Aaron, Michelle and Family

Celebration Park

Friday we had planned on going to the park for a playdate with Maci. The weather was so cold and was drizzling a little, but we did it anyway because we hadn't seen these friends in awhile.

We went to the Celebration park.

Aren't they cute?!

On the way home from the park, we stopped up the pictures we ordered for Dylan's room. We had to put them up right when we got home.

That night Blake's school had a carnival, but Blake wanted to go to his soccer clinic. Fine with me to not have to go to a school carnival. Dylan was excited to play with his brother.

This past week was busy. We did lots of yard work. Tuesday we went to the library and then had our lunch with friends. Then Aaron asked if his team who was in town come over for dinner, so that night we had 7 guests over for dinner. It was fun to meet them. Aaron and I also saw Batman vs. Superman last week. I did my VT and visits of the new families and tried to get all my ducks in a row for all these changes. Thursday, after some visits, we meet with our friends for a playdate at the park since it was a nice day. Of course Dylan just played with Beckett. Beckett's brother got tired, so his mom took him home and Beckett stayed with us to play.

Then he came to our house. The kids are so anxious for the pool to warm up.

Later Dylan was walking around with his cell phone. (one that is broken and he plays with). He would say, "Um, please be less loud, I am on a phone call." The things they learn.

Easter 2016

Luckily our Bishop cancelled ward council so the Easter bunny was able to come before church. The Easter bunny took the boys on a scavenger hunt.

Apparently in my attempt to keep up with the kids, I didn't focus the camera. The Easter bunny left a treat by the statue of Jesus....the reason for Easter.

We did eat breakfast before our hunt because my kids are always starving once they wake up and must eat quickly before super grouchiness happens.

After the hunt we got ready for church and then went to church. The primary sang, "Gethsemane". If you haven't heard that song before, look it up on YouTube. It is a beautiful song and the kids did such a great job.

We came home and ate lunch, started our dinner, and then made resurrection rolls. The kids love to make them and to eat them. Good object lesson for the kids.

Later our friends, the Neumanns, came over. We first had an Easter egg hunt. (This is what our grass looks like trying to come out of its dormant stage during winter).

Cambria hid the eggs.

These kids have so much fun together and the adults have fun together. We ate dinner and dessert, then thought about going to the stake meeting where they would announce all the changes in the ward boundaries, but decided we would just get updates from the 5 people who actually went to the meeting that was during Easter dinner time. Bishop emailed a new map, list of people we were getting and losing within a couple of hours. I lost 1 primary teacher, 2 activity day leaders, my 11 year old scout leader and some primary kids. :( But we gained some new great families. This past week I was able to meet with all the families with primary kids. It was so weird how they realigned the wards. We took one little neighborhood of the neighboring ward. The poor kids are so sad to not be with their friends anymore. Of course I wanted to meet the kids, but I was also scoping out the parents and potential callings. I have submitted names for callings.

Getting Ready for Easter

Saturday morning we decorated our Easter eggs.

Later that afternoon, we went over to Blake's friend's house. Avir is his buddy for last year, but they play together at recess together. His mom and I also get together periodically with some other moms for lunch. I felt a little bit like we were crashing their family party.

But they loved doing the hunt and getting eggs that actually had candy in it. So many of these hunts have little stickers, etc and well, the kids like the candy or fun things.

Dylan, Blake and Avir

Perot Museum

The boys had Good Friday off, not because it was Good Friday, but because it was a bad weather make-up day and since school hadn't been cancelled this year for bad weather, they got the day off. So, we went to the Perot museum and so did a ton of other people. We first raced several animals and people before it got too busy.

Blake never wants to do this, but he did and he loved it. It captures your motion in slow motion then you can look at the video and compare it to the pros.

We did the art lab...Blake was thinking about what we wanted to do.

This area that we are in is a children's section and you must have someone in the family who is 5 or under. This was the first time, but we were asked if Dylan was 5 or younger. Man, he doesn't look like a 5 year old even? Crazy.

The museum also has movies, which we had free passes that we going to expire, so we saw a 3D movie about space. Blake loved it.

Dylan liked it for about 5 minutes and then was hungry...again. This kid was going through a growth spurt. Both my kids eat a lot for their ages..I've seen how much their friends eat, but when they go through growth spurts it is insane. I am not looking forward to my grocery bill when they are teenagers. Also my kids can't function when they are hungry. They have always been like this. What is the deal?

They dug for fossils and spent about 30 minutes playing in the sand.

Then played at the grocery store.

We went on the "ride" about the shale.

That night we went to a free soccer skills clinic that is done with some group of British people who are teamed up with our local soccer association. It is for ages 5-9, but I asked them if Dylan could do it and they said yes. Blake thought his coach talked funny. What always gets me is the different phrases or terms they use. The coach said he needed to grab something out of his car box. What? Oh, his trunk. The other funny thing that I can remember is when they miss a goal they say, "Unlucky"..we would say nice try.