We've had a pretty busy week. First off it started with spending our Family Home Evening Monday night at the local plant nursery. We picked up most of our front yard plants. We have lived here for a little over two years and figured we should probably start putting in the rest of our yard other than grass and empty planting beds. After six trees and about another gazillion plants later we loaded up the Suburban and brought them home. Tuesday planting is all I did all day long. Aaron had to work so I did the whole front yard--with lots of help (not really) from Noah and Sarah, of course. I got my gloves on and Noah insisted he needed 'glubs', too. The only 'glubs' I could find were his winter ones, but he was happy with them so why not?! Noah mostly loved playing in the dirt--have I mentioned that this kid is 100% boy who LOVES playing in the dirt?!
However, after Sarah came home from kindergarten those two disappeared for about 10 minutes before I noticed they were gone. They had gone inside and gotten into the markers. Noah let Sarah go to town on his face, chest and pillow pet. Awesome.
Sarah got marker smears on her forehead, nose and hands. Can you see how they were lots of help in planting the front yard--haha?!
Let there be plants:
It looks a lot better than it did without plants. I just hope they don't die off. It took me all day and my body was so sore, but it was worth it--I think.....
Josh got his soccer pictures back. What a handsome guy!
However, in the group shot he does look a little....um....surprised or possessed. Oh well you can't win them all.
Wednesday I got the chance to go on a field trip with Daniel's class. It was a lot of fun, except for riding on the bus--whew that got LOUD!
Daniel's buddy was Easton and we were a pretty good trio.
The first stop was the Children's Tree House Museum in Ogden. We learned a lot of things and Daniel even got to be the King in a play the kids put on.
There was a climbing ladder the kids enjoyed:
The next stop was the Hill Air Force Base Museum. We got to spend some time in the ACE Learning center where the kids learned about gyroscopes and electricity:
They also had some flight simulators you could try out:
This flight simulator was Daniel's favorite:
Then we moved on to the airplane museum. Daniel tried out the ejection seat:
It was a pretty nice day so we looked at some of the aircraft outside as well.
It was a fun field trip and I am grateful I have the chance to go with my kids on these things. Thanks Grandma T for taking care of Noah and Sarah so I could.
Since it is spring that means flowers are blooming. Unfortunately we have quite a few dandelions in our yard. However, Noah thinks they are beautiful and likes to pick them and give them to me. Dandelions aren't too bad when they are given to you from a sweet, cute, smiley boy like this:
Thursday Josh got to have his maturation class. Aaron, the lucky guy, got to go to it with Josh. Now we had talked to Josh a bit about where babies come from, but not too much about what happens to your body during maturation. Not only did the class talk about the boys' bodies, but they talked a bit about what happens to girl's bodies as well. At the end of the class Josh was speechless--a very rare occurrence for Josh. Aaron asked if he had any questions and Josh answered with a resolute, "NOPE!!" Aaron feels like he got the raw end of the deal since he has to attend the other two maturation classes for Daniel and Noah where I only have to attend one maturation class with Sarah. I don't feel too bad, though, because the male decides which gender the kid is so it really is Aaron's fault we ended up with four boys, right ;)?!
Thursday Matthew had an incentive day at school. It's a reward day the whole class works toward. That day the teachers rented a bunch of bouncy houses and let the kids play on them all afternoon. By the time Matthew came home from school he was worn out. He did have piano lessons when he got home and it was such a beautiful day Matthew, Sarah, Noah, Aaron took turns riding the scooters over to piano lessons which wore Matthew out even more. Later that afternoon Aaron took the other kids to Josh's soccer game and left Matthew home with me so we could cook dinner. When it was time to cook I called out for Matthew and got no answer. I went looking for him and found him completely asleep on the stairs. Not the most comfortable spot, but I guess when you're that tired any place will do. Also if you know Matthew he NEVER takes a nap during the day so this episode was that much more amazing. He must have really had fun on those bounce houses!! He slept for a solid hour just like this:
When he woke up he had a nice carpet print on his cheek. It was funny.
Early Friday morning I was awakened by some pretty severe pain in my ankle. I could hardly move it and stepping on it was out of the question. It was swollen and bruised, too. That was weird because it didn't hurt when I went to bed the night before. However, thinking more closely about the day before, I did have an accident while riding Sarah's scooter. By the time we had reached Matthew's piano teacher's house Sarah was done riding her scooter. On the way back home she wanted me to ride the scooter while she ran beside me to race me. That was all fine and good until I was going pretty fast and the scooter's wheels got wedged in a crack and sent me tumbling over the top of the handle bars. I came down pretty hard on my ankles, but they didn't continue hurting the rest of the night so I didn't give it another thought--that is until the next morning when I couldn't even stand on my foot. I had some sweet kankle action going on, too:
I spent the majority of the morning in the Instacare getting it X-rayed and finding out it was a stress fracture. Sa-weet! Now I get to wear this fun clunky boot around for the next 3-6 weeks. Don't be too jealous of me-haha:
Oh well at least the boot should be off my foot by summer break. No more scooter riding for me--the same thing happened to me four years ago, but at least I wasn't hugely pregnant this time around.
Saturday morning we went to our city's Easter Egg Hunt. We had to divide and conquer, though. I went with Noah, Aaron went with Sarah and the three older boys stuck by each other since there were different fields for different age groups. Noah is not aggressive, but was happy only getting a few eggs.
When Aaron went to drop the three older boys off at their fields, Aaron ran into one of Matthew's young men's leaders who was kind enough to tell Aaron he'd keep an eye on Matthew during the hunt. That was so nice! Matthew was so excited to see him outside of church that I'm sure Matthew chatted the leader's leg off. Anyway, we told everyone to meet back at the Suburban when it was over and they all did.
The next stop was the local grocery store because they were having an Easter party there, too. They had different stops around the store where you could pick out candy and coloring pages. The kids had fun there, too.
After that we all headed down to G&G T's house for their annual Easter Egg Hunt. We got there a little early and G&G T had not hidden the eggs yet. Noah was more than happy to help them hide the eggs.
There was no adult Easter Egg Hunt this year, though. It was probably better for me since I had a gimp foot with a clunky boot anyway. Here's all the cousins looking for their 10 eggs a piece:
Noah and Bree were the littlest cousins so they got their own egg hunt so they didn't have to get trampled by the other cousins.
By the end the younger cousins got some extra help from the adults. Sarah got some help from Grandpa:
Here's everyone checking out their loot:
Afterward we had a yummy lunch/dinner and got to visit for a bit while the cousins played together. It was a nice day.
The next morning the kids got up early to find where the Easter Bunny had hidden their Easter baskets.
Then it was time to go to church. It was a nice day and I was glad to actually focus on the real reason for Easter--the Resurrection of Jesus. It really is a new beginning for everyone because of that one selfless act. It makes me thankful to know I can be with my family forever because of it. I love the true gospel and my family and I am very thankful for both.
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