Easter, where is Spring?

I love Easter. I love Spring time, unfortunately Spring didn't show up in time for Easter, old man Winter decided to stick around much too long. So no Easter Egg hunt in the flowers, no spring pictures.

Still there was dying of the Easter Eggs...

The Easter baskets...

A make shift Easter picture in (if I may say so) adorable Easter outfits.

Family gathering...

And of course all the monkeying around you could take!

A wonderful day with wonderful family traditions. There is no doubting that. But Easter, where is Spring?

We are all sick of the snow!

Project Feed Butterflies

Today The Home Depot was offering a free building projects for children, a Butterfly feeder. They gave us all the supplies and tools to put it together. Bradley and Olivia even got an official Home Depot apron.

Richard helped Olivia hammer and stay on course.

Bradley knew what to do and got right to work. He took his work very seriously.

When they were done a took their projects to the Project Manager (a Home Depot Employee) to be inspected and checked off. Both Bradley and Olivia passed with flying colors. They were each awarded a certificate and given a project pin that they can collect each time they do a project. Next they headed home to put the finishing touches on their butterfly feeder.

They each painted and decorated their feeders. Each of their feeders reflect their favorite colors of the moment. Right now Olivia's favorite color is blue and Bradley likes all the colors (except pink).

Now we just have to wait for the weather to warm up and the butterflies to set flight, before we hang our feeders up in our garden.

Little Fishes

Bradley start swim classes in February. He loved to learn all the techniques and have freedom in the water. Olivia sat patiently (like any other 4 year old) on the sidelines watching. After Bradley finished his lesson and was ready to move on to his second, we decided to let Olivia join in the fun.

They both are little fishes and love the water. Bradley can swim pretty good and float on his back. Olivia can go under water without holding her nose and float on her back. The second round of classes are over and another round will start soon. Bradley is going to have to sit out this time (he will actually be playing baseball instead). But this will give Olivia time to catch up.

Slow Down Olivia!!!

You know how everyone always wants to encourage their kids to learn new things every day and grow up faster, then when they get older and start dating, you want them to slow down and not grow up?

Well Olivia is only 4 and is already at the point where I don't want her to get any older. She is at the perfect age where she plays with her princess dolls, she is big enough to hold her ground playing with Bradley, she absolutely terrorizes the dog by always wanting to give her hugs and kisses, and just all around being a cute little girl.

But she is obsessed with being married! A few weeks ago, she told me that she wants to marry me. I told her that I was already married to her Mommy, and that made her sad. For several weeks, she kept telling me that she wanted me to marry her, and not Mommy. We finally got her convinced that Dads couldn't be married to their daughters, so she told us she will be married to Honey(Grandma). Last night, Olivia told me that when she is bigger, and Bradley is bigger, that she is going to marry him! And they will both sleep in Bradley's fire bed, but they won't kiss, cause that would be silly. They even wrote up a marriage certificate on a Doodle Pad.

I know this is probably just a little phase she is going thru, but it is making me think of how stressed out I am going to be when she does get older and starts dating. PLEASE Olivia, can't you just stay as cute and innocent as you are right now? What's the rush to grow up?

Posted by Richard

New Year Resolutions

This Year I have a few resolutions, which is odd in it self because I usually am not one to make such frivolous resolutions. However why not now? And as any one knows any good resolution should be documented.

So for the first my resolution is to keep up on this blog. Mostly for my self. I find this helps me keep track of memories and little pieces of time.

My second resolution is to be organized at home. My Closets and bedroom need a serious overhaul. So I will be designing new organizational systems for three of my closets and that will hopefully be more than enough of a start to getting my room in order.

I know that resolutions do run short. So I am hoping that my first resolution will run strong. And of my second, I know I am quite adamant about it, so I know that this will be done.
~Amanda