Yesterday we spent the day working in the front yard.  When we bought our house the grass was dead due to not being watered all summer.  We knew we would have to rip it out and start over.  Yesterday was the day.  We got up early and headed to Home Depot to rent a sod cutter.  Craig worked on cutting the sod while I worked on cleaning up the dead sod and bagging it.  After about 6 hours we had most of it done.  They boys pretended to help but mostly just played on the rolled up sod.

Easter Morning

Easter morning the boys woke up to find their Easter baskets and eggs hidden throughout the house.  They had a great time checking out what the bunny had left them and seeing what was inside all the eggs.  They both found an Elmo egg with $1 in it.

Easter Egg Hunting

Magic Beans

We gave the boys some magic beans to plant last night.  After dinner we went out and planted them in the front yard.  During the night the sprinklers watered them and we woke to find...

 lollipops had grow.

 The boys were so excited.  Trevor is starting to get to smart for our tricky games.  He asked how the beans had grown a wrapper on the sucker.  Luckily with some quick thinking I told him it is like an orange grows a peel that we don't eat.  I think this satisified his curiosity for now.  Close call!!

Dying Easter Eggs

The boys dying their Easter eggs

Oxbow Nature Trails

Nana and Pepaw are here visiting for a few days so we took them to the nature trails.  We had a great time skipping rocks in the river, climbing trees and hiking around.  It made for a lot of great photos.

Here are a couple of random photos I took.

Cole got a new car for his birthday.  It only seats one so this is how the boys ride on it.

 Cole playing games on the phone.

April Fools

For April Fools Day we decided to set up a couple of jokes for the boys.  We set up a line of stuffed animals waiting to use the restroom.  Trevor said he waited a bit but had to go bad so he had to move the bear off the potty to go but he put it back when he was done.

We also set up "Craig" reading the newspaper.  Both boys came into our bedroom and said that someone was at the table reading the paper.  It took them a bit to go over and investigate.

 When they looked, this is what they found.

The Rock Easter Egg Hunt

We attended an Easter egg hunt at The Rock church this morning.  The boys got their faces painted (Trevor a yellow spider and Cole an Easter bunny), did a craft and participated in the egg hunt.  The boys had a great time and did a great job finding eggs.

Cole's 3rd Birthday Party

Yesterday we celebrated Cole's 3rd birthday.  He chose Yo Gabba Gabba as his theme.  There isn't much out for this show anymore so I had to make everything myself.  It was a fun and colorful party and Cole loved it.  Thanks to all of our great friends who came to celebrate with us.  We love you guys!

 We had 4 tables set up each representing a different character.  We also had a small table with a yellow table cloth that represented Plex.  This was our gift table. 

This is the Toodee and Foofa tables.

 The DJ Lance table

 Banner across the windows

 Each character lives in a different land so on the mantle we had the lands with the characters in front of it.

 Centerpiece on the Toodee table

 Foofa centerpiece

 Muno centerpiece

 DJ Lance centerpiece

 Pin the eye on Muno game

 There's a party in my tummy game.

 The beanbag food to throw in Brobees tummy

 Drink station.  We had a brunch so we served morning Capri-Sun's water and OJ.

 Fruit Platter

 Veggie tray made to look like Brobee, sort of.

 Muffin tray.  We also had sausage balls and breakfast casserole.

 Brobee Dessert Table

Plex oreo pops

 Foofa rice krispie treats 

Broobe cupcakes 

 Toodee marshmallow pops

 Muno Pretels

 Cole loved blowing out the candle

Happy Birthday Cole!!!