april showers

 

We had some record breaking temperatures this past week, so Ian and Natalie got to do something that we normally don’t do in April.

I’ll just let the pictures explain themselves.

easter dressy

Is it really so hard to sit still and smile for a picture?

This was after about 100 tries.

Are you wondering what Natalie is holding? We just had the lawn aerated and that is dirt plug. We don’t have a dog.

“Put down the dirt, Natalie.”

She looked so sweet, digging in the dirt in her fancy dress.

I’m sure that picture taking is their favorite part of Easter. :)

the birthday boy

Someone at our house just turned FIVE!

The older kids are out on Spring Break this week, so we all got to go have a picnic by Dad’s office.

And we got to go to a museum near by. Indiana Jones loves museums, so this was a cool thing to do. In the children’s section they got to dress up and try Latin American dances.

He got some new Star Wars Lego’s from Grandma and Grandpa M. I can’t really tell if likes them or not. He’s so hard to read.

He asked me to make him an “I” cake. I thought he meant an “eye” cake, and was kind of grossed out. I was glad he explained it to  me and didn’t have an eyeball staring at him when he expected his initial.

Happy Birthday to my little man.

around the conference table

I love General Conference. I think it is better than most holidays because you get wonderful family time without all the crazy stress.

We may have had a Jedi council going on too.

Because I don’t really have a better place to put these things, (I am afraid of Pintrest because I know myself to be a notorious time-waster) I wanted to stick my favorite places that I found activities to print off for my kids here so I could find them again in October or for FHE.

My favorite printable packets were from foodstorageandbeyond.com. Ian had the most fun with that packet.

This blog had a good coloring book from the Friend already put in a google doc and ready to print. (I don’t always get good results trying to print from the lds.org coloring pages.)

Deseret Book also had a cute packet that we liked.

Now I just need to work on improving everything I took note of before the next conference! Luckily I have six months.