This, That and The Other

I feel like I am playing catch up. Our trip to Washington threw me off a little, so let's do a little flashback. Stay tuned to the end of the post for a final thought and a contest!!!

The Saturday before Easter we went bowling for a friend's birthday. Our town has a bowling alley, but it isn't really kid friendly. A town about 45 minutes away has a great new bowling alley so we hit it up...smoke-free and all!

Kennan didn't care to watch his ball roll down the lane!

Brayden helping me bowl! We were close to breaking 100...
Kennan and his friends!
Easter Sunday was great!! We had a wonderful turn out for our children's time and egg hunt. Here are the kids with Kenny (he was the storyteller!).

Brayden egg hunting in the nursery (we couldn't go outside because of the rain).

Kennan and Mason

Since we've been back from Washington, the weather has been perfect!!

Perfect for sandbox playing (Brayden and Gentry)

And perfect for popsicle eating (Kennan and some friends)

My cousin Chris and his wife Laura moved not too far from us last summer. So, Brayden and I were lucky enough to travel to the closest town when their youngest was born on Thursday. It was fun to spend the day with them in anticipation for little Brinley's arrival!

Chris, Maddie, Laura, Emma and Kendall

The girls with Brinley just minutes after she was born!

Sweet baby!

We have spent the last few days doing yardwork. The people who lived here before us did an amazing job with the flower beds. We have 2 huge ones that line our fences in the backyard. It has been a pretty overwhelming task to keep up the work they had done and we are learning a lot!! Today we pulled weeds and planted green beans, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers, cilantro and parsley. I can wait to see and taste the "fruits" of our labor in the next few weeks/months.

The kids loved digging and planting!

Kennan planting the green beans.

Brayden Lynn

The sweetest 20 month old!

Kennan Joshua

My favorite 4 year old!

My final thought:

If you are like me, you use Google Reader for your blog reading. This is a great tool, but it usually means that you read the post from the reader and never take a look at the person's actual blog, which means you probably never comment on the blog. I know I do this...and then it drives me crazy when no one comments on my blog!! Everyone loves a little love on their blog so I have an idea...

Here is my challenge for you:

For the next 5 days (and longer if you keep it up), I challenge you to comment on at least 3 different blogs each day. That means at the end of the day on Friday you will have made at least 15 comments on different blogs. Come back to this post sometime on Friday or Saturday to let me know that you did it. Then on Sunday I will pick a winner and you will receive a fun spring/summer gift.

What do you think? Are you up for the challenge? It can't be that hard!!