A surprise in our tree

We found a bird nest in our tree near the front porch. Ben has been watching it and found that she laid her eggs. There are five pale blue colored eggs with dark spots. We were hanging out on the front porch tonight and "Mom and Dad" were not happy at all that we were there. Kelly tried getting some pictures of the female, but she wouldn't sit still very long. She did manage to get one semi-descent shot and we were able to make out her colors. We looked the information up on the web and we have a family of House Finches.

The boys are so excited that we have eggs in the nest now. We told them to make sure they leave the nest alone and never to touch the eggs. We are going to continue to watch the nest and update with some pictures.

Our new shed

A couple weeks ago, Ben and his dad traveled to Smicksburg and bought our shed from the Amish. Lets just say that they got an awesome deal! Today, Ben's dad delivered the shed. We also called a tow service to have them place the shed in position. It was pretty smooth sailing having the tow service. We were glad that we did it that way. The boys think it's their new club house:) Ben is extremely happy to have the new shed and can't wait to get some stuff out of our basement.

Crossing Over

Tonight was Lukas's crossing over ceremony. Lukas is now ranked as a wolf!

Ben wasn't able to go since he had work, so just the boys and I went. I didn't get many pictures because I was involved in the process of the ceremony. The Cubmaster went down the line and took off the boys tiger neckerchiefs and the parents would tie the wolf neckerchief around them. I am so proud of everything Lukas accomplished this year.

I also stayed afterwards for the committee meeting and I volunteered to be Assistant Den Leader for the Wolves next year. I'm really looking forward to it. Even though the den meetings may be done for this year, we have a lot planned with our pack this Summer. Next month, we'll be going family camping at Camp Agawam. We are all excited about it!

Easter Dinner

Around 3:00 on Sunday, the boys and I headed out again to go for Easter dinner at Great Nanny & Pappap's house. Ben didn't go because he had to go to bed to get some sleep because he had to go to work that night. We had a huge dinner and the kids did yet another egg hunt. They love Easter egg hunts. You can never have too many:) Our nephew, Nathan, was so much fun this year!

The second picture is one of my mom with her three grandsons. Enjoy the pics:)

Easter Service

Around 10:30, the boys and I left for church. They were dressed in their Easter suits looking very handsome. I love children all dressed up! Landon didn't want to wear his tie, but I made him put it for a couple pictures. He wasn't having it and decided to pull it off. After it was off, he was in a totally different mood. I can't wait for this stage (terrible three's) to pass!

I was able to get some decent pics with both of them in the same shot. Both boys were very good during the service. At one point, Landon was mimicking the choir director. He had everyone sitting behind/beside us laughing and smiling.

Here's a couple pics of our handsome boys:)

Easter

HAPPY EASTER!!!

Lukas woke us up at 7:30am ready to hunt for his basket. This was a first for him. We think he finally caught on to the whole concept. He had a really hard time finding his basket this year. The Easter Bunny really tricked him. We had to give him the "hot/cold" clues. LOL! After 30 minutes of hunting, he finally found it. It was in the oven! He thought it was so funny and never thought it would be in there.

Landon still hasn't grasped the whole "Easter Bunny". He was wondering around with Lukas and looked for his a little. Of course, Lukas found his first and right after Landon got really impatient with the basket hunting. Mommy felt band directed him to his basket. It was hidden under our roll top desk!

Lukas got four new GIJoe guys and some candy. Landon got a book (Splat's Easter), blok squad lego set, and candy. They ended up sharing their new toys and both really enjoy the new book. They boys had a wonderful Easter!

Easter at Grandma & Rick's

We headed to Grandma/Rick's house around noon. We had a big Easter egg hunt planned for the kids and we are so thankful the rain held off. We hid over 120 eggs. Two dozen were camo eggs and they had a really hard time finding them. Grandma also taught Kelly and Megan how to make her homemade perogies. We had a really great time!

Rain, rain go away

We'd really love the rain to go away for the rest of our Easter weekend!

Sugar Cookies

We made Easter sugar cookies this evening.

Many laughs and great memories!

Lukas's art!

This is a piece that Lukas did in art class this week:)

Bye, bye swing set

We are doing some work to our house this Spring/Summer! We are finally going to redo our patio and sidewalks and we also bought a shed last weekend.

Ben was very busy today and took down the swing set. It was very weird when I pulled into the driveway after work. That swing set was here when we moved in 7 years ago. Even though the swing set was hurting, I was a little saddened. I'm going to miss watching the boys play on it. Ben did put the tire swing that we got last summer in the tree. The boys are not upset at all. They are very happy to have the "extra space" to play.

Majestic-Eggosauras Eggs

This afternoon we colored our Easter eggs.

We let the boys pick what they wanted and Lukas chose the "Eggosaurus" and Landon picked "Majestic Eggs". Landon's kit contained the kind that you have to use bags, add the color, and rub it all around. A bit complex for a 3 year old, but he did a lot better than we thought he would. Of course, both boys wanted to make dinosaurs. We combined the two different kits and the dinosaurs turned out fantastic. They had so much fun and after we were all finished, they played with them for a while.

We LOVE our Easter eggs!

LFUMC Easter Party

This morning the boys and I headed to our annual church Easter party. It was raining so they had the egg hunt inside this year. The boys really enjoyed themselves. Landon was really into making crafts this year. They both made easter egg magnets and dyed a couple eggs. Landon participated in a few other crafts (bunny mask and hosanna palm). You can tell that Lukas is getting older because he really wasn't into that stuff this year. There was a table set up with 6 candy jars that each child could guess how many pieces in each jar. Lukas guessed one right and won a jar with crunch bars, hershey bars and snickers. He was so thrilled that he won. He told me that I didn't do a very good job for Landon. After we did our crafts, they had all the kids sit in a circle and read an Easter story and they had to pass eggs around. I was actually surprised that Landon sat through the whole story. After story time, we went upstairs to hunt eggs in all the Sunday class rooms. Lukas was a mad man and filled his basket quickly. Landon didn't get so many, but he didn't seem to mind. My sweet Lukas even found eggs for other children and would put the eggs in their baskets. They got tons of candy, little toys and Lukas acutally got $7.00 in change. The boys look forward to the church Easter party. They do such a wonderful job!