Easter par-tay

We had the Best Easter Party Ever today!  

Cory's cousins have an Easter Party every year at Grandpa Hansen's farm.  Aunt Camille was in charge this year and BOY can she throw a Party.

  It was an Absolute Blast!   

We Barbequed, Roasted hot dogs in the fire pit  then all the kids went to look for Candy and  put it in their bags.   Camille had some Eggs with stars on them and if you found them, your prize was $$.  The kids were crazy and Loving it!

We played games, Lots of them & then Hit the Pinata.  

The prizes for the games were awesome!

Camry/London/Reese/Lucy/Olivia

Tyra/Olivia/Carson/Camry/Hayes

Oh these three are so fun together 

Cooper/Boston/Camden (heather, did i get it right?)

Ivy/Lacey

One of the games  for the Older kids was to pinch a Quarter in your butt Cheeks {yes, i am serious} and walk it into the can and drop it in.  Who's team got it done the fastest with the most quarters wins...

Witney dropping it in the can

Boston {struggling, haha}

The Winning Team!  

 The prize was a toilet with sour candy and lollipops that looked like Plungers to dip in the sugar!  It was Hilarious!!

The Little kids played the cutest game.  They had all these eggs with the names inside and tossed them up and down until their was only one egg left.  Olivia was the first winner.  She was quite thrilled.  After she got her prize she wasn't interested in playing anymore. haha

Olivia enjoying Witney's Toilet treat. hahahaha

This is seriously one of my favorite parties of the Year.  We have so many cousins on the Hansen side so all of the kids have such a Great time.  We love you Grandma and Grandpa!

Thanks Camille, I want to grow up and be just like YOU!

School Program

Boston's 3rd grade class had a program today for all the families about Early American history. It was on the "Boston Harbour" and they all had parts memorized and danced and sang to all of these American songs...

"My country tis of thee" "Yankee Doodle" "This is my country" " I love the Mountains" & my favorite and the cutest one was "What's more American".

It was amazing how they all knew their parts SO good! The girls all made their own hats in class, and their Teacher played the piano while they danced and sang along!

"Yankee Doodle"

{Boston is on the far right of all the boys}

Boston

The "3rd" Grade class

The "3rd" grade boys

{I love how our little buddy KJ snuck in with the big boys}

L to R Jason/Jonah/Calvin/ Giovani/Brogan/KJ/Boston

After all the kids went to class {besides KJ} these guys went behind the curtains to perform their own program.
hee hee

Good Job Boston!

easter eggs...

For FHE we decorated Easter eggs.  

It is alot more fun now that Hayes & Olivia are older.  It's also alot more messier.  This year we tried the beads and sparkle pens.  It is alot harder than it looks.  I love doing these things with my kids, they get so excited.

March book report

Boston's class does the cutest most creative book reports and i just love to see what these kids come up with. 

This month it was a Mystery book and the kids made a Mystery can with lots of clues inside the can that talk about the book.

We have read this book before and this is seriously one of my Favorite books.

"FABLEHAVEN" by Brandon Mull

~This is what happens when you are "9" & you are sick of your mother taking pictures of you. haha...Stinker! {most of my most recent pictures of Boston will be like this, sorry lets hope he grows out of it, hee hee}

Viva Las Vegas...

Cory was going to a convention in Las Vegas for the week.   When I saw that it was Snowing here that whole week and 75-80 degrees in Vegas, we were going with him. :)

My cousin Cindy, John and little JJ  were with us.  Their little family consists of 1 child who is "1 " and so we pretty much dominated.  The twins loved running after JJ and he loved it too!

We decided this time to rent a house with a Pool/Spa/Slide/putting green/in ground tramp/Fire pit etc..  It was seriously like 5 minutes from the strip. We pretty much Played and Played all day while the Dad's were off to the Security Convention.

There was so much for the kids to do, it was very fun. We brought one of Boston's friends Luke to come and play. Good thing we did too, b/c they were in the Pool from 9am until 10 pm! We literally had to pull them out at night. It was so funny to see their hands SO Wrinkled!

BBQ's at night with the Dad's followed by S'mores and just relaxing by the pool all day.

All to ourselves...

As if the slide and other Amenities weren't enough for these boys, they decided to start Jumping from the top of the Slide.    A little bit Scary, but they were loving it.

{Boston}

Night swimming!
I was trying to take a sweet picture of all the lights and this is what it turned out like. Oops...

S'mores

One Night we met my Brother Darren {who was out there for a different convention} at the Canal Shops in the Venetian Hotel. It was so fun to see him, especially since he lives in South Carolina! We took a "Gondola Ride" with the kids and then cruised around the shops.

Oh and of course, Boston wanted to spend his own money on the "Oxygen Bar" I did try to talk him out of it so he could use his money at the toy store, but he really wanted it so bad.  It was hilarious!  The ladies were so sweet and decided to give all the little kids a massage while they were waiting for Boston. haha
{Don't think that they weren't all looking at us like we were crazy parents} That was the best part! ;)

Uncle Darren helping out with the Massages

We could only have 4 to a boat. This guy was so fun, he sang the most beautiful songs to us.

Cindy, John & JJ

On Thursday we were supposed to check out but extended our stay for the rest of the weekend. We found another house with a putting green and Pool and Spa. 

The only bummer was the pool wasn't HEATED.

Dont think that it stopped these kids from getting in!

 

They played plenty of Pool...

Baby J, Olivia & Hayes

Watching Boston and Luke entertain them with there remote Helicopter Skills

One day it was kind of cold so while Cindy stayed home and layed Baby J down for a nap I decided to take the kids by myself to my Favorite Mall of all time "The Fashion Show mall." My kids did awesome, but i got so many looks like "What a Crazy lady!" It was awesome!
Everyone kept asking me if they were all my kids.  After I said yes & they felt stupid, then they would follow up with "Well they are all so beautiful!"

Later that day we met up with Cory, John & Cindy and went to the Forum Shops and "Cheesecake Factory."
And of course we had to have a picture with Elvis!

One of my Favorite things to see in Las Vegas is the Water show at the "Bellagio"

It is seriously so beautiful and my kids love it, even Ivy.

The Garden at the Bellagio