Our Easter Celebration!

So I might be a bit late but here are our Easter pic's. We of course colored eggs all together, a tradition. The kids love to do it and we love to watch them.
I think Katie is the most fun to watch, if we gave her 5 dozen eggs she would still want more at the end.

Jon got an egg and Nixon of course tried to put it in his mouth. He didn't think it tasted very good!

The many eggs....

Nixon's egg.

We all write our name on one egg and color it. It is a Spear Family thing I guess. So here is Nixon's egg!

Jon of course has to be serious about his egg and get it just right! Just like pumpkin carving I think.

Then there is my egg that I just throw together because Nixon wants to play with the cups with "water" in them.

Katie color the last of the eggs and putting shimmer on them.

Yeah Jon's egg!

And of course we had an Easter egg hunt. HOWEVER.... Jon, Cameron and Karen put together a Geo-cashing Easter Egg Hunt for us, where we had earth coordinates and clues to where to find the eggs around Spokane Valley. It was VERY clever and I think it was a success. Karen is on this big kick right now of finding Geo-cashing treasure, it's kinda funny.


It all started in the driveway and these were our clues:
#1. This is going to be fun - Find a yellow Easter egg out front near the sun!

The egg was in the front yard by my yellow sun stepping stone. Inside the egg it gave longitude and latitude coordinates to the next clue.
Garret was pretty excited as you can tell!

Which took us to the park by the Temple. And here was our clue #2. Some tables have metal this one is ALL wood - Find the egg around the wood if you could.

There are a bunch of tables under the pavillian but a few in the woods and we found the one that didn't have metal legs.....

And there in the trees was our yellow egg.

Very excited spectators

In the car we go to the next coordinates.

Which took us to Chester Elementary. #3. Can you spell Easter? That is the gig - to find the egg you might have to dig.

Here we were and Tanner and Katie dug for the egg. Garret was happy to play on the slide...that might have been wet from the rain that day..oops!

Digging, digging

They found it! And we put the coordinates in the GPS.

It took us up to Ponderosa.
Clue #4. Follow the trail an "X" you will see use your good eyes to find the dead tree.... Ho Ho Ho.

The "X" on the trail.

That looks like a dead tree alright, a dead "Christmas" tree. Clever!!

Katie found the egg in the tree.

This egg took us up to the new houses up in the back of Ponderosa. Clue #5. In this quest we are not seeking a pine, look for the BIG rock with a RED line.

Found the BIG rocks.

There's the line!

And the egg!!

Which took us to Grammy's house. Where clue #6 said: The eggs are calling, they can't hardly wait you will find them out beyond the back gate. (Where the dogs wouldn't find them..)

Here is Tanner and Katie with their "loot", yeah don't get too excited about it now....

We had a lot of fun on our Geo-cashing Easter Egg Hunt... Thanks Grammy, Cam and Jon! Too bad Nixon slept through the WHOLE thing. Hee Hee

Easter Morning Nixon awoke to a basket from the Easter Bunny, man he is a tricky one to find us here after all of our moving around:)

My Dad and Linda gave him a singing "Duck Bunny" that Nixon thought was pretty funny.

A new outfit from Nana B Nana!

But of course our boy LOVED the card and paper the best, I had to dig it out of his mouth after he sucked on it for a minute.

Easter Sunday pictures.... of course.

What a handsome family!!

The End,
Hope everyone had a Happy Easter!!

Another Update.....

Well Nixon is turning 8 Months old tomorrow, so I know this is early but we took pictures of him in the backyard this week and I wanted to post how totally cute he is.


He is really enjoying being outside and loves to watch the dogs play and run around.

He is getting so big these days and moving around pretty good still. He always wants someone to be watching him though and doesn't like it when he is left where he can't see you.

He weighs about 20 pounds now and is fitting into 12 - 18 month clothes.

I love this picture... isn't he the cutest kid ever. Well I guess I am biased as his mom but still.....

Lovin' this shirt too, it has some textured flowers running down the front sides.

Lovin' his daddy.

Jon shaved is beard and cut his hair this week, he looks so different it's crazy. But still cute of course. I think Nixon looks just like his daddy.... he is built like him too, those broad shoulders.

Feeling all the weird outside life.

I cut my hair this week too. I was just getting so sick of it. This is much easier.

My hair use to look like this.

Nixon likes to roll off the blanket and then pull it over himself. I get under there with him and he thinks it's so funny.

He laughs at me when we play 'peek a boo' under the blanket.

Still loving the laundry basket.

I made Jon a new hat... I think it turned out pretty cute.

Snow Day in April

It snowed here in Spokane last night.
Nixon hasn't had a lot of snow experience yet so we took him out in the sled to see how he liked it.

He was sure snuggled up and warm and looked super cute!

He wasn't so sure about the whole idea but he didn't cry.

Weee..... snow fun!

We watched Grammy, Pompa and Daddy shovel the driveway.

I put a little snow in Nixon's mouth for a taste... I don't think he liked it very much. Too cold.

A couple of days ago before this storm, it hailed a bunch. It wasn't just small things either, this is one of the bigger hail pieces we saw falling fast.

I know I am crazy but I LOVE bad weather. Man I missed Spokane! I think it is saying "Welcome back Michelle"

Birthday boy and Nixon

Happy Birthday Jon... he turned 28 on Sunday.
He was spoiled all day. I let him sleep in and then made him crepes with fresh strawberries. Then he got Bobili Pizza for dinner with the family and homemade cheese cake. What else could he ask for?

Oh yeah presents ....
Here he is being weird and funny waiting for dinner.

Nana got him an awesome Baseball book, with lots of fun pictures and cool facts about the history of baseball.

He had already seen these shirts but I wrapped them anyway... really he already had one of them on.

A new swimsuit. Last summer he got his stolen at the lake. Don't worry he wasn't wearing it at the time.

Cam got him "Socks and Bonds"
He got money too for a new bat from Gramma and Pompa.

I knitted Jon a hat to match Nixon's. I need to remake it because it didn't work out quite like I planned.

NIXON UPDATE!!

Nixon has been growing up. He loves my cell phone and will army crawl over to get it. Although it is so cute, I must say my cell phone is taking a beating.

On Jon's birthday Katie played with dress ups and Garett wanted to join in, so he put on Jon's new swimsuit. It was so funny!
Aren't they cute?

Nixon is getting so good at sitting up by himself. He loves it and has only fallen a hand full of times that he cried about.

In the mornings and after naps he comes out of his bedroom and the first thing he sees is the piano. He leans as far as he can to get us to put him down on the bench so he can play.
This is his morning look at the piano. He loves pounding and making noise.

Nixon also LOVES baby einstein and watching the animals. He gets so interesting in the show I think it's cute. Sometimes this is all I can do to keep to him happy.

A video of our Army Crawler

Nixon has no fear, he wants what he wants and he doesn't care how he gets it.