Easter pictures

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The Easter Bunny was very generous this year. And I got roses from James, which is always so thoughtful and romantic. Here is a picture of our baskets of goodies, chocolate bunnies, books and toys we got on Easter morning. James got a blu-ray, The African Queen.

I also wanted to put up a few pictures of our Easter Eggs. We had Grandma Droegemueller send a dye kit, and we had one left over from last year, so between the two we had 13 colors for our eggs! We tried some new dye techniques, such as wrapping rubber bands around the eggs, or "drawing" with glue then dying the egg, wiping off the glue, then dying another color over where the glue had left the egg white. It was pretty cool! We also had shrink-wrap "egg-a-rounds" that were a lot of fun to shrink with the hair dryer.




I think we had 26 eggs total... and quite the variety of colors and patterns since most had more than one color bath.



These are the eggs with the "glue writing," followed by a dip in a second color. We just used regular white glue.


The little boy I babysit, Benji, had an obsession with eggs, and since it's one of the only words he can say, he had a blast playing with the dyed eggs after Easter was over. He would crack them, of course, then he would say "egg hole!" He was cute.

Ghost Chickens in the Sky

You will all be honored to see the debut of the Droegemueller trio, a comedy act of great renown. Their first performance was the classic "Ghost Chickens in the Sky," presented to Taylor's Crossing Public Charter School on April 28th. They were truly a hit with all their peers. Look for future engagements at ward talents shows, etc.

We celebrated their great performance by getting KFC for dinner. :)

(The video had to be made smaller resolution/lower quality to fit on our blog, so be sure to turn up your volume and watch closely.)

Utah Trip

We had a lot of fun on our trip to Utah over Spring Break. We stayed one night at a hotel, partly just for the novelty of it, and partly because my two sisters were staying with my parents and they both had babies to tend to all night. Not that I got any more sleep at the hotel... I learned Sam sleep walks and Augie steamrolls anyone in bed with him.

Anyway, the Hampton Inn is a great hotel and I highly recommend it. They have a free "suite shop" with complimentary snacks, a great pool and hot tub, a full breakfast buffet, and all the bathroom amenities you want or might have forgotten. Here are pictures of us playing in the pool. It was Grandpa's birthday and he came to watch the kids play around.

Later we had a birthday party for Dad. Ammon treated us to pizza hut for dinner. Valerie made a very good German chocolate cake. We found a small votive candle to put on top.

Dad and Rachael

Eating our pizza

Eating the cake! yum!

Augie with Johnny, who he always calls "my funny cousin."

Abby and Taylor had a great time playing dress up. Valerie had a real masquerade mask from Venice, Italy and Abby was the mystery princess.

These girls kept Ammon busy "dancing" all night long. When he wasn't twirling them around, they would pile pillows on top of him and jump on him. He gets Uncle of the Year award for all the dancing he did! It was almost nonstop.


Sam as a mariachi guitarist

We spent most of the day Saturday working on the farm. We stripped the roof off a shed (the boys helped with that), carried a billion pieces of baling twine to the dumpster, rounded up metal for recycling, and emptied out a couple rooms in the barn that were just full of junk. We found some pretty cool antiques, too.

You can see under the truck the stump of the tree, which was formerly growing through this truck (it has not run in 30 years).

burning the branches


This shed will now be a greenhouse to grow vegetable starts for our family's new venture: farmer's market vegetables.

On Monday we said goodbye and drove back to Idaho. We had Taylor stay with us through the rest of the weekend, so we drove her to Riverside, UT just before the Idaho border where Rachael met us and we had lunch before we finished the drive back home. This is a picture of all the grandkids with Grandma.


Here is the video for our "Uncle of the Year"