The hunt is on!... for Easter eggs

Rolli, Vivian and Colter love to "do experiments".

And dyeing Easter eggs is the perfect time to experiment with colors. 

My crazy bunch :)

and their color concoctions.  

Mixing colors and dyeing eggs!

We loved all the different colors and we each had a favorite :)

Silly faces and dyed eggs!

With 18 differently colored eggs our lil' flock was ready for an Easter egg hunt!

Lucky for these kids the 'Easter Bunny' remembered to come at 5am to hide those eggs.

Happy Easter!

Marshall and the kids had at least 6 egg hunts while I slept the Sunday away :) 

March 11, 2016

There once was a day when I couldn't image 

my two little sweet peas 

being any bigger than, well, sweet peas.  

That day no longer exists :(

Now we have two FULL size 6 year olds!

Queen Vivian.

 All ready for kindergarten in her new birthday clothes.

Rollin.

All ready for whatever life throws at him!

Our 3 lil' birdies, growing up fast!

Happy 6th Birthday Rollin Von and Vivian Mae!

Rollin and Mrs. Hannah :)

on his first day being a 6 year old!

Vivian and Mrs. Connor :)

on her first day being a 6 year old!

Thanks to the twins teachers for helping make their birthday a special day!

Both classrooms sang "happy birthday" and enjoyed birthday cookies!

Star Student!

Our young Rollin Von LOVES school!

And he tells me hes' teacher is "amazing".

This is Rollin's first day of kindergarten picture that Mrs. Hannah took.

Gosh, it's already been 2 months!

Then on October 13th (yes, it's taken awhile to share pictures)

Rolli was the Star Student for Mrs. Hannah's class.

He got to do things like be the line leader  and share some stuff about himself.

And all of the other kids drew a picture of Rolli :)

Mrs. Hannah then made a book of all the pictures from his classmates.

Kindergarten is too cute!!

Even before school started Rolli was kinda a 

Mr. Know-it-all. 

So it's really nice that's now he's actually learning a whole lot to go along with his attitude. 

My sweet, confident young fellow has recently learned how to draw hearts.

And the first word he learned to spell was DAD.

I love these little notes that he is so proud to share!

Two already!

Mr. Man is TWO!

This lil' Boss keeps us moving and laughing all day long!

Some of his favorite past times are chicken farming, jumping (from high places), 

bubble baths, chasing the older kids, climbing the counters, 

reading books, causing trouble, making messes, ect.

And we still love him more every year!

With family and friends at our side 

we celebrated the last two years with bubbles, lemon blueberry cake, trick candles 

and ColT's favorite goofy Dad making us all laugh.

Barely 2 and he's already got a set of wheels!

Somebody slow this kid down!

We love you Colter Lee :)

VIP student!

Vivian is Mrs. Connor's VIP student for the whole week!

All week she'll get to do special things.

Like share her special picture collage that she made.

She told the class about 3 of the pictures in her collage.

There where about 20 pictures total.

And guess which ones she tells me she picked to talk about?!

1)  The day Colter was born.

2)  Our family hike on my birthday.

3)  Flying the airplane with Daddy.

The whole class drew pictures of Vivian and learned about her favorite color.

Doesn't that look like Viv?!

Mrs. Connor made a book of all the drawings.

Way too cute!!

Vivan was very excited to share her new book with all of us as soon as we got home.

She even left it on Daddy's pillow so he could see it right away when he got home.

And only after one week of school I got my first ever note from Viv!

I'm such a proud Momma!

And what a sweet note :)

We LOVE school!

Ready, set, Kindergarten!

It's for real!

We have TWO kindergarten kiddos now!

Vivan, Rollin and Colter.

This is last Friday on their way to meet their teachers.

 Then today was their first day ever of real school!

Rolli was so excited that he woke up at 6:30.

Dressed and ready to leave!

Thank goodness I made cinnamon rolls and bacon!

Otherwise he wanted to skip breakfast and just go to school.

Vivian and Rolli ready to ride their bikes to school!

Colter is just along for the support :)

Waiting in line for Mrs. Hannah's class.

Rolli got a little shy :)

Happy to see his friend!

Vivian wasn't as convinced as Rollin was that this was going to be the best day ever.

But she says that she's excited to learn to read!

Viv was all ready for school until another little girl started to cry.

Then she got a worried look, got kinda anxious and clingy.

Not the best send off but I'm confident that she'll do great with Mrs. Connor!

Now it's just me and the short trouble maker at home until 2:45!

I'm kinda happy and sad... that's makes me sappy :(

An anniversary, wedding and married life

Happy 40th anniversary to my parents!!

And congratulations to Marshall's cousin and her groom on their wedding day!

September 5th is a great day for weddings :)

Mr. Man and his handsome Daddy.

Me and Marshall livin' the married life with kiddos.

Sweet peas.

Cousin Friends.

The Wallace Family ready to celebrate love and marriage!

Miss Mae.

Colter Lee found the chickens :)

From our perspective the wedding was perfect!

Rolli ran himself crazy playing with his cousins,

Vivian danced till her feet hurt,

and Colter explored around finding chickens, horses and lemonade.

And me and Marshall even got some time with just the two of us :)