Easter Sunday

Every year we head out to Dave's mom's house for Easter Sunday. The boys hunt for their eggs there and we have dinner with the whole family. This year was no exception. We inform the boys that Mommy left the Easter bunny a note to please hide our eggs at Grandma Fletcher's house because that is where we will be. During church and after they kept asking when are we going over there so they can find their eggs. So impatient! I wonder where they get that from? hehe. When we got there, Grandma Fletcher informed everyone that the backyard was for the little kids and the front yard for the bid kids. (As in Dino & Andrew, both 18 and Adam, 14!) The little kids got to go first. Grandma told them that there was a "Golden Egg" that contained $2.00 in it! That's a fortune when your 2, 3 & 5!

Parker showing off his first find. Nope not golden...rats!

David, inspecting his egg. you can never be too careful these days.

Kathryn & Parker making their mommies proud and sharing.

David found the Golden Egg!! He's rich!!

Parker was not happy he didn't find it! What a sad, yet cute, face!

Inspecting the golden egg. Safety first.

David, being the kind, warm hearted big brother that he is, re-hid the egg so Parker could find it. How sweet.

Me and Talia. Isn't she cute?!

It's been a bit since I blogged and the post ideas in my head are starting to pile up. So I thought I'd just do a quick one this morning before heading to the gym. The boys and I made these cute paper mache eggs the week before Easter. Aren't they cute!? David's is the one with more purple and 'Baby Doggy' inside. Dave helped him with his, I was Parkers mentor. When we first started I had the boys doing it solo, but after having his hands covered in glue for about 1 minutes, David decided he didn't want to do it. So Dave spread the glue directly on the balloon and David put the tissue parper over it. Parker, on the other hand, was covered in glue and lovin' every minute of it. Oh, and the idea came from the Family Fun magazine...of course.

Parker going to town in the glue bowl.

David giving it a try. And actually excited!

Not so sure anymore...I may have created a monster. This kid hates having his hands dirty.

Hanging over night to dry.

December Re-cap

I'm such a slacker! I missed blogging the whole month of December! I started blogging as an "easier" way of keeping a journal, but looks like I'm not so good at this either! Well, here's a re-cap of the happenings of the Fletcher Family in December.

Early in the month we made Reindeer cookies from a article I found in the Family Fun magazine. If you haven't seen that magazine, you are missing a lot. It's loaded with awesome crafts and ideas of how to keep your kids entertained. Anyway, we set up the kids assembly line style, and dished these up rather quick. They had a blast making them. We all had a blast eating them! (Calories don't count in the month of December...it's a free-be month)

The Finished product...Yummy!

December was also David's pre-school Christmas presentation month. We went to a local church and watched David & his pals sing some songs and recite a poem, "Oh, mousey" (Which by the way both him & Parker still do at least once a week.) The got to dress up as shepherds and at the end of it all, they visited with Santa!
Waiting for his part.

David & his buddy Danny.

Here are some pics of the family decorating the Christmas tree.
Dave is organizing all the ornaments so the boys can pick one and put it on.

What's gonna work? Teamwork!

David showing off the finished product.

Dave's work had a skating night for all employee's. So, of course, we rolled out! It was a blast! At first David wasn't into it, but once he got started, he loved it. Parker, as always, was all excited and couldn't wait to get going. He got good quick and soon was skating on his own!
Aunt Jen & Cindy teaching Parker how it's done.

Oops! David fell, but he got right back up and kept going!

He got really into it after a while.

Parker has the old man skating technique down. Hands behind his back.

Parker helping Dad not fall.

Christmas eve we went to Grandma Fletcher's house. Aunt Kim and her family were there as were Aunt Jen & Uncle Jared. Abuelita Vidal came with us too, she stayed with us for the holiday. The boys got to open their PJ's from Grandma Fletcher with their cousins and we played a gift exchange game. We had a lot of fun! The Next morning we go up later then we expected. The boys didn't wake up at their usual time. They slept in 'till about 7:30! Dave had to go and wake them. I guess this year we were more excited about Christmas then them.

The boys (with Abuelita in the background) opening up their presents from Aunt Maria.

Dino guessing what it could be.

Daddy getting some help from Parker. See the piece of my head? Its the only picture we have of me from that morning! lol!


Cute pic of Dave & David at Grandma Fletcher's house. Although, David looks a bit scared.


So that was a not-so-quick recap of December. But it's not all. Something HUGE happened in December. Something the Antelope Valley sees only once every 15 years or so. It SNOWED! Not only snowed, but really SNOWED, and STUCK! But that is such a huge event I think it deserves it's own blog entry. Seriously, it was awesome!

Pumpkin Carvin'

Here are some pics of our creations. I didn't get an of the actual carving this year, we were pressed for time!

Here is Cindy's creation.

The spider was Dino's, the Ghosts Dave & the boys did, and the one on the floor the boys did with Cindy's help. (It was a freehand one)

Treat Time!

The boys & I decided to have a treat making night. Abuelita was able to come over and help us out. The boys LOVE having Abuelita over. David was so excited when he found out she would be living in Lancaster, closer to us, now.

David's favorite part (besides eating the treats) is adding the ingredients.



Parker's Favorite part is licking the cooking utensils. Surprised? Didn't think so.

My mom & me scraping off the middle of sandwich cookies.

The finished products. Graveyard cake...spooky!! And Witch cupcakes.

Ward Parties!

This year we had the opportunity to join the Stockdale clan to the Rancho Vista Ward's halloween party, along with our own ward's. The kids had a blast! David was batman (costume borrowed from Cullen), Parker was a Dinosaur ($2.99 @ Goodwill, cuteness...priceless), Cullen was a Jedi, Sophia was a butterfly princess and cute baby Lily was Little Mermaid (costume from Build a Bear...yeah, she's tiny!)

Sophia & Parker are the best of freinds. They walked around in the "show-your-costume-off" parade holding hands. SO CUTE!

The kids also participated in a cake walk. David & Parker both won plates of cupcakes...YUMMY! It took Dino quite a while to finally win a prize, but he never gave up! He got a plate of cookies.

At our ward (Lancaster Ward) party, the kids got to play games at every room and get candy...of course! There was also a Haunted House, which David refused to go in and even was to afraid to let Mommy & Daddy go! So Daddy stayed behind with him. Poor Parker burned his fingers on a lamp that was on a chair at the enterance of the Haunted house. So he stayed out too.

Over all we had a great night, BOTH nights!

One day while Parker was napping (hurray he still does that!), David & I did a craft we found in the handy-dandy Family Fun magizine. I did buy enough supplies to make one with parker, but we never got around to it (oopps!). When parker woke up from his nap he kept telling David, "Good job, David. Good Job!" You may not be able to tell in the picture, but those holes in the construction paper are bat eyes! Spooooooky!!!

I've been really slacking when it comes to posting blogs, so this one is from Oct. 13th. Dave has Monday's off so we decided it would be a great day to take the boys to get their pumpkins. Every year we go to Lambardi Ranch off of Bouquet Canyon road. The boys LOVE it there. They have a petting zoo area, a train to ride, a huge pyramid of hay & a corn maze. Plus, they get to pick their own pumpkins! We got one for Grandma Fletcher & Dino too. (He had school that day & couldn't go with us.)

Kings of the Mountain! div>

Assisting in the breakout.

silly faces

Dave, preventing aliens from reading his brain.

The boys thought the train was going to be loud. Tried to tell them is wasn't, but they couldn't hear me...

Had to get one picture of myself as proof I was there!