Spring or is it Winter?

I woke up this morning to everything covered in a couple inches of snow. It's beautiful, I will admit, but I want spring. It's almost April I don't' think that's too much to ask, is it? Here are some pics of our wintery scene, and my poor tulips, trying so hard to grow, just to be covered with snow...

Tyler's Eye...and nose

Tyler is so mobile now that we're having a hard time keeping him uninjured! We were finally putting away the table from Easter, Wednesday, and had it folded up and leaning against Mike's desk. Tyler is so curious, he wanted to play with it. Well, he managed to pull it down on top of himself, bumping his eye and scraping his cheek. Poor guy. Then on Thursday, he was lifting up a toy that we have and trying to put it on the chair so he could play with it, and managed to bump his nose. So his nose was bleeding slightly. Where was his mother you might ask? I was watching him, but sometimes stuff happens so fast, you just can't get up in time to catch him. Here is his poor little face, it was hard to get him to sit still long enough to take the picture. I have to say, he is really cute though!

The Kids' Easter Picture

I asked Rulon to take a nice picture of the kids in their Easter clothes this year. They were so cute, and the picture came out beautiful.

Happy Late Easter

Here are some fun pics from our Easter Sunday. I'm still trying to decide what's best to do to celebrate Easter with the kids. When I was growing up the Easter Bunny would hide my basket and I would have to find it. He was pretty tricky some years, once it was in the dryer, and my brother's was in the microwave once if I remember right. We however, did not celebrate Christ at all, which we know is the real reason for Easter. I have no problem with doing the traditional Easter stuff with my kids, I'm just trying to figure out a balance. I read on my friends blog that the Easter Bunny comes a day early to her house so they find their baskets on Saturday morning. I think that sounds like a great idea. Well, this year we celebrated on Sunday morning, the kids got up and found their baskets. Tyler wasn't really sure what was going on, but he loves the ball that was in his basket, and the fruit snack. Seth was the first little sneaky one up and found 3 out of 4 baskets, and had the hardest time not telling the other kids where theirs were. After church, we came home and cooked a ham dinner with scalloped potatoes, and my mom and her new husband Doug came over, Mike's parents, my brother Brent and his roomates Jamie and Ashly, and Ashly's daughter Skylar, Dave was supposed to come too, but he was sick, we missed him. We had a delicious dinner, thanks to everyone who brought a dish to pass. My mom made some apple pie for dessert, which is always delicious, and the kids played. We also had the kids color the Easter eggs, we forgot and then ran out of time so it didn't get done before the Easter Bunny came, so he didn't put any in the baskets. Mike showed off his super space saving (confusing) way to store plastic grocery bags, my Mom was impressed! Overall it was great day, it was sunny and beautiful.

String Festival

McKee was part of a district wide string festival Tuesday night at Arcadia High School. Orchestra members from the elementary and middle schools had the opportunity to play in a large group of 200 students for parents, family and friends. It was a great concert. I'm really proud of McKee and his talent with his cello. This is his 3rd year playing, and really enjoys it and wants to continue playing next year when he goes into middle school. Here is a clip of one of the songs they played.








It's hard to spot McKee, he's behind the conductor. You can see the little girl with a cello right in the front, McKee is to her right kiddy-corner behind her. He has red hair, and a light green shirt.

Light bulbs...

We've had quite the adventure with light bulbs lately. First of all, most of the lights that are affixed to the house have multiple bulbs in them. The lights at the top and bottom of the stairs, the dining room, the kitchen, the bathrooms, all of them have different shapes and sizes of bulbs and many of them. This causes an interesting problem with purchasing and keeping up with the lights. We decided to try to fake being green, and bought some of the energy saving bulbs. We thought we could handle coughing up a little extra per bulb to lower the cost over time since they are supposed to last for about 9 years or something like that. WELL, our kitchen light is retarded because it managed to blow 3 of these new fancy bulbs in the last couple days after only being in the fixture for maybe 2 months. So, we obviously need to figure out what to do with the crazy thing. On top of that, I haven't been able to read at night either because Tyler dropped my lamp on the floor, and the bulb blew. Of course, the bulb in my nightstand lamp is different than every other bulb in the house. It's just my luck I guess. So, it's lights out to this post...

Strong National Museum of Play

On Friday, since the kids had off from school, and Mike is home early in the day, we decided to take the kids to Strong Museum. They had a great time. I love it there. They have so many fun things to play with. I haven't been there since it was remodeled, they did a nice job. The exhibit that the boys really wanted to see is called Grossology. They talked about boogers, and farts, and burps and puking...everything a little boy dreams about! :) We also visited the baby crawling section, Tyler loved playing in there. The big kids are not allowed, so he was able to walk around and explore without being knocked over. I'm looking forward to taking the kids again. Next time I want to visit the butterfly exhibit. We ate dinner at the food court there after we were done playing. The kids and Mike had Taco Bell, and I had Subway. The food was yummy, and the play was fun.