Dylan's School Easter Egg Hunt

Wednesday (yesterday) I went to the eye doctor. I had lasik about 11 years ago. I was 20/15 in one eye and 20/20 in the other. But, now I am 20/25. Gulp. Apparently lasik "lasts" 10 years. I was a lot worse than 20/25 prior to lasik. But the doctor said there is no need to get any corrective lenses. 

For lunch I met Aaron. This way we didn't have to pay any babysitters since it was a preschool day. 

Then I went to Dylan's school for his Easter Egg hunt. It was 85 degrees and beautiful. The kids were so cute. They love to do these Easter Egg hunts. This is Ms. Christy.

Here is the Tiger class (minus one kid). Sloane's mom went into labor that day. Dylan's buddies are Cameron (in the grey shirt), Paxon (with the jacket), Grayson (the button down shirt), and Jarrett (the last boy. Varick wasn't there. Yeah...he doesn't play with the girls...Sophia, Sloane and Harper.

That night Blake had his soccer practice. Dylan never watches the practice. He just wants to play at the park. They have huge rocks to climb, which he loves to do and is very good at. He is strong and fearless.

Blake's Eye Dr Appointment

Tuesday after school, Blake had his annual eye check up. He did great. They told him not to move and he didn't budge...she even did silly things to get him to laugh and he stayed still. She doesn't really know his personality. He is a rule follower (for the most part). 

So he still has a slight astigmatism, but she doesn't think getting glasses are necessary yet because his eyes aren't bad....he wouldn't see too much of a difference wearing them so it would be a waste of money. But they dilated his eyes and he was excited about the super cool sunglasses.

Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy

As many of you know, there has been a huge push to keep the Sabbath Day holy. Our Stake President wanted a report from each family one thing they will do. So for FHE we asked the boys for their input. This was my favorite..."We will make a Jesus out of Legos. We will use Thor's face (because he has facial hair like Jesus) and Lois Lane's hair (because they needed long hair)." They had some other ideas, but wanted to execute this one, so they went and made a lego Jesus...complete with scriptures. I love how creative kids can be sometimes. I definitely wouldn't have thought of this idea.

Freezing Soccer Games

Last Saturday we had Blake's soccer game at 10:15. It was supposed to be 50 degrees, so we dressed for that. BUT we didn't know crazy cold wind was going to be a factor. Apparently with the wind chill it was 36 degrees, which is cold. Our wind here is really strong wind. 

The boys have been practicing hard every day after school and Blake was a little better this week. The coach for the other team needed to not coach 6/7 year old boys...he wasn't a nice person. Made me more grateful that our boys have great coaches.

Aaron stayed with Blake at his game while I took Dylan over to his game since they overlapped. When Dylan is cold then you know it is cold...and he was very cold. He wasn't as focused because he was busy trying to stay warm. They had thermals on, but they needed more. No was expecting the super chilliness.  Dylan scored 1 goal.

Our HOA had an Easter Egg Hunt from 10-12, which was exactly during the soccer games. We got to the hunt at 12:10 and everything was cleaned up. But we found the guy in charge and he took us to the office where the leftovers were and let the boys get their 20 eggs each. Awesome....we didn't have to fight the crowds and they still got their eggs.

In the afternoon the wind stopped so it was pleasant outside, so we did yardwork. 

A couple weeks ago we were told at church that 3 stakes, including ours were going to be reorganized. That's it....the next Sunday they said our ward wouldn't be affected. THEN last week they read a letter saying that we need to be at a special meeting next Sunday (Easter) at 5:30 because they are changing all the wards in our stake...getting rid of 3 (2 are 45 minutes away and 1 is in Oklahoma...these never made sense to me to be in our stake) and making a new ward. So...this kind of messes with Easter dinner plans AND we are all wondering what is going on. The stake primary president sent all us primary presidents an email about the upcoming changes. This is going to be crazy. The timing is also kind of bad because we are registering kids for Twilight camp so paying for it is going to be interesting with each ward's budget. Anyway...we'll see what the changes are.

St. Patrick's Day

On St. Patrick's day, around 11am I heard a really loud noise outside...went outside to find this. It was super crazy hail that lasted about 10 minutes. It did plenty of damage near us. Thankfully we didn't have damage.

But then it completely cleared up and was dry enough even to have soccer practice that night. 

When we got home from soccer practice, the boys had a package waiting for them on the front porch from Grandma and Grandpa.

Dylan was the most excited about the candy.

And Blake was the most excited about the books. This was their Easter goodies from Grandma and Grandpa. We read the books that night for bedtime. Later that night, Aaron got back from Boston. Thankfully his flight wasn't impacted by the weather that we had earlier.

Last Day

Sunday was torture with the time change and ward council at 7:30. The kids are really thrown off with the time. 3 local stakes, ours included, are going to change next Sunday, but we found out that our ward is not impacted, but we are still curious to see what happens. 

Monday the boys had school, so we did a lot of yard work since the weather was nice...it was 87 degrees. Aaron left for Boston early Monday morning.

Tuesday we took Grandma and Grandpa to the airport. Dylan wanted to get a picture since he didn't sit for family pictures on Sunday with them.

After we got back from the airport he just wanted to play.

Thanks for visiting Grandma and Grandpa. We had lots of fun and appreciate all the projects that you did. 

Amy and Gregg are going on another mission in late July to Argentina. We will see them again in June when they help Aaron's brother, Trevor and his family move from Florida to Colorado and will make a pit stop at our house, but after that it will be awhile before we see them.

Park and Family

Saturday we went to Hope Park (aka Cowboy park). It turned out to be a great day. We walked around  the lake too.

After the park, we did some more shopping (the boys were thrilled) and then we came home. We did some more projects at home and then we had Aaron's cousin, Amy and her family over for dinner.

Play Date

Aaron took off Friday, so he took his folks to the JFK Memorial and then to the temple. While they were gone Blake wanted to have his friends Kenny over. They were Ninjas.

But Dylan was sad that he didn't have a Ninja costume.

So he decided to be Superman instead.

Later that night Amy and Gregg watched the boys and Aaron and I went on a date. My brother, James and his wife, Shannon gave us a Groupon gift card for Christmas since they know how much we love Groupon especially for fun dates. So, we used a Groupon for this yummy restaurant and then we used a Groupon for Laser Tag.  This laser tag is more for adults or young adults. We did 6 missions. You can be killed on these missions. Once killed you go out and you can check out the screens to see how your team is doing. I was killed so I took this picture. No pictures can be taken inside. This mission was fun because we had 2 teams, but each team had a traitor. These missions are similar missions that they use to train military. The other area is a bunker type of a place..this one is an office. You also use guns that look and feel like real guns, so nothing like the normal laser tag gun. They had shotguns, pistols, AK47 and some others. We are in Texas so we can't expect pansy guns I guess.

It was super fun. Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa for watching the kiddos and to James and Shannon for the fun gift card!

Hutchins

Thursday we went to Hutchins for lunch. Aaron worked from home so he was able to join us. I know we've talked about Hutchins before and it is a must if you are in Texas. So yummy. Afterwards, we went to see "Zootopia" and Aaron went to work.

Kid Mania

Wednesday we went to Kid Mania, which is an indoor jungle gym. We had a lot of other things we wanted to do, but they were all outside, so we changed our plans. The kids loved this place...until it got super crowded.

Grandma even played.

Afterwards we took them to Celebration Park until it rained, then we went to the store. We put Grandma to work on some projects around  the house so we needed to go to the store to check some things out.

Spring Break

The weather the week before Spring Break was beautiful. Then Monday it started to rain and it rained a lot every day until Saturday. Monday we picked up Amy and Gregg from the airport and then went to the Treehouse park before it started to rain more. 

Tuesday morning we got to the Perot Museum at 8:30 to take advantage of the Member's only hours. It proved to be useful because there was hardly anyone there during those hours so we got through the museum fast. At lunchtime we ran into our friends, Sadie and Max. It was packed by this point, but we stayed for about another hour, then headed home.

Blake usually doesn't do this slow motion exhibit, but he did this time and loved it.

There are usually too many people at the museum for them to really play with this exhibit, but they had it all to themselves.

We tried to meet our friends at the movie theater on the way back, but the tickets were sold out. So went home and watched Hotel Transylvania 2 in our movie theater at home.