Easter

As Garrett and Gannon get older I get lazier with my pictures.  I guess this is a normal trend as kids grow, but I really want to be better at snapping pictures.  I didn't any any pictures of their Easter baskets and none of all four of us.  So here's what I got.  Baskets at Grandma and Papa's and the hunt!  Garrett and Gannon were equally excited for the egg hunt and really could care less about what is inside the egg, they just want to find lots of eggs.  Grandma was awesome and filled the eggs with stickers, fun erasers, and even coins!  A few had eggs, but not many and that's perfect for our allergy guy and really the whole house! 

Gannon's friend from EduCare, Owen, and his Mom and Grandma joined us for our BBQ and egg hunt.  It's fun to watch the little guys run around hunting for eggs and fun for the boys to have someone else to play with. 

Uncle Bob made his awesome BBQ chicken, potato and macaroni salad for us all to enjoy.  Fun family and friend filled day!

Gramma Toni and Aunt Shannon Visit

Gramma Toni and Aunt Shannon came for a quick overnight visit to see the boys and our new house.  I was out of town on a girls shopping trip with my Mom and sister so they truly came to see all the boys!  They had so much fun and love when they get to see Gramma Toni and Aunt Shannon! 

Coloring Eggs

Even though Gannon can't eat eggs, he had a great time coloring them!  Garrett loves this art project every year so it was no surprise that he kept asking when we would cook and color the eggs.  On Wednesday I explained that I would cook them on Thursday and Friday morning we would color them.  Garrett is a very scheduled child so you can tell him a date or day of the week that something will happen and when he tears the calendar day off and it gets to that date he will remember that is the day "whatever" is supposed to happen. (he keeps a calendar in his room!) Anyway, it was Thursday and he wanted to know when the eggs would be cooked, after dinner Garrett.  Sure enough after dinner he wanted to see the eggs cooking.  Friday morning when they woke up I was at the gym, but as soon as I came home I got all the stuff ready and called them to the table.  Garrett was so excited!  Gannon was his rough little self as was practically throwing the eggs into the cups!  Who cares if they break, right!?! And yes, several of his did.  Whatever!  Gannon was good at coloring his and pulling them out, rolling them on his paper towel to dry them, and put them in his drying rack.  Garrett on the other hand was more patient to get a deeper color on his eggs and of course very careful to keep his paper towel very clean!  True form for both boys personalities.  It is fun to watch how different they are.  Next year I think I need to offer to color eggs for the entire neighborhood because two dozen eggs doesn't take long to color! 

Bowling

Bowling was also on our list of To Do's during Spring Break.  Garrett talked the entire way to the bowling alley about how he had been bowling when he was three and how he had a Mickey Mouse cake there too!  Yes, it was where we had Garrett's 3rd birthday party.  Man did they have fun bowling, with bumpers of course.  They did great taking turns sharing the light weight ball and waiting their turn for each of the family to go.  We explained that they had to wait for their name to appear on the screen and they were very good to watch and wait for their name. For the record...Mommy beat Daddy! Okay, just by one point!  It was fun and they were sad when we had to leave. 

Yosemite/Snow Day

Dave and I had talked about taking the boys to the snow and to Yosemite over our Spring Break and I was a little hesitant because I think I was traumatized by our snow trip a couple of years ago!  Okay I know, get over it and go again.  After looking at the week ahead we decided Sunday would be the best day.  Dave found that Badger Pass has a little tube area so that was the plan. 

We loaded up the car and off we went.  We are so thankful that we live within a couple hours of such a beautiful place.  I honestly think this was Gannon's first time to Yosemite and Garrett had been a couple of times.  They both loved it.  The walk to Yosemite Falls was a little wet, but of course Gannon loved the puddles!  Garrett and Gannon loved the snow and kept having Daddy make them snow balls.  Gannon walked more than half the way back with the same snow ball gently balanced in his hand.  Unusually for this guy to be so calm and gentle, but I guess for a snow ball it was worth it. 

After eating lunch we headed over to Badger Pass to rent the tubes and have some good old snow fun.  Garrett was a little cautious as always to start tubing, but when he realized he would be riding with one of us he was fine.  Sitting on our bums was how it started then of course Dave tried to talk them into going on their bellies.  Garrett wanted no part of that...until Gannon did a few runs with Dad and he could see that it was really okay and fun.  Then Garrett gave it a shot and he too was in love.  Gannon is definitely our little dare devil, willing to try whatever!  I think if we would have walked the tubing hill all night they would have been content.  It was a great fun family day!

Game #1 for the Giants

Game #1 was pretty exciting and hilarious.  These kids are so dang cute.  Garrett was again very excited to get all dressed up in his uniform and head to the game.  I was thankful it was a Wednesday night game so Daddy would be able to join us! Gannon too got all ready in his Giants shirt and off we went.  Garrett and Gannon watch very closely as they prepared the field for the big game.  Just to share how cute and oblivious the kids are...the first little girl up to bat on our team hit the ball pretty good...and ran straight to second base! It was so cute.  Later in the game, Garrett was playing the pitching position and the coach told him to "stand right here" so when the ball was hit and landed 2 feet in front of him he just stood in that spot and smiled!!! It is seriously SO cute to watch these games and know that the kids are just having a great time.

Opening Day

Garrett was VERY excited for Opening Day of T-Ball.  He couldn't wait to get all dressed up in his uniform, pants, belt, and all!  I was glad the morning was going so smooth since we had to leave the house at 8:15 to be in Atwater and ready for pictures by 9.  We haven't used a stroller for a really long time, but I thought to keep Gannon contained during picture and the ceremony it would be a good idea to throw it in the car.  BAD IDEA! Garrett cried for the 30 minutes we waited in line for pictures because he wanted to sit in the stroller.  I love that all the other Mom's were trying to help by distracting him, but really he hates that and got even more pist.  Let's just say I was cussing my husband and really wishing I had something STRONG in my coffee! By the time pictures rolled round he was fine and took a great pictures, but man I wasn't sure I was ready for this season to start!