Easter Weekend

We were in Riverton for Easter this year. We arrived on Thursday because Ryan's schedule was changed and he had a half day on Thursday and didn't work Friday. We spent Friday playing games, and dying eggs. Rylee was able to dye eggs too! I thought she was going to just tip the dye or get bored with watching everyone else, but she did really well. She took the spoons and stirred the egg and liked to take the eggs out when they were done. It was cute, with most of the kids shirtless and dying eggs!.

On Saturday we woke up early to go to an Easter egg hunt that Smith's Grocery puts on, and has happened every year for a long time. I mean i went to this hunt as a young kid and they had been doing it a while before i went. OK so a long time, we get up to the College (CWC) and nothing. No Easter egg hunt! Want to know why? Someone wasn't sure who put it on, and said that CWC put on the Easter egg hunt and Smiths got their feelings hurt and instead of being the bigger person or group they decided to not put it on and not tell anyone that it wasn't going to happen. Thanks we just told a three year old that she gets to hunt Easter eggs and now nothing! So we went to eat at the airport and plaster our kids in the window to watch the airplanes take off (sound familiar dad?), before a different Easter egg hunt at a different park. Once we got to this Easter egg hunt we lined up around our children's age groups. Thank goodness they split them up because if not we wouldn't have gotten the one egg and few pieces of candy that we did get. There were so many people there, i must say it was because it was the only Easter egg hunt that day. It's OK though it was more for the experience than the candy she can't eat anyways because it's mostly taffy.

Later that day we took the kids back to the park because it was just too packed right after the Easter egg hunt. Both Rylee, and Marshal loved the swings i have videos of them both just cackling. Chloe is such a little explorer, she wasn't afraid to try anything. She climbed up the climbing wall, did the monkey bars, and even went down the fire pole. This child is three and isn't afraid of heights, not sure whether that's good or bad.

Once the children got home we put them in Debbie's (Ryan's mom) big bath tub and put in all the Easter eggs they'd been playing with for the last two days. It made for lots of fun and cute pictures with all three kids in the tub. When they got out we put the girls in their new matching Pj's. Not the first time Chloe and Rylee got matching pj's, but it was the first time i got pictures of them together in them. It's fun to see Chloe and Rylee play together even though Rylee's a few years younger. She's old enough to interact with Chloe now, and followed her around all weekend.

On Sunday we woke up and found our Easter baskets. Rylee got a cute little yellow teddy, and lots of candy. She mostly eats the peeps, but she can eat some of the chocolate too. Later we got all dressed up and went to Grandma and Grandpa Treese's for Easter "breakfast" which was at noon so it was more like lunch. It was yummy, lot's of bacon, eggs, potatoes, and pancakes with applesauce in the middle and strawberry's and homemade whip cream on top, YUM! Afterward Ryan and Reg (Ryan's Uncle) played some guitars and we watched the kids run around. Unfortunately most of the kids had to leave early so we didn't do an Easter egg hunt like we normally do, but we'll have a great one next year when Rylee and Marshall will be able to understand what's going on a bit more. We had to leave early so we could get back to Cheyenne and Ryan could get some planning done for class on Monday, so we didn't get to stay as long as we would have liked. Well that's all for now enjoy the photo's :)

Dying her first egg with Aunt Amber
Stirring the egg
Her first Easter Egg! :)



Our Family eggs
The kids playing with all the plastic eggs
At her first Easter egg hunt
Getting the first piece of candy

Getting her only eggSwinging after the hunt

Chloe the monkeyLoved the swing

She would just hang there and she liked it
Marshall in the swing at the park
Jenni and Marshall
In the "bubble" (stole that from Jenni and Chad)
All three kids in the tub

Matching mini mouse Pj'sRylee in her Easter outfit

At Grandma and Grandpa Treese's
Rylee and Chloe
Rylee in Ryan's sunglasses
Found her Easter basket
Her dress was just too hard to play in so this is what she ran around in most of the time.

Finally a play room!

So we decided that we weren't using our exercise equipment because it was old, and we both preferred to exercise elsewhere. So we turned it into a play room. It was supposed to be Ryan's man cave with a poker table, but we didn't have the money for that just yet so we took out the exercise equipment and put her toys in it, and bought a play yard gate (Thanks Amy for the idea), and WA LA a new playroom. I also purchased a new pop up toy that has a ball pit in it, and she loves it! I also put many of the stuffed animals the were cluttering up her closet down there so she can actually play with them. I posted a few pictures of the before exercise area, and the after play area!Old Exercise area!

New Play area with ball pit

Just a few Spring Pictures

One of Rylee's new flower clips made by Ashley (Ryan's cousin)

 She had terrible diaper rash, so we were giving her butt a break from the diaper.

 Rylee and Leila :)

 First piggy tails

 Watching morning cartoons in her new chair.

 Playing in mommy's suit case!

 Found the bag of extra hangers.

Spring Break

The first week of April was Ryan's spring break, and we went up to Riverton to help Debbie drywall her basement. We learned that you should work one room at a time instead of tearing up the entire basement. Ryan and Jesse worked on dry-walling while Debbie, Shawn, and I tore out paneling, cabinets, and the stupid counter tops!! Oh man i still have bruises from all that tearing out and such. We got most of the downstairs dry-walled, but only about a room and a half mudded. We ended up staying about 3 days longer than we wanted because we felt bad leaving without finishing the basement, but we just didn't have the man power during the week that we did on the weekends.Debbie and Shawn are going to work on it the next few weeks and over Easter weekend hopefully we can get some more of it done. Once the basement is finished Debbie will have an extra guest bedroom where her downstairs kitchen was, cabinets in her laundry room, new carpet, and a non wood paneled basement!

March

So we didn't have a whole lot going on in March. I applied for graduation and was approved this time. I'll be graduating May 13th. I decided not to make a big deal out of it since i will hopefully have a bachelors degree to celebrate in the future. This time we're just going to have a small BBQ with some friends and close family.

Rylee had gotten much bigger recently, and she acquired a new tooth (a molar) in march. She has also gotten a few inches taller her pants and such are fitting much better and she can reach so many things we don't want her to have!

Ryan has been working and playing softball. Ryan's friend Nick has a softball team that Ryan plays on down in Colorado. They have tournaments roughly every weekend, with a few off here and there. He's been enjoying that and gets some time out of the house other than work. Well that's pretty much march for ya.