It's raining

Andrew and Caleb disappeared this morning as I was working hard to get ready for the end of the school year. When I found them, they were in the neighbor's yard playing.  I got after them for not telling me where they were, and got back to business.  As I got him dressed, Andrew kept telling me about their adventure collecting spider webs.  "And Mom, there is a tree where it looks like it's raining.  You need to come see it."
"Sure. We'll go in a little bit."

Finally, as he was leaving to go to a friend's house, he insisted that we see it before he get in the car.  We ran down to the neighbors' and through the gate.  Within a few feet, we entered a magical fairy land with tall trees and a locus tree high above us dropping tiny seeds.  Through the filtering light, it looked like a light rainfall that would stick to the spiderwebs hanging from the branches. Aside from the lone bird call, I could hear the seeds lightly hitting the ground like the softest rain.

The floor was scattered with tiny flowers.  "See?" he asked.  "Doesn't it look like it's raining?"

I'm so glad the Lord, in his mighty knowledge, paired the most busy people in the world with the most carefree.

Our busy beavers

We have all been very busy at our house over the last couple of months.

Elsie is growing up, up, up.  She loves to read big books and is very fast.  We took her to the library to ask a librarian for a recommendation of what books to read next she has an exciting mix.

She also just had a birthday (Birthday hugs from the brothers).  

Elsie just finished 3rd grade.  She has loved school and did very well.   She loves her teacher and will miss her.  Her teacher is so creative and gets the kids excited to learn.  We hope next year's teacher will be just as good.  

She joined a choir that practices before school one day each week she had 4 performances so far and gets to perform on the 4th of July.  My favorite was when they performed "Rockin' Robin."

Cy, just finished 1st grade.  Way to go smart-e-pants.  He did well and loved his teacher. 

He loves exploring the great outdoors and loves animals.  We just got chickens for the kids.  It is funny because Elsie's chicken acts like the Mom and Cy's chicken pecks the others, their personalities are matched.  Yesterday we caught a garter snake in a bucket and while I was afraid to pick it up.  Cy played with it, no sweat.

Happy Birthday Cy, what a haul $$$.

Andrew:

Andrew is always talking and always moving.  He has his share of mishaps too.  Here he got in to a tussel with Caleb's head, poor kid.

Andrew loved Pre-school.  He likes to make up stories but always starts or fnishes them by saying that Miss Alby (his teacher) says so, so it is a fact.  

He also learned to read this spring and got to go to raging waters to celebrate his literacy.  

Andrew likes bugs, one day in church I found that he had smuggled in a June Bug, that he played with all of the first hour.  

Caleb is our little angel, he is very polite and loves to copy anything he hears.  He loves Nursury and his friends.  Everybody is his friend.

 We also have a brand new family member, we will introduce her in our next blog post.

Solar Eclipse

On May 20th we had a great time watching the solar eclipse, playing soccer, and eating chocolate on a lazy Sunday afternoon.  We made a pin hole projector and thanks to Angie's preparation we had solar glasses to watch it with.

We were having so much fun we called our friends.  Crystal and Chad (not pictured) and Tim and Yelena joined us.

We noticed the temperature drop during the eclipse.

(You can see the eclipse reflected on the paper)

We got to go to Goblin Valley this year for Easter. Great fun. Except at night. At night the wind blew, the sand covered and the tents collapsed. We did get to go on a couple of great hikes. Wild Horse Canyon was beautiful and the kids hiked most of the way themselves.

On Friday we died Easter eggs to leave out for the Easter Bunny to hide. The plan was that in the morning we would hunt for the eggs and then make eggs golden rod. During the night a fox or a skunk or a something decided to start the hunt without us though and with the exception of a couple of eggs got them all.

The kids didn't think it was very funny when I suggested that maybe the fox ate the bunny.   

Go Utes

I took the kids to the University of Utah's Red & White Spring Football game.  I had a good time.  So did the kids apparently.  When we got home Heather asked Caleb what he did.  He said "umm sit in a chair," she asked him what else "umm eat candy."

Andrew didn't get to come.  He said he was too busy to do his chores.  He had to go to a funeral instead.

I had kids to make me laugh...and cry and scream

I was pushing Andrew in the stroller (for which he is getting too big,) and he was trying to get me to push really fast. "I'm lazy," I answered. To which he responded, "Lazy people are crazy. And crazy people go fast!" A=B=C. He's already full of logic.

We were in sacrament yesterday, and when the water tray came to us, there weren't enough cups for the last few kids, Caleb included. He was very disappointed, but I calmed him by telling him it would be coming. He waited patiently, but when it came, he surprised us all by yelling loudly, "WATER! I love it!" Then, he proceeded to spill it down his front in his excitement.

The brainy one in the family?

These glasses look like they belong on him, don't they?