Bowling

A few weeks ago we went bowling one day when the kids were out of school. They had so much fun. They were wild and out of control that day and they were so excited to have Grandma, Brittany, Kolten and Walker come with us. Grandma kicked all our butts though. She secretly is a really good bowler:)

St. Patricks Day

We love any excuse to have fun around our house so we love St. Patricks day. We had green breakfast, The leprechaun left a trail of gold and some candy and little toys for the kids, and we had a green dinner.(didn't get any pictures)My mom also brought the kids lots of fun stuff that they were so excited about.

Cruise

This last month Josh and I were able to go on a cruise with 50 other people in our family. It was a lot of fun and nice to get away. It left from Miami and went to Belize, Costa Maya and Cozumel. The ship was so fun. It had an ice skating rink, rock climbing wall, a flow rider, Mini golf and then all of the usual pools, hot tubs and tons of places to eat.








In Cozumel Josh went scuba Diving. I got a cold so I wasn't able to dive so I just rode along and then we did some shopping.

In Costa Maya we went with Nichole and Cody to a beach and just hung out, went kayaking and went snorkeling



In Belize we went on some zip lines and then went tubing through some caves. The zip lines were probably my favorite!

Cooking Fun

Jaxons new favorite thing is to make a sugar cookie that is the size of a pizza. Whenever anyone is over playing this is what he wants to do. I just let them go to town with sprinkles. This is the masterpiece.


On groundhog day we made cupcakes. I told the kids to decorate them to look like groundhogs and this is what they came up with:)

Dino Day

I am SO ready for spring!! I just cannot wait to be able to go outside. My kids are getting bored and going stir crazy. So in an attempt to keep my kids entertained and save money, I came up with Dino day. It was actually a lot of fun. My kids are so easy to entertain. We colored dinosaur pictures, played Dino, Dino egg (duck,duck, goose), Decorated salt dough and paper mache eggs, had an egg hunt, made salt dough fossils and ate a volcano cake. Hopefully I can start coming up with some other fun things to get us through the rest of the winter:)

Paper Mache eggs - I put a little toy dinosaur in a balloon, blew it up and covered it in paper mache and let it dry overnight. The kids really liked decorating them and they loved breaking into them and getting the dinosaur out.

Volcano cake - This cake was super easy. My sister in law Sarah gave me the idea. you mix a cake mix as directed and pour into a bowl. pour a can of frosting in the middle and put it in the microwave for 8 min. Turn onto a plate and the lava pours out. Next time I will do red frosting. (they didn't think it looked very much like lava)


Salt dough eggs - I wrapped little toy dinosaurs in salt dough and shaped them like eggs and let them dry. They took almost 3 days to dry but the kids also thought these were pretty cool.