Easter 2010!

There's a lot here, so I'll break it up!

School Egg Hunt

Emma's class had a dash for eggs just before they let out for the day. I called this the "warm-up" for the real deal we had a few days later!!

This is a girl on a mission:

Purina Farms

A group of friend and I took our kiddies to Purina Farms again this year. It really is adorable the Easter Village they have there. Plus, the Easter Bunny is always there!

Yay for the Easter Bunny??!! Not so much. Poor Tal. Kind of looks like last year's:

Not a Bunny lover I guess!!!

But he quickly forgot about that big ol' bunny and went right on being Tal. This is what made Tal smile again:

The dog show. (For some reason I didn't take any pictures of the dogs doing their tricks. But we really are at a dog show in these pictures!)

Look at that smile! What Bunny?

His buddy Steve!

The piggies.

The baby geese.

The tractors. If he would have found these in the beginning he would have been happy to miss everything else!!

Emma conveniently would dash away with her friends when I would want to snap a picture (am I ready for that already... No. I'm not. Sigh). So here's what Emma got out of the day:

She had made a picture at school to give to the Easter Bunny. It was a big deal, believe me. She asked a hundred times before we left if I had it. Then another hundred times while we were driving there. But apparently, it didn't sink in with me cause we got inside and I had left it in the car. Good freaking grief, Me! Why do I do that? Geesh. So a quick run back to the car and The Bunny got his beautiful picture from his sweet little admirer!

Emma and her sweetest friendy, friend Clemie loving on the bunny

Being with her friends. It makes her so happy to have fun with such good little friends.

Here is the whole crew that went!

Now just the kids.

Tal, Steve, Ali, Trey, Cooper, Campbelle, Emma, Madeleine, and Ali!

Neighborhood Egg Hunt

My sweet, beautiful, genius sister Lindsay (your welcome!) told me what they do in their neighborhood for an egg hunt. Each family that participates hides eggs in their own yard then everyone meets and all go house to house together. Such a fun idea, huh. So our neighborhood tried it and it was great!!

Of course Emma got into it right away

Tal...not so much. Do you see his baseball basket on the ground... empty?!

He eventually got into it though...mostly because we left the house with the hoop... but nonetheless he did gather himself a few colorful eggs.

Yeah buddy. You have to look for some eggs before you can have any in your basket!!

Emma and cutie sisters Alyssa and Kaylee.

All the egg hunters!!

Successful day!

Joy Ride!

Nothing will get you going on a beautiful spring day like a ride on the John Deer mower!!

P.S. "Hi!" from Tal!!

Uncle Corbin!

This is my handsome "little brother!" Not so little, huh, but still awesome! He came out to see us while interviewing for a job. If any of you have come to visit...or will in the future (hint, hint) you know a visit to see us isn't complete without a trip (sometimes two!) to Ted Drew's! What is Ted Drew's? Only the best frozen custard in this entire world thank you very much!

The kids always enjoy our "ice cream trips" and this day was no different. (Tal is so funny because now when he sees the camera he goes "TEEEEZZ!") Love him!!

We love Uncle Corbin. He's the man, not only because he is awesome, but because he freakin' kicked some BYU Business Management butt in school and is graduating one of the top in his field on Friday! Totally sweet I'd say. You go Corbin! And we love you!

Emma's Preschool Music Program

Oh my gosh! This was seriously great! All the "Growing Place" preschools got together and put on quite a show. Each class sang 2 songs. Emma's class sang "Razza Mataza" and "Down by the Bay." They were so dang funny. They love these songs. They were dancing and laughing and doing the actions. Oh my! I'm laughing just thinking about it. They even amused Tal! I love little kids. They just make even little things so silly!

This is how she started! Can you guess which one she is?

This is how she sang!

This how she finished!! Where did this girl come from?

I'm a...

SOCCER MOM!!

I wasn't sure if Emma would like soccer, but she thought it would be fun to try. She really had a fun time. She's actually not to bad. She can kick with both feet! I can't do that. I do the kick-pause-kick so I only use my right foot. She just runs down the field left-right-left-right!! It was awesome!

I'm glad she likes it. Who am I kidding though...she likes pretty much everything that's fun to do! Even though it was really cold that morning she kept right on running and kicking and laughing, and saying, "This is awesome!"

Grandma and Grandpa Coleman and Nate and Jasmine came to watch. Tal loves "Ba-bop." That's how Emma and now Tal has said "grandpa" when they were first learning. Funny, huh. "Ba-bop!"

She has a few friends on her team each she was sooo excited about:

#10 Elsie, #1 Emma, and #6 Mark, and her friend Trey wasn't there the first day so we'll get a picture with him another day!

Stretch...
Wave...
Stretch some more!! Love her!

"March Dadness"

At preschool they planned a night for the Dad's... basketball style. It was called "March Dadness." They played all kinds of basketball games, had cheerleaders, and even a classic basketball dinner... hotdogs and popcorn. A night like this is right up Matt's alley. It got him all pumped for the actual beloved college basketball tournament. He showed the kids how he could spin the ball on his finger! He's really, really good at it. All the kids thought he was the greatest thing ever!!

Matt and Emma were also able to take a little girl from her class, Aireana, who's dad wasn't available to go. He had a great time spending the night with them.

They needed a few extra basketball hoops that night so I sent Tal's with them. Matt was able to sneak it out the front door, but Tal spent all night until they got home looking for it. Crazy kid!

Aireana and Emma

"The Dadness." I said, "Make sure someone takes a picture of all 3 of you." This is all he got!!

Emma wanted to practice some cheers before she left! So I taught her one. Always prepared.

"GOOOOOO.........

PRESCHOOL!!!!!!"

Front: Trey, Davin, Hanon, Caleb, Mark, Ethan

Back: Mrs. Knickmeyer, Cierra, Emma, Aireana, Molly, Maggie, Mrs. Strubberg.

Wacky Wednesday!

It was WaCKy Wednesday at preschool today. This has been the best day of school yet. For the first time she didn't cry and make a fuss while I was doing her hair, and she got to wear all her favorite things... all at the same time!! Like magic really, and look how awesome she looked!!

The front:

The back:

The whole get-up:

All of the kids (and the teachers) looked great!! I wish I had taken my camera this morning. So, so seriously cute!!

I wonder if I could get away with wear that just for one day?! Hmmm, maybe!

Feeling itchy?

The accountant at work asked Matt that on Monday since it was our seventh anniversary. He wasn't quite sure what she meant! I guess that's good right?! Seven years. Hard to believe. Nonetheless, that's where we are, and we had a fun night.

The tallest building in St. Louis is the Metropolitan Center at 46 stories high. There is a restaurant on the 40th floor called Kemoll's and that's where we went to celebrate. Yummo!!

While we were waiting they let us walk around. It's a beautiful building. And check out the view:

Matt pulled out his car salesman skills and got us a table by the window. Sweet! There is no doubt, he's just good!

And then the food came out. Don't laugh, but I had to take a picture. Have you ever seen a more scrumptious crab cake?

Then our main dishes were served with a pretty purple flower. It was so pretty that I almost didn't want to eat it...almost! It was delightful!!
All done and V.E.R.Y. full!!!

My 7 little beauties!!! He always remembers! Just as pretty as my 6 last year!

We've experienced a lot in seven years, as to be expected, but there is no one I'd rather have experienced it all with!