Preperation for the Easter Bunny

The kids built their Easter nests. ( Dad's tradition ) The kids love doing this every year and Blake loves that they do this like he did when he was a little boy.

Easter baskets and making Easter Treats

The kids Easter Baskets ( mommy's tradition ) Kids helped me make Easter Basket cookies to take to Nana's and Papa's house. They did a great job. They did all the work except for baking the baskets... great job kiddos!

Easter Bunny

kids visited the Easter Bunny. Brooks pulled me aside at the mall and told me that, " this was not the real Easter Bunny, that it was a person dressed up in a costume!" " We all know that the Easter Bunny is a REAL bunny rabbit!!!" Love that he still believes in Santa and the Easter Bunny! Im guessing this will be the last year for all that for him. :(

Easter package from Hays

Kids always look forward to their specially painted boxes from Nana and Poppy in Hays! Easter package showed up!

Brooks' 3rd Grade Musical

Brooks had his 3rd Grade Musical. He did such a great job. He looked handsome as well!!

Snow Day.... AGAIN!!!!!

Daddy and Brooks are somewhere in there! We had another snow day. Thank goodness it was just one day and not three like last time! Blake built the kids a fort. Bailey was out helping most of the time but when i came out to take some pictures she was done and ready to come inside. So, Blake, Brooks and Clark got their pics taken! Thank you Daddy for building the coolest fort ever!

Day Two in Hutchinson

We got up after sleeping in a bit and headed to pick Grandpa Kently up to get some breakfast before heading the Salt Museum. Brooks felt fine afer getting sick the night before! Must have just been something he ate, thank goodness. Had a great breakfast and then went to the Salt Mine. They took us down in an elevator with about 10 other people and as we went down we were told it would get dark... they weren't kidding. You couldn't even see your hand infront of your own face. The ride took about a minute and a half to go 600ft underground. We all had to wear a hard hat. We also got to tote around a breathing maching around our necks with a strap just in case of an emergency. We didn't have any emergencies, thank goodness! I thought it would be kinda chilly down there but it was very very comfortable. The ceiling, floor and walls were all solid salt. It was amazing! We walked through some tunnels to read up on the history of the Salt Mine, watched some videos and got to touch some salt in three different ways that they produce it. We took a train ride through some of the tunnels. Then we rode a tram called the " dark ride ". It took us through the deep dark tunnels with only the light of the tram. We sat in the back so it was pretty dark. The tunnels went on for miles each way. Pretty amazing! The driver of the tram gave us a history lesson while stopping and showing us some things that were left down in the mines from a long time ago! We got to stop at a big pile of salt and the kids got to get out and either pick out a big piece of salt to take home or a bag of smalle pieces. Brooks got a big piece and Bailey got a bag full. After we had spent about 2 hrs down there, maybe longer. We made a stop in the gift shop and the kids each got their own hard hats with a light on the front that worked. They weren't allowed the wear those down underground but they got to wear them when we got back up in the lobby. Thanks Grandpa Kently for coming with us on these two adventures. We had a great time! Clark liked that he can come to your house and spend time with Buddy too!!