Alamo Artwork

I like to take a picture to "preserve" the kids artwork. It takes up a lot less space, and makes it less painful to throw away the real thing. So, here's some Alamo Artwork Connor made.
Not bad.

Coloring Eggs

On Sunday, we colored the Easter Eggs. I wrote down some random things the kids said:

Tanner:
"Quinn, look at this."
"Smokey the football."
"Quinn, look at this."
"Ahhh. So warm." (after getting the egg out of the boiling water that makes the plastic stick to the egg)
"Oooooh Mom, look at this."

Allison:
"This is to Sophie. That's why I wrote 'BABY'."
"Mine broke again."
"Are these real eggs?"
"Please pass me another white egg."
"Mom, look at mine."

Connor:
"Whoa, Mom. Look at that egg."
"Mom, look at this egg."
"Mom, it looks like a robin egg."
"The football actually looks cool." (compared to the baseball and soccer plastic wrappers)

Quinn:
"Mom, I did a nice big color."
"I like those little egg wrap around...."
"Make sure I don't have an 'egg-cident'."

Once the eggs were colored,
the kids made some "concoctions" with the dyes (that's what Tanner is doing in the top photo).
Scott and I hid the eggs in the backyard. We think we maybe lost one?
We followed the hunt with eating boiled eggs, some 72-hour kit things we needed to eat,
and homemade chocolate milkshakes!

Baseball Lip

Last night, Scott hit the baseball, and Quinn caught it with his lip! It was a pretty good grounder, and Quinn was ready, then it jumped up and hit his mouth.
His tooth went into his lip and then out of his lip. Fortunately, Scott doubles as a dad and a nurse practitioner and he iced right away. I bet he will think it's cool by tonight's baseball game.
At least it was a "baseball injury", right?!

This happened while I was gone with Tanner to Target. That was probably a blessing.

BYU Buggy

Allison, Allison! I took her picture, the happy one on top. And then she wanted a sad one, the one on the bottom.

I think it was just yesterday, she said, "I can just pull my pants up like a Hillbilly, then no belly show!" (Her shirts are getting pretty short and we talk about her middle showing: "belly show". I guess she just keeps growing up, but denial is where I will happily stay on that one.)

We are excited around here for Teancum's party at the park this afternoon.
Zaret is making a pinata! Connor was talking about it, and he said, "MACHETE" as he was searching for "papier mache".
I think we'll be trying to open up a pinata, and not cutting down sugar cane this afternoon!
Love that Connor!

Tanner Try-outs

Brave Bubba-Tan! Tanner played "Indian Song" (ever heard that one before?!) and "'C' is for Cookie" for his elementary school talent show try-outs. We don't care if he makes it or not, we were just pleased he tried out. He even wore his suit and lucky slicky black patent leather shoes (the ones that our neighbor Charley wore when she tried out in elementary school). I must admit, there was a reward behind his trying out. The reward has changed as time has gone on. It went something like this: First, it was a game cube game. Then, it was money towards cleats he has eyed at Academy for fall football. But alas, he has some Pokemon cards and $3 towards cleats. He is a brave little guy. He's holding up a #5 because he was 5th to try-out. Connor was such a good big brother. He stayed at school until I could get there.

Allison Asleep

Why do they look so angelic when they are sleeping? It doesn't matter why, but I love it! Allison took a little nap the other day. She doesn't do that very much anymore. That was one of those moments that rips my heart out when I think about her going to kindergarten in just a few months. I love it when she crashes during the day.

Some scouting....

Connor earned his Webelos Rank in Cub Scouting. He also got a couple of beltloops: chess and bicycling. He looked at his beltloop later, only to find that apparently he has already earned the bicycling beltloop. Two are better than one, right?!




























Tanner earned a chess beltloop and a bicycling beltloop. We are grateful for their diligent den leaders.