A SKAINTZ CREW EASTER CAMPOUT!!

Since we didn't have our annual easter party this year, we instead decided to get together with the Skaggs family for a one night campout!! We loaded up the Ranger & Rhino with tents, food & plenty of booz and headed out into the Tonto from our house on Saturday afternoon and came back Sunday midday-ish for the rest of our Easter festivities! I am still trying to figure out if we "over pack" or the Skaggs "under pack" but it never fails no matter where we go or what we do the Kaintz Family always has 10 times more stuff than the Skaggs ... hahahaaa!!!

Once we FINALLY (I say finally because the ranger was top heavy from the load on top to say the least and as we were climbing a hill, we got into a little bit of a scary situation as we were teetering on 2 wheels, which completely filled me with anxiety for the remainder of the ride out) got to where we planned on setting up camp we set up tents and the kiddos started collecting firewood!!

Hangin' by the fire!

The next morning, Jaime and I went out and hid all the easter eggs that we brought and the kids had an easter egg hunt camping sytle in the middle of the desert!!

On Saturday before we left, Rilyn went pee pee on the big girl potty for the very 1st time . . . then on Sunday morning she started telling me & Clay "potty" "potty" "potty" over and over so I figured what the heck I'll break her into going potty camping style early!! I put her in the squatting stance and sure enough she took care of business right there in the middle of the desert, I couldn't believe it and she was soooooo proud!!! After that she became obsessed and spent the next hour or more with her pants at her ankles squatting to pee, diaper on and all!!

I guess we'll just call this another Skaintz Adventure!!!!

EGG COLORING WITH GRAMMY

We completed our 1st batch of dyed eggs!!! Grammy brought the eggs & dye out to the house and we turned the kiddos loose. Charlotte was sure to draw or write something special on each of her eggs and was sure to get as many dyed possible in as little time!! Trey was typical Trey, Mr. Perfection, taking his time on each and every egg until it was just the right color!! Rhett was the mix master who had to switch the same egg from color to color to color and although we wont tell him this ... most of them ended up quite an ugly brown!! Rilyn doesn't quite understand yet that when it comes to eggs you have to be on the gentle side and cared mostly about pulling the egg in and out, in and out .. meanwhile splashing the dye everywhere, as you can see, Grammy even had to equip herself with a bib!!! We had a great time and they did an awesome job!! They cant wait to leave them out in their baskets Saturday night for the Easter Bunny to hide!!

Rilyn's very very first dyed easter eggs ... you can see above she is still in the "wow, this is pretty cool" stage ... but it didn't take long and she was to the "hands on, let me do it myself" stage which became very dangerous to Grammy and her white shirt in no time at all!!!

JUST LIKE MY BIG BRO!!!

Rilyn decided that she was gonna rock no shirt while playing outside too, just like her brother!! The two of them were playing out back and Rhett, being a boy, took off his shirt as the boys often do!! Without skipping a beat Rilyn had her shirt off too .. it was way too cute watching her run around in only her skirt and shoes!! Such a lil lady we have!!

PUCKERED UP KISSES

After making several attempts to call daddy on her "real" but "pretend" cell phone ... that sounded something like this "hiii daddy" silence "daddy" silence "daddy" silence "hi daddy" silence ... and so on you get the picture, throughout the day ... I FINALLY talked Rilyn into texting him a puckered up kiss on mommy's phone instead!!! So this is what daddy got . . . who could resist a face & kiss like this!!!

Hurry home daddy, we miss you!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN

Sunday we celebrated one of our favorite little dude's, Logan's 4th birthday!! As I have said before the Skagg's always have the best parties and the kids had an absolute blast: swimming, painting, pinata (in fact the most gigantic pinata I have ever seen!!), cake, more swimming!!!

The birthday boy!!!

Trey & Rilyn painting their wood sign's! Byrne & Jaime carved each kids name into a piece of wood for them to paint .. such an awesome idea, the boys cant wait for daddy to get home to hang them up in their room!!

SPRING IS IN THE AIR . . .

of course we already know this by the weather and our allergies . . . but I got the best proof of all yesterday when my two little handsome dude's, Trey & Rhett, came running in the back door each with a pretty yellow flower for me that they had picked while playing out on their track in the back yard!!! It was such a pleasant surprise and I immediately put them in some water. Now here they sit on my kitchen counter and bring a smile to my face at every glance ... such sweet lil boys I have, taking care of their momma!!!

CRAZY BUSY WEEK!!

This past week has been nothing but go go go ... which leaves me no time for blogging ... so here I sit on Sunday night once again playing catch up!!! Instead of breaking everything up into several different post's, I decided to just throw it all on one!! We started the week off celebrating Uncle Dawin's birthday at Grammy's house!! We bbq'd and had Grammy's famous cake that we all love so so much!! HAPPY BDAY UNCLE D, WE LOVE YOU!! On Tuesday night we went over to Aunt Lacey's new house that she FINALLY closed on to check it out and I cant believe it but I didn't even snap a picture of the new pad, darn it!! So so happy for her she has been beyond patient and I am so glad the day is finally here. Nobody deserves it more, CONGRATS LAY!! Then came Wednesday which we headed over to Brad & Lorie's to celebrate Aly Meezie's birthday filled with pizza, cake & scrapbooking!! Cant believe my lil neice (the very 1st born in the fam) is 9 .... Happy Birthday Aly Mae!!!

Aly showin' off one of her presents!!

Then came Friday ... ohhhhh Friday!! Well Friday started off good, it was the big wedding day for Brad & Lorie (that I was very excited about, not only because they were getting married but also because I was doing the photography) I was ahead of schedule and had a good game plan for the day ....... until ........ I pulled a jackass move and got into an accident on my way to drop the kiddos off at Grammy's for the night .... grrrrr!!! Thank god everyone was ok, the kids were a little bit shooken up at first but calmed down pretty quick and had no injuries. As for me I'm pretty stiff and my leg is pretty bruised up but I'm alive and walking so that's all that matters!! Now comes the waiting game to find out if insurance is going to fix my truck or not which I am really really really hoping they will!

The wedding went on as planned and turned out absolutely PERFECT & BEAUTIFUL!! And although I had to hobble my way thru and completely refocus from accident to wedding I was able to pull off the pictures! Here is a little sneak peak!! I will have more to share in the near future!! Congratulations Bradley & Lorie, so happy for you!! Lorie welcome to this crazy family sista!!!