Sunday, April 19, 2009

Easter - 2009


It was a cold day this Easter, so we held our egg-hunting festivities inside! Here are the kiddos rushing upstairs at Great-Grandma Vesta's house to look for the eggs hidden in her playroom.

Emma and Alyssa (Derek's sister's kids) were pretty hyped for the hunt. Emma wanted to open each egg she found and check out its contents.


I had been practicing with Wyatt his egg-hunting skills. I would hide eggs around the living room and he would follow me and put them in his basket. He did pretty good if the eggs were in plain sight.

We can still have fun inside!

Wyatt liked the eggs colored like sports balls (basketball, baseball, ect.)

The day before Easter we went to the Patee House Museum in St. Joseph. Janae and Adrain always go down there when they are back from Australia for the girls to ride the carousel. Wyatt and I joined them this time, here they are on the back of a train caboose in the museum.

Alyssa on a small horse getting pumped for her ride.

Wyatt liked this horse better than the actual carousel, it freaked him out a bit.

When does this ride end?

I think Wyatt's favorite part of the Patee House museum was this ramp. He liked to walk up and down on it. There was also a real train engine you could climb on. he kept pointing at it and saying "too-too", which means choo-choo!

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Birthdays and crazy weather

Last weekend I wrote that it had snowed all day Saturday, well Sunday was a peach of a day! A little chilly, but we did get outside for a while before going up to Derek's parents' house for a birthday dinner.
During a trip to Orscheln's, Wyatt and I found these kids cowboy hats. I had him try one on and that was it, he wasn't taking it off! This boy always took off baseball caps but he walked around the store holding this hat on! Well of course I bought it and he wore it all weekend! Here are Derek and Wyatt checking cattle.

Wyatt loves to ride in the truck with Derek and he had to take his hat off to get in the seat.

Last Sunday night we celebrated Derek's Dad's and Brother-in-law Jon's birthdays. Aunt Keri loves to get Wyatt all riled up.

Jon was very good to let Wyatt open some of his gifts, Wyatt loved the ribbon!


Wyatt and Papa Bill, Wyatt loves to waller anyone sitting on the couch.