Happy Birthday Blake and Chase

Happy birthday Blake and Chase!

Is it Spring?

This is the sight we woke up to this morning. Is it really almost May because it looks a lot more like January!

Day off

Yesterday we had a day off from classes while the staff had a planning day. We decided, along with our good friends/neighbors to take our kids to a fun park up in Owen Sound. It was a really nice and sunny day and fairly warm (mid 50s). The kids had a great time playing together at the park. We laid out blankets and had snack together or tea time as our Australian friends call it! What fun!

Playing at the park

Yesterday afternoon it was fairly warm out and the sun was shining, so we took the kids to the park to play. Logan got to swing for the first time and he really liked it. We also sat on a teeter-totter as a family and he was giggling each time we would go back down. It was just really nice to go outside as a family and watch our boys thoroughly enjoy themselves!

Egg Hunt

This weekend we were supposed to head down to Michigan to spend Easter with Jeff's aunt and uncle. However all of our kids got sick, so we had to stay home. We decided to do an Easter Egg Hunt with our neighbors. The weather was cold and wet yesterday, so we postponed it until today. It was still very cold, but the sun was at least shining. The kids had a lot of fun hunting for eggs and all sorts of other treats. It was Carsten's first time doing this!

All the kids bundled up and ready to look for eggs!

Very excited to find a treat. 

The three of us hid the eggs...great friends!

Poor Logan is still not feeling well. Today he mostly just slept. He wanted to play for a little bit, but instead of playing he fell fast asleep. Think of him today!

Pysanky eggs

Last week my friend who is on staff here invited a few of us over to learn how to make pysanky eggs. I had never heard of these eggs before I met this friend. They are so beautiful and very intricate. It took me about 2 hours to create this one egg! It was a lot of fun though! So here is what I came up with...

Maple Festival

Yesterday we went to a town called Elmira for their annual Maple Festival. The boys were very excited about getting to eat pancakes! They each had a huge pancake covered in 100% pure maple syrup that was harvested right in the town! We had a lot of fun walking around looking at the different booths set up, trying free samples and eating some food that we normally don't! There was almost any thing you can think of with a maple syrup twist. There were maple burgers, maple chips, maple lollipops, maple popcorn balls, maple cotton candy, maple sausage, maple ice cream, maple candy, maple sugar and the list goes on! Here are some pictures from the day.

Self portrait in the car on the way there!

Delicious pancakes

Rylan with our friend Alysse

Eating a maple popcorn ball with our friend Gina

Face painting!

Logan all bundled up for the cold weather