Egg Hunts of '09

It's that time of year, time for the kiddos to come out & search for Eggs from the Easter Bunny. My good friend Beth and I made our traditional plans early on in the week for our boys. In our true Egg hunt tradition, we started the day early at Harvey Airfield in Snohomish, then headed to Life Care Center at 11am, to the Park Ridge Church at noon and then out to Shoreline Beach for the 1:00 hunt.

This year we were disappointed that the huge hunt that we generally do at Shoreline Stadium was not happening. Wow, the last 7 years, over 50,000 eggs the last few years and then it just disappeared! So, after hitting 5 this year, we shrunk back down to 4.

The 1st & 2nd hunts went flawlessly, getting there & out pretty easily. We ran into a few snags on the 3rd, we got there with plenty of time but then the Children's Pastor went a little long winded and the boys didn't actually get to hunt until about 12:35.

We booked out of there and drove as quickly as possible to the Richmond Beach Hunt and got there just as they were about to say GO! (We weren't about to go from 5 hunts in a day to 3!) Brennen got there a little late and we had to rush onto the little kiddies hunt. He was not exactly happy as he didn't get the bucket full of eggs he'd been able to get at the previous two hunts. The older boys got to line up just before they said "GO". They actuall hid the eggs in the brush on the hillside and the boys were a little shocked that they actually had to "hunt" for the eggs. Kinda funny I thought, they did well nonetheless.

Ready, Set -- GO!

Highlights of the DAY!!!

Gymnastics for Brennen

I know it's been a little while since we've blogged, it's been a busy couple of months. One basketball season ended for BJ & one just started. Brennen is busy with Preschool, Gymnastics & Swimming at the Y!

Today Brennen had a parents showcase at his gymnastics class and here are a few of the pics! He is having so much fun in gymnastics and it's something that he gets to do that all his own. The poor guys gets dragged to so much of B's stuff I thought it would be good for him to have his own activities.

Here are a couple of my favorites then a slideshow at the bottom.

My little Dare Devil!

Bear Crawl on the bars!

Wrapping up Bothell Select

BJ's getting ready to wrap up the Bothell Select Season. Despite our initial feelings of the program, it has been a great experience and BJ has come away with some great friends and experiences. His team has had a very successfull season and will wrap up later on this month. Right now their record i s 31 - 8 with two tournament championships under their belt. They finished 2nd overall in their league for the regular season and 3rd in the season ending league tournament.

They have a good chance of getting near 40 wins with the next couple of tourneys. Apparently this team is the most successful team to come out of the Bothell Select Program! I'm so proud BJ could be a part of this team.

They have a tournament in Stanwood next weekend and a tournament the following weekend right here in Bothell. After that it will be time to transition back to Emerald City. He is very excited to return to ECBA and is looking forward to the possibility of one of his Bothell Select friends on his team.

Here are some pics from the season

BJ's Pics over the Bothell Select 2009 - 2010 Season

Yet, another Highlight Video!!!

BJ finally gets to celebrate turning 11 - only a month late!

Nearly a month after BJ turned 11, we finally had a good weekend to celebrate his birthday with his friends. We had a climbing party at the new Dale Turner YMCA in Shoreline. They got a chance to do some climbing on the Turner Tower and had a blast. They went from climbing to some friendly basketball games of bump. To cap off the afternoon the boys gathered up their energy for a couple dodgeball games. Even Brennen got in on some of the fun and was his own team on the dodgeball court, grabbing a ball and tossing it at whoever was closest!

All in all I think B had a great time and thanks to all of his great friends who were able to come and celebrate it with him. He was bummed when we didn't get a chance to celebrate closer to his birthday, but all of his friends coming together and celebrating today made his 11th birthday a very memorable one. Thanks to everyone that could make it!

Check out some more pics from the day here ...

Click on any of the pics to take you to the actual album on the web -- Enjoy!