Happy Easter!

Caitlin & Cody had a good time coloring eggs yesterday. We decorated with crayon before we gave them a dip and they all turned out really cool. It was sunny & 72 degrees! Absolutely perfect weather... and we needed it. It rained every single day in March and has only not rained 2 days in April.

Caitlin came in this morning right around 6:30am and was hollering something about an Easter basket she had found. I tried to tell her to go back to bed with no luck. Cody the nighttime, crawl into our bed sneaker had heard Catilin and was climbing over my head to get out and go look for his basket. I managed to hold them off for a while, but by 8am they had already eaten a few chocolate eggs and were zipping all over the place begging to get outside and start hunting. We finally went in and got Anne (who didn't get any extra sleep thanks to the sugar bombed Cody noise) and we headed outside in the rain to find some easter eggs.

Afterwards, it was off to church for a nice message about staying anchored with God, practicing prayer each morning and night, attending regular services and having compassion & kindness for others.

Now Cody's konked out for a nap, the house is mostly quiet, there's a big ol' ham in the oven and it's starting to smell really good in here!

A few more shots...

Can you believe they would cancel school for this? My news station has been on the air for just about 6 hours now. I think it's hillarious. In my day we used to have to walk to school barefoot, uphill in 3 feet of snow for 6 miles...

SNOW DAY - WA-HOOOOOOOOO!

All this week, we heard of the "Surprise February Storm" that was going to come in like gangbusters Wednesday evening...probably sometime between 4-6 p.m. It was still sunny outside at 5:15 p.m. When I went to bed last night, I was pretty sure it wasn't going to snow because nothing had stuck on the ground (though it did look icy).

But, when we looked out the window this morning...

It was a winter PLAYLAND! So, Caitlin and Codes woke up their Dad at 8 a.m., and he begrudgingly got out of bed to go play in the snow with them. (What a good Dad, eh?)

Cody, our little ice eater, munched happily on new fallen snow. We only let him eat the stuff in the front yard where there are no doggy land mines.

Caitlin was spending time trying to find sticky enough snow to make snowballs.

They both were having fun hanging out in the front yard for a change.

They were able to make some snowballs and toss a few to Casey. She liked eating the snow just as much as Cody.

Casey also loved romping around in this crazy white stuff.

Brian, big and strong man that he is, was able to make this 12 inch high snow man.

Here's Caitlin, inside where it's safe (from snowballs) and warm. We were providing some targets on the window from the inside. I think Codes and Daddo were aiming at the face in between the stuffed animals! heh, heh

At least we got SOME use out of the snow pants we bought at garage sales and clearance racks!

The toes have it...

We went home last summer and I had to have my Dad see all the crazy tricks Caitlin can do with her toes. My Dad showed her up with his trick of somehow "grabbing" the second toe with his first and third toes. Somehow, both kiddos have mastered Grandpa's crazy toe trick.

The Andrusiak's sure have some interesting feet.

I know, I know...

What have we been up to for the past two months, you ask? It's a good question because it LOOKS like I've been too busy to blog, doesn't it? Well, here's a peak at what's been going on!

We've obviously been hanging out with the cat (Raja)!

Which causes the dogs to get jealous, so we had to hang out with them too!
Over Christmas break, we just HAD to go hang out with Uncle Deacon and family at the Sand Ranch. (Who can resist 40 acres of backyard sand fun?)
Of course if we are at Uncle Deacons, we just MUST go on the 4-wheelers!
And, since that is so fun, we just have to beg the cousins to come visit too so we can all bounce around on the trampoline! This is just a brief glimpse of what we've been doing. I will try to make a little time to post about Thanksgiving and Christmas as soon as I get another chance!