Zoo Land

Taylor's second grade class had a "zooland" end of the year project.  Each child had to pick an animal, learn all about it, make a diorama, and memorize a speech about it.  Then at Open House, the kids presented the grand opening of Zooland to the parents.  Taylor picked the giant panda and got to be a narrator along with her regular part.  She was very proud and did a fabulous job. 

 Taylor's Giant Panda habitat

 Narrating

Dakota took a picture of Tay's pandas.  She's quite the photographer.

The audience



So long second grade!!!  Third grade here we come!  Crazy!

Happy Easter 2011

The kids and I had a very happy Easter this year (poor Daddy had to stay home and work!).  We went down to Gene and Millie's on Saturday and played with cousins.  On Sunday we got up bright and early to see what the bunny had left and he didn't disappoint!

Taylor loves to read!  She is so smart and is at a 5th grade level already.  Go Tay Tay!!!

Cooper always appreciates any "boy" or "man" stuff that he receives!

Can you feel the excitement?!

Unfortunately, Cooper takes after his mama and is a raging gum-aholic.  As soon as he cracked open an egg filled with bubble gum, he was in hog heaven!

Thumbs up for gum!!!

Aren't the girls getting big... :(

 After stuffing ourselves with candy, we got ready for church.  Here Cooper is strutting his stuff!

Hams.

After church we had a candy feast.  The kids were so excited because I let them enjoy as much as they pleased...this was a new experience for them so they took full advantage of the opportunity!

Cooper looks as if he is slipping into the beginning of a sugar-coma.

Candy crazy!!!

Such a cutie.

After our indulgences, we headed up to Rob and Jan's for the annual Jorgenson Easter Eggstravaganza!  We always love seeing everyone and the kids have such a blast with their cousins.  Their favorite part is the egg hunt and they all cleaned up quite nicely.  In fact, we have so much candy that I had to send some of it to work with Richard today and there is still tons left over!  Yikes!  Definitely not a good situation for my fitness goals!

It was fun to have Cooper 'get' the whole egg hunting concept this year.  He especially loved when any grown up guy (uncles or a particular soon to be cousin-in-law) would lift him up so he could retrieve an egg from a tree.

Shane was a total creeper in this one, Taylor had no clue that he was there.  Funny.

Egg hunting is serious business.  Notice Dakota's new outfit, she picked it out herself and was very proud of her selection.  She liked how the flamingos on her shirt were "married".

Some of the haul!  

We headed home on Monday morning and Taylor started back to school on Tuesday.  We are now back into the swing of things and life is going good.  I have been such a slacker of a blogger lately and will try to do better.



I knew it was too quiet...

 I suddenly realized that I had not heard a peep out of Cooper for a good 10 minutes.  I searched high and low for my boy.  I called for him all through the house and in the backyard.  No response.  I started to worry that maybe he had snuck out the front door and then I saw that his bedroom door was closed.  I slowly opened the door and this is what I saw!!!!!:

(p.s. He is not this skinny, he was sucking in his tummy so he could pull off his pants :).)

As shocking and naughty as this was, I have to admit that I had a really hard time not laughing.  He was so proud of his artwork.  I had to keep sticking my head out the door so he wouldn't see me crack a smile as I was chastising him.  I think I might be able to save the doors with a magic eraser, but the walls are a lost cause.  Oh Cooper!