First Blog of Summer!

Summer has finally TRULY come for Idaho, so we got out our water slide. The kids were sliding normally on it for about three seconds, and then they started this.

Easter 2009

It was a much happier easter for us in Idaho this year. There was no snow! But there was a fabulous double rainbow the night we dyed eggs. It was so cool and bright and it made a full arc in the sky, although we weren't able to get pics of the full arc. (Just too dang big.)The kids hunted eggs twice this year. Uncle Mike and Aunt Laura hosted one egg hunt and Aunt Holly and Grandma Norma hosted the other one. It was fun and the kids ended up with so much candy you'd have thought it was Halloween.

Being the dork that I am, I like the kids to match colors on the holidays (I've come a long way from when the three girls used to wear the same dress. I had to change, though, because Jack just didn't look as good in the dresses.) Anyway, I really love this pic of my kids.

Taryn Turns 6!!!!!

I lost my cord to my camera for a while, but I found it now, so let the blogging begin.

Taryn's 6th birthday was supposed to be Welcome Spring. I got the idea two weeks earlier when the temps were in the high 50's. Fast forward to her birthday, freezing cold and wet outside and we had the Welcome Spring birthday indoors.

Her cake was one giant cup cake, which I loved. It was easy to make and easy to decorate.

But I had left over batter so I made these:

I thought my family would enjoy the cupcakes, but I forgot how much kids love cupcakes. The end of the story is that my family enjoyed a giant cupcake for a week and the kids ate the little cupcakes.

Taryn had all her friends from kindergarten there. She had a great time and this is my favorite picture from the whole party.