Thursday, March 31, 2016

March

What a great month March has been! Its been busy, busy, busy around here, full of family, birthdays, and lots of fun.  

One Sunday while at Grandma and Grandpa Gibson's for dinner the girls were just enjoying sitting with Grandpa and I had to take a quick picture.  

We celebrated the March birthdays and had the traditional birthday singing, cake, and ice cream.






Ashlyn loves this duck towel that we have.  Aunt Tiffany gave this to Ethan for one of his birthdays so many years ago and it has been well loved and used by all the kids after.


Jayden and Ethan both competed in Battle of the Books.  Its fun little competition at the school (that is done nationwide).  There are assigned books for each grade.  Teams are formed and they prepare for the tournament for several months.  The tournament at the school is each March. They are asked questions from the assigned books and the answers are always the name of one of the books, and they are supposed to know the author as well.  Jayden's team was "the Mustache Men."

Lauren, Ashlyn, and I had fun playing at the Museum of Natural Curiosity together.




Ethan and Dad had "Daddy time." They went to Lowe's and built a monster truck.  Ethan also decided he wanted to buy a bank to make at home.


Austin just loves those "selfies!"  Here are a few good ones from my phone.  Looks like he got Lauren to get in on the fun.




Lauren is the broccoli queen in our house.  She really, really, loves it.  She has also learned that she loves to eat the stem after we cut of the ends.



Austin and his buddy Tyson have lots of fun together.  Tyson's mom sent this picture to me.  They were having fun being explorers.

The caucus meetings were crazy this year! It has never been like this!  We had to park like half a mile away, and then found this line.  Once we got near the front we found out this was the line to vote for the Democratic Presidential Candidate (between Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders).  What a mess!  We really just needed to go inside and find the room for our caucus meeting, which was pretty impressively attended (probably mainly to vote for the Republican Presidential Candidate - it was  between Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and John Kasich).  This year's Presidential Candidates are now Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump.  This will be interesting.

Ethan earned his Wolf for cub scouts. 




Lauren came home with these ears from school and decided to make her own cat whiskers.  What a cute little kitty!


Sunday, March 27, 2016

Easter Weekend

I love holidays.  Easter was wonderful! We started out our Saturday with an egg hunt at the Gibsons.  Its always fun to watch the little kids be so excited as they run around with their Easter baskets.





After that we came home and dyed our Easter eggs.














Easter morning brought the fun of another hunt.  I'm always


























Does it feel like your blood sugar levels are rising just looking at these pictures?  I think they are enjoying themselves.

Then after church we headed up to Murray to have more Easter fun at the Kirks.






And last, but not least, Rachel and David and their family moved in with us on Easter Sunday.  We have been so excited for them to move out to Utah and so excited to get to have them live with us for a month while they get their house ready. Let the party begin!!