easter bunny!

Look at all of our colors!

Jacob was a master with the tongs.

The egg drying station!