Roxie!!!!

We have a new member of our family!! Roxie is a half lab/half golden retriever. She came from a pretty golden mamma, and a black lab dad. We picked her up on Sunday afternoon.
It has been a little rainy so she gets wrapped up and dried off when she comes home... like a furry little baby.
Jack is excited about her, but he's also slightly annoyed with her sharp claws and teeth. We are hoping that we can teach her that Jack is not a toy.

She's already finding her place in our lives and we are eager to see her personality develop and to know what she'll look like when she grows up.

Easter

We had a really fun and busy Easter weekend in Holdrege. We didn't have any extra time off from work/school so we were just home Friday evening through Sunday afternoon. We had a lot to do in a short amount of time. Cori was at Mom and Dad's because the big Barwick's were skiing in Colorado. (Yeah for us!!)

1. Easter Cookies
The kids did Easter cookies first thing in the morning... which means they had cookie dough for breakfast.

2. Easter egg hunt at the church.
Jack wasn't sure that he wanted to go to the Easter egg hunt, but at the last minute he decided that he would go and he had a lot of fun.


There were 500+ eggs for about 20 kids so each kid had a ton of eggs. Jack's basket even got too full that we couldn't add another egg.
Inside they had different activities for the kids. One of the activities was to have your picture taken.

3. Swim at the YMCA - no pictures there, just fun!

4. Play-date with Swanson children.
After nap-time we headed to the park to play with Drew and Jami's kids. It was a lot of fun getting to spend time with them (I know I always say that, but it's fun each time).

5. Dye Easter EggsJack's fun face.

6. Easter morning Easter egg hunt.

Cori only wanted the real eggs, and Jack only wanted the plastic eggs that were filled with treats...neither of them were very interested in the other presents.

7. Church - no pictures there either, but we did take some of us dressed up.




8. Easter dinner at Rod and Phyllis's.

Cori had a cute apron but she didn't do the dishes.

Phyllis made a bunny cake, the ears were gone first. I was slightly disappointed that it wasn't red velvet cake (like in Steel Magnolias).

9. Play outside

Jack got baseball things and a golf set from us and the Easter bunny, we tried them all out.

10. Go fish.11. Go home. We didn't catch any fish so we played at the park again and then packed up. It was a GORGEOUS day and so much fun to get to do so many outside things.

We stopped at Whiskey Creek in Kearney on our way home. Jack took one look at the peanut shells on the floor and said, "someone needs to clean up this mess!"

This is what happened before my camera was lost

I have had two night classes this semester. They get out at 6:30 and 7:00 so mom says "night classes?" One evening I had Jess and Jack meet me at the law school with Lightning McQueen so he could ride around the hallways. He thought it was really cool to get to do that.
I made sure that there were no classes in the courtroom wing before I let him go crazy. It was a lot of fun letting him explore somewhere new on his 4-wheeler.

We also let him drive his 4-wheeler on the elevator too. Every kid loves elevators and 4-wheelers, what could be more fun than combining the two, right?

Bill's family came and stayed in Lincoln right around Valentine's day. It was a lot of fun to have the girls play at our house, and to get to play at the hotel and swim. On Sunday afternoon, we took the three littlest ones to the Children's Museum While Laura, Natalie, and Christie shopped.


Jack and Caitie played together lots! It was nice to have an adult for each kid too. I can't imagine how the mom's with multiple kids manage not to lose their children.

Caitie really loved the life size chess set and she played a good game with Bill.

Jack and Anna enjoyed a dinner of powdered sugar doughnut after the Children's Museum.

Jack has also been having fun getting himself ready in the mornings. He's not always a pro at it, one morning he ended up with his underwear on backward. It was too cute that I couldn't help share it.


After this weekend we did not stop having fun, I just stopped taking pictures for a while. In March, Steph and Cori came and spent the night. We went to the Children's Museum and I took my camera, we locked it in a locker, so I have no pictures from our time there...and that is when I "lost" my camera.

Phyllis took pictures when we sent Jack home for a long weekend though. We sent Jack home Thursday night and Jess and I headed to Kansas City on Friday. We had an awesome time playing around the Plaza and going to the WWI museum. Jack had a good time with the grandfolks.

He got to ride his 4-wheeler at Grandpa Rod's office.

He also helped Grandma make noodles.

He also came back from Holdrege with something to say about Kansas City. When we ask him what he thinks of K.C. he says "I don't like it." When you ask him why, he says "no toys there." He insists that there are no toys in Kansas City and therefore he does not like it. This is something I'm sure a Royal's game and a trip to the crayola cafe will be able to fix.

We also had a fun weekend in Red Oak. We went to Red Oak to go to the hospital auxiliary ball with Bill and Chris. They were the hosts of the ball and it was a lot of fun. We also got to see Natalie dance at church on that Sunday. I didn't know where my camera was, so I didn't take any pictures. Jack had a lot of fun with his babysitters that night.

It was in a bag that rode around in Jess' truck for a while. It was not until we were home for Easter in my car that I realized where my camera was. I'll post about Easter and the post-Easter fun we've been having too.

ALSO, stay tuned for pictures of our new addition...

... a puppy, not a baby!