March

Missouri's weather is usually consistently inconsistent.  It is all over the place but often there are more good days than bad. March didn't fit the mold.  Instead of a lot of Spring days mixed in it was pretty consistently bad weather. At least they had some fun with the snow on this day. 

 

Yay! My friend Niki had her baby!

 

We love the Anconetani family.  Andrew, Ethan, and Eliza are great friends with their 3 other kids and now Hannah has claimed baby Ivy (and she helped name her!). Niki is so nice to let Hannah go over to help out.

 

Hunting for gold for St Patrick's Day

I went with Hannah to a girl scout cabin campout.

I found this big turtle shell!

On our way to parent teacher conferences.  I'm proud of my kids for working so hard at school and I'm so grateful for their teachers.

Preschool Easter Egg Hunt

I got to help out at Hannah's class field trip to the Science Center.

Ethan's 7th Birthday Party! He had a nerf gun party but I didn't get any pictures of them all running around.

I couldn't get a picture of all of them so I grabbed who I could.

Ethan got some lego sets from friends for his birthday and now he is obsessed with building lego sets.  I love it!

Andrew is into Monopoly and is often looking for people to play with him.

I can't believe he's 7! I love this little boy so much and I love the joy he brings our family.

 

Andrew and Hannah both love to babysit

So sweet

My friend sent me this one of Andrew holding her baby at church

  

Visiting the temple during Easter week

The kids did not start off in the best mood but things got better

 

Easter week was the first week of the kids spring break and it was cold and wet. The only good thing was I got a lot of chores done at home because we didn't have a lot going on and I didn't have a need to get outside.  I also loved that we had some extra time to spend studying the last week of the Savior's life. This year we matched up the events of each day with an attribute or teaching of the Savior so we could better apply His teachings to our lives.  We talked about gratitude, repentance, God's word, prayer, compassion, forgiveness, faith and hope. I'm so grateful for my Savior and I love celebrating his atonement and resurrection.