Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holiday. Show all posts

4/22/12

Dying the eggs for Easter

We dyed eggs this year. Collin got a HUGE excitement out of it. He loved seeing the eggs turn colors. He especially liked when we colored the "magic" crayon on the eggs.
Liam, he pretty much just wanted to make a mess, so he didn't get to dye too many :)
Not sure why we love putting dyed eggs over our head.
Punching out the little circles is a fun thing to do for 3-year-olds.
Of course, Collin had 2 Cougar blue eggs. He is a true blue boy.

Leprechaun Trap

Collin and I made a leprechaun trap this year. I figured it would be a hit because Collin is all about pretend....but....
Holy cow was it a hit! The leprechaun we tried to catch every night and didn't, but he would leave us a treat. Collin got SO into this..... seriously. It was one of my greater ideas.... so that will have to become an annual tradition.
This was going on a walk on St. Patrick's Day I guess... Collin must have been mad :)

1/5/11

Christmas Eve 2010

We went up to Idaho for Christmas this year for a few days. It was so fun to be around Sadee and Ava, and they sure loved Collin. Fun picture before our Christmas Eve dinner.

Tradition continues. When we go take a drive to look at the lights, an elf brings a present. Collin got some "carry along" books, tractor, emergency, and train. He LOVED them of course.

He would not put the books down to see anyone else open the elf present.

Sadee and Ava got the new tangled barbie doll. They are ALL about Tangled this year.
This is what a girl would look like in our household. I guess if you play with girls who love to dress up, they dress up boys. Even though I was like, come on guys, Collin made a cute girl :)

11/16/10

Halloween party 2010

Okay, so I'm a little behind in posting. These are some fun family pictures taken at the Barnhisel Halloween party. I'm so glad they have a party, so we can come! Collin was a pumpkin, Ryan was the pumpkin farmer, and I was the standard witch.... but not as cool as some other witches that came. Collin wasn't sure if he should be scared of Darth Vadar, or attack him.
But, he became a fan of the light sabre.
The pumpkin farmer and Yoda together.
Collin's little cousin Kyle was Yoda, oh my goodness he was so cute. He is about 4 months older than Collin.
I think Collin's favorite part was the donut game. Now, Collin is familiar with donuts, because his mommy is a spoilover and often has to buy him one to survive a trip to the grocery store with him. This game you weren't supposed to touch the donut to eat it.
Yeah right. Collin just ran over there and POUNDED that thing.
He tried to actually eat another one too. Thanks for fun Halloween parties!

7/20/10

Happy belated Independence Day!

Hope everyone had a great holiday!

4/8/10

Easter egg hunt

In Idaho Falls, it was FREEZING outside, so they moved the Easter egg hunt Saturday morning inside. We barely found out about it in time, so here is Collin and I inside the fire station. We just watched the bigger kids hunt, I wasn't about to have Collin running around in the little kid area just eating chocolate. HA HA.
Ava waiting to get candy
The onslaught begins. Sadee just stayed in one little spot and got a LOOT!
I mean, this was easier than Halloween. Stay in one spot, 10 minutes later, a HUGE truckload of candy. Man, I wish I was 6 again...
And this was GOOD stuff. Skittles and Snickers. My favorite.
Sadee was pumped.
Ava was also excited in her sweet way.
Collin just wanted to get on the fire truck....so we did after the hunt was over.
Collin liked the fire truck best. He kept saying "truck!" with real enthusiasm.
We also got to meet Sparky, the fire dog. And Sadee and Ava shared their chocolate.

Easter eggs and basket

So, the Easter basket brought an early gift to Sadee and Ava. This basket (really, we don't know who this Easter bunny is) was OUT OF CONTROL. The picture doesn't do it justice. Opening the basket was like 2 girls' dream...
Dying eggs we did at least twice. Collin was more content to sit in the back. Sadee and Ava really got into it.
Several of the eggs "had injuries" like back surgery, brain surgery, one eye, etc.
But, I said those eggs we can still dye. It was hilarious all the things they were making up to solve the egg crack problems.
Collin eating yogurt. Not really caring about eggs.
Sadee with her favorite egg.
"Brain surgery" egg with Ava.
Yeah for dyed eggs!

3/17/10

Happy St. Patricks Day!

Says this little Green-shirt, bigger size shoes, runny nosed little toddler! Love, Collin Ryan O'Berry

12/20/09

Santa baby

Last weekend, for our ward Christmas party, we put Collin in this little Santa outfit. Granted, it was a little small, and it only lasted on him for an hour... But everyone was calling him Santa Baby at the party. He's a toddler, but still a cute Santa baby :)

12/6/09

Montana Thanksgiving

We made a trip to Montana for Thanksgiving to visit Ryan's sister.
Collin LOVED playing with his cousins. He got to be a cowboy with Audrey.
A family photo the day after Thanksgiving.
While we were there, Grace got baptized. She asked me to give the baptism talk, which was my first ever. Congrats Grace!

11/1/09

Halloween 2009

Collin's daddy REALLY gets creative in carving pumpkins and Collin loved to watch. Saturday morning I finally got to clean the bathroom, because we had the Halloween music playing and Collin "trapped" to watch pumpkin carving. This was Collin's pumpkin. He loved to take the top of him off and roll him around and look through the eyes and nose and figure out what was going on in there.
Sometimes the pumpkin got the best of him and rolled away.
We took Collin trick-or-treating to a few houses of our neighbors before anyone else started showing up. Lucky for me, Ryan went and got me a witch's hat so I put together a quick witch costume and he was Captain Kirk.
Hope everyone had a happy and safe Halloween!

Halloween---3 days early

Even though this was Collin's second Halloween, we did more things this year. Our ward 3 days before Halloween, the youth put on a "Halloween party" for the kids. Okay, so Collin isn't even really a "kid" technically, but we brought him anyways. He LOVES being around other little kids, and we had a REALLY cute Dalmation costume, lent to me by my loving sister. This was Collin when we first got there starting at everyone's costumes.

This was his favorite thing to do, and ironically, his costume fit perfectly with him just wanting to crawl away everywhere.

Collin's friend Tessa, she is 3 weeks older than he is, but much taller, so I thought it fitting she was a lion :)

Hey, finally someone smaller than me mom!

Collin sure had fun at the party and so did we!
On a side note, here is our pumpkins from Ryan's pumpkin patch this year, minus one that we gave early to Sadee. And this is the first year I finally got around to roasting pumpkin seeds. YUM!