Happy Easter!

For family home evening this week we had a lesson about the resurrection. We started by making resurrection rolls. You wrap a crescent roll around a marshmallow, bake it, and when it is all done the marshmallow has disappeared. Get it? 

They were really yummy! I forgot to mention earlier there was cinnamon sugar inside and on the outside :)

 Then we had a lesson where the kids got to open up Easter eggs with scriptures and objects that relate to the resurrection story 

 This little guy can be frustrating. He loves to take his clothes off, but insists on wearing shoes in the house and loves to wear his jacket. So this is what we get...

 Sometimes she really loves books. It would be nice if she would put her book away before she got the next one out. Oh well, she could be doing worse things than making a mess reading

 She learned about the letter K this week

 She and her brother love to play with the green slime/flubber

 I don't ever get to go to the library with them, but this is how I imagine it goes all of the time... ;)

 Our ward had a service day yesterday and our family had a lot of fun helping out. At one house we worked on cutting up and splitting a huge tree that blew down in the windstorm

This family lives on a five acre lot with lots of fun things for little kids to do

They have a huge water feature made out of a natural rock on their property. The kids liked climbing up on the big rock

They also have chickens

 The kids got to help collect the eggs 

 After the kids learned how to collect real eggs from a stinky chicken coop, they did an urban Easter egg hunt

 After Nixon's nap the kids found a suprise in the back yard

 Today Lyza got to wear her new Easter dress to church

 She and Nixon looked cute together

 The Easter bunny even came while we were at church

 Watch out ladies!

We have had a great Sabbath day so far and we're looking forward to yummy Easter dinner. Take care,

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

My least favorite activity this past week was taking the dishwasher apart to figure out why it wasn't working. I never did figure it out, but after putting it back together is has been working fine. I think it was a loose connection somewhere.

 Dairy Queen had a free ice cream day that we took advantage of

 I like this sight

 This little boy gets the craziest laugh sometimes. Super deep and throaty.

For breakfast on St. Patrick's Day Kim made the kids green waffles

The kids had some fun with their shadows that morning 

 Kim made the kids green slime to play with. Lyza played for hours 

Here is Lyza's digging for bugs dance

Kim made some shamrock bread for dinner to go with our avocado soup

 This guy decided the shoe rack doubles as a bench for putting on his shoes

Nixon eating the cone of an ice cream cone is really silly. The cone gets really soggy and he just sucks the ice cream out of it

 Here is a cute video of Lyza's song that teaches her how to do her buttons

I spent all day in the back yard yesterday. Of course I had good company

 I spent the morning replacing this A-frame part of our play structure with new pressure treated wood

 Meanwhile Kim and Lyza were doing some projects in the house. Lyza is learning how to use the Silhouette 

 In the afternoon during Nixon's nap I started building a sandbox for the kids' Easter gift. I had good help digging down the ground. As I was building Lyza kept saying "this looks like a sandbox. I hope some day we can have a sandbox."

 Next Saturday I will finish the cover and we'll fill it up with sand

This little guy is always falls asleep with his face pushed up against the crib. He must like feeling secure.

 25 weeks. Baby Keyes is really active.

Take care.

When a power outage is the major event of your week...

The Relief Society had an activity this week that Kim helped with. Her favorite part was icing the cup cakes ;)

 Our little Lyza has taken a lot of pride recently helping prepare meals. Here she is helping with ravioli

On Friday night as we were cooking dinner our power went out! Cooking and eating in the dark isn't much fun, but we managed 

 So we went to Wal-Mart and killed some time until the power came back

 Lyza is still a little too young to have set chores that she does, but she often helps empty the utensils from the dishwasher. She always feels good after she helps

 We were supposed to have a ward service project yesterday but it was cancelled last minute because of rain. Since I found myself with unplanned free time I did what I was told and turned an old pallet into a shoe rack for outside of our back door

 This is made completely from an old pallet we got for free. I think it turned out pretty nice 

Here is a little video of some before bed singing. Really I just want to show off my cute little shirtless boy ;)

Enjoy your week and take care

Slow week

It is hard for Kim to get to church on time when she gets Nixon all ready to go, moves on to Lyza, and comes back to see Nixon has taken his shirt off and then put his vest back on inside out. What a stinker.

 Our children always play nice together ;)

 We had a nice family home evening last week about being honest. Today in primary they were talking about truth and Lyza put up her hand and told everyone that she learned about that in family home evening. Validating moment

 This little guy loves to lay down in front of the sink because there is a heat register there

 An older couple in the ward gave away some raspberry bushes this week so we went over and dug them out. The kids also got a wagon ride out of it

 I tilled up a patch of ground then Kim and I planted them in the dark

 We can't wait for some home grown raspberries (but I think we will have to)

We love checking on the kids before we go to bed and seeing their strange sleeping positions

 Lyza was excited to see some spring flowers coming out

 No jacket? No problem!

 Express yourself little guy

 Mamma gets the best good night kisses

That's all for now. Take care