Easter and Ethan's Birthday

Easter walk at the temple.  I love Easter week and the opportunity to reflect on the last week of the Savior's life. Hannah is showing some things she'd found that represented the atonement.

We went "egging" with our friends.  The kids hid easter eggs in other peoples yards.  They were supposed to be quiet so it would be a surprise, but quiet part was quickly forgotten :).

Happy 5th Birthday Ethan! I sure love this boy!!

He was very excited to get a watch.  He was not surprised though...he picked it out himself before Christmas.  He has wanted one ever since Andrew got his.

Another Harry Potter wand.  So they can duel.

I love this kid also...even though he badly needs a hair cut.

And yes, I love these girls also. I especially love how Eliza is looking at Hannah. We did our egg hunt on Saturday because it was supposed to rain Sunday.  Hannah thought we couldn't do the egg hunt if they weren't in their easter dresses.  These dresses were given to them by their cousins whose Grandma had made them when they were these sizes.



I tried to limit the sugar by filling some eggs with puzzle pieces.  They had to trade pieces with each other so they could complete their puzzles.

Happy Easter!

I'm so grateful for the Savior and what this day means!

I tried to get a group picture after church.  I pulled out cute individual ones, but after about 100 shots, didn't get any good ones of all four together...

...possibly they've had too much sugar.  Yes, I tried to limit it but I wasn't successful.

Definitely too much sugar.  Not that its easy to get a group shot any other time, but this was a whole new level.

Ethan was so cute wanting to tell Eliza what he learned about in primary

I tried the puzzle idea again.  We are still missing an egg :(

Ethan's party. 



Andrew was in charge of a game that he worked hard on with his friend.  He loves taking the lead.

Daniel captured this one.  I love it! I love the beautiful tree in our neighbors yard...and those beautiful girls.

Spring Break

Milking a cow. Hannah has a book that has a bucket list of nature activities to do in each season and milking a cow was one of the activities that we can now cross off.

We went to the spring festival at purina farms 

Eliza didn't want to be close

Playing at the Shaw Nature Reserve



On our way to Florida.  It was an 11 1/2 hour drive without stops.  I think it took us 13 1/2 hours.  The kids were awesome! Besides one episode of car sickness I couldn't have asked for a better drive.  We listened to audio books...mostly Harry Potter, but we also listened to a secret garden radio theatre.

Alabama

There are a ton of beach pictures.  We spent two days at the beach and then drove back home on the third day.  It was a lot of fun!



They had fun flying the kite...until it broke

Before we went to the beach I showed them pictures of jellyfish so they would know to stay away from them.  After seeing the pictures Ethan declared he was NOT going in the water.  This wasn't long after we got there and he was the first one in.  We didn't see any jellyfish so that was good.

Andrew played a lot of catch with Daniel with the football

I was there too.





The kids worked together on this for hours.

We went out at night to try to see the crabs.  We didn't see any but it was a lot of fun.  The water was pretty warm.

I let Hannah wear my jacket then I got cold so I put on Andrew's.

Tennessee

Kentucky. They still loved each other even after being in the car together all day.  Unfortunately the next few days after we got home proved they used up all the niceness on the trip.  It was great while it lasted!