Lucas at the Park

While Tavo and Alee are at piano practice, Mom and Lucas have to do SOMETHING for an hour... so we went to our old favorite Granite Park. Lucas was so happy to have this pregnant Mom play with him for a while at the park, he kept blowing me kisses from wherever he was climbing and shouting, "Watch this, Mom!"

He loved to run over the bridge and kept asking if there was a troll that lived below.

This is typical attitude from Lucas. He likes to give me the look.

This is right before we started playing McDonald's. He likes to take my orders and serve up food, but is never sly about asking, "Where's your money?"

Easter

Jason and Abby joined us for East Sunday. I took to the couch while they helped the kids expend energy.

They helped us hide all the eggs for the hunt!

Our new community held an egg hunt the Saturday before Easter and it was a lot of fun! Inflatable slide, pony rides, egg hunt... Mom took Lucas to the doctor while Dad, Alee and Tavo were living the good life at the park.

Alee was too sick to go to church that day, but still had to wear the Easter dress she inherited from Miss Molly Day. Molly - Alee LOVES your clothes! You may not be able to tell, but it is a white dress with a pink sash around the waist and pink rosebuds on the skirt... lovely!

Alee also found the GOLDEN egg - which is Estrada family tradition to have an egg with money. The Golden egg had $5 and boy was Tavo disappointed it was not him. He always has big plans for his money. Alee's gloating did not help much.

Thanks to LaLa and Aunt Froggie, the boys ate chocolate Easter Frogs! Boy were they happy to open that package from California! My kids are spoiled rotten!!!

Tavo takes his chocolate very seriously.

Since the day we moved in, the kids were asking daily about WHEN we were going to decorate our new home for Easter and especially when we would decorate eggs. I was digging through piles of boxes to find Easter decor and make them feel like we were done with the stress of moving into a new home.

Alee made bright, bright colored eggs, Tavo stuck to the blues and greens for boys and Lucas just splashed his eggs into the closest color pot and made some very interesting colors with a mostly cracked shell motif. He is such a two year old and was done in about four minutes with colors all over the table cloth and his hands.

He thought this was exciting, but then he opened a pair of Buzz Lightyear pajamas which were so thrilling - he could have cared less about the candy. Check out those muscles!!!!

Our New Home

Looking at the front door with basement stairs. We will start framing a few rooms in the basement next week. Right now, it is unfinished.

Looking from the sliding glass doors going onto the patio, this is more of the great room/kitchen/family room looking toward the garage door and laundry.

Gustavo's kitchen... and it is his!

Crazy hair day at school

Alee liked the height of the hair.... wants to wear it like this every day. She said the boys at school would not leave it alone and it fell apart too quickly. They wanted to figure out how she got it to stay up so tall.










Tavo kept laughing at himself over this one. Lucas was on a kick that every time Alee got her hair done, he wanted to get a pony also. Tavo thought it would be funny to have pony's all over his head. He wore them all day long! Although putting them in was torture for him. He wanted me to continue in spite of the pain.