Spring Break

I'm going to take a few days and enjoy spring break with my family.  I will post all about our adventure on Friday.  Have a great week.

Spring cleaning started in the yard this year.

My back yard really suffered this year with the cold and killed lots of my plants.  The plants that did die I had to cut back to a nub and only hope they will survive.  Cutting them back all the way will give them enough strength to survive.

The Cisco kid loves working in the yard.  He is so helpful and he has a good helper.

The Chief picked up lots of much needed mulch. 

The Cisco Kid wasted no time cleaning out the wooded area of leaves so the mulch could be laid down.

Now take note of his pants. These are last year’s sweatpants and sweatshirt.

In past years, I have cycled his clothes. School and sport clothes turn into next year’s play clothes. Now last year’s school clothes would not fit him at all. Luckily, these were stretch pants. This is the first year I have seen such a leap in his growth.  

He cracked me up!!!! His John Deere does not have a hitch on it so he figured out a way to hitch it to the back of his John Deere.... a bungee cord.

It Works!!!!

No manual labor for the Cisco Kid.  He knows how to make others work for him. 

The Cisco Kid is supervising the job not well done. Chief spilled some leaves off the side. 

Off to dump another load.

I picked up some flowers and got all my flowering beds and flower pots back in shape. 

Spring break Cub Scout Meeting

It's party time again!!! Now it's for the Cub Scout den. Since we are working on our Geology Pin I wanted the boys to see a documentary on volcano’s. I got a great DVD from the library. All the boys come to our house to see the movie and have a pizza party to celebrate spring break. It’s always fun going to someone else’s house to play. The boys were so excited to be here and the Cisco Kid was excited to have all his friends over to play.

When I finally got the rounded up from playing they had their pizza.  After they ate it was time for popcorn and a movie.  As you can, see they were glued to the TV.  

This part of the movie is where volcanos produce precious gems and gold. 

Who can guess how many jellybeans are in the jars. I had four jars filled with jellybeans and the Cisco Kid won the second guess. I asked him.... since he won a jar at school if he would consider giving his to the next qualifying number. He agreed and gave it away.

Now that everyone got their jellybeans it was time burn up some energy. 

They can't end the night without a cupcake!!!

Happy Spring break and Happy Easter. 

Class Easter Party.

When the children came back from lunch they were so excited to see they had a craft and jellybean contest waiting for them. They all made their bunny bags so they could fill them with all their goodies.    

These children are all good!!!! The Cisco Kid is real good!!!! He won the first jar of jellybeans. His guess was 200 and there were 217 jellybeans in the jar. I insured everyone that the game was not fixed. He really came up with a great guess on his own.  

He is one happy little boy with his jar packed full of jellybeans. 

A traditional egg hunt is always so much fun. 

They never get tired of filling their bellies up with cookies, candy and cupcakes.

Another Easter party item completed.

Today I needed to do one more thing for the class Easter party. Make cupcakes!!!!

I never know what flavor cupcakes to bring to school. I know the children will eat any kind of cake. Since it is a Easter party for them I do want them to have what they prefer. I would feel badly if someone preferred chocolate over vanilla and vice versa. There are too many children in the class to consider bringing enough so they could make a choice. I decided to make a batch of vanilla and a batch of chocolate. Then I filled each cupcake tin with 1/2 of each flavor. Problem solved!!!!!

I decorated them with icing piped leaves and a Peep on top. My favorite part of Easter candy are the peep's. Love them!!! I even love them when they are stale. Yup!!!! Stale and chewy.