Photo Story Friday

Every holiday, Steve's dad and his fiancee, Grandpa and Grandma, mail awesome gifts to Chase and Cody! Since they live in Oregon they don't see Chase and Cody opening the packages, so here they are enjoying your Easter gifts!

Their Easter package arrived on Friday before Easter and the boys were so excited! There is always so much good stuff, including candy and toys, inside these boxes!

Just peaking inside waiting for it jump out at them!

Chase of course, finding the candy first inside the box.

Cody found the monster truck and the candy at the same time! He was so excited for both of them!

Chocolate Easter bunny!

They each got a Mickey Mouse puzzle that we put together that night. Chase really understood the whole puzzle with the straight sides being put together first and then fill in the middle. Cody helped also!

Chase opening up his card so I Can read it to him. He wanted to make sure who it was from!

Thank you Grandpa and Grandma!! The love that is included inside the box is awesome also! The boys love receiving you packages.

Thank you also for the wonderfully tasting beef jerky! Chase and Cody like the beef sticks also!

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Friday Fun

I haven't played along in a while with Carrie at Candid Carrie for ...

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On Monday, the boys and I went to visit my grandma. We were inside talking and the boys were outside, I thought playing with some tools... but instead they were getting muddy. It was a warmer day here, and not too cold, so I just let them get muddy.

I had feared some type of dirtiness would come out of going to grandma's, so I had extra clothes on hand for them, just forgot the shoes. So I had them take off their shoes and socks, by then they were so muddy, that they socks were thrown away, and I gave the shoes a bath. The boys continued on splashing in the mud.

Cody really liked the mud and splashing and running his fingers through it, making mud pies for everyone. He played in the mud a long time. He finally ended up taking off his pants and running around in just his underwear for about 5 minutes, until he had just about enough mud and I gave him a rinse off int he garage sink. Thank goodness, they didn't get it into their hair!

Chase on the other hand, got muddy but didn't like being wet. Said the mud and water were cold and he wanted to change and get cleaned up. He liked it at first but liked being clean also. They both were so happy that they were able to get dirty and muddy without me being upset about it. Boys will be boys and I figured one morning fun it's not going to hurt them.