Easter preparations!

Coloring eggs is always fun......a bit of a mess...but a lot of fun!  The funny thing is that the girls don't even like hard boiled eggs (they used to!).  So Martin and I end up eating all of them for 1 weeks straight!  

Happy Easter!  Jesus is Risen!  Jesus Loves Me!  I Love Jesus!

After we colored eggs on Saturday, we headed over to the Wilhites.  Patty and Marissa had invited the girls over to continue the tradition of making the Bunny cake!  Marissa did a great job of helping the girls and they had a ball.  While they made the cake and cupcakes, Patty and I had fun setting the table (for 14) with her good china, silver, and glasses.  What a relaxing and fun day!

TA-DA!  THE FINISHED PRODUCT!  AMAZING!

Spring Break and the Palouse Falls!

During the girls' Spring Break we decided to drive down to the Tri Cities and spend the night at the Richland Courtyard.  It was a good excuse to get out of Spokane for a couple of days and enjoy a little road trip with just the 4 of us.  It was so great!  Our first stop was at the Palouse Falls.  This was our second time here and it just does not disappoint!  The water was running so fast and was so full of force!  The weather was a bit chilly, and a bit windy.....but it was still fun.  We brought Ginger and the girls had fun running with her (on the leash, of course!).  We stayed for about an hour or so, then headed the rest of the way down to Richland, where we checked into the hotel (upgraded to a great suite!).  We had so smuggle Ginger in (shhhhh!).....we just couldn't leave her at home and since she is so small and quiet, we thought it would be fine.  

The water was so awesome!  So powerful!

Here is Sofia holding Ginger.....

We saw Spring in Richland!  It was definitely warmer than Spokane....although, still a bit chilly.  We ate at a fun restaurant called Dave's Burgers and Brew.  It was a great place -- a very busy place -- kinda like a Red Robin.  The portions were so huge, none of us could even finish our dinners!  After dinner we headed back to the hotel and went to bed -- we were exhausted and everyone was tired.  The girls slept on the pull out sofa bed in the other room and fell asleep almost immediately.  I read for a while....started reading The Hunger Games!  

The next morning, Martin took the girls down to the pool to swim for a bit while I got all of our stuff put back together.  We checked out around 11am and headed off to find a taco truck for an early lunch before we headed back to Spokane.  The taco's were amazing!

Happy Birthday to Martin!

A proud daddy with his girls on his 49th birthday!

Japanese Gardens at Manito Park

 

 

 

 

Audriana's new glasses

Audriana has been asking for these Sports Goggles for a while now, and because Spring soccer is just around the corner, we decided to go get her eyes checked and look into them.  Well, I'm glad I took her in because we found out that her prescription had completely changed!  Poor kid wasn't seeing very well with her old glasses anymore.  We ended up getting her 2 sets of glasses -- regular ones for everyday and then her sports goggles.  They take a little bit of getting used to, but I guess they are growing on me. She will just wear them for sports (practices and games).  She loved them.  I am really happy with her new "regular" pair, too.  The pictures don't really do them justices...they look great on her.  We picked them up tonight and she immediately saw a huge difference as soon as she put them on.  

New Sports Goggles!

She just loves them!

Her "regular" pair.....the picture doesn't show the cool orange strips on the sides of the glasses.  Very hip and cool!

My baby.....growing up!

Mom and Jay make a stop in Granada, Nicaragua!



Martin's sister, Mayra, and her son, Martin (named after his Tio Pavo, of course)!

Mom and Jay recently returned from a fabulous 2 week cruise that took them from Long Beach, CA to Orlando, FL!  They had stops in Cabo, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, thru the Panama Canal, Columbia, and Aruba!  During their full day stop in Nicaragua, they were able to meet up with Martin's sister and Nephew in Granada!  Isn't that so cool!?!  Mom and Jay were on a bus tour and the plan was for Mayra and Martincito (little Martin) to meet up with them during their lunch stop at El Dario restaurant in Granada.  Well, I guess the tour was running over an hour late, but they waited for Mom and Jay and were able to sit and chat for a bit of time before they were wisked off for more touring.  I'm so happy that they could meet -- definitely a "once in a life-time" thing for all of them.

That TRICKY Leprechaun does it again!!!

 A sweet and simple trap.......we really thought this year was going to be the year we caught the little bugger!  We really thought that there was no way possible for him to get away!  We lured him into the box with a can of 7-up and a green coin......and the plan was that the box would fall on top of him the minute he tried to get inside -- pretty clever idea that Audriana had to rig it with some Tinker Toys!  Well, we went to bed after we set the trap.....we were just sure we would wake up to a caught Leprechaun.  The girls woke up early (of course, ugh!) and were dissappointed yet again this year....that tricky Leprechaun escaped again!  And this is how we found the box.......

 He somehow got inside the box, took the green coin, and left the girls a box of Lucky Charms!  He then set up the Tinker Toys again and wrote a cute little note to the girls with green frosting.  He also left 4 leaf clovers made out of green frosting in their bathroom sink, on the kitchen counter, on the stove, in the kitchen sink and on top of the peanut butter lid!  

 The girls knew that I was not happy about the Leprechaun leaving us sugar cereal....which made it even more special for them!

 He left these little 4 leaf clovers all over -- what a mess I had to clean up!

When we opened up the fridge, we discovered that he also turned our milk green!  Yuck!  But, he was also nice enough to leave the girls 2 lime yogurts to go with their Lucky Charms breakfast!  

He may be a tricky Leprechaun, but he pretty nice, too!

Sofia and her Bestie -- Addison Lund!