Easter Egg!

Good morning!  This is gonna be a quick one!  Dylan should be up any minute and I still need to shower and get ready for heading to town this morning.

 

So aren't these the cutest kids ever?!  Say yes.  They were watching me dance the other day and Dylan decided they would get cozy while they watched.  So he set this all up.  Sorry Daddy - they want the pillows you put in the garage sale pile!  Ha!

I love how she watches to see what he's going to do next so she can copy him.

Chin in your hands! GO!

She doesn't realize that he's moved on the from the chin in the hands thing.  It was just too comfy!

We also dyed eggs this week.  Good times.

I bought a Tie Dye kit for them which turned out to be kind of a pain in the you know what.

It was fun for about 2 eggs and then we moved on to the traditional way.

Duh!  I'm the one overseeing this super fun project!  Of course I rule!

Dad's not here, so he doesn't get a "rules" on his.

HEY!  Who is casting a shadow upon my eggs!

Dang it Mux!  Get outta here!  This is a super important egg photo shoot!

Well I'm sad to say that I did NOT win the "ice out" contest.  Its now the 21st of April and there is still a small sliver of ice on the lake.  It should be gone today.  I WOULD have won had we not had winter return AGAIN.  Grrrrr!  But check out this lovely loon who taunted me by not getting close enough for a decent pic!

Let me remind you that our house is for sale!  Spread the word!

That devilish grin has me worried.  Looks like she was gonna run me down or something!

Nah, she'd never do that!

Well, I'm off like a prom dress!  Gotta get ready to head to town and teach some Zumba, baby!

 

Gettin' Springy...

Ahhh, spring.  It sure is lovely isn't it?  This lone flower always pops up first amongst the tulips.  Every year, it is the first riser.

I LOVE when our furniture and grill come out.  Makes summer feel all that closer.  The kids are always happy to see the toys they had forgotten they owned.

Avery is still working on her sharing skills.  In her defense, the car was stolen out from under her, so she had a right to be mad.

As you can see, Dylan really cares.

Ha!  This totally isn't a posed picture.  It just looks that way.  They both happened to look at me at the same time for once.

These are her "play" sunglasses, so they don't really do anything to protect her eyes.  You'll recall that her other shades are no more, so these were the next best thing or risk a tantrum.

If/ when we move, I sure hope our next yard is just as big as this.

What?!  Do you think I was gonna let her go more than a day without proper sunglasses?  She IS a girl, you know.  We had to wear them INDOORS today as winter has returned again for a few days.  Its COLD out.  Booooooooo.

And like a true girl, she jumped at the chance to model them for me.

Little big, but she'll grow into them.

This calls for a dance!

Wait - what's on TV?

Nothing good!  Back to dancing!

And while we were picking out sunglasses for her, she made sure that her brother got a pair too.

He'll do anything to try and get that one perfect picture.  We did this over and over and over again.

Then it was tent time.  Could be our last tent till Fall!

And finally, I had to pretend it was warm out while drinking my smoothie.  I was wishing I was in that pink chair with the sun warming me.

This is just frozen peaches and mangos with almond milk.  Sams Club has a frozen bag of Tropical Fruit right now and its fabulous.  It has peaches, mangos, pineapple and strawberries.  Delish!

My only wish is that I would have had a Vitamix to make it in.  This took FOREVER!  It was worth it tho cuz it was sooooo good.

 

Well, time to RELAX!  Better go dig out my slippers.  GRRR.

Mushiness

Well, we're taking guesses on what day the ice will go out.  My guess is one week from today - April 18th.  Eric's guess is April 16th.  It made major progress today.  Our bay is nearly all melted.

And this little pile here is what was left of our final (knock on wood) snowstorm.  It melted today.  Good riddance!

The kids spent a lot of time wrestling each other today.  This isn't exactly what I meant when I said, "go play."  Oh well.

Ohhhh to have the complexion of a toddler!  It's not fair!!!

For some reason, this mask has been getting a lot of face time.  Pun intended.  They both think it's hilarious!

My ZIN (Zumba Instructor Network) 32 DVD arrived today, so we worked on our dancing skills.  Clearly, the mask was needed.  Gives the dancing a little more flair.

There is just something about latin music that makes them want to move.  They always stop what they are doing when they hear Zumba music come on.

I love Avery in this one.  She favors the Raggaeton rhythm and when she hears a song she really likes or knows, she gets pretty crazy.

After dancing, we went out to check on nature.  Since the ice is going out, the wildlife are providing us with more entertainment than usual.  You'll be happy to hear that we have seen a loon - so it looks like they didn't get oiled up in the gulf like we had feared.

The stuff you see in the water is ice chunks breaking off of the main mass of ice.  Its NOT weeds.  Yet.

Iceberg!  Dead ahead!  If you look closely, you can see 2 fools on the ice fishing.  See them?  They are the 2 specks directly above the right side of the iceberg.

Avery is loving the slide this year.  I'm just hoping that the grass dries up pretty soon cuz they both got pretty muddy from their boots getting mud all over the slide and then their butts sliding into the mud from their boots.  I'm soooooo not a fan of spring mushiness.

Finally, I was able to distract them away from the mushiness to go for a wagon ride.

It didn't last long and they made me turn around to go home.  I've been waiting for Avery to be able to sit on the well cap!  2 years ago I took a picture of Dylan sitting on it while Avery was baking' away in my belly.  Now here she sits.

Well, that is all for now!  Chuck is all new tonight, so I've got a date with the couch and my husband!  Later!