We love our Cousins!

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZABETH!!! She is 6 today, where has the time gone?!? (for some reason blogger isn't letting me create paragraphs so it's all in one big paragraph. Sorry, I know that makes it harder to read.) Recently our Aunt Amy and Uncle Jim, along with Uncle Ross, came down to visit us. Amy and Jim have Evan and Emma, our cousins. They're about my kids' ages so they have a great time playing together. They are all from the north where winter has been particularly long this year, so I think they were excited to just be outside without coats! One of the things we did while they were here was ride on Thomas the Train! Oops, for some reason this picture didn't get added, so I had to add it last and now it's out of order. Here's Laura and Ryan with Elizabeth, Evan, Ben, and Cooper riding Thomas. Here are all of the kids waiting to go on the train:

Ben, Elizabeth, Jackson, Cooper, Evan, and Emma.

The three older boys loved playing together.

Cutie pie Emma.

Gpa with his grandkids!

The majority of our group waiting to get onto Thomas.

Jackson and I on the train.

A train conductor came around and punched all of our tickets. Jackson was such a big boy and actually handed the ticket to the conductor!

Emma and her Daddy having fun on the train.

Our family in front of Thomas.

Cooper, Ben, Evan, and Elizabeth with Thomas.

They also had pony rides and a few of our kids decided to try it.

Grandpa was nice enough to help Jackson so he could ride it too!

I just had to add this picture because I thought those legs were so darn cute! Here's Jackson in his new puddle jumper. I'm hoping it'll help him in the water so I can take both of the boys swimming by myself. We'll find out soon enough!

We had such a great visit with our out-of-town relatives, and we can't wait until they come visit us again soon!

Fun at Home

I was looking through my recent pictures and realized I never posted pics of Cooper during his soccer class. He loved it! His fierce goalie face! :)

Getting his trophy in the last class. He was SO excited to get his first ever trophy!

See?!

I just thought this picture was hilarious. Jackson is saying "cheese."

I was really windy one day so we tried to fly our kite. (this was my lazy way to fly it, I didn't want to walk down the street to the big open field, so we just ran around the backyard.)

Jackson is still in LOVE with his "ickey's" (A big and baby Mickey). H likes to put them in his cart and push them around. So cute!

The boys have been playing a lot together. Cooper is loving having a playmate!

Bluebonnets!

The bluebonnets are here! We've seen so many on the side of the road, and found a great patch near my parent's house so I decided to try to get some pictures of the boys.

Then we went to another patch that was really big and a perfect place to take pictures. I don't really know why I stopped this first time. We were coming back from the dr, Jackson had an ear infection and pink eye, but I decided it would be a good time to stop. They weren't even in cute outfits! Oh well, live and learn. I didn't get great pictures, surprise surprise.

I think Jackson's thinking "mom, why are you running around like a maniac squealing and laughing and trying to get me to smile like that?"

Then Laura and I took the kids back to that same patch right after church and were much more successful.

The best one of the cousins. My boys didn't do so well with these. Poor Ben was trying not to cry, but he was able to be a trooper and pull out a smile!

This little stinker ran away from me when we were trying to leave. Somehow I just can't stay mad at him! :)

Lots and lots of bluebonnet pictures I know! I just love the bluebonnets, I wish they were around all year long!

Gotcha!

For April Fool's Day I played two little tricks on Cooper. He thought it was SO fun and kept asking me to play more tricks on him. Unfortunately I have a hard time coming up with things, and the only thing I could think of was the saran wrap on the toilet. After potty training a boy, the saran wrap hits too close to home, (I don't ever want to WILLINGLY encourage a mess in the bathroom :) so he didn't get many tricks after this. Just had to post this picture of him posing in his super cape! Cooper put Jackson's on him as well, I just didn't get a picture of it! They were so cute though both running around pretending to fly in them! The first trick was telling him breakfast was an ostridge egg. I thought he would be totally grossed out by this and refuse to eat it, but he wanted to dig right in! (it was a peach half on top of whip cream)

"I'm going for it!"

Yummy!

The second trick was I froze his orange juice the night before so it looks like you can drink it...

but it doesn't work!

Then I told him what I did and he thought that was so cool. We had to put another cup of water and a straw in the freezer so he could do it to me.

I have two cupcake cook books that are SO cute and I very rarely make things out of them. One second is an April Fool's section, so I decided to make these "TV dinner" cupcakes out of it. If you can't tell, they're mashed potatoes, drumsticks, and carrots. The carrots are supossed to also have green runts to look like peas, but I couldn't find them easily so I decided just carrots were enough. Cooper thought they were fun but immediately knew they were cupcakes.

Hope you all had a fun and silly April Fool's Day!