Spring Break - eggs

With Sage out of school for spring break - the kids and I headed down to Florida to visit Grandma and Grandpa for the week. The fun started as soon as we got in on Friday when Grandpa wisked Sage of to a baseball game. Then Sat the boys spent the whole day with Grandpa - fixing the boat, going to home depot, planting flowers, doing yardwork

This morning my mom had a few little Easter presents for the kids. And of course the Easter Bunny came and hid eggs.

Adeline loves the idea of looking for eggs. What almost one year old would not? Something colorful that when you drop it on the ground enough you can actually eat what's inside! Fun stuff.

Notice the dress she is wearing? Well that was my Easter dress when I was 2 years old! I have a picture of me in it that I will scan and post this week - so you can see just how cute I was : )
It was something special though to be able to see my little girl wearing one of my dresses.

The boys also got into the egg hunting action. No Easter dresses for them though.

Racing for the egg

After all the eggs were found we tried out Adelines new bike seat I bought at the consignment shop for $18 - I love a good bargain! She did not seem to mind the helmet at all.

way too cute

In fact she found the ride very relaxing.

so very relaxing...

1912

The other day we headed to Blythe, Georgia for a field trip with our fellow homeschoolers to an old one room school house. They spent the day there learning about life in 1912 and experiencing what a day of school was like back then.

The school teacher ringing the bell -

Reading from a book George Washington wrote about manners.

practicing his penmanship with a feather quill pen.
Love this wooden car
The children each had a cup to dip water into with their lunch
the front of the school
washing hands
The couple who own the school live across the street at this beautiful place.
I think Ryan enjoyed his day there!! He was worried about the spelling bee and did not want to be a part of it - but in the end he stood up there and did a great job!
cracking pecans
the youngest student there.
heading to lunch
To end the day - a group shot of all the kids.

Saturday

Welcome Spring

Spring is most welcome here, and to celebrate the warming of the Earth, we had a little family celebration. Saturday night we dyed 3 dozen eggs!! We used red kool aid and Turmeric powder for yellow. I tried painting a few blue eggs with our watercolor paints. They came out ok. But the reds,yellows and oranges were beautiful!

Ryan wrote the spring fairies a note and then we left our eggs for the fairies to hide and waited till morning to see what goodies they would leave for us to celebrate spring.

Ryan woke us up in the morning with "Spring is coming, spring is coming - the fairies left us presents"...

Adeline caught on quick to finding eggs and putting them in her little basket. Does'nt she look cute in her new spring outfit (daddy fairy picked it out for his little girl)



Aparently I did not get any pics of the boys that morning (boys ?what boys -oops) That's alright we have many,many of them to come.

Oh - a little blurb about the desk. Our neighbor was cleaning out their garage and I happened to walk by and mentioned how cute that desk was. She told me to take it - hurray!!! It is too cute and miss Adeline loves to sit there and draw.

We almost caught a Leprechaun...

First we made a decoy.

I found the directions for this cutie: http://weefolkart.com/content/gnome-leprechauns

Ryan set the trap
This is the second part of the trap. The bed closes on the little fellow keeping him trapped so he will tell uswhere the gold is!
My Festive boys. Ryan made his shirt this morning

The trapped work - sort of. The leprechaun got away, but some gold fell out of his pocket and now it is ours: )
These are paintings the boys did while I told a story about a leprechaun.

I thought they both did a great job.

Sage's Bday to Atlanta and a day around Augusta

Well my sweet first born son has gone and turned 15!!!! How in the world did that happen??

The celebration started mid-february when we went down to Florida to say goodbye to my cousin Pam and her family who are moving to Seatle (so far away).

The weekend of his actually birthday we went to Atlanta! My awesome Cousins wife was able to get 2 tickets to the Hawks game as a surprise to Sage. So Tony and Sage hopped aboard the Marta and headed downtown to the big game!

I think he is having a great time :

The next day my Aunt who volunteers at the Atlanta aquarium got us all in and took us around the the aquarium. She was able to give Sage and Tony a behind the scenes tour of the place. Sage really enjoyed that. As a surprise we had the whole Atlanta crew over to my cousins house to celebrate Sage's big day!

Alas my picture taking has been distracted lately by this sweet little girl - so I do not have to many of our Atlanta trip : (

Yesterday we had a great day out and about in Augusta. After the UU services we headed downtown to the New Moon Cafe for brunch.
Then we headed over to the Morris Museum of art for family day. They had a band playing kids songs and some people dressed up like the paintings who were living art and told us about their paintings.

The museum is on the riverwalk so we hung outside for awhile soaking up the nice day.

Here is the Atlanta crew singing Happy Birthday to Sage.