Bowsman Family: The Aunt Kate Weekend

As I mentioned in the last post, Aunt Kate came for a visit last weekend. According to Madigan, she only came to see her, but the rest of us like to pretend she came to see us as well. :) As always, she had lots of fun things planned for her few days with us.

First of all, since it was Easter weekend, we had some Easter egg decorating to do.

As you can see, the end result was pretty cool.

My personal favorite

And the king (?) in his castle

The real story with this - Ted decorated the egg and then let Madigan pick what color to make it. She picked pink, of course. It made for an interesting combination!

After decorating the eggs, it was time to hunt them. Madigan had a little bit of trouble with the ones hiding in the grass. We had to yell at her before she'd step on one!

Ted decided to help her out a little. Isn't he so cute?!

Showing off the goods

And what was Paxton doing during all of this? Eating sweet potatoes, actually. Can you tell?

On Saturday, I had a workshop to go to, so Kate and Ted took the kids to the Heifer Ranch.

They got to see all kinds of animals. Sweet little baby goats...

And super cool camels!

Kate tried hard to get Madi close to the camel for a picture. Madigan thought this was plenty close!

Paxton had no choice about how close he got, but seemed a little concerned that the camel might spit.

After visiting the ranch, they went to Wye Mountain to the daffodil festival.

Madigan liked the smell of the daffodils...

and Paxton wanted to see how they tasted.

Fortunately, Aunt Kate was there to keep him from ingesting any of the pretty flowers!

"Seriously? This is supposed to be fun?"

Several attempts at getting Madigan and Paxton to both look at the camera and smile at the same time. Madigan had a little trouble staying upright while holding Paxton.