Fish Release

So a couple weeks back was our local park district fish release.  It's where they have a bunch of buckets, you take your bucket and get some fish out of a larger bucket, and go dump them in the local pond.  The Worsts joined us for this outing.  The pictures are in reverse order, sorry, again learning the new layout features and it's too hard to move them all around.  Calvin promptly dumped a rather large catfish on the cement brick before it made it's way into the water.  Classic!

 Fred was the pro of the group.  He touched the fish and dumped his right in!

Calvin and Philie with their rather sizable catch!

Look at those things!  They are at least 3 feet long (well perhaps I'm exaggerating a tad!)

The Rodriguez boys had much smaller fish, which was just FINE by us!

Sam was a bit more adventurous and did reach into the bucket to touch the fish.  Noah preferred just to look and say hi to the fish.

He was pretty excited about wearing his cow rainboots and getting a bucket, the fish were "meh" in his book, but still a fun day!

And what do we have here?  Well this is what a FUN THURSDAY can look like.  When school is not in session due to Parent Conferences, we take a busload over to Meijer to go shopping.  Yes, yes, we know we are insane!  Philie called it the Crazy Train, and crazy it was!

HAMBURGER!!!

Wow, ok, so blogger has changed stuff and the editing page is completely different.  So, bear with me as I  learn how this looks and how it translates to posts.  Anywhooooo, here is what Sammy's favorite food is.  Hamburgers!  We went to Red Robin (one of our faves) for Mike's birthday a couple weeks back.  And Sammy started excitedly yelling, HAMBURGER while eating.  It was pretty amusing for us and everyone in the restaurant.  Cuteness :)

Easter-rrific

Well we have been busy the past 2 weeks! There was a quick zoo trip, which was fun...
Then the Worst crew came over for an Easter bird nest project. Every cooking project requires safety goggles, right Calvin?
And chef's aprons too...
Devilish looks also welcomed....
And voila, edible birds' nests, thanks to Aunt Philie's creative prowess!
Then pre-Easter weekend was spent at Bamma and Bampa's doing some egg decorations.
We were able to limit most of the messiness!
Then there was an Easter party at school, complete with Bunny hop performance...
And a quick impromptu egg hunt with Evie on the Thursday before Easter...


On Good Friday, Spiderman made an appearance...
Along with Nick and Francesca and Auntie Kim...
Finally Easter was here, we woke up at Bamma and Bampa's house to 4 easter baskets filled to the gills with fun stuff for the boys.
More toys? Yes, more toys, Noah!
For Josh's birthday, Mike made this masterpiece. We were too nervous to complete construction at our house, hence we spent the night before Easter at my parents house. Mike did a great job (I mixed the batter!).
The boys in their Easter fineries. Polo shirts are our formalwear!
Ah yes, they can be cute at some points...
It was a beautiful Easter Sunday!
And the Birthday man enjoyed his cake. So, Happy Happy to my husband, my father, and my brother. Yep, all together in one week. Someone turned 60 (eeeek!), someone turned 34, and someone turned 30, but I ain't naming names. You do the math.