Easter 2008

Well, it ended being a really productive weekend for us. We got our basement painted which we have been wanting to do for a LONG time. It looks so much better. Now I can't wait to tear out the old carpet and lay some new laminate down there and put some new baseboards and trim up. It already looks like a completely different room.

On Sunday we had a little Easter egg hunt for the boys outside. I snuck outside and just placed some big plastic eggs around in the grass and then we opened the curtains to the back yard and the boys got so excited to see the eggs! I'm sure they had no idea what was going on but they were excited nonetheless. It was sunny but still pretty chilly out there. The boys had fun just running around with no boundaries. It was hard when the time came to go back inside. They were NOT pleased with mommy and daddy :)
So once we came inside we gave the boys their Easter baskets. We didn't put much in them. Just a couple match box cars each and a book for each of them. We also got them a box of crayons and a battery operated bubble blower. They can't use that themselves yet but they had fun going after the bubbles outside. No, we didn't give them any chocolate. We have a hard enough time trying to get them to eat anything these days and didn't figure they needed that at the moment. But we are not mean parents...they do get sweets sometimes. Also, Josh and I probably would have ended up eating most of it anyways and we didn't feel we needed that.

Later on I cooked some dinner. Made an Italian Meatloaf (a new recipe) and it was really yummy. It had carrots and celery and onion all ground up with the turkey meat and bread crumbs.

Alright, here's the pictures...
Daddy bringing out the baskets for the boys

Cohen looking at his
Ethan looking at his cars he got
Oooo...a new book!
Daddy reading to Cohen
Just a cute picture of Cohen :)

Cute Ethan
Running


"Finding" the eggs

Easter Bunny????


They were literally running and Cohen was the leader...


I love this picture of Ethan



Just in case anyone was wondering, Ethan refused to sit with me for a picture and I barely got this one with Cohen :)
Our cat Ducky...
she's the Easter Ducky Bunny...??

Cute boys in their bunny ears
Our boys :)

Me & my boys :) They were not happy about stopping for pictures so this is the best we could do
Oooooo...Easter eggs (this is just after we opened the curtains to reveal the eggs outside!)
Woohoo...two eggs

Wearing Mommy's shoes...:)

About a week ago I found the boys "trying" on my shoes!! It was so cute. It seems that every child at some point does this but the first time it happens to yours it's SO adorable! They just kept slipping their feet into the shoes and trying to walk. Here's a few pictures...


You can't really see it in this picture but Cohen is wearing my one shoe and walked from the entry way to the living room with it on.
How does it look?
Hmmmm...

My sleeping baby boys (Video)

You will notice that at the beginning of the video and I think in the middle there is just black...it's just because I was trying to get video in low light so it wasn't working so well!! Once I turned on the lights it was great! Still can't believe they stayed sleeping after that. Anyways, here's my boys :)

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My sleeping baby boys....

Cohen sleeping with his blankie that their Auntie got them when they were just born :)

And Ethan doing the same. I love being able to see them sleep and looking so peaceful. Once they are toddlers you don't get to see them asleep much anymore. Usually as soon as I open the door to their bedroom they awake but not this time :) I even turned on the lights so I could actually see them and they slept right through it!

Video from today in the snow...

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It's a snowy March Day!!

So today is March 8th and we are having basically a BLIZZARD! It was a fun day though. We took advantage of it and took the boys out for a little fun! They enjoyed it.

Daddy & Cohen
Cohen with rosy cheeks after playing outside!
Ethan's rosy cheeks!
Cohen stuck in the snow, Ethan and the neighbors.
Mommy & Cohen :)
Ethan loving every minute of it!
The whole family
Again :)
My car
I went out and shoveled a bit so we could see how deep it was
This was at 9am. 10 inches already and it snowed ALL day. now at 6:30pm it has finally stopped and the sun is trying to peek through the clouds :)
Looks like a blizzard
I plopped Cohen into the snow and it was up to his waste!