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Memorial day

Jon stayed home to work, and I took the children to the Day family Memorial Day BBQ. I LOVE family. Blood, not blood. Family is family. I love that the Day family feels the same, and we get to do so many fun family things together.

IMG_8893Jan (For those who don’t know, Jan is the cousins Grandma.) comforting Regan after I dunked him in the pool. He was NOT happy with me for a bit.

IMG_8894Kaylee seems to be over her water phobia. I am so happy for her. She actually had FUN in the pool this time!

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IMG_8904Shannon is the baby swimming whisperer. She had Kaylee swimming all over and jumping in like a pro in no time.

IMG_8909Shannon telling Kaylee that she is doing great!

IMG_8915Regan had a love hate relationship with the pool today.

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IMG_8955And then he LOVED.

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IMG_8967Uncle Dwayne swam him all over the pool.

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IMG_8975I love how fearless Cassie is.

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IMG_8989Hoping everyone else had a lovely Memorial Day.

Easter 2013: a post where I ramble

Easter weekend this year was crazy SUPER busy. Thursday night I had all our out of towners plus the Days over for a just because I felt like it dinner. (I do stuff like that…)

But lets rewind. Jake arrived Sunday and Kaylee and I were very outnumbered all week with boy stuff. 🙂

Thursday Jon’s parents,  youngest sister (and her three cuties), and bother Jerris and his cute family got to town.

IMG_7539 IMG_7533Getting wedding nails done.

IMG_7535So that’s what spurred the everyone been traveling let’s just get everyone together for a family dinner visit thing. I had Jon call everyone (because I don’t care for calling people. It’s a thing…), and they came. Because if you feed them they will come. 😉
It was a fun night.

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Play group rescheduled their Easter egg hunt to Friday morning. We skipped out because Friday was also Kaylee’s Birthday and party followed by Josh and Emily’s (Let’s just call them Joshily. Yes?)  pre-wedding family dinner that night. Also a day of family and fun.

Saturday was wedding day. And this a true testament to how crazy busy I was ALL weekend. I did not take ONE.SINGLE.PICTURE! The shame. Instead I was all, “Jon grab the camera!” and  “Dad! Take a picture!”  And they did, but I still hang my head in shame now….

So I have to wait for photos from the pro photographers. Booo.

Sunday the kiddos got spoiled with both sets of grandparents going to church with them. Four grandparents for two kids. Ya, they LOVED it.

Jon and I had decided to scrap the whole Easter egg hunt this year. Busy weekend and all. Ya, that plan fell through.

Kaylee upon arriving home from church says, “I am so excited to see what the Easter Bunny brought us!”

Me,”Ummm, I don’t think he has come yet. He is really busy today. If you wait a few minutes for him to finish at other houses we can go see what he brought. Okay?….”

Then I ran into my room and pulled out all the stuff I bought, but never put together. Good thing we skipped out on playgroup! Jon and I stuffed eggs like mad folk, and then he and Jake snuck outside and hid the eggs.

Kaylee was all, “WOW! The Easter bunny is fast.” You could hear the crickets after that remark…..

IMG_7696The children waiting.

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IMG_7719Uncle Jake helping a little buddy out.

 

 

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While they were out hunting eggs the ummm Easter Bunny left them some fun summer baskets. Kick boards and goggles for swimming, fun band-aids, and new sidewalk chalk were discovered in their new sandbox buckets and shovels. Plus their letter from Great Grandma Sapp.

IMG_7725Easter Sunday I had EVERYONE over for Thanksgiving dinner.  It was Yumm-O.  It was a crazy busy, but SUPER fun family weekend. We love our family so much, and love any excuse to see them and hang out.

The children ended their festivities playing Kaylee’s new Scooby-Do matching game with Papa. Regan stomped them. BAD!

He gave Papa a, “Great job matching game Papa!”, before heading off to bed.

Playgroup Valentine party

We had so much fun at playgroup today. The children decorated goodie bags that got filled up with lots of cute Valentines.
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They played pin the arrow on the heart.

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Then we headed outside to smash the pinata that the children helped me make for all our friends. Making the pinata was SO much easier for me than doing bunches of individual Valentines.

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I think everyone enjoyed our giant group Valentine.