Rutgers Day

Every year Rutgers has a day where they outreach to the community and open up the campus to show what they are doing there.  the students of different departments have booths of their different areas of study and show shat they can do.  It is a lot of fun for the kids.  We went to the science and engineering campus.  the kids got to see all sorts of experiments, play games, jump in a bouncy, dance to live music, and be entertained by live martial arts while we ate lunch. 

When I asked them what their favorite activity was they said going down the big slide (which was my favorite too).  Josh said it was seeing the boys play with the models of proteins and H2O.  I really hope that our boys will be like their dad and grandads and want to be engineers.

It looks like it was my favorite part too. :)

Spring Break & Turtle Back Zoo!

They really loved reading the map.  They were working together as a team to come up with their rout they would take through the zoo. 

After not getting to ride the ponies this was a distant second for the big kids but Zachary and Andrew really enjoyed feeding and petting the sheep.



I think that the park was Adam's favorite part of the zoo, not the real animals but the fake ones that he could climb on.




Alison is so cute with Andrew.  As soon as we got to the zoo she asked to push the stroller.  It is so nice to have her help. 



Turtle back Zoo was great.  We had a good drive the kids were in the pack with all of our fancy devices.....and opps we got car sick.  Adam alarmed us soon enough to give hims a barf bag and it came in handy.  As soon as we got there he relieved himself.  We had a good outing looking at all of the animals.  The highlight was the petting and feeding the sheep and playing on the playground.  The bummer was that they were too big to go on a pony ride.  Zachary wasn't but he was kind enough to not make everyone wait on him.  What a sweetie.  I think that Andrew enjoyed himself.  He was just happy to get out and be with all of us and he even slept in the car both ways.  Love it.  I'm grateful that I have a friend that is a mover and a shaker.  I like being around others that like to go and do things.  Thanks Sheryl for a wonderful day.

House Projects

Check out the before and after of our house.

We painted the shutters black and put on a new roof. :)

Easter 2012

We had a great weekend it was the start of our Spring Break and Easter. The weather has been not too cool and not to hot perfect for playing with friends in the back yard sandbox, riding bikes, jumping on the trampoline, and enjoying being outside. Friday we cleaned the yard up and had an Easter egg hunt and died eggs. Ariel, the boy's babysitters saw them looking at what they got in their eggs and she said to her dad "aww will you had eggs for me?"

Oh, did I mention that Adam and Zachary started T-ball. Adam was really hesitant to play on a team but once we got him there he really liked it. Ahh, relief! They were so So cute out there in the big helmet and uniforms. Adam and Zachary really liked the structure of the sport and that there were specific tasked that they were suppose to do as apposed to soccer where it was just a running mosh pit of cleats and shin pads. The coaches that they have are wonderful. Zachary's favorite part was when they played catch the coach and they chase them around the bases. When they caught the coach they dog piled on him. Zach was in heaven.

Sunday morning I got the kids ready in their Easter outfits that I have been planning for months. If I am not going to have girls I'm going to have fun matching my boys in super handsome wares.

On Sunday afternoon we had the McIntyre family over for dinner. It was so nice to have another family over to share Easter celebrations with. We really enjoy the McIntyre's. Not only do we have a good time with the Mom & Dad but our kids have a really good time too. After our dinner we had a big egg hunt in the front yard. Our neighbors came out with their big dog with got the babies squealing with delight. the fun migrated to the back yard where the kids ate candy and jumped on the trampoline till dusk. So much fun.