Easter - part 1

Egg coloring

The kids of course had a blast coloring eggs and making a huge mess.

Look at Jamie's expression in the background!

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all you moms out and especially to mine! Hope your day was filled with joy and fun. What's a special memory you have of your mom? Here are mine:

1. Fresh baked homemade chocolate chip cookies when I got home from school.

2. Handmade halloween costumes and costumes that we needed for school.

3. The best birthday cakes with whatever we wanted on them (mom would usually draw it herself!).

4. Taking me back-to-school shopping (mom would often use reverse-psychology to get me to pick out what she wanted).

5. Lots of love in our home :)

the lake

With our first few days of warm weather, the kids enjoyed playing on the beach and grandma and grandpa's house. I think they threw most of my mom's rocks in the water this day:

Mr. Frog

point defiance zoo

Our first visit to the zoo this year was about 1 month ago, we had a few drizzles and some sunshine, but it was a good trip. Apparently we got to see the beluga whale for the last time too. One them had died and they just recently shipped the remaining whale off to Sea World San Antonio to be with the other belugas there.

the lemurs were huddled together because it was cold:


I took these next few pictures inside in relatively low light trying out 1600 ISO:




Aw, mom, do we have to?
Angry eyes...

bowling

This was one of our "mommy-son" dates. I took Jamie to the bowling alley for the first time. I had no idea that these days you can get bumpers that just go up-and-down for whoever needs them. So Jamie had bumpers and I did not (although I could've used them too - LOL!). He did a great job but it was so not a good sound when he "threw" (dropped) the ball from chest high!

He loved to check out the screen after his turn to see how many he got and to watch the funny videos they played:
here we go:
waiting, waiting, waiting...
so heavy!
thankfully we didn't leave any dents!
not so happy with the result:
final score: