Shoe Choice

Lovely shoe choice. I have to watch this girl every second.

We did lunch in our muffin tins this week. It was a fun way to jazz things up and make lunch a bit more interesting. I just put different items in each tin (crackers, carrots, raisons, grapes, cheese cubes, etc.) It made eating each item a bit more fun!! I thought it might be a good idea to make something like this in the morning so the kids could snack on items when they want to. Something fun to do every once in awhile.

B-O-I-N-G-S

Look who got a haircut!! I just love it and it is so much easier to take care of!! I can brush her hair out and she is ready to go. I don't even have to pull it back out of her face! She calls her new bangs "boings." Jakob says she looks like Dora the Explorer. I think she looks so beautiful, so grown up!!

Spring Has Sprung

The planters are full of new flowers, the decks and the fence are stained, and we have been enjoying a few days of beautiful weather. Love my gerber daisies!! They are on our back porch. We have the front door/patio with planters full of purple and white. Lots of starter plants that will fill these pots in the coming months.

The patch of dirt by our parts still needs something. I've been thinking of a couple possibilities. Still trying to decide. The plants in the center of these pots are perennials. I'm so excited that they survived the winter in our pots and have come back this year. They are looking great!

And the kids have been excited to help. I just fill up their trusty water can and they run outside to water our plants.

A Bike Ride.

Now that it is warming up and we are getting some sunny days the bikes are coming out. How does one Dad take a 5 year old, a 2 year old, and a 9 month old on a bike ride? Well, here you go. I do worry about Isabelle on that tadem attachment, but she loves it and has survived so far.

Dora The Explorar

When Grammy and Gramply come to visit they bring gifts. They have done this so often that Jakob has come to expect it. This trip Jakob asked Grammy if she had brought him a surprise. Well, lucky for my boy Grampy got him a harmonica, some toy planes, and a dinosaur card game. As he was getting ready for bed that night he said in the sweetest voice, "Mom, I really like my gifts."

As for Isabelle, she loves Dora right now. She talks about Dora quite a bit. She often is Dora and I'm Boots, Jakob is Diego, you get the picture. Well, Grampy and Grammy got Isabelle a special surprise this trip. Yes, now Dora can be with Isabelle all the time. She was very excited.

Huish Visit

Can I tell you how much I love my family to visit!! I love, love, love it!!! The day that they leave there is such a shadow over our home, we just miss them so much and wish, oh how I wish, that we could live closer!

This trip was spent sitting around the house most days. All of our visitors got sick, with the stomach flu and with colds!! There were a couple miserable days. I felt so bad that they came and were sick. We just sat around most days. We watched General Conference the weekend they were here, got together for games, watch a few episodes of House, played some Dr. Mario, squeezed in a trip to the Zoo, but mostly just sat around.