Picture dump......

Aragorn and Aunti Bri being silly

Rohan's crazy bed hair

Ice cubes a friend bought for me, cause he was thinking of a conversation we had.

Sunflower seedlings, going NUTS!

The bazooka conversation……

Yesterday morning Rohan and I had a conversation regarding Joseph Kony.  I am wearing a Kony 2012 bracelet I got when I made donation to the Invisible Children network it’s a red string with a silver coin on it that as Kony 2012 and a unique number assigned to each bracelet mine is 1011876.  Rohan asked me what this was about why I was wearing it.  When I explained it to him, he was genuinely interested.  He asked me who Joseph Kony was, why he was a bad guy? Where did he live?  He even asked to see what he looked like.  After we had this talk, we had a BUSY day which included getting into BIG trouble with big brother.  But they also had a birthday party, shopping, running in the rain.  Lots of stuff.  So to my surprise later that night this was the following conversation

“Mom, I need Zook for my collection” Rohan reminds me (Zook is a figure the boys need for their video game Sky landers)

“I know baby, Zook, short for Bazooka, got it”

“What’s a Bazooka” he asks

“It’s a big gun, thingy, daddy what’s a bazooka?”

“It’s a rocket launcher” Eric says smiling, walking into the kitchen

“Oh, I want one of those” Rohan says eyes wide

“Baby, you can’t just have a bazooka, you can go into the military though, I bet they give you one there”

“Military?”

“Yeah, like the Navy, or Army, Marines, air force, I bet you could even join the police and get one there”

“I want to go to the one that gives me a bazooka and then I will go and fight the bad guy in Africa to help those kids”

Phone Post.....

Random pics from this past week

Enjoying lunch in the sunshine

Stamped his face with his new pen/bubble/stamp

The "flower" Ro picked  for me

Storm is rolling in

The sun is trying to push back

Those clouds look volatile

The boys and i landed on the same spot

Closest game ever

Mom & I

Easter Sunday......

We got up super early on Sunday to attend the early service at The Edge church, we wanted to be home early to get food started for the houseful of family and friends we were expecting.  This is the first Easter in 3 years that both Eric and I didn't have to work at church, so we were pretty excited.  The Easter bunny visited while we were at church leaving the kids baskets filled with goodies.  He also left a couple at our house for our neighbors Samie & William.  Everyone came over at 12 and the party was on. Eric spoiled us yet again with awesome food.  Ham, and mashed potatoes, corn and bread and cupcakes and soda and everything you could think of was there.  We ate until we were full, and then most of us ate some more. We had a great time soaking up the WONDERFUL weather we were blessed with.  I was afraid that it would be as it has been the last couple of years, but we got 70, easy.  Which for my mother, is perfect weather for a water fight (actually any weather for her is perfect) she started with the boys and water guns, then Eric dumped a glass of water on mom, and that was the end of the war.  Until me.  Bria filled a bucket for me, and i was so sneaky i got Eric just as he was coming inside, and i when i say i got him, i got him, literally everywhere, he had to change, which in retrospect was kind of a win for him, as i am the one that does all the laundry.  After the water fight and some convincing from my mom, our neighbor Stuart gave us another juggling show, and then let everyone play with his juggling stuff, even mom got in on the lessons.  It's amazing how something that looks so easy, is in fact extremely difficult.  I really do admire Stuart for the skill, it's something he's worked at hard, and perfected over the years.  I also found out Sunday, he can ride unicycles!  Awesome!!  It was so nice, to sit in the sun, enjoy some drinks and the company of great friends, both old and new.  It was a wonderful day to thank God and Jesus for all that he has given us, and be grateful for all he continues to provide.   

All of the Easter Baskets

FINALLY!! got his Skylanders guy

New scooby movie & Game

Getting so big

SUPA cheese!

Easter '12 family picture

I love this picture!

This one would be perfect if Eric didn't look so pained

Good one of just us

me yelling at the boys

he is SOOOOOOOOOOO done LOL

Balance beam

ATTACK!!

Oi B with her guys

And again

BFF's

All the grandparents

huntin eggs

what did you say?  Oh cheese!

Cheese with Grandad

All the guys reading Eric's resolution

<3

Craig & Belinda and eric and I after he signed his resolution

Mom trying to juggle

A's turn

Stuart trying to teach A

and again

My turn......

ok wait one more time, tell me.....

It's good i can laugh at myself

Coloring Eggs.....

This year our church decided not to do an eggs hunt, but instead do a smaller quieter activity with the kids, in their classrooms.  This project required egg cartons.  So they asked all of us, if we could bring some in.  So i bought about 4 cartons of eggs and donated all the cartons of eggs.  The only problem is, we don't eat that many eggs here at the Spillman home (i know terrible) So after donating all of the cartons, i now had 48 eggs, and knew i wasn't going to get them eaten.  So i thought, why not let the kids dye them, and then I'll just make deviled eggs for Easter.  The boys and i invited our neighbors Samie and William and Friday morning we all sat and decorated eggs.  Ro chose super heroes, A chose aliens, Samie had stickers & William had monster kits for his eggs (we lost his attention about 15 minutes into this) They all had a good time.  And it was a nice craft for them to do, surprisingly it went really well, we had very little mess, and everyone got along well. 

Coloring eggs

A with his monster egg

Ro with his Iron Man egg

All the eggs
(the blank one in the middle had a spider man mask on it, but it blew off & under the porch)