The Easter Egg Hunt and Ken's New Bike

Every year, the City of Brighton holds an Easter Egg Hunt and every year since Ken was 1 we have been attending said hunt. Usually the only thing we ever get from said hunt is a bunch of plastic easter eggs and the caramels and tootsie rolls that are inside.

This year we were afraid there wouldn't be a hunt since the weather was so nasty. Blowing snow, ice, wind... does not bode well for an outdoor event. Fortunately the city moved the event indoors. It was a little better organized chaos than previous years. We went in, went in line, went to the 5 yo table for Arcadia, received her bag of eggs, a raffle ticket and a hand stamp and then proceeded out the door. (Ken was with our neighbors, their son's birthday was that day and his present was to spend the day with Ken which I thought was sweet). Arcadia and I then proceeded out the door to the gym where all the festivities were. The first thing to do was to find a spot on the floor and open the eggs. I found our neighbors and they didn't know about the eggs, so they took Ken and their son to get their bag of eggs. Arcadia and I sat there opening eggs up. In the eggs they sometimes have a "Golden Ticket" for one of those huge oversized Easter baskets. Ken's friend ended up winning one of those. We all thought that was pretty cool. Then we hung around until 1pm. That's when the raffle was held. Kids ate candy, ran around with their friends, etc while extremely loud music blasted through the gym. At 1 we all went over to the "stage". There were bikes there for all the age ranges that participate. The city gets bikes donated from Target, Walmart and Kmart (our local discount stores) and then they called out the numbers. Arcadia didn't win, but I wasn't surprised. All the years we've gone, we never win. Then they called out the numbers for Ken's range. That surprised me... we won! Ken won a bike! It was all very exciting. I took him up to the stage. He posed with his bike for the newspaper and I brought it home. He's been ancy to ride it, but every night it's been either too cold, or we've been too busy for him to try it out.

Here he is on the bike:

Ken's Seven!!!!

Okay... so I am two weeks late in this one, but better late than never... ;)

Ken had his birthday at Boondocks and he LOVED it!!!

Here are some pics!

She's another year older! When did that happen?

Arcadia had her birthday last week and it was a big one for her. She's now five! Waaaa... My baby CANNOT be five! Eh... like that's going to stop her from growing up!

We had a party for her at Pump It Up. She LOVED it!!! Said it was her "Best Birthday Ever". Man... now I have to try and top it every year ;) not really... she's easily amused!

Here are a few pictures from the party. She had a ball as did all her friends. We have more pictures, but they are on the other camera in the other car... shall get that out and update later!

Picture catch up day...

Here's our little man and his Daddy with their Pinewood Derby car - The Green Machine



The Lineup... The Tiger Cars are on the first row on the bottom

And the winners are..... (the boy on the left was the over all winner of the Tigers AND of Pack 109, he had a speedy little car!)

Some Christmas pics

Cardinals

My Grandparents had bird feeders in their backyard and they had a wide variety of birds visit them. Mostly Cardinals and Swallows, but they did have a mean old Blue Jay that scared all the birds and even the squirrels away. I took a few pictures of the cardinals. I wanted one of the Jay, but it didn't want to be seen by us human folks so he hid on the opposite side of the feeder... the bum!

If you click on the pictures you can see the Cardinals much clearer. :)

Pictures from Grandma's Birthday

Here are a few pictures from my Grandma's 90th birthday. There would of been more, but as a parent of one of the high energy kids there, I was into wrangling. There were at least 200+ people there and it was a great thing for Grandma to see all the love.



4 Generations of the Farthing women all together


All the cousins (Grandkids and Great Grandkids together)



The Great Grandkids

Mother and Daughter

The Farthing Cousins

New Post for a New Year

Okay... so I haven't posted anything in over two weeks... sorry. :) But here I am... The new year is already flying by (okay... not so much flying, but it is going rather swiftly). My Grandma Swanson is having her 90th birthday this weekend and her friends and my mom and uncle are throwing her a party at her church on Sunday. Arcadia and I have decided to attend also. We thought it might be a good idea to do so. Too bad it has to be in Northern Illinois in the middle of winter. Oh well... not that I'm not used to cold weather and snow, right?

Well... anyways... I'll post some pictures when we get back. I tried to upload some Christmas videos, but they aren't uploading for me well. I'll have to try again.