Easter 2011

It's Easter time again and this year was fun since Jorden is old enough to hunt and color eggs. We colored eggs with a kit I got that lets you make them into dinosaurs so that was neat.

Jorden checking out the egg in the dye

Daddy helping out and doing his annual thing of writing the word poop on an egg

Poor Jorden didn't understand why we wouldn't let him eat those yummy eggs. He was crying and repeating egg, egg, egg so we finally let him have one before we were done......
then he was happy!

Jensen with the finished herd of dino-eggs

The Easter Bunny came and left some goodies!

Jensen came into our room while we are still asleep and said excitedly "guess WHAT! The Easter Bunny brought me my own BOOK HOLDERS!!" Really, they were sidewalk chalk in the shape of a bunny and egg and they had a flat bottom so they kind of looked like book ends. We thought that was hysterical he was so excited about bookends! :)

Jensen hunted eggs at school and Jorden got to hunt eggs at the park with MOMS Club. It was super windy that day so we couldn't do a lot of the games we planned but they kids had fun

I found one!

Here, you can have this mommy. I want the candy

We also celebrated with Jeff's mom's family since his aunt was in town from Arizona. It was a beautiful day at the barn on the Neidel property where 3 of the familes live close together. There were 13 kids 8 years and under and they had a blast roaming all over the land finding tons of eggs. My two were the only boys of the bunch so that is funny. We had a nice potluck and enjoyed visiting with everyone.

Jensen's basket was crazy full! I think I have a cavity from eating too much of it

kids checking out their loot

April Random

We eat sometimes at a little truckstop near our house and last time we were there they were so sweet to us and gave the boys free long sleeve t-shirts. It took me about 15 tries before I got a picture of Jorden sitting still

Jorden is no where near close to potty training but we have the little potty in there to get him used to the idea. He can tell you when he has pooped and will go in and sit on the potty afterward (only with his clothes on) which is fine for practice. I couldn't resist taking this pic of him copying brother. They are gonna hate me for this one someday LOL

Jensen's handsome Pre-K school picture
Jorden likes to put on brother's "pack pack" and pretend to go to school

They started building a house in the lot right next to us so it has been little boy heaven with all the machinery and digging. I'm not too happy about it because of the noise and strange people literally 1ft from our windows starting at 7am. I liked the space too but it was inevitable.

Dental Depot dentist office has a fun train engine. Jorden says choo choo

Jorden with his hair spiked, looking big

walking with daddy at Jensen's track practice

Here are a couple of videos of Jorden. 18 months is so much fun and he amazes us everyday with his understanding and putting words together. One is of Jorden pretending to race at Jensen's practice, he keeps saying GO! The other is his favorite thing to do after bath....streaking

Run Jensen Run!

Jensen likes basketball and he really loves the running part so we signed him up for track through the YMCA. He has had 2 meets so far and he seems to enjoy it even though he comes in almost last. He did very well at the softball throw and placed 4th out of 27 kids. We should have known he'd be good at that since he has been chunking everything since he was 9 months old! He's taller than the other kids and we know he can be faster but he gets so caught up in the fun of running he falls behind. He has a good coach though and is improving after two practices. They do some really fun running games during practice and he loves it

Running 3rd from the left in white Baby brother watching them run

At his meet last weekend, Jensen had Grandma and Grandpa, Mimi and our old neighbors there to watch. Mimi took some great pictures of him doing the long jump

He has one more track meet then he starts basketball in the summer again.

Lady Gaga

My friend Crystal and I got tickets to go see Lady Gaga in concert in Tulsa on April 4, 2011. We really like her music even though she is very strange. We drove up there and ate dinner at Outback which was interesting because we are both on strict diets. We did OK though and it was yummy. We got to the arena early and couldn't believe all the people in elaborate costumes. We had fun going around taking pictures of freaky people. I love seeing costumes on Halloween so this was almost as good! The concert was great too and she puts on a good show with a positive message Waiting to go insideMe and Crystal "Pete" waiting for an hour for Lady Gaga to come on after the lame opening act One of the craziest costumes!

We drove on this street and surprisingly there was no traffic on it!

These little girls were really cute and I loved the creativity.We were surprised by the number of young kids there, even some parents with toddlers.....um not appropriate!

There were so many large girls with big tutus on we wondered if Hobby Lobby was completely out of tulle :)

Her preggo belly says Little Monster since Lady Gaga calls all her fans Little Monsters

March Random

I just love Jorden in these overalls

Jensen was learning his address and had to make a model of his house out of recycled items. I had a hard time with it because I wanted to make it spectacular and realistic but have limited skills and it had to look like a 5yr old did it. It turned out pretty cute though. Jensen helped me glue and tape it all together and my mom came up with the idea of how to do the porch Does it look like our house? Jensen wanted to use differnt colors so that was creative.

Kim and Ellie Jade

My friend Kim lives in Arizona and she and her baby girl Ellie came to visit for a week. We enjoyed going to the park to play and having girl time after the kids went to bed Jorden being big on the slide

Kim and KristiOur niece Miss Julia Kate is walking now. Such a cute red head Jensen on the giant jumping pillow at the Orr Family Farm

Spring Break was a whirlwind of activities. Mon- Chuck E. Cheese, Tues- Jump Zone, Wed-skating, Thurs- Orr Farm and Fri-Zoo. I was really worn out after all that but we enjoyed Jensen's week off from schoolSpeeding on the pedal car

We brought this toy in from the garage and Jorden is enjoying it. Jensen loved it when he was little then we had it in storage for 2yrs. When we got it out, he kept asking over and over where the BIG blue car was and was upset and confused when we told him this was it. He didn't understand that he had grown! Daisies Jenna and Jillian

Jenna and Jillian joined the Girl Scouts and started out as Daisies. They didn't have a leader so Jamie had to volunteer and they are having fun with it.

The Elephants are Back in Town

We love the OKC Zoo and it's one of the best in the nation. Our two female elephants Asha and Chandra have been away in Tulsa for two years on a date with "Snuffy" the male elephant while their new home was being built here. They finally came home and their new home was just completed. One of them is due to have a baby in May so everyone is very excited. They had a special grand opening for vip members and we got to go see it before everyone else. It was really cold so it was kind of miserable but they fed us and had the elephants do some tricks for us. The new habitat for them is really impressive and we hope to go back and see more of it when its warmer A flock of birds were flying around in the trees and Jensen got pooped on ha ha! Me being the great mom that I am didn't clean him off first but took at picture instead.

This is the new elephant mascot named Penny. Everyone voted on that name because the original elephant at the zoo was purchased with pennies donated by school children in the 30's.

one of the elephants on top of a pile of logs

This the pregnant one balancing on one foot on a ball. She is 20 months pregnant and if I were that pregnant I'd tell them no way are you getting me to balance on a ball!!