Week 16

Mac to Oak: "Let's have a fact battle!"

Waving to Grandma as she goes by on the train. She loves it when we do this.

Mac reading to us from his new book.

Mac and daddy worked hard on Mac's Pinewood Derby car.

His car won every single heat it raced and overall in his pack. Unfortunately we were out of town for the district race. It would have been fun to see how well his car did.

Our annual post tax season trip! We started it off with a visit to Hubs Grandparents. His parents also happened to visiting so we got a four generation photo.

Next up the lake house! Fishing was first on the list.

Unfortunately Oak woke up in the night not feeling well and ended up throwing up.

The next afternoon she was feeling a bit better and wanted to go outside with the fresh air. It really perked her up.

Since Oak was sick we didn't do what we had originally planned so daddy and Mac went to town and came back with remote control boat. It was a lot of fun.

Mac got to show how responsible he could be with a pocket knife.

Building a fire to roast marshmallows.

Smores

Late afternoon Oak fell asleep (which she never does unless she is sick) and woke up with a fever.

I gave her some ibuprofen and she perked back up.

The next day Oak was completely recovered thankfully and we were able to resume the fun. We stopped first at Shore Acres. The weather was PERFECT.

Then to our favorite beach Sunset Bay. Oh man the weather was perfect at 70 degrees and no wind.

We loved exploring the tide pools.

What's great about Sunset Bay is that the waves aren't very big so the kids can actually play in the water. But boy was the water cold and the kids sure didn't care.

A lady at the beach told us about this the Marine Life Center in Charleston. It was a great little place for the kids to explore.  

Then we dropped the kids off at my in-laws and Hubs and I headed back to a little cottage at the beach to celebrate our 16th anniversary. We literally did absolutely nothing (it rained the whole weekend) and it was fabulous.

Week 15

Everyone was pretty frustrated that it was still snowing in April. Ridiculous.

The kids lost TV privileges for the week so this is how my family room looked most of the week despite being picked up at least twice everyday. At least my kids know how to be bored I guess.

I always love Oak's drawings.

We spent a good amount of time watching the calves out our front window. They were so cute frolicking, bucking and head-butting and we would scream and giggle at the cuteness.

The Easter Bunny comes on Saturday at our house. And these two cool kids got some cool things. Thankfully the Easter Bunny knows my disdain for toys.

We went to OIT's egg hunt for the first time this year. It was a lot of fun.

After the snow during the week, it felt nice to be out in the sunshine's warmth on a lovely Saturday.

Oak and Gloria.

My Easter beauties.

Cake fail. But it did still taste good.

We tried resurrection rolls for the first time and the kids were in awe of the empty "tomb". They were a hit.

Week 14

Sunday morning of General Conference we go to the Stake Center to watch. I love it because my kids are a bit more reverent and I am able to catch more of what is being said.

Just cute!

Poem board at the library.

 I was sick for more than a week and my room was in a bad state. So I cleaned and decluttered. It just felt so nice.

 When I asked him his plans for learning today. He said he was going to read all of his Tintin books, then play Legos, then do some drawing. Sounded good to me.

 Some little one on one time with my girl doing puzzles.

 This girl is always needing to have project to do and she found this one. It was easy enough and turned out cute.

 One of Mac's obsessions are Tintin books. I thought it was cute that he was sitting on his bedding reading and eating.

 Just getting some ice cream.

We saw the Easter bunny at the store and he wanted the kids to take a picture with him.

week 13

My mom (who lives with us) wanted to help the kids tie a quilt. Oak wanted fabric with chickens and she finished with in a couple of days. I love that my kids get experiences like this with their grandparents.

The guys working on Mac's pinewood derby car. Hubs hasn't had a ton of extra time lately because its tax season. But any extra moment he could snag he helped Mac get this done.

It was Gloria's first birthday. Oak loves this funny chicken. She insisted we make her oatmeal and a birthday hat and sing to her.

Mac did theater camp during spring break. He loved every second. They performed Rapunzel at the end of the week.

Sun light and a beautiful view through our family room window.

Mac finishing painting his derby car.

It's getting harder and harder to find ways that will help my kids to listen to general conference. Usually legos are the best, but for some reason the kids kept arguing over them and it was distracting.

This was the group of kids that performed Rapunzel for theater camp.

Mac was the little billy goat. He did fantastic. And he got quite a few laughs.

Instead of flowers we made him candy leis. Hel loved it.

Grandma and Grandpa took the time to come down and see Mac in his play.