Mel's Fantastical Insights

My mom and dad invited us all kids to Easter at their house. Most of us made it. They had a whole weekend of fun planned for the kids. Thanks to mom and Tiff. The kids made bunny ears and little ducks and bunnies. They decorated cookies and played with cousins. My kids had so much fun. Then we had a wonderful easter egg hunt in which we found all but one easter egg. Daniel of course tried to get all the eggs before the other kids even realized what was going on. Alice did pretty good collecting eggs. Abby and Steph looking at their goodies. This is Alice in her adorable new dress. Thanks Steph!

Yes yes, well Alice's birthday was in April, so we aren't too far behind. As for tradition we went to the Tulip Festival for Alice's birthday. It was so fun. The kids loved being outside, I loved the gardens, and Jason, well he loves the food. We had the best pulled pork sandwich there, yum. Also there was clogging going on which the kids loved. Before it started, they just had music playing and lots of little kids danced on the platform. Our kids of course loved that. We keep trying to go back to the gardens, but the weather has been uncooperative. Alice got a trike for her birthday. We just took it outside last week and she loves when I push her around. This being our second trike, we bought the one with the parent handles. Alice helped make her cake, by choosing the frosting color. We put M&Ms on it and that was all she wanted to eat. Then she scraped her finger on it to get the frosting off and we just let her have fun. Soon the whole cake looked like

Okay so Daniel's birthday is in March. I know that it is May, and I wish that I could say we have been so busy, but mostly, I am just too lazy to find a spot for my laptop and put pictures on it and then blog. Oh well. Daniel wanted a space birthday. Jason and I painted his room and wall papered the space items on them. Our wonderful brother in law installed the ceiling fan. Daniel loves his new room. His cousins gathered "moon rocks" (newspaper balls) in his room before the presents were opened. Daniel wanted planet cakes. Thanks to borrowed cake pans I made, Mars, Jupiter and Venus, into cakes. We have discovered that Alice and Daniel love the frosting only. All other parts of the cake are useless to them. Oh well. This is Daniel's new room. I am not sure if we will ever paint again. Although, I am sure that will kind of be like how we say we will never go to Hawaii again.