Birthdays and Holidays

Easter weekend was busy for us this year.  My birthday was the day before Easter this year and Grant's was two days after.  And Scott was leaving town on Grant's birthday for a week.  We had a lot of celebrating to pack into a short time.  Here is a cheesecake Scott made for my birthday.  Perfect and delicious.

 And Easter!  The kids had fun exploring Easter baskets.

We had a little Easter egg hunt indoors since slugs got into our outdoor eggs last year.

 

Emma in her Easter dress

She wore it the week before and after Easter.  Cute!

 And after Easter we had our annual Easter Egg Derby

See how excited we are!

Here are our Easter eggs ready to race.  And our tournament bracket.  The Easter egg derby is when we roll our hard boiled and decorated Easter eggs into each other (two face off at a time) until we have one ultimate winner.  When they collide only one of them will break - or that is the theory.

Some of our eggs were painted this year rather than dyed and  the paint was coming off a little, so we rolled them on a plastic tablecloth this year.

 Everyone had fun rolling their eggs.  And we only had a little sportsmanship trouble.

 One of Scott's eggs (named "Seattle") and Grant's egg (named "Clapper Shooter") were in the championship

 Clapper Shooter was the big winner!

Grant won the chocolate bunny as a prize.

And then it was Grant's birthday!  

He is four years old now and very excited to be bigger!

Here he is with his cake.  He wanted a bug themed birthday this year.

 Grant was excited to get some Legos for his birthday!

Grant is four now!  I like this picture - very Grant.  He's always smiling and leaving a trail of mayhem in his wake.  One of his favorite things to do now is sneak around and steal candy and tiny toys from everyone.  We're working on that.  He's been waking up in the night and finding the ipad and trying to play games on it.  But he is also great with Emma, loves to make her laugh, is excited to learn to read, helps with John, likes to help me cook and is learning to be more responsible.  Life would not be the same without him!