For moms the end of the school year is crazy and the more kids you have the worse it gets. Projects, concerts, reports, field trips, school activites, awards ceremonies, graduations and a larger influx of crap coming home from school. Seriously, I just wish the teachers would throw half of that stuff away rather than leaving it for me to deal with. Do I really want the last 10 pages of whatever workbook? No, I do not, but they send it home and I suffer guilt about throwing it away rather than having my child finish it up or play school with it or whatever. I just wish I didn't even have to see it. Anyway, on we go...
Matthew's castle project
Gracie's peregrine falcon report. They had to do written and oral parts. I think she knows everything a person could ever want to know about that bird.
Owen received the Falcon Citizenship Award. They selected two people from each class who exhibited excellent qualities. We were so proud of him for earning this. He was surprised to see me and the boys in the gym at the assembly because he had no idea so it was pretty fun to see his face.
I think these two felt a little neglected the last few weeks of school and they wanted me to take their pic in the Walmart arcade.
They had to eat all the broken ones...
On Easter morning the kids wake up and find their hidden baskets. Matthew's took the longest to find. Appropriately, the hardest to find since he is the oldest, if you ask me.
The after church boiled Easter egg hunt:
Matthew was feeling a little too old for this stuff. Sniff, sniff. I knew it was coming...
It's so hard to get a good picture of everyone these days...and I missed getting one of them in their church clothes.
Then we had family dinner with cousins over. We were lucky to have Neils and Tara and Wes in town. We missed Michelle and Britny. The cousin picture was a bit of a joke, this was the best we could do...(all five of my kids were present, however!)
Then to finish off the night we had a great big, huge, plastic, candy-filled, cousin Easter egg hunt in the back yard. With probably hundreds of eggs. The kids all had a ton of fun.
It was a beautiful Easter, I was happy to be able to spend it with lots of family and I loved getting to go to the Easter pageant earlier in the week. I also got to teach the Easter lesson in our primary class. 
These guys wanted to ride in the Chinese leftovers box. 
While the rest of us rode in the applesauce container.
For some reason Rex wanted his picture taken in front of the Tower of Terror even though he refused to ride it. 
We rode Monsters, Inc. a time or two. Colby loved that one. 
We ran into these guys after Turtle Talk with Crush, which was pretty fun because Owen and I both got to talk to Crush. And this time Colby was ok with getting his picture taken with Woody, maybe it was because I was holding him. 
Then we ran into Handy Manny. He's pretty cute, I kind of have a thing for Latin men. 
Later that night while waiting for the World of Color show to start we went on Toy Story (finally) and rode the carousel. 
After the show we went back to Disneyland to live it up a little more. One of the most fun things that we did on the whole trip was ALL ride the Matterhorn together. It is officially Colby's first roller coaster and it was so great to have our whole family do it together at night on our last day. We also hit Pirates one more time and Indiana Jones, Matthew was pretty excited because he got to be the driver on his birthday. We were so exhausted at the end but we really wound up having a great time, in spite of all the rain. 
