Beginning of Spring Break

The kids being themselves. At the general women's broadcast a few weeks ago the Relief Society held a clothing swap and Thula found this night gown. She was so excited because she said they reminded her of the Sound of Music. I'm a little jealous of her myself....

At the start of Spring Break Thula had two school friends, Serena and Madison come over for junk food and a movie. She was a little disappointed that they only wanted to play on their cell phones (Thula isn't allowed a phone) and so it turned out to be a nice lesson on appropriate use of technology. 

Flying kites in between general conference sessions. 

First Day of Preschool

My big 3 1/2 year old going to preschool at Layne Elementary. He qualified early because of his speech. His school has a uniform, but he picked out his own backpack. He wanted a batman one but I couldn't find one. I showed him a blue one, but he spied a camouflage one and picked that one out. 

He is so excited to ride the bus! He seems to like preschool. The first day he went I cried my eyes out. Sometimes I can't believe how quickly time passes. 

Easter week

Going for a walk along the creek

Stuart has discovered marbles and he loves them! He is a marble champion!

When Thula came home from school she was a good sport and played with us.  

Bunnies and dinosaurs enjoying breakfast together. 

There weren't any left for Thanksgiving but there were plenty on the shelves for Easter. It was pretty tasty I might say. 

Our first "Passover" dinner. I always romanticize things and holding a Passover dinner was one of them. I got a book about how to hold your own Passover meal and I tried my best. I would love to go to real one someday! We made the haroset, the roasted egg, the bitter herb, and unleavened bread. We also had fish and honey, figs, grapes, and olives to eat what Jesus ate when we was alive. Stuart cooked our talapia fish. This Easter we dyed eggs and found our Easter baskets on the first day of spring. Then the following week we talked about what Jesus was doing the last week of His life. We watched videos and we looked at pictures of my brother Jeb and I shared my testimony of the resurrection. We made resurrection cookies and rolls and we prepared our Passover meal together on Easter Sunday. During sacrament I bore my testimony and then Lela bore hers all by herself. I was so proud.  The primary children sang Hosana and it was little Stuart's first time to go up and sing with the primary. It was so cute; he was all smiles and he waved at me. I was in charge of sharing time today and I felt so happy that I could be spending the day teaching the gospel. After our dinner we went for a family drive through the country and we hid more eggs outside and then came in and ate our sweet potato pie. I love Easter. 

Tabby being the brunt of our siesta joke. He is never amused. 

Easter outfits

Spring

Just enjoying a morning walk at my favorite place, Farnsley Moreman Landing. 

Stuart saw the bike station and tools and he said, "I think the stroller needs fixing" and he got busy with air pump and screw driver. 

Enjoying ice cream on free cone day at Dairy Queen

The girls eating their ice creams and swinging 

Stuart looking kinda special ed

Decorating eggs! Stuart has the batman stickers on his. The scars on his face are from his recent bout with Hand, Foot, and Mouth disease. 

I bought an egg painting kit this year and the girls turned out some really beautiful eggs. So creative!

The Easter Bunny arrived! In an effort to keep Easter a little more holy I bumped the Easter basket thing to the previous Sunday before Easter. It's actually the official day of Spring so we are celebrating spring. Then I plan on doing religious activities leading up to Easter Sunday and we will have a nice dinner. We'll see how we like it...

Lela found her basket under her collection of stuffed animals. 

Our pretty pear tree

And I'll finish this post with another sleeping Stuart picture. I love my kids!

Art!

Lela's school had an art show and she is displaying the art piece she made, a hand print turtle. 

After 3 years of renovations Louisville's Speed Art Museum is open! I took the kids opening day (it was free) and we had a great time exploring this wonderful museum. They have a great kid section and we spent a lot of time there.  

Lunch outside in the parking garage. It was a rainy day and we brought our own lunches. 

Tibetan Monks were doing a sand art demonstration. The kids thought that was really neat. I enjoyed the Appalachian photograph collection the most. I recognized a Monet and some Mary Cassatt paintings. I can't wait to go back!