Chemistry 101...

Grandma Nette is always prepared.

No matter what the situation, she is ready.

That even goes for a week long Spring Break with 3 boys!

She was ready for us with many activities, plans and yes,

science projects.

This is right up Cody's ally!

The first project we took on was Volcanoes.

We started with the salt dough. This will be used to build up the sides of our Volcanoes. I love Crew in this picture. He thinks he is one of the big boys for sure! 

Helping the boys build up the sides around the water bottles.

Cody was very hands on.  Landen...not so much!

Finally Landen gave it a try.

But didn't really like it. Didn't want to get his hands all messy. Whatever?

Just the smell of the salt dough brought back so many memories. My Mom was always making salt dough for us, and she was always using it to make ornaments, bowls, decorative tops for jars, all kinds of stuff. She would sell it at craft shows.  Craft shows! Man, that really takes me back! lol My Mom could do a whole post just on that and all the crazy stuff she would sell! 

Letting the Volcanoes dry. Crew checking it all out!

After the Volcanoes dried Cody & G-ma painted them.

The next day it was time for the chemistry part!  Grandma had a recipe that she got online. A cool chemical reaction that would happen after mixing the solution with the baking soda.

Success! The Volcano erupted!

Now it was Cody's turn.

Again...we have success!

The next project we took on was...

SLIME!

Do any of you remember GAK?
Well, if you do the slime we made was the same exact thing.
It was really easy to make and pretty cool!
I loved Gak as a kid.
I can't believe I paid money for it, but hey I was 10 or so! :)
  We made green and blue slime.
Again, Landen was not down with getting his hands dirty.
So weird to me, since he will play out in the mud and other gunk.
But Cody enjoyed the whole process and had fun with his SLIME!

Happy Easter!

Our beautiful Easter morning began around 9am.

It is so nice that the boys are sleeping in.
The Easter Bunny managed to find us all the way down here in St. George.
Phew! Some of us were worried!
He left us lots of goodies & toys and even shoes!

It was a pretty relaxing day.
Watched conference, ate candy, played games, played in the water,
Landen came down with an ear ache, watched movies, ate more candy,
went on an Easter Egg hunt, Cody tripped & fell in the rocks, ate more candy,
took naps, had eggs on toast, watched more conference, Landen crying for hours,
taking Easter pics with the boys,
and to end it all we had an awesome Easter dinner together!

Crew was so funny with his squirt gun. He finally figured out how to shoot it but just didn't figure out to face it the other way! He would squirt himself in the face every time!

Crew was so good to sit and watch Conference with Grandpa.

Grandpa tossing Crew in the air.

Cody found the crystal egg. It had a dollar inside!

Cody and his egg hunt battle wound!

Here is Crew and his eggs he found on the hunt. Also a good way to transport your sippy cup!

Easter Dipping!

It's Easter Dipping time!

Easter dipping is a term that Cody made up when he was little.

We loved it so much that we now call it this every year.

I was sad Matt could not be here with us for all our fun Easter traditions.

He is always so fun to dip eggs with. He gets pretty creative with it.

However, we did get to spend Easter dinner with him last weekend and our 

big Easter Egg Hunt at Peggy's.

So Matt was not totally left out of all the fun.

We boiled like 4 dozen eggs. Which seems like a lot, right?

Well, it wasn't!!!

The boys were dying eggs at record pace.

No one got real fancy this year.

But it was still good ol' fashioned fun!

Dying the eggs sure was exciting but I am more excited to eat lots of

Eggs on Toast!

My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

YuMmY!!!!!

Art Festival...

After our Easter Egg hunt we headed over to the

Arts Festival in downtown St. George.

Lots of cool art to look at.

A whole area just for kids. Crafts, face painting, chalk art.

When we first got there Cody was complaining about how dumb this was

and that he didn't even want to be there.

By the time we left he was the most excited about the whole event

and kept telling us how awesome it was! 

Here are some fun pictures of the things we did at the festival.

Helping the boys make bookmarks.

Green glitter glue with some glitter sprinkled on top! Nice choice!

Cody got really creative and used 3 sticks!

This kid was amazing with all these hoops.

Every time we would all clap Crew would get really excited and clap right along with us.

Here we all are enjoying the white Indian hoop guy!

These fountains were so awesome. Landen loved counting all the copper leaves and showing me the path the water would take. He was very into it. Too bad I didn't get a pic of him!

The guy who sold these bells would let the kids take the mallet and ring all of them. This made his booth a big hit! 

Some cool chalk art.

Landen loved watching the dogs. Every time we saw a dog he would ask me if I saw that cute little dog? :)

Cody working on another craft.

This craft was fun. It was a peacock and they had tons of feathers and legumes to glue all over it.

Crew & Landen making some of their own chalk art.

Crew's artistic talent! Love the abstract lines. :)

Grandpa teaching Crew to rock climb. Landen on a free climb.

Crew was cracking Grandpa up with all his clapping.

Cody wanted to get his face painted. He got a blue star on each side of his face.

Crew offering some chalk to Grandma.

Cody showing us his blue stars.

Me & my Beautiful Mopsy!

Thank You Mom & Dan for taking us on all these fun little adventures.
I know the boys sure love it too!