A Wickedly Fun Night

On April 25th I flew to Boise, Idaho to meet up with my sister and niece to see the musical "Wicked."  I have wanted to see this show for so many years but have never gotten the chance.  When Kristen told me she bought Mara tickets for Christmas I sort of invited myself to join them and they were kind enough to let me tag along:)

Dinner at Cafe Rio...always yummy

For some reason the weenie mobile was parked in front of our hotel, so we had to get a photo.

I was so excited to finally get to see this show!

The show was fantastic, great music, great story...loved it.  We got back to the hotel pretty late and ended up going to bed around 11:30PM.  Around 1:30 AM we were woken up by the hotel fire alarm blasting.  Luckily we were only standing around outside in our pajamas for about 10 minutes.  I mostly felt bad for all the little kids I saw in their bare feet and pj's looking tired and confused.

I flew back to Portland on Saturday afternoon.  It was a very quick but a very fun trip.  Thanks Kristen and Mara Porter for letting me hang out;)

Happy Easter

Easter has come and gone but I feel like I should do a quick post about our activities.  The best part about Easter is watching my boys collect eggs on the Easter egg hunt.  Julian was especially excited and would get so happy whenever he found another egg.  We had fun as a family and fun hanging out with friends. 

Decorating our Easter tree with hanging eggs.  I love how colorful it looks when we are done

Another shot of our Easter tree

I'm not a big holiday decorator but I do like my litter Easter bunny family I bought in Germany:)

I also set up a bunny with some German Easter eggs in our window.

On the Saturday before Easter a local mineral museum hosted a Easter egg hunt.  You had to find 4 different colored eggs in and around the museum and then you could trade the eggs in for a "Thunder Egg"  This is Julian showing off his Thunder egg.  It looks like a plain rock on the outside but once you cut it open it has crystals inside.

The museum employee cutting open one of our Thunder eggs.

Emerson making a silly face but you can see the inside of the rock how crystals have formed to make a pretty design.

We hosted the Easter egg hunt this year in our backyard.  Katrina Doxey and her family have been doing Easter egg hunts with these same families for the last 17 years.  This was the group shot for this year.  There were at least 200 eggs hidden around our yard, I think they all had fun finding them.

Emerson gathering eggs

Townsend and Julian comparing their loot

Each of the kids got to find 1 golden egg.  After the hunt was over we made them stand in a circle and all open their golden eggs at the same time.  They were filled with money, from $1 to $20 and you didn't know what you were going to get.  They loved this!!

On Easter Sunday we invited our friends the Holt's over for dinner.  Hannah made this super cute lamb cake:)