Easter Hat Parade

We had to make an Easter hat for a parade at Rexford's school today. Here is Rexford's cool Easter hat :)

Austin wanted a hat too so I gave him some bunny ears to wear

Austin waiting for the parade to start

Rexford marching in the parade

Rexford's class

My boys

Rexford and his teacher

Austin's Easter Party

Austin had his Easter party for our "Mommy and Me" class on Monday. We had an egg hunt, a visit from the Easter Bunny, yummy snacks, story and play time. Each child also got a cute bucket and little stuffed animal. Austin loves his little ducky and has slept with it since he got it. I thought Austin wouldn't want anything to do with the Easter Bunny but he was so excited and walked right up to him. He gave him high 5s and hugs and was so excited. It was so cute!

Austin gathering eggs (he only wanted green ones for some reason)

Austin with all of his green eggs

Giving the Easter Bunny a hug

He isn't smiling in this one but I think it was the sun because he was really excited and wanted to keep going up to him

Playing on the super fun scooters :)

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to a fun Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday with some of Brian's childhood neighbors and the kids had a great time collecting eggs and getting prizes. They both came home with candy and a stuffed bunny.

Austin showing me his basket

Austin got lots of eggs

Rexford with his full basket

My handsome boys

Relaxing after the hunt with their new bunnies

After Strawberry Picking

After strawberry picking we grabbed a quick lunch and headed over to Busch Gardens. It was only 15 minutes away and so we went over to play for a few hours. It wasn't crowded and we had fun looking at the animals and going on the rides. They loved watching the gorillas and bouncing in the bouncy area. We watched an animal show and just played around. Austin was disappointed because he isn't tall enough for the Grover rollercoaster and keeps asking me when he can ride it. But he was finally tall enough for another ride and he loved that. We stayed until evening and then made the drive home. We were all pretty hot and tired but we had a really fun day.

They loved checking out the gorillas today

Loving the motorcycle ride!

On the train, Austin saying "choo choo"

Flying together

Flying again

Going for a drive

Austin is finally tall enough for the hippo ride! He loved it!

At the top of Elmo's treehouse

See how different they are - Austin runs right across and Rexford goes slowly clinging to the side :)

They had fun crawling around but then got stuck and someone had to help them down :)

Last ride of the day - so hot and tired

They wanted to climb on top of this lion statue for a picture

Strawberry Picking

On Friday we went with some friends to Dover (almost to Tampa) to pick strawberries. The boys loved it! They were so excited to show me their buckets with their strawberries. They picked for an hour and were really good while we were there. We picked 16 quarts of strawberries! We were hot and dirty and had strawberries on our clothes and hands but we had fun. We spent the next two days washing, cutting, freezing, and making jam(and homemade bread to go with it)! They have been talking about it for days and every time they eat strawberries, make a smoothie, or eat the jam, they are so proud and tell us how they picked them.

Austin picking strawberries

Rexford looking for strawberries

Rexford with his bucket

Me and my boys

We made lots of strawberry jam! Yummy!

All Boys!

We watched Anderson one day over spring break while Shannon took Wally to the vet. Rexford wanted to hold Anderson and then asked me to take a picture of them together. Austin and Matthew jumped in and wanted to be in it too. So here's a cute picture of all the cousins together!

They had fun playing blocks together too

Austin and Buzz

The other day Austin came in my room with his stuffed bird and a book and sat on my bed and "read" the book to the bird. Before I could get a picture he noticed me watching him and stopped but then said, "I want to take a picture with Buzz." He loves Buzz. He always has a Buzz in his hand. Sometimes the big talking one and sometimes this little one. He sleeps with them, he takes them in the car, he sits them on the table by his plate while eats. So unfortunately I don't have a picture of the adorableness of reading to his bird but I do have one of him and his friend Buzz :)

And just a picture of my sweet boy

Rexford and his Plants

Rexford brought home two plants the day before spring break started - a bean plant and a cup of grass. Neither of the plants had sprouted when we brought them home but by the end of spring break they were tall. Now the grass is super tall and the bean plant is growing like crazy! Here's Rexford with his plants.

Austin's Tower

The other day Austin and I were playing with blocks and he wanted to build a really tall tower. After we finished the tower he said, "i want to take a picture with my tower." So here is Austin and his really tall tower. He was very proud of it and it stayed standing most of the day :)

Doesn't Austin just look so much older lately? He's not a baby anymore :( but he's still adorable to us!

Rexford's First Magic Game

My dad bought tickets to a Magic game and took Rexford last Friday night. He got Rexford a shirt to wear to the game and even brought Austin one too. Rexford was excited and wanted to stay for the whole game. He had a great time and came home telling us all about the game and the mascots doing tricks during half time and all the fun things he saw there. He wanted us to look up the Charlotte mascot's name (which is apparently Rufus). He keeps saying, "The Magic game was so fun, you should have seen it." Thanks Papa for a fun night!

Rexford and Papa getting ready to go to the game (and Austin wanted to be in the picture too).

Everybody with their Magic shirts on

Beach Day

Most of spring break this year was very wet and stormy. Finally the sun came out on Friday and it was a beautiful day. We were going to go to Aquatica with Brian's family but it was a little cool so we all headed to the beach. The kids had a blast splashing in the chilly water and playing in the sand. Rexford had fun trying to catch waves on a boogie board and Austin loved to splash in the water.

Ethan and Rexford

Austin, Stella, Ava, and Rexford

Austin, Ethan, Stella, Zach, Ava, and Rexford playing in the sand

Austin liked to dump dirt on himself

Splashing in a little pool of water

Austin loved to splash in the little pools

Carrying a heavy bucket of water

Playing on the beach