Last weekend it snowed. But Jude had been really wanting to roast marshmallows again so just before the snow came we got out our little fire pit and did some roasting. Jude wanted to use his wooden reindeer we bought at Christmas for the fuel and it burned quite well. By the time we were done the snow came down.

It was also my birthday last weekend. As we have done the last couple of years I have foregone cake for pie, by far my favorite dessert. So, Marcy puts a candle in my pie and everyone sings happy birthday. This time we had apple pie and ice cream at 10:30am – who needs to wait until lunch.

Both kids said today that Easter is their favorite holiday. That may be true but every holiday we get to these days they say is their favorite. But they did have a good time with Easter that is for sure. It started with coloring of Easter Eggs yesterday.

Then this morning when they woke up it was time to go hunting for Easter eggs. The Easter Bunny had left them all over the house as well as outside in the backyard and the race was on. Jude sprinted around the yard gathering as many eggs as his basket could hold.

Inside the eggs was either chocolate or money. They had quite the stash by the time it all ended. And it didn’t end at home. We also went over to the annual Easter gathering at the Briere household where more eggs were hunted down. Here is a cute photo of both kids with their Easter baskets as they were getting ready to go.

On Jude’s fourth birthday he received this dinosaur book from Aunt Mandy. For the next 2+ years he has been pretty much inseparable from it. It has been quite staggering to me how much he enjoyed looking through this book.

So when we went to Mexico last month naturally the book came with us. But then tragedy struck. When we went to the bathroom at the Denver airport we left it on the counter, not realizing our mistake until we were already on the plane. Marcy called Lost and Found from Mexico but no one had turned it in. I tried looking for it on Amazon but couldn’t find it.

But Aunt Mandy came to the rescue again. She found the book on Amazon and sent us a replacement book. Jude was very happy to be reunited with his very favorite book again.

Jude and Anna have been going to creative movement classes for the last few weeks and today they had their performance. They were both pretty excited beforehand so they took to running around the dance hall as we waited for the performances to start. Both kids did great in their routine and seemed to enjoy themselves.

Last weekend we were in Keystone where both Jude and Anna spent Saturday in a ski lesson. This was their 5th lesson and I think they really made progress. Jude is very confident now and can turn and stop with relative ease. Marcy and I had the day to ourselves to ski and then we checked in on them late in the day and they were both doing great. Here is Jude powering down the slopes.