Easter Sunday

We had 2 very excited kids on Sunday morning...

Colin woke promptly at 6:15 and was happy to see that the Easter bunny had stopped by our house.

The night before, Colin was certain he heard the Easter bunny while we were saying prayers, and he quickly told us to leave his room so the Easter bunny could leave us eggs and gifts.  Well, it worked.

The bunny left us the Wreck it Ralph DVD and some awesome new play food for our kitchen.

The bunny also hid about 40 eggs around the house.

 It was go time and Colin was off and running...

Maggie did much better with egg finding on Sunday morning

 Stopping for a quick cheesy picture with "morning hair"

 Seeing what's in the eggs, some candy and...

 some Church money!

We went to 10 am mass on Sunday with the entire Teson family.  We took up a whole pew.  There was a lot of us.  The kids did well and we went to Grammie and Grandad's for brunch and another egg hunt afterwards.

 Our Easter family picture, on a very sunny morning.

 I said we should do a "silly picture" and apparently only Brian listened...

:)

 The Teson grandkids (all 9 of them...)

 The Teson Texas boys that will be moving to KC soon!

Maggie politely asking Peter to get out of her car...

She's just glad she's not the baby anymore and has someone to boss around :)

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!

Easter at Meemaw's 2013

 We spent Saturday morning of Easter weekend at Meemaw's new place.

We had so much fun, and got there super early so we could do some easter egg coloring in the morning.

We had such a crazy week with work and school that we didn't seem to have time to color the eggs at home.  Meemaw happily obliged and allowed us to do some work at her kitchen table.

 A drooling Maggie and Daddy

Maggie had the red eggs under control...

 My little lady

 Colin loved the blue color...

 We obviously didn't bother putting the rag shirt on not inside out or without the tag in his face...

 My boys being silly

 Maggie took a little break to read "pete the cat"

 The Easter bunny brought Colin a really awesome outfit

 Maggie got a couple of cute outfits, too

 The two identical twins

 We went for a lovely walk around the trail in Meemaws neighborhood.  We thought there might be some ducks to feed, but they were all sleeping, said Colin.

 Checking out the trail

 Our best attempt at a family photo.  

Looks good!

During naps, the Easter bunny showed up at Meemaws and we did a really awesome egg hunt.  

The eggs were colored earlier in the day hadn't been cooked properly (we found out after Colin accidentally shoved his finger into an egg), but there were others that were hid outside.

 Colin was an egg-finding machine.  We had to hide some special ones for Maggie behind the house so that she could have a fair shake at things.

 Filling up her bucket

 Colin cleaned up!

 The two cutest things EVER!

 A girls picture...

(with a less-than-thrilled Maggie!)

 Checking out their loot

We played outside for a bit then came inside for an awesome roast dinner that Meemaw made.

She also made brownies for Brian's birthday that was coming up.

 Making a wish for his 32nd year!

 Tiff and Maggie dancing to some music

 Meemaw and her favorite grandkids

We had so much fun on Saturday...

Sorry for the picture overload...

Sleepover Time

 Colin had his first sleepover this week with his cousin Andrew. 

Andrew lives in Texas, but will be moving to KC with his family very soon!

The kids didn't have too much time to play on Thursday night, but they had lots of fun!

 Colin and Andrew



 Eating some spaghetti dinner (I never claimed to be a gourmet cook!)

 The Lego table was a hit.

 Watching a movie, munching on some popcorn

 An impromptu dance party at the end of the night

 More Legos in the morning

Playing in the kitchen

Brian had Friday off so he was able to meet the rest of Andrew's family out at a park later on in the morning.  We heard those silly boys giggling in their room until almost 9 pm, which is really late for Colin to be awake.  Brian said he was pretty crabby during the day, so we're not sure how much they actually slept, but they had a wonderful time together.



Maggie tried hard to keep up with them for a while, but just couldn't do it.

We love cousin Andrew!

St. Patty's Day weekend

 We had a fun-filled, jam-packed weekend.

It flew by, they always do.

On Friday night we had some friends stay over to watch the kids so we could head to Topeka to get a jump start on the moving process.  We met my mom up at the bowling alley, headed out for a quick bite to eat, then tried our best to get a good nights rest before a busy day.

It took us about 3 hours to pack up the Uhaul.  Not bad for just a few people helping!

We then did the 1.25 hour drive to Peculiar.

It took us 30 minutes to unload the Uhaul.  It's amazing what not having to deal with stairs can do!

Brian and I got to see Mom's place for the first time.  It was really nice!

I think it will be just what mom needs.

We can't wait to go back and help unpack some more.  That is the fun part, making the house a HOME!

We got done moving mom just in time to make church (just the 2 of us, it was so nice!) and were back home to put the kids to bed on Saturday night.  Boy were we wiped out.  

We had a pretty lazy Sunday, but got quite a few things done, 

like...

We finally got rid of that OLD mattress in our spare room.

Seriously old.

Like my mom's grandparents slept on it (or something like that!)

Yuck-o!

 I made some yummy St. Patty's day mix with popcorn, pretzels, green M&M's and lucky charms marshmallows.  So good.  Very addicting!

 We did a little finger painting at the house.

This is the first time I've done finger painting with them, and I'm not sure they've been exposed to it anywhere else, so it was pretty fun watching them.

Neither of them got very messy, and they both wanted their hands wiped in between colors.

Towards the end I convinced  them to dip their entire hand in for a handprint on the paper.

I know, don't get too crazy now!

 Colin being so neat with his painting...

 So much fun!

I'm sure they'll be much more creative next time around.

 My little cheesy Maggie.

We just weighed her this morning.  Almost 2 years old and only 22 pounds.

She's a little peanut.

 Silly face Maggie!

The kids with their tired Daddy.

After dinner we watched Wreck It Ralph (for the 2nd time that day). We rented it from Redbox after watching the trailer for it every night at bedtime.

It really is a cute movie and the kids loved it.  I'm sure we'll be adding it to our home collection pretty soon.

So happy to be home all week due to Spring Break.

Had an unanticipated test thrown my way on Friday though, so that's something I have to look forward to working on all week.  

Just keep plugging along!

Spring day

Only one more class until I am "officially" on spring break.  I totally need a break right now.  Not that I won't be working on school stuff all week, but at least I won't have to make the drive to Lawrence.

Brian is currently working at the Big 12 Tournament at the Sprint Center.   His company requires the workers to sign up for different events throughout the year.  Too bad he had to work a normal day, then do the Tournament, which was a 4 pm to midnight shift.  Yuck!  

At least he'll be having a good time watching some fun basketball games (we can hope!)

The kids and I played outside the whole night (minus coming in for some yummy pancakes I made for dinner!) after I picked them up from daycare.  

It was beautiful out there, in the 60s and sunny!

We pulled out all the toys and had fun.

Colin kept rolling this toy down the driveway and running to catch it.  Seriously, he did this for 30 minutes.  

It was great entertainment.

 Making the trek back up the driveway

 So much fun for this kid.

He's really starting to get quite the imagination, making simple tasks like this into a crazy game of some sort.

 Maggie and I were being silly.

I tried to snap a quick picture of us, not bad really!

 Maggie spent her time swinging this whiffle ball all around the garage.

It was originally put up to give Brian an indicator on when to stop pulling forward in the garage, but now it's just for entertainment purposes :)

 Pancake face!

I found a beautiful purple flower in our front yard.

Brian and I are going to do some major planting here in a few weeks. 

We tore up our entire front yard in the fall, so now we have a blank slate.

We can't wait!!!

Tomorrow is supposed to be even nicer than today, in the 70s.

We'll be heading off to Topeka to move Meemaw this weekend , but the kids will be staying here having a blast with Brett and Andy.

Hopefully Brian isn't too exhausted from his long night tonight.

Trouble

How is it March 10th and I haven't taken a single picture of our comings and goings for weeks?

Who knows...

We've been keeping busy just doing ordinary day stuff.

I only have 10 more weeks of school left this semester, and yes, I am definitely keeping a count down.

Brian and I went on a date on Friday.  Just the two of us.  And it was wonderful.

My mom got us a giftcard 2 Christmas' ago and we have yet to use it.  Thankfully it didn't lose any value over those 2 years, but we finally redeemed it.  A girlfriend of mine came over to watch the kids for a couple of hours.  They love her.  In the morning, I asked Colin if he missed us, and he replied, "no, I miss her."

So sweet.  

We ate at Red Lobster and the food was delicious.  We went shopping (and only bought stuff for the kids, of course).  We held hands, Brian opened the car door for me, it was magical :)

Totally needed that.  Now, we are ready for Spring and for some warmer weather and...

For baseball season of course!

Oh, and I can't forget...

Here is a video of Maggie singing Trouble by Taylor Swift.

It's pretty boring until about 50 seconds in.
We just love the chorus that she sings.  I tried to edit out the other stuff, but couldn't figure it out.
Please excuse us from singing in the background.

Trouble

She doesn't have very many moves just yet, but we think she's got the vocals down :)