Happy Easter

The past few weeks we have got to do some fun easter activities.
Since I know this is just boring stuff for some of you. I just want to say that I use this blog as a type of journal. It is mostly for myself and my family so I can remember things. I have never been a good journal keeper but always wanted to be especially since I have kids now. I want to remember the little things we did as a family and the funny things the kids have said 20 and 30 years down the road. I wish that I had done this starting 5 years ago, so I could remember when Noah and Eli hit all their milestones and documented some of the fun things they did and said when they were smaller. I plan to print this off yearly and put it in a binder of some sort. Does anyone have any good ideas about doing something like that? I am still trying to figure out exactly how I want to do it.
But ANYWAY.... back to writting about our Easter festivities. =)

I love how you can buy these holiday house kits now. There is not just only gingerbread house kits anymore, there is haunted houses you can make for halloween and now this year I found this Easter bunny house kit that is so cute! The kids love making these houses and they are always a cute decoration in the kitchen for a few weeks =)

We colored eggs, which is always fun and messy! The boys were lucky enough to get to do 3 Easter egg hunts. One at the church, one at the park and one at our friends house.

At the park's Easter egg hunt they had a bunny for the kids the pet. Eli LOVED this bunny. He had so much fun petting and teasing this bunny, it was so funny. Our friends the Sondrups invited us over for a little Easter egg hunt and barbecue, which was so fun. Even though Kenta was working and only got to show up for the last 30 minutes. Thanks guys it was so fun!

Here are all the cute kids at the barbecue. I think this picture is so funny. They were trying to get the kids to make funny faces and I guess Eli thought his buddy Riley needed some assistance.

Now for Easter day....

Easter was a great relaxing day. The Easter bunny found us, and of course they were SO excited! The toy trucks were their favorite item they got. They have still not let them go. The trucks went to church, to grandmas for dinner, they have taken a bath for the past 3 days. They have eaten breakfast, lunch and dinner with us and Noah even insisted that he take it to preschool. I tried to convince him it wasn't a good idea, but he just kept saying " Mom, everyone will love my truck, they really will." It was pretty funny and since Noah has the best preschool teacher who I didn't think would mind, I had to let him.

Anyway after a a fun morning and a yummy brunch off to church we went. The past week I had been trying to explain to Noah the real reason for celebrating Easter and he just wasn't really getting it, which is fine. He is only 4. But after church on sunday he had a much better understanding. I asked him what he had learned at church today and he told me he watched a movie and he explained to me all about how jesus had died and came back to life and that he had owies on his hands. It was pretty cute to listen to him tell us all about it. My little boy is growing up. =)

After church we went to my moms for the rest of the day and spent time with family and had a delicious Easter dinner.

Look closely and you will see Noah is wearing a tie in the picture below. I had no idea he was wearing this until we got to church. I asked him about it and he said he just wanted to wear a tie today. Kenta and I were laughing so hard! Noah and Eli are so funny sometimes.They make me laugh so much. I just can not imagine my life without these boys. They make me so happy......most of the time =)

Hope everyone had a great Easter!

This week

THIS WEEK................

We took these cute boys to COSI

I think Kai did not find it as fun as the rest of us. =)
Kai got to take a bath with his big brothers for the first time!

Noah asked to take the training wheels off his bike so kenta did. He fell just a few timesBut within 10 minutes he had it down!

I am so proud of my big 4 year old boy!

My friend Danielle offered to let us borrow their super fun bouncy house. Of course it rained the first few days we had it. Obviosuly it can't be out in the rain, and the kids were so anxious to play with it! So we set it up in the house. Yep, my kids were the happiest kids in town =)

Just another week in the Harada's life. =)

PIE DAY

We celebrated pie day 3.14 with a bunch of YUMMY pies and the pie-n-wood derby. Kenta and I are on the activities commitee at church, so we got to help plan this fun activity. Look at just a few of the delicious pies we had that night! There was a pie eating contest and my dad won. GO DAD! Here are some of my cool friends who participated in the contest. Becca, Danielle and Amy. Don't they look gorgeous =)

The winners of the pie eating contest got to throw pies in these boys faces! Kenta was a good sport for doing this =) My dad didn't want to throw a pie, so he passed the prize along to me. So I got to throw the pie in kentas face! =)

Before

After...It was really enjoyable =)

All the kids had so much fun doing the pinewood derby. There were a lot of great creative cars. Kenta was one of the guys racing the cars. He thought he was pretty cool =)

Here is Noah and his 2 buddies Dash and Grant watching all the cars race. Noah was the happiest little boy that night, he can not wait to do it again he says.

Kai was quite confortable with grandma all night =)

Just some more craftiness

March's card club was held at Kristen's house and the theme this month was Thank You cards. It was a fun night as always. It's always nice to hold conversations with people over the age of 4. Don't get me wrong, conversations with my kids are quite entertaining at times, but every girl needs to have some "girl talk" sometimes =)
Here is the cute fun card Kristen came up with for our "make & take"Here is everybody else's cards

Cathy's...our new clubie =)

Raquel's

Kim R.

Amy's

Mine

Sherry's

Danielle's

Now since this is a crafty post, I wanted show off this rag quilt I just made. My friend Raquel posted one that she had made on her blog a while back and I thought it was so stinkin' cute. I had been wanting to make Kai a baby blanket for a while. Noah and Eli both had baby blankets made for them by some friends and family and Kai didn't have his own baby blanket yet. So thanks to Raquel, who showed me how to do it, I made my first rag quilt....GO ME!.... =) Thanks so much for teaching me how to do this Raquel ! It took about a week of cutting and sewing during nap times and a few late nights but now baby Kai has his own baby blanket =)

This is the back of the quilt

It was alot of work, but I love how it turned out and I think I will be making many more of these in my days. =)

Let's go fly a kite

Today was awesome! I believe it got up to 73 degrees. It was a bit windy so we decided to go to the park and fly some kites and introduce Kai to the outside world. I laid kai on the blanket and the second I laid him down, the wind started blowing in his face and he started giggling. It was the first time we have heard him giggle! It was so cute =) He loved being outside and so did the rest of us! It was so much fun to get out of the house and let the kids run wild. We all had a really good day =)

Kai's Blessing day

Baby Kai was blessed this last Sunday by my dad. Kai was so good and did not make a sound, and he looked so cute in his little blessing outfit. Thank you dad for giving Kai a beautiful blessing.

Kai and daddy
Grandpa with Kai

All my boys

Our sweet baby Kai