A little park day

Life gets ahead of you and all of a sudden it's Spring! We enjoy park days almost once a week and this week we also did Art Club with my Moms group.

Ashton drawing a spider

Cutie Tim

Violet drew a purse! Is she my girly girl or what?!

Violet's 3rd Birthday Party

We celebrated V's birthday a week early since Dad has work duties this weekend. It was just family and the perfect size party. V scored her coveted "dolly chair" which is a doll salon chair. It was so cute to see how excited she got over each present!

Some fun with Dad after work

The Birthday Girl

Silly T with raspberries

Such a big girl!

The loot!

Yummy cupcakes

V & T

T & V Sing

Easter

We had a fun filled Easter with three, yes 3, Easter egg hunts followed by the stomach bug! Ugh! We had our (by our, I mean the kids) cousins come to visit from Phoenix. We had a sleepover that went WAY past bedtime followed with an EARLY wake-up, thanks to cousin at o'dark thirty! I got to work early so I could leave early to join the fun. Oh yes, amid the madness, I got to work Saturday before Easter, Easter, and the following Monday! We had our first Easter celebration at the kid's godparents house. The kids had a sleepover at the Grandparents house and then Easter day we spent at Grandma and Papa Tom's house with Great Grandma and Great Papa. Monday they were able to spend at home with Matt thanks to Cesar Chavez Holiday, for him, not me! It was an eventful weekend that we are still recovering from a week later! But what fun it was!

5 of the 6 Besmer grandkids

Dying eggs

Ashton excited on his 1st egg hunt

More egg dying

Ashton with cousin Elli

Our family pic

Great Grandma is so good at getting Tim to sleep

Great Papa helps Tim hunt for eggs! He scored the high value egg at $5!

Did I mention how good Great Papa is with the kids?!

I'm not sure who had more fun... the kids or him!

Violet hugs cousin, Riley

My silly girl, Violet

The little cousins, ~6 weeks apart in age

Guess who had some Easter chocolate

Tim loves the water

Future basketball player?

Or swimmer?

Violet in her cute Easter dress, well, the 1st one at least!

Loves the swing

Getting an egg!

Dying her eggs

Loves her Great Papa

Some fun with Dad

Spring Break Fun

Our neighbor invited us to his art studio where they do glass blowing. I can't believe I didn't take pictures!! Ah! It was so neat and mesmerizing! Anyways, the studio is in an old, industrial part of town which I thought would be a cool place for pictures. Tim was done with our picture taking session after a few minutes, but this is what we got!

Cool old siding with Ashton's favorite color, green!

Oh so close to getting them all to smile!

Can you see Tim is fading?!

I've always thought it would be a cute picture with them on the train tracks!

Big cheese!

Cheesy Violet

Big hugs!

Almost all smiling again!

Cute V!

Silly Ashton

I think Violet's face expression is funny here

Fun on the tracks

Tim is done!

As good as it gets from Tim!

Bring Down the Holidays

As a SAHM (stay-at-home Mom), I feel like I am "supposed" to do homemade arts & crafts, photograph every moment, and yes, play up all those holidays. Well, the holidays are crazy these days! I love this article from the Huffington Post. I sent the kids to school/daycare with those boxed Valentine's cards. That's what I did when I was little right?! I even bought the ones with toys, tattoos, etc. The "fancy" ones right?! Well, what did the kids bring home?! Bags full of candy, pencils, mini packages assembled by one kid! Wow! I guess I didn't pinterest Valentine's Day well enough. And when did St. Patrick's day become such a big day when a leprechaun visits your home?! I didn't know that! I found out about that on many Facebook friends posting. Green footprints left behind?! Really! I'm going to try to stick to what the holidays are about. Why do we celebrate St. Patrick's Day? What does Valentine's Day mean? I'm sure as the years fly by I will get sucked into the holidays but really... how is a working parent supposed to keep up with these inflated holidays?! Just my 2 cents!