While I was in Sunriver scrapbooking with some friends this weekend, Craig and the kiddos went to GP for some fun and fishing with Ama and Papa. Here are some pictures from their trip! When they got in the van to head home, Will sits back, sighs, and said, "Dad, that was fun!" 
My mom and dad came for lunch and gave Wyatt his very own ukelele, as well as a drum full of other musical instruments. He has really taken to the harmonica. He even pats it while he's playing to create a "vibrato" type sound. Too funny.
Wyatt decided he wanted to go to the beach and have clam chowder for his bday dinner. To make along story a little shorter our dinner at Kyllos began with a crabby Anna poking a hole in her styrofoam cup and soaking herself. Between bites of our appetizer and chowder we continued to fight Anna throwing food on the ground and screaming when we then took her plate away from her. (Oh the joys of the "testing" phase). I decided it wasn't worth it so I took the kids to the van, Craig paid and brought our entree's out in to-go boxes. He jokingly commented on how in a few years we can tell Anna how she ruined Wyatt's 4th bday. Actually, it wasn't ruined though. They all behaved quite nicely once strapped in their car seats while Craig and I ate our dinner and passed chicken strips and fries to the back seats. They thought it was the greatest thing. We then hit the toy store at the outlet mall and Wyatt picked out a camping food set (yes, we did have to deter him from the tea set, that was his first choice!) and an electronic beat box drum. The rain had stopped so we went down to the beach for a few minutes. The sun was setting and it was beautiful. 
My attempt at an Easter picture of the kids. I seriously took over 20 pictures and these were the best two. You should have seen the ones I deleted! Gotta love digital cameras with kids.
Friday was the first day this year I lathered my fair skin kiddos with sunscreen before heading outside. Man, after popping open the pink coppertone bottle and rubbing them down, I was immediately brought back to swimming lessons, drippy sticky popsicles, flip flops, picking warm tomatoes and raspberries, feeling the warmth of the sun in my bones, and squinting in it's brightness. All things I love about summer. Amazing how a smell can evoke all sorts of memories. For me, the "looking forward to" part is just about as good as getting there. I love anticipation. I think that is why spring is my most favorite season, (summer being a CLOSE second). Today the showers are back, but in these hit and miss days of spring, I still have all the memories from the smell of sunscreen.
How did you spend your sunshiney day?
Hunter (March 28), Wyatt (April 16), Will (March 21) and Kaylei (March 7) are our spring birthday cousins. We celebrated all together, Sunday with an added Easter Egg hunt!
He was thrilled with his umbrella. He has been wanting once since watching Narnia, about a year ago and idolizing Mr. Tumnus. So far we haven't seen rain, but his umbrella has gone just about everywhere with him. On a side note, Wyatt did not look well on Sunday and Monday after his nap he woke up complaining his ear hurt. It got so bad that I ended up taking him to the doctor about 4:00. He has a double ear infection. The doctor said his eardrums were bright red and bulging. Yikes! He's never had one before. He's been on tylenol and anitibiodics and is feeling much better.
She knew what to do......picked up eggs and put them into her basket. After she figured out they opened it was all about how much candy she could shove in her mouth.