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Easter Weekend

We had a very busy Easter weekend. My kids get Easter break (yes this is separate from Spring break) and got a 6 day weekend. We began by hosting a surprise luau/birthday party for our friend Abe on Friday night. We helped Amber (his wife) keep it a surprise by having it at our house. Everyone had a great time karaoking and playing Catch Phrase...oh and eating of course!

Then on Saturday morning, we bundled up and headed to Windsor for an Easter Egg hunt. They blew the whistle at 10 am and the hunt was over in less than 30 seconds (literally). I honestly didn't even have a chance to get my camera out! Then Clint & I dropped the kids back off at the house and went to run errands.

Saturday afternoon was Cade's baptism. I'll post about that in another post.

After the baptism, we headed back to our house for a barbecue. It was a baptism/gratitude barbecue. We invited everyone that helped us move (out of the old house and into the new house). That too was very fun! It was nice to see our friends from the old ward again, and get to know our new friends a little better.

The boys woke up Sunday morning to find themselves "barricaded" downstairs. The Easter bunny is a very wise person, as he/she knew the boys would be awake well before anyone else in the household and, to be fair, needed to stay downstairs instead of looking around for the hidden eggs.














Luckily, they weren't tortured for too long, as we got the girls up at 8. The kids first went to their baskets where they found candy and movie tickets taped to 3-D glasses. Unfortunately, I turned camera duty over to Clint and he got caught up in the hunt, so we didn't get very many stills shot.

The hunt begins. Laney got a 5 minute head start. Even though there were LOTS of eggs hidden on the floor, Laney still went to great heights to get hers!









































Then Corbin got his turn to start.
















After Corbin, Cade got a 2 minute jump before we let the hounds loose (read: Cole, Payton, Dallen & Chase). They actually found most of the eggs on their own, but Clint and I did have to help them find some of the more camouflaged eggs. They each got to find 25 eggs (yes the Easter bunny spoils my kids). The eggs were filled with even more treasures, so I'd say they made off pretty well!




















On Monday, I took the kids to the movie. We saw Monsters vs. Aliens in 3-D. It was a really cute, funny movie we all enjoyed!



























Here is some video of the hunt, check out Corbin's snatching skills ...

Toddler Speak

It always cracks me up to listen to little people talk. Delaney is non-stop from the moment she wakes up until she is actually asleep. Because I have so much practice listening to her, I usually can understand most everything she says. Today, she told me she wanted to watch a movie and when I asked which one, I could not understand what she was saying. Finally, I got it, but had to get it on video.

About a year ago, her favorite movie was Willow (yes the same one with Val Kilmer). The way she said it always mad us laugh and I could just kick myself for not getting it video recorded!

Since we were already in her bedroom, I decided to get a shot of the entire princess room since I haven't posted any pictures of it. We will probably paint the room eventually, but here is what it will look like for a while at least.

Let's see if you can figure out which movie she was referring to!

Cade's Photo Shoot

This is the 3rd and final post for today!

We needed to get a picture of Cade for his baptism invitations. Sometimes Cade is difficult to photograph because his "posed" smile is very....fake. So here are some of the shots we were able to get.


































































Here is the winner...after I cropped it so it's only a head shot.

Cade's Birthday Party

One of the frustrations of my life is....camera batteries! Ugh! It seems like I always run out of battery at the worst time...so I have few pictures of Cade's birthday, but it was fun. The party was originally supposed to be outside, but with the snow storm we had this week, we had to change our plans. We ended up just playing a bunch of games inside and the kids really enjoyed that!

We began the party by having a relay race. The kids had to put balloons in between their knees and jump or walk to the other side of the room. It was very entertaining to watch!

Then we got the kids sugared up...through a donut eating contest. They weren't allowed to use their hands and we had kids with donut glaze in their hair, on the back of their heads and of course, all over their face.



























After cleaning up the donut mess, we had a bean bag toss and a pinata.















Here are the kids waiting to fill their empty bags.















Cole & Cade taking a whack!



























Everyone got a whack at the pinata, and because we went smallest to biggest, we made it all the through one round before it got smashed apart and the candy went flying!














The kids ended up playing Wii and arcade games and then we fed them "real" food (pizza). We ended up skipping the cake & ice cream, since they had bags full of candy from the pinata!

All in all, the party was a hit!

Snow Days!

Last week we got dumped on. And the kids LOVED it! Of course, we had to break out all the winter gear again and go take advantage of the sledding hill not far from our house.

The kids were all outside playing in the snow when Laney woke up from her nap. I was working on a file and told her I would help her get her suit on in a minute. She came in shortly thereafter with this "suit" on saying she was ready to go.




















Luckily, her daddy knew which suit I was talking about and got her ready to go play outside. I was impressed, she lasted about 1/2 hour before coming back in!




















The boys had fun with their dad at the sledding hill. There were tons of people there, but they still got some really good runs in. I have a few videos at the bottom that show some of their successes and failures (biffs as we like to call them).

Goofy Corbin...



























And Corbin's goofy daddy...
















Here are the boys enjoying their day out! Cole, Dallen & Corbin














Cade getting some air (or after getting air anyway)















Chase
















A look UP the hill
















Dallen using his long arms for balance!

Delaney's Princess Birthday Party!

Last Saturday was Delaney's princess party. There were a few other princess friends from neighboring kingdoms who were able to attend as well. Clint (the king) put up some cool wall decorations, so it looked like we were in a grand ballroom!















































Delaney loves to dress up in her princess dresses, and had a hard time deciding which princess to be. I helped steer her to this super cute gown.


































I asked an older princess, who used to be one of my beehives, to come teach the younger princesses how to behave like a proper princess. Princess Kyra taught the girls how to curtsy, drink properly from a tea cup, wave a wand, and of course, she showered them with princess glitter as well. Princess Kyra also headed the games and showed the girls how to play Princess & The Pea (as you will see, Delaney wasn't getting the hang of it), Kiss the Frog Prince (another one Laney had a struggle with) and Princess freeze dance.

















Here are pictures of the Frog Prince and the lips. They played it just like pin the tail on the donkey.





















Here are all the princesses. Sydney, Kennedy, Karson, Kyra, Kendall, & Delaney.














Princesses Sydney, Kennedy & Delaney














This is Princess Kennedy looking as cute as Snow White ever did.



















Princess Kyra reading a princess story to the younger princesses.














Since the Royal Baker was on Spring Break, the responsibility rested on my shoulders to create a cake fit for a princess. As stated in previous posts, I'm no cake decorater, so this is the best I could come up with. I will point out that Payton & Dallen had the honor of actually making the cake and I think they did a pretty good job!














Of course, Princess Delaney loved having her princess friends over and enjoyed her cake & ice cream and opening presents. I'm not sure why she's giving us a gopher face right here...

Happy Birthday Cader!

Cade's 8th birthday was on March 12. Because of the significance of the 8th birthday, he was picked up after school on that day by Grandma Cheryl and Grandpa Jay to head to Temple Square in Salt Lake. It is Jacobs tradition to take the 8 year old birthday child to see Temple Square before their baptism. Cade had a blast! He got to go with his cousin Drew (who turned 8 on Feb. 12) and they rode horses, got to go to the Draper Temple open house, Temple Square and lots of other fun stuff.

With all that said, we didn't get to celebrate with him until he got back home. For his birthday dinner he chose yellow death (mac & cheese to the rest of the world). After dinner we had his requested chocolate on chocolate cake. Cade had a good time trying to blow out the candles on his cake (see video below). And no knocks about my cake making abilities, eh?














His party is next Saturday, so he really hasn't gotten many presents yet. Ours is still in the garage, but he did get a card from Grandma Bonnie (thanks!) and new scriptures from Grandma Cindi, which he was really excited about!

My handsome nephew, Dallen



















Our pre-teen, Payton, who pretty much always looks like this lately...at least Corbin is happy!















Cade & Delaney clearly enjoyed their cake!