Happy Easter/Go CAVS!

The boys and I always have Spring Break over Easter.  We get Good Friday off and the whole week after Easter.  Sometimes we travel back to Illinois or have family out here, but this year, we stayed home and were by ourselves.  We had a fun day!  The boys woke up super excited to see what the Easter bunny left and to find Easter eggs.  Then, we got ready and went to church.  After church, we headed to Brunch, which was delicious.  We hung out at home in the afternoon and finished the day by heading to a CAVS game that night.  We took our neighbor, Mark, with us to the game and had Matt's company tickets!  It was such a fun day, from start to finish.  

A week before Easter, we colored our Easter eggs.  We like to do it early so we can eat the hard boiled eggs all week.  Here are the boys just starting...

 And here is the finished product!

Dixie bought these cute pj's for the boys last time she was out here and they love them!  They both wore their Snoopy Easter pj's to bed the night before Easter.

The boys with their Easter baskets

 When the boys went to see if the Easter Bunny hid the eggs outside, they found bunny tracks.

 The Easter Bunny left a note for the boys on our front door.

 The Easter bunny also left tracks leading up to our front door.

 Although it was sunny so it looks nice outside, it was FREEZING on Easter morning so the Easter Bunny decided to hide the eggs in the basement this year.  

Landon finding eggs

 Keegan hunting for eggs

 A family pic outside of church

 Such handsome boys!

1.  The boys with the Easter flowers at church

 Selfie at brunch

 Landon and Keegan with the Easter Bunny

 Family pic with E.B.

 There was an amazing ice sculpture at brunch that was a colored egg and said "Happy Easter"

 Cute pic of the boys once we got home....love these two!!!

 Daddy and Keegan

 Another family pic

Me and my sweet boys

 Daddy and the boys

We changed out of our church clothes and into our CAVS gear for the game. 

Selfie with Landon

 The boys...Landon, Mark and Keegan

Landon and Mark

 Selfie with Keegan

 Keeg

 A pic of Lebron

Group selfie in our seats

 After the game, the kids got to shoot free throws on the floor.  Here is a pic of all of them on the floor.

 And another group selfie on the court.

The boys did great shooting.  Mark and Keegan were so close to making their free throws and Landon did make his!  So exciting!

We won this free mop for the free throw!!

Family selfie on the court

 Another pic of the boys on the court

 One last pic of the boys outside of the stadium

 Selfie with Matt and I when we got home.

Such a fun day!! We hope all of you had a wonderful Easter as well!

Spring Parties

This year, I got to help out at both of the boys spring parties since they were in the afternoon after I was done teaching.  It was a bit chaotic going from my school to Landon's school to Keegan's school, but it all worked out.  I had a blast helping and getting to see them during the day.  Keegan was so excited to see me when I walked in.  Landon will tell you that he wasn't super excited to have me there, but I know he really was! :)  

At Landon's party, I was responsible for having the students assemble a treat bag and then play a game at my station. We played "5 Second Rule" and our family made up all the questions ourselves about spring, Easter and baseball since it was opening day.  The students had a blast, and so did I!

At Keegan's party, I was responsible for taking a healthy snack for all the students and playing games.  At my station, the students did Easter relay races.  They had to hop like a bunny one time and then balance eggs on spoons the next time.  Then, we played the "Bozo" game where the students had to toss plastic Easter eggs into Easter baskets.  All the baskets had different numbers on them from 1-4, and the student had to add up their total if they made any eggs into the basket when they were finished so they could practice their math skills as well!  Again, the students had a blast and so did I!  They liked the Egg toss/Math game the best!

 Landon with his teacher, Mrs. Zollos.

 Landon making his sun catcher in a different station.

 Landon was so embarrassed to take this picture with me, but it turned out great and it is actually one of my favorite pics of us!

 This was Landon's station group right before we played "5 Second Rule"

Since I had to go straight to Keegan's party from Landon's, Landon had to go home with his best friend Jack and his mom (who also helped at the party).  Kristen took a couple pics of the boys walking out together!

This is the "healthy" snack I made for Keegan's party.  Fruit kabobs with a peep!  The students liked the peeps the most, but also ate the fruit!

Keegan had a substitute that afternoon so his teacher could actually help with her son's spring party, so we didn't get a picture with Mrs. Fitch.  However, Keegan was much more cooperative than Landon to take a pic with me! 

 Keegan with his friend, Stella.

 A few classmates

 Keegan with Gabe and Emily.  Their moms also helped at the party, so we all walked out at the same time. 

Here is one last pic from the day....all of us in our baseball gear for opening day.  Matt and Landon in Cubs gear and Keegan and I in Cardinals gear!  GO CARDS!!!

Such a fun day!  I'm glad that I got to help with the boys parties and spend a little extra time with them!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Matt's parents decided to come out for the weekend of St. Patrick's Day.  They got here late on March 16th (Friday) and left on Sunday afternoon.  We didn't do a very good job of taking pictures again, and don't have any with them.  But, we still had a fun weekend!  We had St. Patrick's Day donuts when we woke up on the 17th, and then went back to Play CLE.  That afternoon we saw "Peter Rabbit" at the movie theatre.  We picked up dinner on the way home and just hung out that night.  On Sunday, they went with us to church and played with the boys a little bit in the afternoon before they had to head home.   Here are a few pics from the weekend.

Since St. Patrick's Day was on a Saturday this year, the boys wore their green "Lucky Charms" shirts to school on Friday!

Our St. Patrick's Day donuts

Our Leprechauns.  I think Matt did this with a filter on his phone, but I don't have any of those so I'm not sure.  They are funny pics either way!

Keegan

 Landon

Fun at Play CLE

Matt picked up a corned beef sandwich for Rod to eat and we wore green, but that is about all the St. Patrick's Day festivities we participated in.  We hope the rest of you had a great day!  Thanks for visiting, Rod and Dixie!