Easter

Happy Easter! The Easter Bunny left lots of surprises. Even a special message for Gavin. We all got lovely Easter baskets and the Easter Bunny picked up a skateboard from Grandma's house and hid it in the apartment especially for Gavin. Lots of eggs were hidden as well and none were in plain sight, but Gavin found them all!
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Message from the Easter Bunny.

Gavin's Easter basket.

New skateboard!

I love the skateboard. I think the skull is pretty cool. 

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Almost Easter

Today Brilliant Sky Toys had chicks and bunnies to pet. It was so much fun. We spent over an hour playing with all of the animals. Gavin particularly liked holding the chicks.

In the evening we dyed Easter eggs and made Easter cookies. Daddy was a little confused and decorated the cookies with snowmen and holly berries. Gavin thought that was great fun and the Easter cookies became the cookies of any holiday other than Easter.
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Easter Egg Hunt

Today we had a fun Easter party with Gavin's homeschool group. The Piper's have a huge yard with lots of great hiding places for eggs. On the way over Gavin asked, "Is this going to be an Easter egg hunt, or an eggs laying around in plain site?" I told Glenda and she thought that was hysterical. She made sure to really hide some of the eggs just for Gavin. After the egg hunt Jessamyn read the kids an Easter book and they had an Easter lunch with egg shaped sandwiches.
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Natural History Museum

Gavin and I visited the Natural History Museum in Mesa today with the Kempers. Gavin was very excited to see them again after being away so long. The museum has a big dinosaur exhibit. The kids were also able to pan for gold and see replicas of Native American villages and pottery.
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Damian, Skylar, Gavin and Xander

My favorite part of the museum was the dinosaurs. It was fun, fun and mostly fun. The end. 

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Surprise Trip

We were driving back to Phoenix and arrived in Las Vegas quite late. Kyle was getting tired and decided it would be quicker to drive to Anaheim than Phoenix so we made an unexpected detour. Gavin was asleep and when we got to the Park Vue Inn Kyle woke him up and told him we didn't make it all the way home and we needed to stop and get some rest. Then we told him what was across the street. Disneyland! He was so excited. Our room had a giant hot tub in it and Gavin took a crazy bubble bath.

Sadly Gavin had a terrible night complaining of an ear ache. He woke up the next morning with a fever and we had to take him to the doctor. After getting an antibiotic and some rest we were still able to spend two fun days in the park.
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St. Patrick's Day at Disneyland

I loved it. I didn't even know I was going there. I got sick so that was no fun but I still liked the trip to Disneyland. One night in Fantasyland it was right about to close and we went on every ride because nobody was there. It was really, really, positutely, extremely fun. 

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Out With Friends

Kyle flew back to Salt Lake today so he can drive me and Gavin home this weekend. We were able to visit Joe and Shelly tonight and have dinner at Cracker Barrel. Gavin had lots of fun with Max and Amelia.
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Max, Gavin and Amelia checking out the candy in Cracker Barrel.

More Art

I love watching Gavin do his artwork. He does such a good job. His painting today was inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "The Starry Night".
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Vincent Van Gogh

Gavin Kyle Lewis

The artist at work. 

It was pretty fun to paint. I liked it. I like my fedora. It doesn't help me paint. I just happened to be wearing it. It's like a lucky fedora. Literally. 

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