Easter

We had a busy Easter weekend this year. Our soccer season officially began the same day that the Primary Activity Day group had planned an Easter activity/craft morning followed by the baptism of one of the Primary kids and occurring simultaneously as the Eagle Scout project of one of the young men from the branch. So Kalen took Lynnsey and Spencer to soccer and he had to coach Kaya's team without Kaya who decided since she helped plan the activity she should be there to participate in it. We had a HUGE turnout for that and the kids all had a fun egg hunt and made some crafts. Then we stayed for Breckon's baptism which was really nice and then since Kendall was there helping with the Eagle project, we wound up staying to help with that afterward too. James was making a bunch of flannel baby blankets to donate to a hospital and Kaya thought is was super fun to learn how to sew. She and her friend took turns stitching down each side of their blanket with the sewing machine. It was fun for me too. I haven't sewn in years and it was kind of cool to give that a try again!

That afternoon we had our traditional egg hunt in our back yard. 

Easter Sunday was really nice with a great sacrament meeting and all of our Easter lessons in classes. And of course afterward I made the kids pose for pictures. As usual, it was nearly impossible to get a decent group shot but we sure laughed our heads off trying to make it work.

Nature Walk

This year I am falling in love all over again with our local nature center. It is such a short walk from our house and it is so beautiful. We took a family walk one day in April. Things were still pretty dormant with just bits of green beginning to pop up again. But it was a nice warm day for once and it was fun to appreciate even the beginnings of spring time. Lynnsey snapped some awesome photos from our walk as the sun was setting. My very favorite is the one of Spencer heading down the path after crossing the bridge.

Spring Break

Spring break was slightly lame this year. I tried to make it fun, I really did but I had to babysit for part of the week and the weather didn't cooperate to do anything outdoors so we just had to make the best of things. All of our kids friends came back from their breaks with tales of DisneyWorld and sunny beaches and our kids got to say they shoveled snow and took a trip to the mall!

And that's pretty much what we did. Lynnsey, Spencer and Kaya all had some Barnes and Noble gift cards that they got when they opened up their savings account way back when and they'd never used them yet. So we went shopping there and the kids bought some fun books and Spencer used his card to buy a birthday gift for Kaya. Then we wandered around some of the other stores and the kids played on the silly little rides in the lobby.

Another day we went to Kid's n Stuff to play. It actually was pretty fun since it had been forever since we'd been.

We did also manage to have some fun watching movies and playing board games. Definitely not DisneyWorld but it's always nice to have a break from the mundane day to day stuff and just spend some time playing even if we do have to stay home in frigid Michigan.