Picnic in the Park

I forgot about these pictures they were on our other camera I guess that's why! Last Friday after the Library hunt we went and got some food at the grocery store for a picnic. We went home and made some sandwiches and cut up from fruit and vegetables and headed to the park. It had been a nice day. We ate our picnic and it was a little windy so it had gotten a little chilly. We enjoyed ourselves and the kids had fun running around on the grass and up the sidewalk towards the parking lot. We then ventured over to the playground and played for a little while before it got to chilly. It was a nice evening and the kids had a lot of fun running all over the park. Conger park is one of their favorites it has a little bit of everything!

Easton loves to swing he has the cutest giggle when he swings! Ella on the other hand is still deathly terrified of them!
We always end up in a tunnel no matter what park we are at!

This part is the shape of a train and has a steering wheel and then off on the right is a little slide. The kids would climb up but before they would slide would both have to go and turn the wheel and then slide. They did it this way about 10 times without fail!

I was such a fun night just as a family. I love spending time with my little family and having fun!

Kid Pictures

I have been wanted to take some nice pictures of the kids for a couple months now. I decided last Saturday after naps we could go and take some. The kids both had good naps so I thought it was going to be good, wrong! They wanted nothing to do with it and were being nightmares! Nothing not even promises of candy, fruit snacks, or ice cream worked. I think they had had to much of it already over the last two days! We got a few good ones but nothing what I had envisioned in my mind. I think I might just pay someone to do it this summer.

I had always heard about this main street in Collierville that has cute shops and some trains but had never seen it until the week before we were driving around looking for something and stumbled across it. The flowers when we first saw were all out and the blossoms but once we went back a week later most of them were gone but it still was pretty.

Thanks to Aunt Deb for the clothes. She bought these for the kids when she was here in March and they looked so cute in them. Easton's shirt is a little big but that is a good thing he can wear it all summer!

I really wanted them to sit the other way around but they wouldn't cooperate!

The one good one we got of Ella. She was actually on the ground protesting something so I told her to put her hands like that and she did and it actually turned out.

We really liked these of Easton except for all the sun spots!

Primary Easter Party

Last Saturday the Primary had a fun little Easter party. This nice couple is our ward is always so generous to let us use there property for ward activities. They have a few acres of land and we have a few ward get togethers there every year. It is nice because it is secluded and surrounded by trees! They had lots of fun things to do. There was an egg hunt with different areas for nursery, jr. primary, and senior primary. They also had a nice little potluck picnic, face painting, a old school merry-go-round, a train, bunny races, and a photographer in our ward was nice enough to take family pictures for us. It was a big hit with all the kids.

Waiting for the egg hunt to start the kids went and played in the field with all the balls they had and climbed around the train!

Then the egg hunt started. Easton technically isn't in nursery yet but we let him get some eggs anyways. By this egg hunt they both had become pros and knew exactly what to do. The couple who hosted the party at their house are amazing and boiled AND dyed almost 800 eggs for the kids to find, they are amazing! Each family had also donated some eggs with candy for it as well so there was plenty to go around!Some of the kids caught on quickly to just picking up the plastic eggs but a lot of the real ones had become smashed.

Easton quickly became attached to his bucket again and wouldn't let us take it away. They probably rode the train at least 10 times in the couple of hours we were there, they loved it!

Ella's new nursery leader Lisa was so nice to take Ella on the train a few times as well. Easton loves Lisa too because each Sunday we end up in the hall during Sunday school and he heads right over to the open door in their nursery and she feeds him snacks! He is beyond ready to go to nursery!Easton loved being able to wander all over by himself. He ventured over to his friend Soren who was playing with the balls and they were being so cute sharing them and passing them back and forth!The cute little merry go round that was human powered!

Andrew had volunteered for the bunny sack races and him and the other guy had a great idea to have all the dads race. It was hilarious to watch!

Poor Andrew fell flat on his face. His feet are too big for such things but he was a good sport to play along!

I must not have looked in the mirror before I left home I don't look so great! Also it was 66 degrees in our house that morning so I thought it would be a little chilly plus the weather said it wasn't getting very warm so I dressed accordingly and then was hot the whole time!Ella has a bunny painted on her cheek and Easton has a star

We rode the train around three more times before we decided it was time to go home and take naps.