Saturday we went to our Branch Easter eggs hunt and it was cold!! Brett stayed home with a sleeping Cason so Adalie and I drove a few blocks away to go and hunt for some eggs!! 
Despite the wind, mud, and the tornado siren going off (just a test I think but still a little split second scare) it was a lot of fun! I love just getting to hang out with the people in the Branch. It's fun to see people relax and have a little fun.
It was cold at 7 am here, so the Easter bunny just hid the eggs in our little 10x9 living room. Took about 2 mins total to find the 15 eggs he decided to hide. But the kids still had a great time with the surprise of it all!
It was so fun to get to teach Adalie about Easter and the meaning of it all. I am sometimes overwhelmed with the task of trying to teach my kids the sometimes complicated answers to questions. But she got it. Pure and simple. Jesus has risen and He Lives!! What a great truth we know!!
So cute. 
These are the fun memories I always want to remember. 
Just playing with our sweet kids. So, put down the computer. Leave the dirty dishes and the laundry. Vacuum another day....and go play with your kids =)
and cotton ball bunny-making. 
Of course there was an Easter Egg Hunt too!! 
Adalie seemed to remember the drill from last year and Cason looked a little confused with it all. After he would put an egg in his basket, he would just take it out and put it back on the floor.
He did however learn there was candy inside and started hoarding them all when we got home. Anywho, more Easter bloggin to come!!
I am so excited for the sun!! Growing up in Texas and never really getting snow or negative degree weather, winter here in Des Monies definitely gave me the blues. The sun is barely out and I already feel like I am becoming a new person!! I am glad both the kids are a little older so they can enjoy the outside too. It helps that both can run around and get out some of that energy! Spring is turning out beautiful here in IA. When we got here at the beginning of August last year it was just HOT. But when fall came around it was absolutely gorgeous with wonderful temps. I hear Spring here is much like the fall, do that makes me WAY excited.
Good news! Brett got a job on campus! Awesome! He is working at the gym, nothing big 5 to 10 hrs a week and he still will get to study while he works. Seems perfect for now. $200 extra dollars a month sounds like a fortune to us. LoL. Not much else has been going on other than some spring cleaning and fun in the sun! Just perfect really.....
The other day I asked Adalie to take her pants off and put them in the dirty clothes. When I walked down this morning to do some laundry, i found her pants and slippers just like this....seriously had to take a second glance because it looks like a kid got squished underneath the washer. I cracked up for a good twenty mins over this little phenomenon.
Careful, these caged animals can be dangerous....hard hats definitely required and a safe distance must be kept.
and another fierce looking cat. haha=) 
A prefect little two hour excursion on a normally boring ole Tuesday.
Cason was having quite the conversation with this goat. Cason would scream babble, the goat would say naaaaa and Cason would laugh hysterically. Must have been a pretty funny joke.
The river otters put on quite a show for the kiddos......seemed a little starved for attention. Poor things. Probably some of the only kids they have seen in the last few months of winter weather.
My handsome men
A Bugs Life 3D mini movie experience was WAY cool!! The bugs spit at you and even your seats felt like there were bugs underneath them...ewwwww
One of our Tower of Terror Pictures with Brett, me, sister in law monica and her Macady
haha love my face in this one....I think I was saying "We're gunna fly off!!"
