Easter!!

 I was grateful to be home on Easter, if little Evan had come in the couple days before or in the night, I wouldn't have been home to celebrate with everyone. This way we were all together, even little Evan we just couldn't see him! :)

 The boys were excited about finding their baskets and everything in them. I am always amazed at how simple we can have things but how the excitement is the same as if they were getting the greatest thing in the world! I love being the Mom of these 3 (kind of 4) wonderful boys!

Cousins!

 Thmemodo before Easter our Vegas cousins had there Spring Break. We were excited that they decided to spend it with us! There dad, Nathaniel was working in Phoenix so they spent one day up there and were able to go to the Easter Pageant. (This was the first year we haven't gone so we were glad we could at least have our visitors go.)
These pictures are of our piano recital that we did! I love having a little piano recital with the cousins!

 Making bunny and duck crafts. We had done the duck craft earlier in the morning with the preschool kids. I decided to do ducks for the letter q because our story was about ducks quacking and because of Easter coming.
Below is a picture of our Easter egg hunt with the cousins!

 Ostrich Farm! I think this is our third time visiting the ostrich farm. Alden and Calvin love it! Benson loved it the first time but becomes more and more afraid of it each time. I think it is because of the birds at the end. (This time I couldn't even get him to come in and just had to pick him up kicking and screaming.. but he calmed down.)

 Feeding the donkeys. In the past Alden and Calvin have been afraid of feeding a lot of the animals but this time they did it all!

 Alden and Calvin even fed the goats with the goat kiss! They are becoming a little more adventurous!

 Alden and Calvin have been especially afraid of these birds but not this time! Even Benson had a bird on his head of which he was quite upset about, but now he talks about all the time as though it is a funny memory. We were glad that it worked out to do one last thing with the cousins on there way out of town.

The Music Man and Carnival

 On St. Patrick's Day we all went to the play the Music Man. In the past I have always gone by myself with the boys or I take one boy on a date and we go to these plays together. This time the show was on Michael's day off so we all went together!
Music Man is one of Alden and Calvin's favorite plays, they love the song 76 trombones and love when the band comes out. It was fun to have such a fun activity to do on St Patrick's day!

 The week of St Patrick's was spring break for the schools around us. This carnival always comes to town during spring break, I've seen it but never have stopped by, since our cousin were coming into town we stopped by to see if that was something we could do with them. It turned out it was only going to be there for a couple days so Alden decided to use his piano points he's been saving to ride some rides! (Alden gets points for songs he memorizes and he is really good at saving them, I'm glad we could find something fun for him to do with some of those points!)

Benson

 Benson is about two and a half and is learning so much every day. It is fun to see him learn and grow! Benson is our big helper and wants to do everything in the house to keep it nice. When I tell Alden or Calvin that they need to vacuum, Benson always says, "me". He then will insist on vacuuming. (He will also do this with mopping, sweeping, doing the laundry, wiping off the table, and just about anything else that needs to be done.)
He also loves helping make the dinner, and will often get everything out so he can make popcorn. His favorite foods are any meat and cereal. He also loves apples.

 These are a couple of his drawings. He loves balloons so if you look closely you will see that is what he has drawn all over his papers. He loves drawing balloons and I love that he likes to use so many colors. He definitely is a little artist!

My birthday and painting!

Bowling a week after my birthday! My birthday this year was a rough day. Alden had gotten the flu a few days before and then the day before my birthday Calvin, Benson and I got it. Our sickest day was my birthday. Michael had made some great food but none of us are anything. Benson had three febrial seizures, I spent all my time and energy helping him which made it so Calvin was just left to suffer on his own. Anyways it was a tough day.
I decided that once we felt better we were all going to go bowling with my birthday money. It was so nice to get out and do something fun with all my boys!

A neighbor brought over finger paints for the boys. It is always fun to have them painting together.  Below is Benson painting a little sun catcher window that we did for preschool. I love doing preschool for a lot of reasons but one of those reasons is that I plan out crafts for my boys when normally I would probably let that slide.

A bit of random from February

We went to get ice cream for one of the Young Women going into Laurels so I got the boys a milkshake to share. Fun to see them all with their straws trying to get some. :)

The Fry's grocery store had this event with activities and it happened to be on a Thursday, usually things like this are on Saturday and I end up going without Michael. It was fun to have Michael with us this time!

I don't have many pregnancy pictures, as I was putting up pictures I found this one taken by one of the boys. Only a few more weeks until we meet this little guy!