Here comes Peter Cotton Tail...

The girls were excited for the chance to have some Easter fun this year. We haven't really explained the whole Easter Bunny thing very well (which is a big plus for the pocket book, but a little bit of a downer when you try to get them excited for eggs and baskets). However, when boxes came from Grandparents, they understand that there is candy associated with this Easter thing. So after eating way too much sugar, they were excited for the Easter traditions.

We started with designing some wonderful eggs. Hadley couldn't wait to get her hands in the cups full of dye. They each got to make 5 eggs in any color they wanted.Rach helped Allie and I got to hang with my tiny buddy Hadley (she really enjoyed putting the stickers on, I think we put the entire sheet of stickers on one egg [but it looked very pretty!]).

Here are the finished works of the Meldrum family.

Surprisingly little pink, based on the artists involved. (I may have helped persuade Hadley to make the orange and blue one just a little bit)

After a Friday night of decorating eggs, we kept the fun rolling with a Saturday morning Easter egg hunt. The girls were really excited to go look for eggs.

 

Everyone waiting at the starting line

 (This picture had the BEST smiles of the girls, enough said).

They both found some eggs in the sneakiest of places. 

Crazy Easter bunny hiding eggs in the rocks!

Hadley still has a crooked grin, but it sure is cute.

 

Allie after finding all her eggs. She is pretty cute too!

On Sunday morning the Easter Bunny left a little surprise for the girls. 

They had to follow his trail through the house to find the goodies at the end.

In the end, it was worth it for the candy, toys, and fun.

Silly Easter Bunny leaving the baskets in the garage.

 Happy Easter everyone!

Ready for an adventure

This week for the Meldrum family adventure, we went to the airport open house. They open the small airport next to our house once a year and have a car show and booths. The neater part was the airplanes and helicopters open to the public. Allie liked the model train exhibit that was in one of the hangers. The girls all got to pose in front of an Apache helicopter. It was a good family fun day.

Popsicles

Now that it is warming up here in Arizona, we are able to spend all our time outside in the sunshine. The girls really enjoy this time of year for the sunshine, playtime, and popsicles.

The girls enjoying their homemade fruit smoothie pops.

 Hadley showing her true colors.

When two people really love each other...

Allie has been really into drawing lately. 

She has gotten so much better at drawing faces and bodies with arms and legs. 

This is Allie's most recent masterpiece.

Pay particular attention to the Mom in this picture, as she has a special surprise! 

(Even more amazing is that she can carry a baby in her kneecap!)

The Meldrum family is happy to announce the expected arrival of Thing 3. This newest addition is expected to arrive on September 24, 2013 (however if baby 3 wants to be convenient it will come on October 2 - easier to remember birthdays if they are all the same day of the month).
((says the one not carrying the baby))

We are excited to introduce to the world the very first picture of Baby Meldrum III. 

(Unfortunately People magazine was not offering millions for rights to the first photo). 

Ostrich anyone

After a long week of work, I decided our family needed an extra special family adventure. I heard about a festival that is held down in Chandler every year, and we couldn't resist. So today in our blog we present.... the Meldrum family trip to the Ostrich Festival (queue dramatic music).

The festival was basically a huge fair with lots of rides, food, and entertainment. One of the first places we went was to see the petting zoo. There were goats, cows, sheep, and even a kangaroo! 

Both girls wanted to feed the animals, so I could not help but get a small cup of animal feed (since I was secretly hoping they would ask anyway). At first they were a little scared of the rowdy goats, but then they learned that they licked the food out of your hand.

After letting the goats lick their hands it was just pure fun. 

Hadley thought it tickled to feed the goats, and would laugh each time she got to feed them.

Then was the most unique part of the festival, the ostrich races! They had multiple races and used bareback riding and chariots!

After watching the live action I realized that it was not as easy as they made it look in Swiss Family Robinson (much to my dismay, as that was always a childhood dream of mine).

The rest of the day was filled with magic shows, dog shows, and delicious ostrich burgers for lunch.

Allie said this was the best family adventure ever (this might be hard to improve upon next time).

Spring Time Fun!

Grandma and Grandpa Meldrum were able to make a long layover (5 days) on their way to GG Meldrum's new house in Boise and we loved it!  It was beautiful weather while they were here and we enjoyed a lot of time outside, visiting the train park in Scottsdale, the Temple, and lots of fun at home.  We were glad that Phoenix was a stop on the way to Boise!

Grandpa decided that everyone needs a pinwheel in the spring!

Mike worked on Monday and we made our way to the Train Museum in Scottsdale.  It was pretty cool and the girls favorites were the train ride and carousel ride they got to go on because grandma and grandpa were there, which is our family rule.  Saves on a lot of whining and money wanting to go on them every time we see one.

  Allie had school the day they left and Grandpa wanted to take some pictures before she left. 

 Hadley did not want to be let out and posed exactly the same as Allie.

On Sunday we went to the temple and saw all the beautiful spring flowers.