Tattoos- temporary and real

The Easter Bunny brough a create your own tattoo kit for the boys. It had temporary tattoos that you put on, and then markers that you use to color them in.

Donovan got a blue snake on his arm

Alexis chose a unicorn which she decided to be green and blue

Both Uncle Tim and I messed up the tattoos that Jack chose so Tim decided to just draw his own on. Suddenly that turned into a full sleeve for Jack LOL just like Uncle Tim

Corey went last week to DV8, a tattoo shop in concord, and got a real tattoo on his arm

He had Cooper on it for years, but decided to add to it. Our last name, Cooper, means barrel maker, so that is what he got! He still needs to go back to have more detailing of the wood and to get the kids names in the bands of the barrel, but so far it looks great!

Making Easter egg chocolates

Grammy Bunny bought a fun kit to make Easter egg chocolates with the kids. They each got to make there own egg by chosing which color chocolate they wanted and then painting it in the mold. After we filled the eggs in with the rest of the chocolate, and then they got to eat the one they made.

Grammy Bunny with Donovan as Kailey watches

Jessie with Alexis, looking underneath at what her egg looked like

Grammy Bunny with Megan

Grammy Bunny with Jackson

the finished eggs

Easter

The Easter Bunny decided to come early to Grammy Bunny and Papa Bob's house, and came on Saturday. The boys loved finding their baskets and searching for eggs with their cousins.

All 7 kids Easter baskets

Jackson with his new movie

Donovan looking at his basket

showing Bella what the Easter Bunny brought her

Jack looking for eggs

Megan reaching for one

looks like Zoey found a lot

Horton hears a Who

On Friday Grammy Bunny and Papa Bob took us all to the park for a picnic, and then to see Horton hears a Who. Jennie and Tim have taken the girls to the movies before, but this was the first time my kids have gone to see a movie in the theater. All the kids did great, and Bella slept through the whole movie. It was a cute movie and a lot of fun!

Hilary and Colin

Hilary and Colin came over for dinner on Thursday. Jennie, Tim, and the girls as well as my parents came too.

Hilary fed Colin in Bella's exersaucer, he is a lot bigger than she is, and did not quite fit

Colin would tease Jen and I and act like he wanted us to hold him, until we tried and then he would shy away. But when he had his bottle he let Jennie hold him

Hilary, Colin, Zoey, and Jennie

I had to add a picture of the fresh fruit tart I made. It looked so pretty, and was just as delicious

San Francisco

We had alot of fun in San Francisco. We took BART in to the city, then walked to Pier 39 where we had lunch at Bubba Gump's Shrimp Co, rode the merry-go-round, then finished with sundae's at Ghiradelli. YUM!

view from pier 39 of the San Francisco bay

Dave, Corey, Kyle, and Daniel

Kyle in Forrest Gumps shoes with Daniel next to the suitcase

Daniel and Lucy

Bella got her first french fry, which she loved

the kids meal came in cute little boats

Jackson on the merry-go-round (action shot as we are going around)

Donovan

getting off the ride

First BART train ride

We have friends visiting from out of town, so on Monday we decided to go into San Francisco for the day. The boys have never taken a ride on BART (bay area rapid transit) before so they were very excited about taking the train.

Corey and our friends buying tickets

Jessie with Van and Jack on my lap to look out the window

Jack

Jessie and Van

Peek-a-boo Zoey

Zoey is so adorable! We had alot of fun playing peek-a-boo over the chair!

Visiting Grandma Sue

Isabella and I went to Sacramento for the weekend to visit Grandma Sue while all of the family was there. My Mom and Dad, Jennie, Tim and the girls, my cousins David, his girlfriend Lindsay, and cousin Brian and his girlfriend Rachel, and Aunt Linda and Uncle Rocky were all there. We had a really fun time being with all of the family, but we sure missed Stacey, Tim, Corey and the boys!!

Great Grandma Sue and Papa Bob

Brian and David

Rachel and Lindsay

Megan, Zoey, Grammy Bunny, Great Grandma Sue, Aunt Linda, Alexis, Kailey

Rachel has a nintendo where she has 2 ninten"dogs", the girls had fun washing them and playing with them, it was too cute!