Fun at the Desert Museum

The boys and I made another trip to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. It's such a great place to walk around, look at animals, enjoy some ice cream and just be together. Here are a few pictures from our visit.

Tie-Dying Eggs

I meant to post this, oh, almost a month ago, but this past month has flown by us. I wish I could just stop time until I get caught up on my mile-long to-do list! :) I do have lots of posts lined up to show you all what we've been up to though.

Anyways, back to dying eggs, or as we did it this year,  tie-dying eggs. I found this post - http://www.freelancehomeschoolmom.com/diy-tie-dye-easter-egg-tutorial/, and thought it looked like a fun and different way to dye our eggs this year. And fun it was, although it was also incredibly messy. I had to take a few deep breaths as I saw the dye build up everywhere! :) I thought the eggs turned out fantastic so it was all worth it. We also dyed eggs the old-fashioned way as well.

Tie-Dying eggs takes a lot of concentration. :)

EASTER!

Easter wasn't quite the same this year with Jason being gone, but we snuck in an Easter egg hunt at the Benson park and a delicious ham dinner with friends the Saturday before Easter. I was so thrilled the government scheduled Jason to leave Easter morning for Kansas....or not, but we made the best of it. :) This year, I focused a little more on the real meaning behind Easter with Carson. He's really interested in Jesus and asks me questions all the time, so I thought this would be a great time for him to receive his first bible. I had done my research and came up with this one....the Jesus Storybook Bible, and Carson loves it so far. Owen will even sit in and listen and point to the pictures. We read about the Easter story and then ended up reading until the end of the book. Our crafts for the week also included a palm branch in honor of Palm Sunday, thumbprint chick cards for the grandparents, and a tissue paper cross collage that we taped to our front window. We also had another Easter egg hunt in our backyard after Jason left and dyed Easter eggs. We hope you all had a lovely Easter.

Carson and Owen at the Easter egg hunt at the Benson park. Jason said when the horn went off, Carson made a mad dash to the eggs and got quite a bit; I think he even made $3. However, our shy Owen clung to me the entire time. At least Carson was kind enough to share some of his eggs with Owen. It's crazy how different they can be, ha ha!

I love this! :)

Carson "helping" Owen. I'm pretty sure he just wanted to find more eggs since he had already found all of his! haha.

The boys counting their eggs. Of course, they had to check that they had the same amount! haha!

Teeball Practice

We signed Carson up for his first year of teeball this spring, and Jason ended up signing up as Assistant Coach with another friend of ours, which makes me one of the team moms. So far, we've just had a few practices, but Carson's first game is next weekend. I will be sure to take lots of pictures. I really wish our video camera was working because I'm sure it's going to be an entertaining season. :) Carson has been doing really well hitting the ball off the tee and stopping balls with his mitt - he has been a real go-getter, even going as far as running wherever the ball is hit or throw, ha ha! Here are a couple of pictures from one of his practices.

Carson was really into this part of the practice, lol.