Royal Wedding fun

With our upcoming trip to London, the Royal Wedding has been a big event in our house! I've been pointing out landmarks to them and even pulled out savory tea cookies for us all to enjoy this morning :) We are taking a side trip over to Paris for 2 days so I've also been teaching them what little French I know. We feasted on chocolate croissants on fine plates and I poured some milk in little egg holders that I had (we lack for tea sets here with all boys). I forced the boys to watch the wedding with me and there was lots of wiggling and squirming going on. But hopefully they will remember this event and think back to how we did special things :)

On a side note, Theo will be the ring bearer for cousin Patrick's wedding in January and I made a special point to show him Kate's ring bearers. Now he thinks he will be the ring bearer when we go to London for the Royal family. Oh dear! :)

Easter... finally!

We're back home from our Easter/Spring Break travels. We had a fantastic time in Houston. I got to see all of our family (both sides) and the boys got spoiled by tons of cards, money and toys. They don't lack for love! We are so blessed.

Mimi had tons of fun stuff for the boys to do like cupcake decorating and egg dyeing. We decided the egg dyeing was best left to girls. The boys were minimally interested and would have made huge messes if left to their own devices ;)

We went to lunch with Aunt Sonja, Uncle Bill and Mama and Aunt Sonja got to celebrate her 21st birthday ;) He he. She let the kids polish off her dessert. Which they did in no time flat.

We went to church with Mimi and Papa on Easter Sunday and met up with all of Papa's family. We all had Easter brunch together and it was great. Theo was curiously on a food strike for most of our visit but has made up for it since coming home. Three year olds?!?

We capped off our travels with pit-stopping at Gigi and Dada's house for a couple of days since the boys were off school all week. It was lots of fun and Gigi and I even took them to Chuck E Cheese to play one day.

Thank you to all of the family who traveled to see us and for all of the sweet cards and presents that everyone gave the boys :)

Backyard fun

The weather was just gorgeous this past weekend so we invited some friends over for crawfish! We set up the bounce house and let the kids burn off their energy. Here Jack and Theo are stopping to pose for a pic!

Theo's Easter party

Jack and Theo both had their Easter parties today at school. I wasn't able to attend Jack's (only 3 parents are allowed per party and that sign up was done in August) but he said he had a great time :) They played tug-of-war and did some hula hooping after their egg hunt.

Theo's class hunted eggs in the playground and then came inside to eat a salty and sweet snack. Theo passed out little treats to his friends and wised them all a happy Easter break. Both boys are out of school all this coming week!

Church celebration

Our church held an Easter Extravaganza after church today for all of the kids. There were tons of fun activities like a train to ride, ring toss, inflatables, cookie decorating and an egg hunt. They went all out! There was even a non-scary looking Easter bunny (which is rare in my opinion). We all had a great time!

Family Fun Day

Jack's school hosted a Fun Day (like a festival) and his class performed to "I Like to Move It" from Madagascar. The kids were impossibly cute out on the grass, dancing around. They even busted out The Robot!!

There were big inflatables for the kids to bounce on, typical fair-type games and then some novel ones (taking a sledge hammer to a car!). We had to rush on to a birthday party and couldn't stay for all of the fun. There is always next year though :)

Baseball kick-off

We've switched gears from being a soccer family to being a baseball one (until June). Jack's team is the Paw Sox and we learned that there are about 3-4 other boys from Jack's school on his team! His school is known for strong academics and BASEBALL :) The principal used to play pro ball for the Red Sox and has two sons that are pro ball players as well.

Jack had a great time fielding balls with his coach and was the last to bat today. He had to be prompted to run after hitting the ball. Made me laugh ;) Theo was really in to the game, as you can tell...... ha ha.

Backyard fun

The boys and I had fun after school with Juliet and Scott. Theo and Juliet are two peas in a pod. So cute :)