Easter Weekend

We went to visit Kenneth's parents for Easter.  The kids were so excited to hunt eggs with their cousins.

After egg hunting, Andrew and Emily were so excited to go inside and check out what was in their eggs...when I asked them to pose for a photo, HA!

In case you are wondering how I get my kids to pose for photos, it is almost always bribery..."Smile and you can go look in those eggs"

Then I made them take more photos later with their little brother, they are a bit more tolerant of photos when they get to hold the baby :)

While we were up there we also took a trip to the beach.  The water was freezing, and a bit rough, but Andrew spent the majority of the three hours we were there in the water, Emily spent most of her time playing in the sand, and Jacob spent all of his time napping!  The kids got to explore a little bit of the fort at the beach too.

Halloween fun

The kids helped me carve a pumpkin last Tuesday.  It is a good thing we weren't in town for Halloween because these jack-o-lanterns did not survive to see Halloween day, they were all moldy and got tossed before we left town on Friday.  But they were so fun to carve! Both kids were really excited about carving the pumpkins this year.  I cut them open and had them dig out the seeds, Emily dug right in, Andrew was not too excited about touching the gooey pumpkin insides but he slowly plucked out some seeds.  They both told me they wanted a vampire pumpkin so the big pumpkin got carves with pointy vampire teeth.  They had disappeared on their bikes by the time I started carving the little pumpkin so I came up with that design, when they came back I was told that "they were supposed to both be vampires, not one vampire and one silly chipmunk"...oh well, next year maybe they will stick around!

On Halloween, we drove up to Milton for a Halloween party.  They had a bounce house which is where the kids spent pretty much the whole night, even in the rain.  They left with huge bags of candy and soaking wet costumes!