Easter Fun

We started off making treats and eggs for the day care party. Hollister actually did all the eggs by himself while Hamilton and I did the treats. No pics of his hard work though, he had them done before we even realized he was doing it.

But here's Hamilton helping!

The end product! We were in charge of "snack mix". It was goldfish, marshmallows and m&ms. YUM!

Dying Eggs

Hollister was really into this and loved the whole process.

Hamilton wasn't interested in dying eggs, just eating Froot Loops.

Egg hunting, they were both pros at this!

Chocolate bunnies!

Yes, the older boys got bunnies too, but they weren't around for pictures. :(

GOAL! (and then some....)

Hollister scored TWO goals this weekend at soccer! He was the high scorer of the game. The game was 0-4 (not us) until Hollister scored in the 3rd quarter. Then it was 3-4 (us losing still...) with :16 seconds left and MY boy, kidding... OUR boy tied the game for his Dad/Coach. We have ended our regular soccer season 2-2-2. Coach says he'll take that, it isn't a losing record.

Next up: the tournament. We also had tball and someone needed coffee... those games are early!

Don't worry, its empty!

And we celebrated CJ's birthday with cake! We stuck with the sports theme, this time tennis, for our tennis star!

Diva Dash

This Saturday I participated in a Women's Diva Dash. It was a 5K run with some obstacles. I did get to run it with some friends from school, but due to tball and soccer, no family was able to come with me. This was the second obstacle. They pushed these big balls into you as you ran out of the "ball pen". Trail running, up and down.... This was a rope obstacle... Then this crazy hill... Running through inner tubes... This was funny... you had to jump from these rafts and hope not to fall in... I stayed semi dry... I tried taking a picture of the finish line, apparently I was more tired than I appeared, but see what a pretty day it was.

A nice refreshing cold beer topped it off. I am NOT a beer drinker, but it was hot outside and the beer was cold and it tasted delicious. This was a departure from just running. I'd definitely do it again, hopefully next time with Trevor in a coed adventure race.

Birthday Boy

I love this boy...

I love that he is 14 and still wears a funny hat, or two for me to get a cute photo!

The blogs I read update their baby stats...

here's my baby's stats:

14 years old

5'8

approx 14o lbs

size 10+ shoe

8th grader, which means he will start HIGH SCHOOL this year!!!!

Catching up!

Sometimes I feel like I miss writing about a lot of things that happen in our lives. I mean, I post about the big things like birthdays, sports, fun holidays, etc.. but there is so much more I want to mark done here in my "history" book. For my family that reads this, it keeps you up to date cuz you all live too far away from us! For my friends, the randomness is what keeps us connected. I love reading your randomness too, so keep it coming! For myself, when I do get around to scrap booking again, (not that I know when that will ever be....) I am using this as my memory-jogger.

So here goes.... and just so you know, its long, but lots of great pics... and I apologize, I am having some spacing issues when publishing. It doesn't look like it does when I am writing it and I am not techno savvy enough to fix it. Sorry...

During Spring Break, Hollister and I made peanut butter play dough. It was sooo fun! For mommies of young kids, get the recipe here. Its edible and not really that messy.

Ingredients: dry milk, peanut butter, honey, powdered sugar.

We put ours in the fridge before eating. He is so proud and no, he doesn't have a mouthful of it yet, just a silly face!

Several months ago, Trevor made fondant for the first time. Fondant is a sugary covering that makes cake smooth and pretty. Problem is, it doesn't taste that good. We had fondant on our wedding cake and it was yuck! There is icing underneath fondant, so you can still enjoy cake, but as a whole, fondant is not people's favorite. Watching one of the many cake shows one night, we heard how easy one baker makes fondant and Trevor tried it. It worked! So far, Trevor has tried fondant three times.

Begin with a cute baker! (Haha....)

Grease the table with Crisco

Pour powdered sugar on the table, melt marshmallows

Pour the melted marshmallows onto the powdered sugar. I know this picture is blurry, sorry, but you kind of need to see this part. Begin kneading the mixture.

Knead, knead, knead... eventually it will turn in to a ball!

Pat that ball and wrap it in Saran wrap. Place in fridge until ready to be used.

And amazingly, you can turn marshmallows and powdered sugar into these:

The top is fondant, the bottom is his regular amazing icing.

Dipped cupcakes in fondant and then decorated! YUM!!!

Only white so far, but anything is possible. And, yes, it is YUMMY!

I continue my love/hate relationship with running. At the beginning of March I participated in a 5k with a bunch of ladies from school. It was loads of fun. Recently Trevor has decided to join me in my running quest. This has been really nice. I think I am going to enjoy having a running partner. I blogged about our first run together here.

My team, we were the DDD team, Drop Dead Divas!

The Whole GangAnd of course sports has taken over our nights and weekends, but we wouldn't have it any other way.... Trevor is coaching both soccer and TBall and is on the Elgin Soccer Board. He even has a title: Vice President of U6 soccer division! He's a busy man!

How cute is this boy?

This is him longing to be in the dugout with his Daddy and brother at one of our TBall games. More cuteness.... hanging out at their brother's soccer game. Isn't this picture funny? This is Hollister after running through the celebration tunnel at the end of our last soccer game. Which we did win! This is after our Tball game. It ended during his bedtime.