Dyeing Easter Eggs

Last Wednesday we finally got around to dyeing Easter eggs with Grandma. It was our only night of the week that we didn't have anything going on so we took advantage of the free time and hung out with the boys. Aidan loved it but Nick is getting too old to think the activity was that fun. I am glad my Mom is here to eat all the hard boiled eggs because I hate them. Hopefully, her and Jeremy can eat a few before they go bad so that we don't have to waste all those eggs.

Our New Home

Our next house

Well it is official we are moving to Washington D.C. and the clock is beginning to tick down on our time here in Prattville. Jeremy graduates from SAASS in less then 60 days and we will move hopefully a week or two later. We found a new house to rent in Woodbridge, VA which is about 20 miles outside the city.

So our new address as of July 1, 2011 is:

The Olsons

3506 Beaver Ford Road

Woodbridge, VA 22192

We are excited to be moving but a little sad to be leaving Alabama too. I am sure we will have many wonderful new adventures and make many new amazing friends just like we made here but all the changes are a little overwhelming right now. So make your plans to come visit us. We have 5 bedrooms so there will be plenty of room. Dulles is the closet airport to where we will be living. Hope to see many of you out in the Nation's capitol.

Aidan at Soccer

Here are a couple of pictures from Aidan at his first soccer practice. It is a highly comical age to watch. He is learning a lot and is really excited for his first game this week. He isn't so into the shinguards though. He is constantly trying to take them off. We will try to take some video this week of his first game.

Eggcitement!

We went to Eggcitement an Easter event for kids at my church today. The kids had a great time hunting for eggs, playing games, jumping in the bouncy houses, riding horses, carousels and trains, and eating way too much candy. They got to decorate egg shaped sugar cookies with jelly beans and frosting which were quickly devoured. Despite the crazy wind that could practically knock you over it was a great day.

Aidan's Zoo Field Trip

Aidan's class went to the Montgomery Zoo at the beginning of the month for a field trip. We go all the time since we have a season pass so Aidan was showing all his classmates all his favorite things. Even though we go all the time we were amazed at how active the animals were early in the morning compared to when we usually go. We finally spotted the hippo who always seems to be hiding in the water and we found out that they actually have 3 cheetahs instead of 2. The kids had a great time and Aidan enjoyed riding the train and playing on the playground after lunch too.

Nick gets a Hit

Here are a few videos of Nick hitting at his games. I wanted to post a video of Aidan from Thomas but I will have to try again later this week because it took almost an hour to upload these two videos. I am not sure why it takes so long to upload videos to blogspot.

Baseball Season Begins

The baseball season began in dramatic fashion last weekend with tornado sirens. We went out to team pictures at noon and then we had a break before our 3:00 game which eventually got cancelled because of a huge storm that passed through at that time. We have had two games since and have two team losses so far. Nick is on the Dodgers this year. I think that is way better then the being on the Yankees. Nick's team has some talented hitters but they are still in need of some work on fielding fundamentals. They still use a pitching machine this year but there are a lot of other changes at the AA level. They get to play on the bigger fields this year with a grassy infield and the ball is always live unlike single A ball where they can call time when they get it back into the infield. Nick still loves to play and is enjoying getting to play some new positions this year. I will try to post some video of him hitting soon.