Easter Egg Hunt

Confessions of a Photoholic

Ok so I know that after you have read this you might think I am a little more dorky than you previously thought but I had to get this off my chest. I love pictures! My children will tell you that at times I can take it a little too far. Maybe if I explain why it will mentally justify the fraud I have perpetrated on my poor, unsuspecting, blog readers. I like to scrap book and try to capture some of the things that we do as a family. As time goes by you realized that you can no longer remember some of the details of an event, or completely forget something. You sometimes forget the exact way one of your children looked when they did .... So by taking pictures and scrap booking it helps me remember the things we did and then in turn brings back fond memories I would have lost due to time. Well, on Saturday morning after I got home from work I told the kids they had better get their shoes on and grab a trash bag because some kind of animal had knocked over the trash and it was all over the yard. They begrudgingly started to head outside. What they didn't know was that I had gone and hid about 140 something Easter eggs all over the yard. After a few seconds of, " I don't see any trash anywhere" they realized they had been duped. They excitedly ran around gathering eggs, looking in holes in the fence, finding some in trees and grapevines. It was so much fun watching them! I had only one slight problem. I had forgotten to charge my battery to my camera. Everyone continued with their Easter egg hunt. I was a little bummed but I thought that maybe I could have my pictures anyway. The following week I took the kids to the park and we had another Easter egg hunt. They were pretty good sports about the whole thing and I think they had fun finding eggs all over again. So there you have it. The above pictures of our fake Easter egg hunt :)

Trying to play catch up

My computer crashed a while ago. Thank goodness I have Carbonite and so I didn't loose everything. It's been a little busy around here and so I am finally getting around to updating the blog.

Spring Break

My sister Karen, my aunt Marilyn and I caravaned up to Washington to visit my brother. My mom and dad flew up from California and so I guess we had a little family reunion. The older cousins stayed up late playing games, the little girls had fun in the little play house in the upstairs room. The boys had fun building things with Lego's and playing with Star wars toys. I think Joy had bought half of Toys R Us for her nieces and nephews to play with. It felt like Christmas. We had a great time just hanging out. Here are some of the pictures of some of the things we did.

Boys will be boys

While visiting my brother Mark in Washington the boys were playing with this squishy ball and it accidentally popped. They found other ways to entertain themselves

Bowling

Traditions

Every Sunday night it is a Delepine tradition to have breakfast for dinner. We have waffles with icecream, whipped cream and sometimes we put berries or baked apples with cinnamin. The kids love it. Every now and then I try to do a normal Sunday dinner and the kids protest. I guess waffles it is. Something everyone eats ( that's hard to accomplish in our family with some picky eaters) and it tastes delicious!

Newest member of the family

I have a friend that volunteers with her daughters at the pound and she told me that they just got a shipment of over 200 dogs from California that they were rescuing. Josh had the day off and I was trying to think of something fun to do with Barbie, Josh and I since the other kids were in school. We decided to go check it out and maybe take a look at the puppies. I've gone to the pound many times with the kids and just let the kids pet the kittens or dogs. We have always told the kids we were just visiting. We stopped at each cage and Barbie was having a blast as they would poke their little noses through the cages and lick her hand. As we were doing this I noticed Josh had stopped at one particular cage and he turned to me with his big hazel eyes batting at me and I knew there was no way I could tell him no.
Roxy is a one year old Boxer. She is so adorable.
She is great with the kids.
She loves going to the park.

Loves playing ball, frisbee and just running around.
She is a lot of fun!

Roxy absolutely adores Josh. She is definitely his dog. On the first night she came home when it was time to hit the sack she jumped up and plopped herself right in the middle of Josh and I. She wanted to be right next to him. Josh had Roxy move over on the other side of him. Some time in the middle of the night I found myself half pushed off my own bed and almost on the floor. Not only does she snore and sleep diagonal across the bed but she is trying to boot me out. LOL

Tooth Fairy