Yeah for the sun!!!

Well, it's been a long time posting. Since my last post, we had Dale's birthday and Easter both on the same weekend. It was, of course, a good weekend. Unfortunately, the weather for the weekend wasn't good, so there weren't any outdoor egg hunts, but the kids had fun dying eggs and then finding ones filled with candy and their baskets and gifts on Easter morning before going to church to celebrate Jesus rising from the dead. He is risen indeed. After church, we went to Grandpa Mike's and Grandma Carol's for dinner. Of course the kids had an egg hunt there and got yet more candy, but the highlight of the day was seeing Grandpa and Grandma's new baby chicks. Grandpa Mike is building a chicken coop apparently and raising chickens. The kids also inform me he is going to get cows and a pony for the kids to ride. That should be fun. Hannah declared she really wanted some baby chicks, but my response was that those cute baby chicks grow into not so cute chickens that we have nowhere to keep.

The kids with their dyed eggs.

In their Easter best after church

The baby chicks

Fast forward a week and the weather has greatly improved. This weekend was sunny and warm and today was absolutely gorgeous and very warm. I actually took the boys to the zoo after picking up Justin from school. They had a great time, especially Owen, who had a great time right up until we left. The whole way home, he was very angry that we weren't still at the zoo. While a lot of animals were very lazy in the sun, we did have great fun watching the polars bears splashing around with a ball right on the other side of the glass, the sea lions which are always entertaining, the river otter, the sun bears and the cheetah. Later in the day, the kids had their first fling in the sprinkler. That is another thing that Owen was very upset when it ended. We also had our first cookout of the year. I hope this is just the first of many such days to come for the spring and summer.

One last thing I want to share with you. I've actually been doing an online crop over at the My Sketch World forum and one of the challenges is to make a card using word art that you can do on http://www.wordle.net/. This site is so awesome. You can go to it and create your own wordart by typing in any text or series of words you want and it will create a piece of wordart using those words. You can even choose different color combos, layouts and fonts. Here is one I made using the text from my last blog post on our Spring Break trip to the coast.







You need to click on it to see it larger. Anyway, just something cool.