March things

Wow, April is already here!  Here are some March things that happened around here.

It rained a couple times.

 This girl is a good eater!

 I love that he likes to push the stroller too.

 Peach blossoms!

 Little carrots from the garden.

 Chard.  Lots and lots of chard.

 I made chard bouquets and gave them to our parents.  

 I was surprised to find these giant beets in our garden too.

When we first planted our garden it didn't grow anything for a long time and we figured that we did something wrong, or birds came and ate all of our seeds, or something.  Pretty much we really thought nothing was going to grow.  The kids played in the dirt and it got mixed all up and then after a while longer things started growing.  So we weren't really sure what we had, but we were happy that it surprised us.

 Cleaning his ride.

 We started coach pitch for Grant.  Keith's his coach and got to play in a coaches game on opening day.

 Here are his biggest fans.

 Then the kids got to play a little game.

 Keith volunteered to be in the dunk tank.  This is him getting dunked.

 Camille watching my mom water her garden.

 She's such a busy little girl.  She was all over my parents yard checking out everything!

 Chill'n in her chair.

 I finally remembered the idea of putting the kids snack in a muffin tin.  They loved it so much!  We'll see how long the excitement lasts.

 Our roses bloomed.

 Barbecuing hamburgers.

We washed our front bench and picked up some pillows for it from Target.

Brett helped me place them just right.  I like how they tie in with our Easter wreath.

And I love when Brett helps me.  He is a REALLY good helper.

We're going to the Easter Pageant tonight with my family.  My grandparents are in town from Colorado and this will be their first time to see the pageant.

I'm so excited for Easter.  And I'm so excited for General Conference.  I love it when these two things fall on the same weekend.

Have a Happy Easter!

Some Easter stuff

I made THESE COOKIES yesterday and then took them to a few friends for Easter.

We even stopped by Grant's former pre-school teacher's house and surprised her with some cookies too.

Grant was so excited!

 This morning Brett & Camille helped me spray off all of our patio furniture in anticipation of Easter dinner at our house.  We'll be having 24 people over.  I had dreamy visions of a long, beautifully decorated table set up outside for our dinner, but I'm afraid it's getting too hot out.  I can't believe that it's this hot at the beginning of April!  It's supposed to be in the 90's today!

I'm sure we'll get a little relief before summer really hits.... right?

Here's some cute kids that were playing in my backyard on Sunday evening.

I sure do love them!

Monday

Good morning Monday.  Can we please have a re-do?

These two woke up super early this morning.  So I asked Grant to play in the toy room with Camille while I got a little more sleep (I had been up late working on an Easter project for the kids).

Suddenly I hear, "Mom, Camille dumped the Cheerios on the floor!"

He didn't mention that he was a co-conspirator.  Ha!

And Happy Birthday to my brother Phil today!

Like a good sister, I should tease him for getting older.  But I'm not that far behind him, so I won't. :)

Dinner idea, a good kids book, and it's Friday!

Keith and I love the Kale Salad from Costco.  It's good by itself, but last night we added chopped rotisserie chicken, peas, and sliced grapes and it was an easy and quick main dish.

 We ate it with steamed beets fresh from our garden.  Yum!

 Every now and then we bring a book home from the library that we fall in love with.

That's what happened when we brought this one home during spring break.

Brett and I love this book.  I will be purchasing this one to add to our own library.

It's such a sweet story about a house and has darling pictures.

 It's Friday!  Have a great weekend!

Today

This morning I'm making banana bread (per Grant's request) while Brett and Camille play together outside.  

We've got to soak up as much of this fair weather as possible before things get hotter here!

Spring Break Wrap-up

We had so much fun during spring break that it took me a whole week to recover and get to this post!

We had something fun to do every day, but where never in a rush.

One day we went swimming with my brothers wife and kids.

 Keith took Thursday and Friday off.

We went to the zoo.

 Taking a break in the shade by the rose garden.

 All set to ride!

 Camille clearly wasn't a fan.  Maybe because that lion was growling at her giraffe?!  :)

 That night the boys had a campout in the backyard.  We read several chapters from our Boxcar Children book and then sang some songs and waited for the boys to fall asleep.  Then we took them to their real beds in the house.

 On Friday we walked over to Keith's parent's house.  Across the street from them, a wounded vet was getting a new house.  It was a pretty big deal.  There's an organization that selects wounded warriors and buys a house for them and remodels it to fit their needs.  This house was completely remodeled and will be VERY comfy for him.

As we were waiting for the Veteran to arrive, Brett kept busy for a while playing with Grandma's watch.  I thought this was so cute.

 After listening to a few speeches we walked back home to get ready to go canoeing at the lake with my dad, "Grandpa Guy".

We even took Camille with us (since we couldn't find a babysitter) and she did super well!

A beautiful bunch of clouds came along and blocked the hot sun from us as soon as we got on the lake.  We couldn't have asked for better weather.

We had fun paddling along the perimeter of the lake checking out caves in the cliffs and watching cliff jumpers.

While we were out we received a text from Keith's sister saying that President Obama had just showed up at the wounded vets house!  We had heard rumors that he might be coming, but really doubted it.  After our canoe trip we stopped by Keith's parent's house again to hear all about how they got to meet the President.  Our cute little 6 year old niece was telling us all about it and said, "it was the best day of my life!"  Grant heard her and came over and said, "Well, I got to see Grandpa Guy!"  Hahaha!

 Grant and Brett had their last soccer game of the season on Saturday.

Brett played almost the whole game and had a smile on his face constantly, even when he fell and ate some dirt!  We were so proud of him.  After the game he kept telling everyone, "And I didn't even cry!"  He was thrilled to also get a trophy of his very own.

This was probably our best spring break yet.  I'd love to have had another week or two added to this one.  Only 9 weeks left though and school will be out for the summer!