Sassy House of Spalding!

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

Week 14: SPRING BREAK!

We did a little baking!

Daddy brought home some fire gear to repair and then you hoolies dressed up!

We did some reading.

Lilly got into the packing peanuts!

Mommy had an emg done. No nerve damage!

We did a little shopping

Some funny looks just because.

We played UNO Attack every morning!

Then we played almost every afternoon too!

I loved my coffee and uno mornings!

And my goof balls!

You wrote stories.

Lots of books!

We had one heck of a Spring Break!

Some where in there we had Easter, where the bunny gave you an over night stay at Great Wolf Lodge!! So we spent the last 2 days of Spring break water parking it up!! It went a little something like this...

Swimming.

Giant buckets of water being dumped on heads.

Water slide races!

Excited Daddy & Children.

Saturday, April 06, 2013

Eastery Goodness at Home

Easter morning began about 5:30 a.m. Mommy woke up first because I HAD to see if the hippity hop came. I made coffee (in the dark) , took my medicine (quietly) and then waited patiently to see how long before my little Easter bunnies would wake up! It didn't take you long; by 5:50 I had you both bouncing out of the bedroom! Daddy crawled out of bed and very groggy (he had a fire call in the middle of the night) he video taped you looking through your baskets that the Edgar E. Bunny filled!You ransacked the baskets and found those eggies in no time flat! It's so much fun to watch your faces as you look through your things and finding those eggs! There were 94 eggs in all! That's A LOT of eggs for 2 lil hoolies to find!

After finding the bazillion eggs... opening them up and enjoying some Eastery fantastic candy. As per Holiday tradition; you ate all the candy you wanted, ALL day! OH MY MY. Shortly after chocolate kisses, sleep smiles and bellies full of cinnamon rolls we started getting dressed into our Easter best! You both looked SO sweet in your sparkly butterfly dresses. I love any reason to get you dressed up and do your hair!

We went to church at St. Francis for Easter celebration of Jesus has Risen at 8 a.m. It was a beautiful mass, the church was FULL! You both were VERY well behaved and I am so impressed with your knowledge of and thoughts about the Priest's Homily. Kailee caught that the Priest addressed that even the Priests are sinners. That sparked some wild conversation...that can be summed up with; we are all human and while Priests are supposed to act on the behalf of God; they are not God and the are human. Humans make mistakes. One day we can discuss that further but for now; I think that's enough for your little beings to think about.

After celebrating the Rising of Christ we made our way over to see Gramma Deb, Grampa Lou, Abby, Jordy, Auntie Angela, & Uncle Josh!! We even ended up seeing Uncle Lou and Mona on Wii U chat too! We ate a delicious Easter lunch! You found all the eggs the bunny hid at Gramma & Grampas AND you opened your Easter baskets they so nicely made especially for the each of you. (Pictures to come in a different Easter post)

After lots of visiting we finished out our day at Grandma Sandee & Grandpa Bob's! Aunt Stacey, Aunt Gina, Soon-to-be Uncle Ben and Makenna were there. (Auntie Faith was vacationing with her friend in a different state.) We went and had a bit of dinner, then you had some Bunny Cake that Auntie Stacey made! You played with the bunny ball poppers that were in your baskets and then you were ready to come home and get your cozies on.
(Pictures to come in a different Easter post)

Tuesday, April 02, 2013

April is Autism Awareness Month

Week 13: Eastery Good Fun!

March 27: We received an envelope from Lainey Bowers today! Inside was Flat Stanley! We have been having all kinds of fun with that little paper guy. Poor Gg has been home with a fever since Monday. The fever broke in the night last night and she's back to her perky, peppy, I wanna go to school self!

March 28: It's finally movie day at school! You were able to go watch the movie, "The Croods" and you both found it entertaining, hilarious and you cannot wait until it comes out on video so we can watch it as a family. You both had a nice relaxed day in the afternoon at school; no rushed timed tests, no pop spelling quizzes, just a day filled with fun!

March 29: Happy Good Friday! We got up "earlyish" and went grocery shopping today! 8:30-10 a.m. we were in Meijer. You cannot believe how many people were there getting the shopping out of the way today too. After that we spent the afternoon putting away groceries. Yes it took us all afternoon to do this. Then we made crosses for the grandparents.

March 30: It's Holy Saturday! We got up early again because daddy had to go to work at the Fire School so we ran to Walmart to find some Eastery gifts for family. Then we went over to Grandma Sandee & Grandpa Bob's this morning to visit with them and Auntie Stacey who was home babysitting Makenna for Auntie Gina & (your soon to be) Uncle Ben. We better get use to saying it because he will officially be your "Uncle" now that he asked Auntie Gina to be his wife. Then we went over to Gramma Deb & Grampa Lou's to help Gramma make salads for tomorrow. It was really sweet because Gg snuggled Grampa the whole time. You're still babies at heart and I love that. We were pretty tired because of being up early again. After that we went over to the fire hall and we watched the students work with the fire hoses (daddy operated the pump) and then we watched them light the propane Christmas tree. It was cool to watch them push the fire back with the water. After this we came home and relaxed a bit. Then we went to dinner at Vivio's in Indian River to celebrate the engagement of Auntie Gina & Uncle Ben.

March 31: Happy Easter!! Guess who hopped on down the Bunny Trail? Yep, Edgar E. Bunny made his way to our home last night! He hid eggs, he filled baskets and he even at your carrots and left a a note.

April 1st:

April Fools!!

Yep, it's a snow storm. Lucky us.


Then we seen the Lobsters!