Easter Activities

First, I just love what a small child can do with frosting! Yummmmy!!!

The following pictures are from the Lewisville Easter Egg Hunt the weekend before Easter weekend. We had a good time! The worst was athe poorly designed parking lot with only one entrance and 4 different activities taking place at one park. It took over an hour to get out of the parking lot.

Run Jon, run!

As you can see the kids scored! Each egg only had one peice of candy but there were little booths and they won more candy at those.

For Easter Weekend (and this last week), we were so lucky because Grandma and Grandpa Rabner came to visit. We loved playing with them and having them go to all of our activities with us. The kids of course loved coloring eggs! Arabella thought stirring the colors was the best part.

Dad and Grandpa were busy in the yard and missed out on the "dying" fun!

We built a tent to watch conference in, just like the people in King Benjamin's time. The kids did okay with the coloring pages and bingo cards the first session but after that they just wanted to play. I have already shared how wonderful I thought conference was.

Saturday, during priesthood session Lanell and I took the kids out to eat and then to see How to Train a Dragon. The kids were really good at the restaurant and the movie was so good! I really liked it and the kids all enjoyed it.

Joey was so determined to catch the Easter Bunny but was unsuccessful. He did wake up at 5:30 but Peter sent him back to bed. At 7:00 we discovered all of the eggs and baskets.

Grandma and Grandpa even got in on the fun!

Jon was so excited to get bubbles.

Monday we all, Peter too, headed for the zoo. We loved the zoo! There are some great animals that I do not believe I have ever seen before.

Grandpa treated the boys to a camel ride. Pretty cool, eh?!

Joey really did enjoy the ride despite the look on his face in this picture.

One thing we loved was the water feature and little farm area. I also loved that in the reptile house the really big snakes were nearly all very active, something I have never seen before.

We had packed a picnic lunch and after we ate the kids did not want to see the other half of the zoo. We had bought an annual family pass so we can go back. They wanted to take G & G to the discovery museum. The zoo and museum are nearby each other so we decided why not.

Fireman Jon

Joey had a great time with the seeds in the farm area.

My little pesky litte Peter.

Grandma and Arabella waiting for the boys to make their squished pennies.

Arabella really warmed up to both G & G during their stay. I was so glad because when she and I were in Utah she would not have anything to do with pretty much anyone.

Wednesday night was pack meeting and it was a crossing over ceremony and an arrow of light. This is good because both of these are part of Peter's wood badge goals. Peter loves to make really cool awards like this great arrow.

Peter made this bridge with the help of Bro. Dunstan. They had a great time using their tools. I think it turned out awesome! All of the boys seemed to think it was pretty cool too!

Grandpa is a great gardner and was super helpful in the yard this week. He helped Peter figure out what to do with our yard and then he made huge progress in carrying those plans out. This included tilling up the back 1/4 of our yard and getting all of this great soil. The boys were in heaven having all of that dirt to play in.

We also tilled in 15 bags of peat moss. We will have the most amazing garden. We are also planning to plant raspberry and blueberry bushes on the side of our house.

The lava rocks have been removed! When I left for work tonight Peter was just finishing the tilling and mixing of the soil and fertilizer. Flowers next!

We had so much fun with G & G Rabner. Thank you so much for the wonderful week!