Coloring the Easter Eggs!

It's always fun to sit back and watch what my kids create when they are given free reign of my kitchen with messy egg dye and hard boiled eggs. This year the "cyclops egg" was very popular, no doubt a throw back from their recent obsession with "Percy Jackson". This tradition begs the question though, "Why do we dye eggs at Easter time?" What does this have to do with Easter or Spring or anything? It's a fun tradition but I wonder every year who came up with this idea. Were the ancient Egyptians sitting around when they suddenly said "Hey hard colored eggs is the way to bring on Spring". Just a thought. I love to spend these times with my kids and it makes me pause to wonder how I'm going to do with Skyler gone next year although as you notice he's not in the pictures since he was working the night we did this, he is gone so much already. I guess it is preparing me to allow him to spread his wings and leave the "nest". Sigh....

Kick'n It Old School

Skyler and his five buddies from jazz choir put together a number to compete in their high school talent show. They sang an a-Capella medley of You are my sunshine, My girl, Ain't no sunshine, and I got sunshine. It was super funny and very good. They got a standing ovation when they were done (the girls especially liked them). Out of 12 groups that performed that night, they won first place! I love having a son with musical talent, it is so fun!! I did a video of the performance but it is on Facebook if you want to see it. It took forever to get it uploaded there so I am not even going to attempt it here :).

Vacation-Day Two "SeaWorld"

We are in the second day of our vacation. The first day we spent getting here (all day from Boise to Orlando). We had a nice welcome dinner last night on the beach and then we crashed in our hotel room - we were so tired.

This morning we got up and decided to go to Sea World. We haven't been there since 1995 and figured it was time to see what they were up to. It was great!! The shows were amazing - our favorite was the dolphin show. In the evening we went to the Luau show and dinner and saw some amazing dancing and had great food. Tomorrow we board the cruise ship and are looking forward to some more fun and some great memories!!