Happy Easter!

We used food coloring mixed with rice in a container that we shook the eggs in to dye them this year! The black looking ones were supposed to be purple, but they didn't work out!

Hunting for eggs! We had cascarones to find and use!

The whole family with confetti in our hair!

Since we used food coloring in rice to dye our eggs, we thought it would be fun to make colored rice for dinner tonight using it!  We used two colors, yellow and blue, along with mostly white rice and this was the result!

Cutie Colin!!!

He learned to swing on his own...I am not sure exactly when...These pictures are from March 4.

Getting ready on a Sunday morning! He doesn't look bad, right....? 

Hahahahaha!

He said he made a flower!

Daddy didn't feel good one afternoon and came home early from work.  I went to pick up Gavin and this is what I found when I came home!!!

A dragon hat for Chinese New Year! This picture is from March 5. 

My big helper!!! March 7.

He is not quite as tall as our flowering avocado tree...March 10. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  March 17

He made this on Hundred Day on February 13.  Had to take a picture of the silly hat! (March 17)

The boys love the game Plants vs. Zombies.  A friend found fruit snacks and bought us some.  Here he set them up like you would in the game and wanted me to take a picture! March 17. 

I found him like this one morning when I came down for my early run! Sad that he wasn't sleeping well in his bed, but he looks SO cute! March 20.

Colin wanted to take a picture of this Cars pretzel.  March 25.

He was looking through his valentines and gave me this cute one! March 26. 

I had a lunch date with Colin on grandparent's day.  Yum! March 26.

Colin with his teacher, reading what he wrote for his grandparents up north.  

Eating lunch together!

The picture Colin took of me.

We took one together, too!!!

The paper he wrote for his grandparents.  We sent it in the mail.

Colin made this at school.  March 26.

He is sometimes my running companion,  He rides his big wheel.  March 27.

Doing "upside down" wall sits.  March 27.  

He tried it the regular way.

He wanted to take a picture of this flower from a peanut butter egg. March 28. 

Track workout! March 31. 

Here is my running companion again!!!! April 1.  

He made 125 miles on April 2!!!! Congrats, buddy!!!

Gardening so far this year

Here is what I have worked on so far this year, with more in the works.  

I bought a blueberry bush this year!  Hoping it turns out well, there were already a few blueberries on it when I bought it!

The first thing I planted were these, sugar snap peas and wax beans.  

My little helper!

I got a some seeds from a friend and bought the bag on the right last year, but never planted, so I decided to try growing them from seeds.  I planted them in an egg carton and put them in the window.  I labeled the side and felt like I was labeling a fruit salad, "cherry, pear, and orange!"

A few years ago Gavin picked out moonflowers for us to plant, but we never did.  We planted some sunflowers last year and so I thought it would be fun to do it earlier in the season (I think I did late June or early July last year). Then I discovered the moonflowers were a vining plant and bloom in the evening and stay open at night, so I decided to buy another climbing flower that blooms in the daytime, morning glories.  We are going to need some trellises! 

My tomatoes sprouted!!!

What a difference a day makes...

Our blueberry bush in its new home.  So far so good...

I also planted space master cucumbers cucumbers in a pot and I plan to plant pumpkins in a pot as well, but I haven't had much luck with them before.  I planted the chives in various spots in my garden and planted the corn in a circle, as recommended by someone after my ears of corn didn't have kernels all up and down them like they should.  I planted the carrots in one end of planter, but don't have much hope for them.  I haven't had much luck with carrots in the past, but this variety has done the best of any I have tried.  The sugar baby watermelons I plan to plant as well.  Last year I got a few, but never got any to full maturity, so hopefully we can do better this year!