Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, Everyone! Last week we dyed some eggs with the appropriate theme of superheros. Adam loved dropping the eggs in the dye and making them splash. Justin even got to color more eggs at his school.










The Easter bunny did not disappoint this year with the boys loving their baskets and doing an egg hunt in the morning.








Later that afternoon, my family came over for Easter supper. We had another fun egg hunt. Colin was especially excited to show everyone the new gap in his teeth. He lost his tooth biting into his chocolate bunny. :) With all this snow on the ground it doesn't feel much like Spring, but it sounds like the weather is going to warm up to 60 by the weekend. Yay! Hoppy Easter! :)

Imperial Beach, San Diego

It was another fabulous spring break vacation. This year we traveled to San Diego, California for a fun filled family vacation on the Pacific Ocean. Highlights from the vacation included Lego Land, San Diego Zoo, and staying at a condo directly on Imperial Beach.




The San Diego Zoo is so awesome and definitely lives up to the hype of being one of the best zoos in the United States. It was fun to stroll along and see all kinds of animals up close. Adam was especially excited to see all the tour buses and Colin and Justin were excellent map navigators.








Lego Land was about an hour trip up the interstate in Carlsbad, CA. It is a cool amusement park filled with various sized lego creations and themed rides. Justin loved the slides and ropes in the Adventure Cove while Colin patiently waited in lines for 5-10 minutes to experience the rides.










The BEST part of the vacation, though, was definitely our condo on the ocean! It was so AWESOME! The boys were still on MN time so each morning we all woke up at 5:00a.m. and enjoyed a leisure morning of cereal in our own kitchen. Once it got light enough outside we headed out to the beach! I couldn't have scripted it better--Adam chased the birds, Justin collected shells, and Colin took on the waves. It was so cute! We even saw dolphins in the distance and a sea lion swam right up next to us on the rocks. It was also fun to watch the birds "dive bomb" into the ocean to catch fish. I just loved that there were 2 bedrooms so that once the boys went to bed, Jason and I could enjoy the ocean sounds by ourselves.








The condo complex also had a heated pool and hot tub so we got some swimming in as well. The walk along the pier to get ice cream and playing at the condo park were also fun things we did at various times in our trip. Yay, San Diego!






To view all our trip photos click here.

MN Zoo

This past week we met up with our good friends, The Johnsons. Kristin also has 3 little ones about the same ages as our boys so we love getting together for play dates. With the Winter weather the MN Zoo was a perfect place to visit as they have the aquarium, indoor Tropics Trail, and other fun exhibits.