Candid Catch-up

We have been doing stuff you guys we really have! We have been busy enjoying the spring weather. Last night we had a thunderstorm and thunder literally shook our apartment once. It was pretty cool. Good thing none of the kids decided to notice. :)

Here's Kairi welcoming you with a new fashion she played with for a few days: Pants on the head. Oh yah!

We went to a Madison's Children's Expo in March and got some really cool stuff for free by walking around and playing the activities. Here Kairi and Kate are showing off balloon swords.

There were some baby chicks (and goats which I thought were cuter) that the kids could look at.Kate's favorite was this one that she lingered at for a long time. 

We did see the hot dog car! 

 Oh intermission, here's a dress I finished making. Okay.

 Here is Mr. Conductor (from Dinosaur Train) made out of legos! He actually lasted a few weeks.

So I know this is rather blurry, but Wesley enjoyed playing mini-golf at the expo. He had to play this same course (with one hole) about three times.

In the month of March, we also went to the Children's Madison Museum for free because someone in the ward had a free pass they needed to use that weekend. We took it. It was a good way to get out kids energy between Saturday conference sessions. 

Here we have, a mom, Kate, Wesley, and Kairi

Kate loves crawling through tunnels!

We've been giving Wesley and Kairi early driving lessons. Just so long as they stay on the sidewalk with that thing they should be okay.

I totally remember playing with a small broom as a little girl. The girls liked playing with them at the museum. At home they play with the much larger version, one going for the broom and the other one for the mop. I like the smaller versions better since the handles didn't keep whacking me.

Here the kids are playing with a water attraction.

With spring weather comes parks! Wesley really likes this chitty chitty bang bang car. Kate, Wesley, Kairi.

Here's a tire tunnel shot.

We have made it to April! A few months back Wesley caught onto the idea of April fools day and hid a lego clown in the fridge making sure to tell us April Fools when we found it. So for the actual day, we decided to bring the clown back around. He sure did around...He was in about six or so different places on April first.

I thought this was a cute one of Kairi pointing. I've been trying to get a picture of her scrunched up nose face, but still haven't managed to grab it. 

 Kate rides a dino!

 And now on to Easter! I wish we could have done the egg hunt outside like we did last year, but the wind on Easter was rather fierce and we didn't think the kids would even look for one egg let alone ten or so when they were complaining about the wind.
Kate didn't do too much looking anyway. It was way more fun to push Wesley's stroller all over the place.

Wesley had a few special eggs. This one was his favorite. Lego Harry Potter!

I got to hunt for a few eggs too. It was a little hard to do since Wesley wanted to help me find them all. I tried to stay an egg ahead of him.

After the egg hunt the girls started to climb some stairs. They got pretty high.

Warning: These next pictures were not taken by me. I wouldn't put them up at all except at the end of the day I asked Chris what his favorite part of our Easter excursion was and he said getting Wesley to take this picture (well the one following this). It's Wesley with a mad face a scary prop. I don't know it's a either a guy thing or just a "this would bother mom thing" so scroll down past it quick!

Oh much nicer down here! We made our way around to ride on some swings. We didn't stay out long since it was still windy.

This last weekend (as in yesterday) we went to visit the Jelly Belly warehouse that is out here. Here is the Jelly Belly car.

The girls liked to play on the chairs afterward while we tried out samples. We tried earthworm and birthday cake. I found earthworm to taste a little like a red pepper.

We all had to wear these hats on the train ride since we were in a warehouse. I thought the hats were cool and now they're by the toys, which probably means that I'll throw them away if they get ignored in the next week, or throw them away once they get torn to bits.

This is not an Easter Post

So time to get up some videos Wesley and I have created a while back! This one was originally created in August of last year (2011). It's still pretty cool though.

And here is this years creation made in March!

I hope you all enjoyed your movies! See you again sometime soon since we really need to update this, but I ran out of time again.... Bye.

How Sweet It Is....

...to have walking kids! I just absolutely love it! Granted the twins are stuck in the stroller still when we go places, but they can now get out and explore with the big kids and are loving the fact that they can see more of the world at their own pace and level. (Side note, these two are climbers!) I love it too since I don't feel as tied down to sit in one place anymore all the time. Ah it's nice to stretch ones legs. Consequently, I am just now starting to feel as though I am getting some sort of a life back, and I'm ready to go! I no longer only feed and diaper kids every half hour all day long which is great. But on the down side I still hold on to some of my previous "make it to another month" mentality. When I should be enjoying a moment, I'm thinking way too far into the future when my kids will be old enough to do... blah blah blah. I'm working on toning that down but if anyone has any suggestions for new winter related activities to do with kids that are just barely walking that would be nice. :)

Okay enough of this journal type stuff. Let's put up some pictures in the most random order and see if you can make it through the rest of the post.

So this is the age where things like trying on bracelets and hats and necklaces is super fun and exciting. Okay some people still find that fun, but this is the age where it all starts; one year old. One of Kate's favorite things to do is walk around with anklets. She and her sister love their feet. They ask to put their shoes on at least once a day when we we're not going out. The other day they were piling pebbles into their shoes. Aren't shoes fun?

You can't really tell, but this is a ball pit full of balls. Well you know full of kids. It was one of the girls' birthday presents. (Kate is standing).

 Here was another birthday present. Yah I know I got great expressions here. This was first thing that they played with out of Grandma Heits box. Sorry I didn't get a picture of Grandma Morses' gift since the kids picked out their favorite snack treats and have eaten through it already. Thanks for the presents guys!

I made a cake and cupcakes for the twins' first birthday. The kids had the cupcakes and Chris Man and I had the cake. It was a wonderful idea!

Here is a shot of the girls in their new birthday/Sunday dresses. They had white tights on before church, but alas this is an after church after nap shot. (Kairi, Wesley, Katelyn).

Look everyone I kept a hair tie in for a few hours! Too bad ties and clips get yanked out. Kate's hair is always in her face. She doesn't seem to mind so much anymore, but it bugs me.

For their birthday party we went to the Madison Children's Museum. This is a section there were you can build really big things like our brand new home! (Kairi is in the front).

Here is Wesley and Kate at the museum enjoying a block, truck, car town world.

 We've had one big-ish snow fall this year and since Wesley likes the Dinosaur Train all the kids made a snow dinosaur!

Here we are trying to have fun with the snow. Wesley is bored because he's ready to go, but he was the one who had the most fun in the end. (Kate in gray, Kairi in black putting on shoes.)

Wesley made this all by himself! It's an airplane that seats three. He's quite the builder for a two year old. Okay he's almost three now huh?

Here's a video of a birthday celebration for those of you who are into those kinds of things.

Here is a good movie showing what the twins can do these days. They both can climb up onto Wesley's riding toy. They do sit forwards too, and when they do Kairi can walk herself around forwards and backwards. In this video Kate pushes Kairi. Be prepared it is awefully exciting stuff.