Easter

We had our usual Easter celebrations this year.  Everyone enjoyed dying some eggs.

I seriously can't get enough of this little boy's grin.  He sees a camera, and he has to put his cheese face on.

Easter was on the same day as General Conference this year.  The Easter bunny usually comes on Saturday, but he came on Sunday instead.  The kids had fun finding all their easter eggs and candy right when they woke up.

We were lucky enough to have Grandpa and Grandma come for Easter dinner.  The girls wanted to do a little easter egg hunt for them.  They wrote out a little saying, put one word in each egg, had them find the eggs and unscramble the words.  I think everyone had fun with that.

Soccer Season

Spring Sports are starting.  One of the benefits of me working at the Y is the kids can sign up for sports for free.  It's great to feel like we can take advantage of letting them explore and play whatever they want as they learn and discover what they are good at and what they love to do.

Emma has wanted to play soccer since she saw Molly do it a year and 1/2 ago.  Molly decided soccer was not for her...to much running, she said.  But Emma has been thrilled for her season to start.  She hasn't done much on her own.  This little pre-school team doesn't do much in the way of practices, so we just showed up at her first game ready to jump right in.  They did a little practicing before-hand, and Emma was having a blast.  She seemed like a natural...able to dribble the ball, and getting it right into the goal.  Then the game started...and along with it, the tears.  She scored a goal right off the bat, the first to do so. Then Emma seemed to spend most of the rest of the game in tears because it was more difficult to get the ball.  We hope this ends up being a good learning experience for her, and hopefully she ends up loving it and wants to do it again.

Spring Break 2015

For spring break this year the kids and I ditched David for a few days so he could work on some painting in the house and went to Des Moines toie in the theater while Brayden hung out with Grandpa.  visit Grandma and Grandpa.  We had to delay our visit by a day because both Brayden and Emma decided to get ear infections.  But we had a fun little visit.  We fit in a visit to the zoo, an the park, and all the girls went to see the Disney Cinderella movd trip to

Some pictures from the zoo:

On the way home we met David at the Iowa Children's Museum in Iowa City.  The kids once again wore themselves out and had a blast.

Christmas

We loved spending Christmas in our new house.  We did our usual Christmas Eve tradition of decorating sugar cookies.

Then I made Christmas Eve dinner.

We left some cookies and milk out for Santa, and a carrot for his reindeer.

That night Santa came and the house looked great and ready for everyone to wake up!

You think they were excited or something?