{Mother's day}

Mother's day 2012 was the best ever!  I was spoiled rotten!!! 

 Richard and the kids really out did themselves this year.

After breakfast in bed and presents I was told I need to see something outside. 

I opened the front door to this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Yep, Hannah, Jacob, and Rebekah decorated the driveway!  Jonah decided not to help because he had already made me a present!  So funny. 

(It was a shrinky dink key chain caricature of me, vacuuming...according to him my favorite thing to do.)

The kids wrote some really sweet things for me!!!  Of the "10 reasons why we love our mom"  I think "she can pick great things at the $1store" has got to be the funniest!  I have a talent ya know!

The whole day was a lot of fun.  We laughed, played, and I did not cook a single thing or do a single dish!!  What a great day! 

 

Me and the kids, straight from bed, in all our glory!

Thanks for making it one of the best mother's day I have ever had!!

{Easter}

Easter 2012 had all the same fun Heninger family traditions...

The Spencers came and spent the weekend with us.  It was a blast!  Here are the kids early Easter morning waiting to come downstairs!  (Jonah, Jacob, Alec, Rebekah, and Ella) Hannah was too cool to have her picture taken.  Boo.

It was hard to get any pics during the hunt...they were all running full speed all around the room1

after church the girlies played hopscotch

 

This pic was from Saturday, I forgot to add it to that post.  It is Brady and Jacob with the Easter Bunny.

It was a great weekend spent celebrating Easter the best way possible, with family! 
Thank you Spencers for coming here to spend the weekend with us!!

{Egg Hunt}

We went to the annual egg hunt at Chick-fil-a, and had a blast!!

Mandy, Ivy and Brady

Jacob

The sod in the parking lot, getting ready for Rebekah's age group..

Rebekah is in the pink hoodie, right after the countdown...

Rebekah, Jacob, and Jonah showing what they won!
Every year we are so impressed with the prizes!  This year our prizes included a basketball, Disney plush, chalk, and a LOT of bouncy balls!

Mandy, Richard, me, Jacob, and Jonah

Thanks Chick-fil-a for a great Saturday morning!  We love the prizes and the coupons for free food!
(It is sort of like Christmas!)
We have lots of coupons so we'll be seeing you quite a bit!

{Easter FHE}

We had our Easter FHE tonight.  We had a great lesson on the Savior and His resurrection. 
It is great to see how much the kids really know, and it is fun to give a "deeper" lesson!

For treats we made the empty tomb.  I found this idea here. 
(I slightly adapted the treats to fit my kids tastes)



It was a really fun evening! 
We only wish Hannah were here and not in Idaho!!

Happy Easter!

{St. Patrick's Day Fun}

St. Patrick's day came, and went with all the usual festivities!



Lucky visited, left notes...

pots of gold,

festive decor,

 

hid gold coins all over downstairs for the kids to find,

avoided getting caught in Rebekah's trap,

or Jonahs,

turned the toilet water green, the pancakes green and the milk green,

brought smiles to all the kids faces (Jonah)

(Jonah and Jacob)

(Sorry Hannah and Rebekah were camera shy...turkeys!)
and finally left Lucky Charms!

All in all we had a great morning. 
It was fun, and since this year fell on a Saturday we got to spend it with Hannah!  FUN!!!!!

{Valentines Day}

Happy Valentines Day! 

We had a really fun morning.  Rebekah was up by 5:30 begging to go downstairs! 
I made her lay down for a few more minutes. 
There were lots of yummy treats and happy kids!!!



We made our annual sugar cookies (last night)...

Bagged them to share with teachers.

The Valentines Fairy did not miss her annual trip to our home.  She left LOTS of goodies for everyone!
Pop tarts (one box for each kid.  That was met with loud cheers!), chocolates, conversation hearts, peanut butter cups, kisses, malt balls and Cinnamon hearts were in abundance everywhere. 

SUGAR RUSH! (Don't worry we ate a healthy breakfast...we just had dessert after brecky!)

The Valentines mail boxes the Valentines Fairy fills

Lots of decorations for the festive breakfast!

When Rebekah turned the corner into the kitchen she squealed, "Look at the new banner!  So pretty!"  It is worth every minute spent when they get so excited about the details!!

Happy kids to see she came!!!

Sorry no pics of Hannah...I did not pull my camera out before she left.  Darn.

Spilling the loot from the box

 

When I asked Rebekah what her favorite part was she said the "fun cups" the Valentine Fairy made us! 

(If you look in the second picture you can see them.)

She makes me laugh.