Random pictures

Quinn fell off the monkey bars at the neighbor's house today.  I was standing right there watching him too!  He cried really hard and so I took him right to the doctor's office.  They aren't sure yet if it's broken but he will see the orthopedic surgeon next week.  This is our first broken bone and we have a 13 yr. old, so we feel pretty good about that.

Here is one more picture of Collin's play.  I didn't get a chance to take many pictures.

 We always enjoy coloring Easter eggs.

 Easter Sunday evening I gave the kids each a styrofoam airplane and let them color them with markers.  Then we went to the park to fly them.  All was going well until Collin and Hannah collided running down the hill.  There were lots of grass stains and tears and a burn scab torn off Hannah's arm.  So the fun outing ended up not being so fun.  Maybe next time...

Quinn playing

Quinn is blow drying his stuffed cow's fur.  I thought it was pretty cute.

 Collin and Hannah playing Prince Dauntless and Princess Winnefred in Orion's school musical "Once Upon a Mattress".  She had just put mascara on him...he really hated it.  In fact I had to go buy eye makeup remover late that night.

 Collin with the Knights.

Funny

I think its funny that I never changed my summer pictures on the sides of my blog.  It's like winter never came!  I am getting excited to start growing things in the yard again.  Collin planted our peas and radishes two weeks ago and I have bought several packets of seeds.  Thayne needs to help me install the drip watering system in our garden and then we can plant more stuff.  It worked really well last year.  So far I have bought beans, soybeans, giant sunflowers and zinnia seeds.  Oh, and popcorn is popping on my apricot tree :)  Love this time of year when everything comes alive again.

Travel Day

At school the kids could dress up like somewhere they would like to go.  Hannah decided to dress up like a Hawaiian girl and we put her hair in a circle french braid.  Too bad the picture doesn't really show it.

Blue and Gold Banquet

I am now officially back into cub scouting.  We attended the Blue and Gold Banquet with Simon.  It was a Luau theme.  The boys had made leis and grass skirts at their den meetings prior to this evening.  We had Hawaiian haystacks and brownies and then watched the boys do a hula dance for us.  I looked at the 8 boys on stage and realized Simon was missing.  He is a shy one and was hiding in the curtains.  He didn't participate in any of the games either.  Oh well..it will come with time!

I took the kids ice skating on New Year's Eve.  It was fun.  I had decided not to skate and it was a good thing because Quinn took one lap around the ice and was finished.  So I tried to entertain him while the other kids had fun. 

 Quinn doing his homework.  Practicing writing his name several times.  He takes his homework quite seriously because he wants to be like his older siblings.

We finally got some snow on January 7th and thankfully it was a Saturday morning so the kids could go straight out and play in it.  Hannah and Simon still had their PJ's on under their snow clothes.  They were almost more excited than Christmas morning :)

Ward Christmas Breakfast

These are the primary children singing Away in a Manger and playing the chimes.  I was pretty proud of them :)