Attempted Volcano Hike

 Brian took a plant taxonomy class last semester and his big project was to collect a whole bunch of local, flowering plant samples. So we spent a fair amount of time just out driving around looking for plants. On one such trip, we passed the volcano out toward Veyo and the boys both got really excited about it. 

 We thought, "what the heck, let's get out and climb it." It was so difficult!! Neither Brian or I are in terrible shape, so we figured we could help the boys up and it would be fine, but we only made it about half way. 

 All the lava rock is loose and you slide down 2 steps for every step you try to take up. We all had tons of tiny, lava rocks in our shoes by the time we trudged part of the way up and then slipped and slid back down.

It's still nice to live in a place like this, though, where we can have so many fun, outdoor activities to choose from. I think we'll go back and try again at some point, but we'll be prepared with huge, sturdy, walking sticks! 

Easter

 I have tons of cute pictures from Easter, so here's a bunch, but still not all of them. I found these cute little baskets at Target for only a dollar each and then even filled them with a bunch of things for only a dollar each. They turned out so cute and didn't cost a ton. 

 And the boys loved find them and going through all of their fun contents on Easter morning. 

 Then after church we headed over to Cristina's mom's house (Leslie) for dinner and a Easter egg hunt. The kiddies were so excited. Just look at them holding their little baskets! 

 There were TONS of eggs to be found. 

 Cristina and I stuffed them the night before and didn't realize how many there were going to be until we were done. They got a haul! 

 Cristina even made each of the kids one of these cute bunnies out of a pair of knee socks. Darling! Dexy loved his right away. 

 Good thing Leslie's yard is a pretty good size, because there were just eggs everywhere. 

 So many delicious goodies to eat! 

It was a very enjoyable Easter. 

Tent for a Bed

 So here's so more catching up, finally. I've really been slacking on this catching up thing. Back in March, Brian came up with the super crazy, super fun idea to put the full-size tent up in the boys room. 

 We propped the box spring up against the wall and then actually stuffed their mattress into the tent through the little, front door. 

 It was really quite cool!  It took up a good portion of the room and they couldn't really open their closet, but when you have an actual tent up in your room, what else do you need? 

We left it like this for about a month. It was actually kind of sad to see it go, but it was getting to be time to clean everything, which hadn't happened that whole time because cleaning in and around a tent was rather difficult. We'll have to let them do it again sometime, because it was awesome!