Easter 2015

Time for some Easter festivities!  We colored our Easter eggs before Tristan headed out for work.  We learned that we needed to clarify what "dying" Easter eggs meant...Ethan thought it meant we were killing them, which is a little morbid.  Haha.  Carter was very careful as he worked on his batch.

 Ethan was hard at work as well.

 Ashton was, well, a mess.  He got into our recycling bin and cut his finger on a can.  So doing eggs was even more of a challenge for him.  But he gets an "A" for effort!

Tristan was gone for Easter and it was General Conference weekend, so we didn't have church services this year.  So we enjoyed a low-key morning and watched Conference at home.  Ashton was very excited about his haul from the Easter bunny.

 Carter loved this little hopping bunny he got in his Easter basket.

 Ethan and Carter checking out their treasures.

 We had a yummy breakfast with Grandpa Walker and then prepared for the egg hunt.

 It's hard to juggle three searching boys!  They were good seekers, though!!

 Ashton especially loved gathering eggs for his basket.

 So this....not great.  I wouldn't make it again.  But it was fun.  And sugary.  Haha.

We are grateful that we got to celebrate and remember the resurrection of our Savior, Jesus Christ, at home together.  We missed Tristan, but enjoyed drawing the celebration out a little bit longer and doing some of our fun traditions with him before he left.  Bring on spring weather!!

March 2015

In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, Ethan's school has "book character day" where the kids get to dress up as one of their favorite book characters.  Ethan decided to dress up as Bob the Builder.

 And, of course, his brothers wanted to match him.  They love having a Kindergarten brother with fun school celebrations to get in on!

Ethan's Kindergarten class celebrated St. Patrick's Day by making some leprechaun traps to catch some trouble-making leprechauns in their class.  We had fun working on his trap as a family.

 Carter wanted to make one as well, so we made another to keep at our house to try to catch a leprechaun, too!

 Ashton had fun "helping".

Off to school with his trap.  And they didn't catch any.  ;)

We didn't catch any at our house either, but we definitely had some trouble-making leprechauns visit!  The boys awoke to trail of Lucky Charms leading to the bathroom.

 Looks like he needed to take a potty break!

 He left some green "droppings" on our bathroom counter, too.  Yuck!

 Here's our trap.  No luck!

 Our milk had magically turned green overnight.  Luckily, it still tasted good.

 So poor Ashton had an accident in our wagon.  He was strapped in leaned out of the wagon right as Tristan, who was jogging to keep up with the boys on their bikes, turned.  He ended up tipping the wagon and hitting the cement face first.  The tooth was cracked vertically down the middle under the gumline, so there was no saving the tooth and he had to have it pulled.  I was heart-broken for little man--and to be honest, for the years of family pictures to come with a tooth gap in my little toddler.  But he bounced back quickly, which I am so grateful for.  So ironically, Ashton was the first to lose a tooth in our family even though Ethan had a tooth that had been dangling for weeks.  The tooth fairy hooked him up with $10, thought!  Seems pretty fair to me!

Ashton enjoyed his diet of soft foods for about a week.  Especially chocolate pudding!

 A peek at his new smile.  But at least he's smiling!

 Getting every last drop of that pudding!

Less than a week later, Ethan lost his tooth as well.  He was a really good sport about the fact that Ashton lost his first.

 Love this sweet picture.

The tooth fairy was busy at our house that week!

I sure love these sweet boys and all the fun (and trouble) they keep me busy with!

Ringing in 2015

With little ones, midnight just really isn't that amazing to us.  Haha!  So we did an early New Year's celebration.

 Netflix has a cool countdown you can play whenever you want that is from Madagascar.  The boys LOVED it and loved getting to make noise with their noisemakers and balloon popping.

We enjoyed a potluck get together with Tristan's family as well to help celebrate the New year.  It was fun to visit with Aunt Tennille, who was home on break from school, and have Kelsey and Nicole come down from Port Orchard as well.  

Another fun rite of passage at the New Year is the boys moving up in their classes.  Carter graduated from nursery and moved up to Sunbeams.  He was so excited to be a "big boy"!

 And Ashton, well, he was just looking really cute that day so I snapped a shot of him as well!

We are looking forward to another year of memories in 2015!

Christmas 2014

Christmas morning finally arrived!!  It was sad not having Tristan home to celebrate with us, but the boys were excited to celebrate anyway!  Ashton loved waking up to balloons in the living room.

 Ethan was excited about donuts for breakfast!  That kids loves a good donut.

 We also had some fun reindeer pancakes.

 The aftermath.  One thing I learned is that when you are celebrating holidays on your own, there isn't much time to take a lot of pictures.  Haha.  Those boys kept me busy.  We were glad to be able to spend some time with my parents later in the morning to open gifts and have Christmas dinner.

We sure missed celebrating with Tristan.  But we are glad that traditions helped us to celebrate a  little before he left.  Looking forward to having him home next year1

More December Fun

The second day of our Secret Santa adventure!

 We actually didn't find the first day until after we got the second day, but it was still fun!

 The boys wanted to decorate more gingerbread houses, so we whipped these up one afternoon for fun.

 Ashton mostly enjoyed just eating the components!

With three active boys, getting out and about is a necessity, even when it's winter!  So we bundled up and went out to play.

 The boys found some peanuts in the shell in the garage and made themselves busy gobbling them up for  a snack.

When we were inside, we kept ourselves busy with some fun crafts.  Carter was especially proud of these ones.