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

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!

Kids, Kids, Kids

Jennie and Tim are visiting for a week. The girls wanted to hold Bella, and all of a sudden we had all the kids on the couch at one time! Jen and I had to get a picture!

Donovan 3, Alexis 5, Megan 3, Kailey 6, Isabella 7 months, Zoey 1, Jack 4

Kym and Marc visit

On Sunday my cousin Kym and her husband Marc came over for dinner. They were vacationing in Napa and were able to visit for the night. My Mom and Dad came over too, and we all had a wonderful evening eating outside in the beautiful warm weather!

Kym holding Bella and Marc talking to Donovan

Donovan playing with Marc

Grammy Bunny trying a bottle with Bella (she still doesnt want anything to do with it yet)

Corey got to try his new barbeque out

Marc, Kym, Van, Grammy Bunny, Papa Bob, Corey, Jack

Cecil Jo Smith Mitchell

The reason for our trip to Nevada was that Corey's Grandma Jo was very ill in the hospital. She passed away on February 18th at 73 years old. We are greatful that we made it there in time to be able to see her before she went. She will be deeply missed.

We love you Great Grandma Jo!

Great Grandma Jo taken in June 2004

Jackson just wanted to be with Daddy, so he grabbed on to the back of the casket and helped out as a pall bearer

Carol brought 2 dozen roses for everyone to throw on the casket

Corey and his cousins John and Michelle also took time to visit their Great Grandparents grave site

Family

The positive of going to Nevada was that we got to see alot of Corey's family.

Scott, Corey, Katie

Jaden, Bella, Jack, and Van

Alexis, Jackson, and Donovan

Isabella, Grandma Carol, and Corey

Dean and Casey

Great Aunt Linda, Corey, Great Aunt Mary

cousin Elaine and Bella

Aunt Leah and Bella

Uncle Rick, cousin Carrie, and Great Grandpa Howard

Great Aunt Judy and John

Uncle Pat and cousin Justin

Corey, Justin, and Carrie