Coloring Easter Eggs

Becca with her eggs

Nice and slow, Cam!

As you can see, Tristan decided spiky hair is not only for crazy hair day!
The finished creations

Our kids love to color Easter Eggs. We do it every year. Cameron picked out the egg-dye kit this year. It was one of the messiest (of course) we've done so far! After all the eggs were dyed and dried, you then had to squirt this special, very sticky glue on your egg, and rub it all over with your fingers. Then you wrap it in this colored metallic paper and when you peel it off, the eggs (and kids) had metallic speckles all over them. They turned out really pretty, but I think I'll just pick out the kit we use for next year myself! (Reese, by the way, was taking a nap during this process - Maybe I'll be brave enough to dye eggs with all 4 of them next year!)

CRAZY HAIR DAY!!

Here are the kids getting ready for crazy hair day at school. (Cameron just had crazy hair at home with me and at the grocery store!) In case you can't tell from the picture, both boys hair are gelled all spiky, and Becca has half striaght, half curly hair!

Our Little Artist

Did I mention Becca is artsy? To say she loves art would be a major understatement. Almost every day after school this year, Becca would come home, sit down at the dining room table and begin her next "project". She loves drawing, painting, cutting, glueing, anything that is creative.

So she was very excited when a piece of her artwork was selected to be in the Pikes Peak Regional 47th Annual Young People's Art Exhibition. Whew! That's a long name!

Her African mask was put on display for a week in April in an art gallery in the mall.

So we all went to see her work and congratulate her. She got a ribbon for the multicultural art award.

March 29th - Reese's actual b'day

We had her wait to open presents from us until her real birthday, so here she is blowing out the candles on her b'day pancakes and with some of her presents.

Reese turned 2!

We had a little party for Reese on March 28th, the day before her birthday. As I mentioned in a previous post, she loves the Wonder Pets. Here's her getting her first look at her cake (she was really excited!)

Here she is with her matching big sister - Becca insisted they match!

I liked this one of her and cousin Harris - she looks very sassy!

Coloring with sidewalk chalk with her Dad.

Tris and Cam having fun in the bouncy house.

With friends Ashley and Katie

Before...and after

We got our house painted this year! It was very exciting/ nerve-wracking. We asked many friends and family members opinions on colors - that is a BIG decision! It's not like we can just pay to have it painted all over again if we don't like it! So here is the BEFORE picture...

And here is the AFTER picture. . .

We really like it! What do you think?

It's a Jungle Out There!

That was the name of Becca's 1st grade musical this year. As you can see, she was a cheetah. she had quite a few speaking parts and a solo in one of the musical numbers. She really has a flair for the dramatic arts, well any art really. We were really proud of her. She did a great job!

Here she is with some more of her jungle friends.

And posing with her Mom, Dad, Grammy, and aunts