A Little Bit of Everything...

George's parents came in April for a few days. Simon was "Bob the Builder" while he was here, he fixed everything in our house. Above, George and Simon are putting up gutters on the back of our house.


I worked my fanny off trying to make General Conference meaningful for my kids. It's debatable whether or not it was worth the effort, but it was fun. In the picture above, there are a variety of snacks with a topic printed on each label. They only got the snack if they heard someone talking about that particular topic.


This is our "Conference Wall." We put up pictures of the person who spoke about each topic so we could remember who talked about what. They didn't like this one so much :)


This is my dryer the day after St. Patrick's Day.

Note to self... DON'T leave the green food coloring in your pocket after turning everything green for the kids. Nightmare.



We hiked up Stone Mountain with three other families a few weeks ago. The hike is just over a mile and it's fairly steep. As you can see, there were a lot of little ones and they did awesome. After the hike, we had a picnic on the grass in Stone Mountain Park and then watched the lazer show. It was a blast until after the lazer Show, when Max got lost and we had the whole staff at Stone Mountain looking for him. Don't ask, it was awful! It wasn't the first time for him and won't be the last...he wanders off ALL THE TIME!


Drew FINALLY lost his first tooth at school the other day.


We had such a good Easter this year. We emailed the Easter Bunny and asked him to come on Saturday instead of Sunday...best idea EVER! The week before Easter we had a devotional each night talking about what happened in Christ's life those last few days. We had a passover dinner on Thursday, which was the highlight for the kids. We're looking forward to doing in again next year.

Here are the kids' Easter baskets. I had fun doing them this year and tried to give them practical things. Brie's baskets were pots and she also got seeds to plant flowers in them. Drew and Max's baskets were soccer backpacks, and Mitchell's was a sand bucket. We had a delightful Easter with WARM weather...so nice :)



This is a picture of the kids on Easter Sunday...it's as good as it gets ;)


Cambrie just turned in this science project yesterday. This girl is addicted to chocolate so it was no surprise when she came up with this idea.


Max's teacher gave each of her students a seed the week of Easter. We planted it and have named it "the plant on steroids..." It's HUGE! I don't even know what kind of a plant it is but Max has had so much fun watching it grow.



This is Drew's "Litter Bug." They had to make a bug out of recyclable material and he came up with this idea for a Dragonfly. I wasn't so sure, but it all came together really well. He was so proud.

Heading to Utah in two weeks and six days...can't wait :)