The Grass is Green

The weather up here has been great lately(except on Easter Sunday!) and we've been kickin' around our yard playin' in the grass. I think people up here in WA like to say it rains continuously so that people won't move up here. Tricky tricky baba sticky. The sucker is a leftover remnant from a pillaged Easter basket.

Baseball Season Begins

Carter and Grant are playing pee-wee baseball (Jeremy's favorite sport) for the first time this season. Grant is playing T-ball and is a Cub (#3), while Carter is playing coach-pitch and is an Angel (#2). My April and May calendar is filled with practices and games already. Hopefully it won't get too crazy and the boys will have fun playing baseball. As a side note...I did not pick out their jersey numbers, but I loved that my second child got a 2 and my third a 3.

Dying to dye?

It's a tradition for our family to dye Easter eggs every year. Not very original I'll admit, but I get some serious grumbling from my kids if I try to skip out on dying eggs. They don't even like to eat hard boiled eggs, but they sure have a blast decorating them. I think Carter dunked his eggs in every color dye we had this year. Madison's favorite egg was the Pepsi dyed one. And Grant thought we should let James dye some eggs, despite the mess that would make! When Jeremy got home from work the kids flocked aroud him to show off their egg-citing creations.

Family of SIX

Remember that post a while ago about my kids and photos...well here's some proof! We're going to try and snap an informal family picture every time we have General Conference. Thanks Layne for capturing this for us!

Traveling Woes...

Jeremy flew into Spokane to help me drive back from our spring break vacation to Idaho, and it's a blessing he did because we had some difficulties. Our tire deflated while we were getting some fast food about two hours into the trip. The inner part of the tire had blown out, but we hadn't heard it happen and only felt it when we stopped to get food. A guy that came over to look at the tire with Jeremy said- someone must have had their hand on you because that could've caused an accident. The good guys at Wal-Mart opened their tire center back up, after they had already closed, just to help us. When we were back on the road again, Jeremy spotted a sign saying the snowqualmie pass was closed, which landed us an Inn for the night. The upside to our woes is that we could've been hurt when our tire blew out, but weren't; we could've been stuck in traffic at the pass all night, but weren't; we also could've been driving without Jeremy, causing Shauna to have a panic attack, but he was there. We're grateful we prayed for a safe trip home because once again our prayers were heard and aswered.

Thanks for the FUN!

James had a cold and unfortunately passed his germs on to our Idaho family. I still feel guilt over that, but I gotta say I'm still grateful we got to visit with everyone. My kids are gonna talk about this trip for weeks to come. Thanks for the fun Hollie, Sean, Jordan, Keegan, and Joe- We love you guys!

Boys a plenty, Boys galore!

Here are the boys having themselves a fine time. They really loved hanging out with Jordan and Keegan. James was flown about by Uncle Joe. Pizza was had, games were played, treats were plentiful...did I mention what a great spring break the kids had?

My name is Keegan...

Hollie made up a funny song about Keegan, that the kids and I learned and were singing the whole week we were in Idaho. It goes like this- My name is Keegan, and I'm so big- I wear size 3 diapers- I'm gonna take you down, to the ground- boom baby boom- boom baby boom- ba ba ba ba boom baby boom! The tune is really cathcy too. Keegan is almost a year old and delighted us all on our visit.

Play-Doh...Uh-Oh

For spring break this year I drove 6 hours to Idaho to visit my brother (Joe), sister (Hollie), brother in law (Sean) and nephews (Jordan and Keegan). We had such a fun visit, full of fun things that the kids don't usually get to do at home. The kids asked Uncle Sean if they could play with play-doh and he said SURE! Now I did warn Sean about the mess my kids were capable of making, but he decided to go for it anyway. As I helped him clean up the aftermath, I could tell he had never seen a play-doh mess like the one my kids made.

James at 5 months

Here's our family's main source of entertainment- Jamesy James. He's beginning to roll the places he wants to be, he loves to eat his toes, and he's going for a record in drooling. All objects within his grasp go directly into his mouth for slobbers. He's got a smile for just about anyone right now. He's a happy and content little baby. Jeremy and I are so grateful for our James.

Sing it with PIZAZZ

Carter had a choir concert at school this week, and he likes to sing loud. When he was a couple years younger he used to sing all around the house as well. He also likes to be a ham for the camera. The challenge I face in photographing my family is... Carter is a facial contortionist, Madison is a blinker, Grant is an eye averter, and James will look at everything BUT the camera. So if you see pictures on this blog in which ALL my children are looking at the camera, it should be known it was a miraculous moment in photography!

St. Patrick's and Self-Managers

Some school happenings...Carter has earned a self-manager badge at school which means he's consistently making good choices in the classroom. He's been working hard to earn this so...three cheers for Carter- Hip Hip Hooray! Madison and Hannah are decked out for St. Patrick's Day. They wanted to make absolutely sure they would not be pinched.