Easter Weekend

We spent the Easter weekend up at Eric's parents house.  His entire family was there plus a new puppy so there was never a dull moment.  Kelli and I planned out a "Zumba-thon" for Saturday morning.  She and Lisa were super excited (they both get licensed for Zumba this coming weekend in Minneapolis)!

Jamie and Kacie, were not.  They were first timers and were worried about their images.  Ha!  They tried to hide in the back of the class with no luck!

They probably won't be too happy about these pictures, but oh well!  My blog, I'll do what I want!

Grandpa Danny was secretly wishing he could scoooch on in and dance with us.  He definitely was back row material, if you know what I mean. ; )  Check out my air tho!  Wooohoo!  Thanks to Gma Kim for taking the pictures.  Its fun to see us in action!

And one more - I like this one.  Check out the future Zumba princess watching from the high chair.

This is what the kids did ALL weekend.  Gma and Gpa treated them to not ONE but TWO Power Wheels vehicles.

To say that they liked them is an understatement.  And its a good thing there were two or there would have been some serious fights.

Even the littlest cousins could drive them (with supervision of course)!

Here's Hobey (or Homer, as Eric likes to call him) chasing Kelli.  This is Lisa and Chandler's new puppy.  The kids have a love/hate relationship with him.  Since he's a puppy, he likes to bite when he is playing.  They all were NOT fans of that.  Avery kept shaking her fist at him and yelling, "NO! NO!"  The older kids went the "I'm going to run super fast to get away from you" route, which only egged poor Homer on.  Make him want to bite them even more!

Avery, Easton and Addi drive with pillows behind their backs so they can reach the pedals.  Once we figured out that they could drive them, it became evident that Gma and Gpa need THREE Power Wheels.  Its not our fault they had so many kids!  Side note: They admitted that they got them as a bribe to get everyone to come home more.  Guess we're gonna need that third Power Wheels vehicle then! ; )

Gma Kim loves her picture times!  Clearly the rest of us do too!

The 7 grandkids.  If you look closely, Kacie is also in this picture.

And here's Easter morning.  Bunny had just come.

And our holiday attempt at a family picture.  Brown grass, bright sun, forced smiles = mediocre picture.  OH well.  Summer, shades and real smiles are coming soon!

Hope you all had a good Easter!

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!

 

Easter Weekend Picture Extravaganza!

We were up at Gma and Gpa Wikoff's for Easter weekend.  Dylan had a good time showing off his potty skills, jibber jabbering to everyone, playing with his cousin Easton and running around pants-less pretty much the entire weekend.  We went to Happy Joes on Friday for a pizza party in his honor.  Its important to celebrate peeing in the potty chair with pizza.  Again.

Here he is man-handling his cousin Easton (or Easter, as he likes to call him).

 Here are some of the partygoers.  Thanks Kacie for showing some enthusiasm!

More lovin' for Easter.

Playing on the choo-choo outside of Happy Joes.  This was supposed to upload as a B/W photo, but you know blogger.  grrrrrrrrrrrr

The next day, Dylan had to show off his hockey skills for Gpa and Eddie.  His slapshot is still very scary.  I stayed clear of the game and for good reason.  

And he of course had to get very dirty playing on the mushy wet beach.  Notice how these suckers still have ice on the lake!  ha ha!

And finally, here are the pictures from Easter.  

I don't know why, but Eric felt the need to stick his thumb on my boob for the picture.  Nice.

Here I was trying to get Dylan to cooperate for a mother/son photo b/c of our coordinated shirts.  He wasn't having any of it.  So this is the most decent pic that was taken.  The rest of the pics he is either lying on the floor crying or he is in my arms arching his back away from me.  He is so nice!

And here he is looking for the eggs from the Easter bunny.  They were hard boiled eggs, so that was a bit weird.  Clearly, not my idea.

Sweet!  My Easter basket!

OOOOH the honorable Doc Hudson/Hudson Hornet!

Open it Daddy!

And here's Easton, enjoying his goodies from the bunny.

The Hanson Family and their love egg.

My deviled eggs.  A must have for any family get together.  Loved by all.

Well, thats it for pictures for today.  This blogger takes waaaaaay too long to upload and I've had enough.  But before I go, Eric wants everyone to know that Dylan peed off the dock this afternoon, it was 60 degrees outside today and he saw 43 loons out in front of our dock.  I can vouch for all 3 things.  However, I did not go out and count the loons, so we'll just have to take his word for it.  But I did hear them loooooooonin' at each other.  (insert your best loon call here).

Thats it for now!  Later!