Tuesday Bradley had preschool. Jared had his first soccer game. He has been really excited for it to start and he has some good friends from school on his team too. He had a great game and scored 2 goals...I think. He also played against some of his good friends. Our community aids came and checked our smoke detectors in the evening too.
Goal!
Wednesday Connor, Bradley and I went to story time at the library. Then hurried home so we could walk down to get Lauren. In the afternoon the little boy who usually comes Mondays came to play for a little while. We also played outside for a bit since it was such a nice day. Alan, Jared, Connor and I went to his SEP (student, educator, parent) conference. Jared is doing great in school! Mrs. Stewart only had good things to say about him. When we got back there were emergency vehicles just leaving the quad...we had missed all the excitement. One of the ladies here who has some medical problems was taken to the hospital. I think she will be ok.
Thursday Lauren had early release (Jared too) so we didn't go help in her class. We had a fun time playing in the afternoon. Lauren had her first soccer game. She has a boy from our quad on her team and they have become best buds since they figured that out. They are always practicing outside together. Their team had a great game. We got to skype with Brett (and Grandma and Grandpa) a little in the evening too. Which was super fun!
We had fun decorating some paper eggs for Easter. Lauren like to deliver them to her friends too. They liked to make a face on one egg, then put a body on another egg and tape them together.
Friday was a normal day, but every Friday is early out for Jared (Lauren's day was just normal too). They got to go see the 4th grade dance festival, so I didn't go help in Jared's class. My visiting teachers came in the afternoon. Friday night we just had fun being together here at home. Alan also met with his PhD committee on Friday. They say it might take a little longer than August, but they all agree it is getting closer.
My dish buddies!
Gluing 36 sheets of paper together to make a huge paper airplane!
Flying the big one!
The one Lauren is holding is made up of only 16 sheets of paper. :) It flies better than the bigger one. They are all made with Jared's own design.
Saturday we woke up to find that the Easter bunny had come to our house. Then we got ready and went out to an egg hunt in our quad. There were 42 kids there...and it wasn't close to all of them in the quad. It was fun and each kid got to pick up 11...I would say find, but they weren't really hidden. After that egg hunt we walked down to the city/BYU hunt at the track. There were a ton of people there!!! In the thousands. We knew the hunt was supposed to be at 10:30 and we probably got there at 10:15, but it was over for the big kids. A few kids and gone early and then everyone went and they just couldn't stop it I guess. The 0-3 hadn't gone yet, so I took Bradley and Connor over to that and Alan took Jared and Lauren to do a bouncy obstacle course. There were so many people over at the egg hunt Bradley was lucky to find any eggs...let alone the 5 they said to pick up. I think they all had fun and no one was too disappointed. It was fun to go check out the craziness at least. Then we went over to the football stadium and watched part of the spring scrimmage. I think they said there were 12,000 people that showed up to watch that. Jared was excited because we found some seats on the front row! They were way down by the end zone in the east stands, but it was cool to be there for some of the drills they ran before the scrimmage and for warm ups. We went home and ate lunch and rested for a short time then went back to the baseball game. We watched a couple of innings, then watched the last inning at the softball game. We went to Winco to get our shopping done. On the way the kids wanted to check out if the giant snowman was still there or if he had melted all the way....he was gone. We ate dinner outside and then dyed eggs. It was a super fun day.
That was my red jelly bean
1 2 3 go!
egg hunt pro
Connor loves the sand box. I tried earlier in the week to get a good picture of him in the sand box, but he just gets so into it he won't stop to smile.
Walking home
Bradley liked to color his eggs all over with crayon then dye them the same color. So far out of 2 egg cracking contests he has won them both. Jared says he is going to patent Brad's method for next year.
Today is Easter! Happy Easter! Today was a really good day. This morning we watched some of the new Bible videos the church has made about Easter. Then these guys colored and cut out the page from the nursery manual's Easter lesson. At church I got to do singing time again. We talked about events from Jesus life and why Jesus is important. I had this idea then looking through the Friend found a short article by Elder Oaks that was essentially the same thing, so I was able to use that a little. We started by singing Picture a Christmas, but before we sang someone hid an egg with a sentence inside about Jesus. While we sang a child would try to find the egg by us singing loud and soft. Then we would read the paper and decide which picture on the board went with the paper. I had 8 eggs and we made it through 7 of them. Since I was letting the child hiding the egg pick the egg out of my basket the only song we didn't sing was the Easter one...oh well. I think it all went really well and was a lot of fun. After church we went to Jeff and Elizabeth's house for dinner. We took jello eggs, rolls, coconut pie, and hard boiled eggs so we could have an egg cracking contest with Jeff, Elizabeth, and Stephen. Jeff and Elizabeth made super yummy ham, garlic buttermilk mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, cheesy garlic herb pull apart, and brownies. We all got stuffed! We played a few games after dinner and before dessert. I am super grateful that we have the knowledge of the restored gospel! That because Jesus is resurrected we will all be resurrected too.
We will have to get a better picture in a few weeks when there is something in bloom (crocus and daffodils have started to bloom, but not much else). (It's hard to get a nice Easter picture when there are wet pants and falls involved.)
A little blurry, but a delicious dinner!
We are on Spring Break! We can't wait to have some fun this week. Hope everyone else has a great week too!
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