BYU kids are back

At the end of April, my little brother Dallan and baby sister, Paula, came up to Arlington. Dallan was on his way to Ohio for a summer internship. Paula was here for the weekend to stay with Stephanie while Eldon drove with Dallan.

We had everyone over on Thursday evening and celebrated Eldon's birthday. Stephanie made 2 killer desserts that I still need the recipes for. Paula spent the night and I made her go running with me the next morning. Then, she spent the rest of the weekend with Stephanie and Sophie. They came over for a Sunday meal.

Monday we met Grandma in Waco at a park. We had a picnic lunch and said good-bye to Paula and Grandma. I took the kids to a playground we had seen on the way to the picnic area. It was a fun Cinco de Mayo Monday off school.

Playdate

Allison and her little friend....they play on a Tuesday or a Thursday. They dressed up in matching purple leotards, "high heeled" shoes, same hair-do and I think we'd done the toenails by then, too. I like it when she gets a chance to play dress-up and dolls. This is her little friend who got her liking salami. This is ONE of the things I think I will miss when she's in kindergarten....the sweet little playdates.

All Registered

Allison is all ready to go to Kindergarten. We registered her one day, and then she went to the Kindergarten Round-up a few days later. She had a good time.....she colored, sang and played with a puppet. We have requested Mrs. Davis. She taught Connor and Tanner. Quinn had Mrs. Hall in Kindergarten, and she is now the librarian at Corey.

Ranger's Museum

Maybe someday, Quinn, maybe someday..........

The kids in the Ranger's dugout.

The new Cowboys Stadium, taken from the Ballpark in Arlington. Apparently, the story is that the Statue of Liberty could fit inside the dome of the new Cowboys Stadium--kinda tall.

While Scott was at the Church Youth Conference, we went to the Ballpark in Arlington. The Rangers were out of town, but we visited the museum and took a tour of the Ballpark. I was amazed at how nice the locker room was. It was not at all like the locker rooms I'm used to seeing in movies or in school. Wow, fancy! Maybe I should play baseball.

Hunt at Talley's

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!