The Zoo

B's class went on a trip to the Zoo.

Dad volunteered to go, too.

B was so excited to take Dad.

Dad was so excited to go with B.

B said it was the best day of his life.

Daddy did, too.

Garden?

check.

When I said we'd been up to a few projects the last couple of weeks, now you know what I was talking about

(sandbox, shelves, garden).

AND thanks to the darling child who ran off with Mom's camera and took pictures of everything on our property, I now have some lovelies to share with you.

This is our first real attempt at a garden, and we had to clear the grassy area first-

(read "Blisters and Back ache").

We've got the "cold" loving seeds in the ground. You can't tell it from the pictures, but we've got something coming up- can't tell if its weeds or lettuce.

Any way, if we get a fluffy green garden going,

I may add some posts now and then about it,

if it just stays rocky and weedy, - well, you won't be hearing much more.

The End

Rotating Food Storage Shelf?

Check.

Another project we have been working on the last couple of weeks, has been converting some existing shelves in our storage room, into rolling shelves.

I was sharing my frustration about how hard it was

to rotate our wobbly stacks of food storage cans, with my Sweets.

And he went into fixer mode.

It took some figuring out

and lots of patience to get everything clicking and fitted onto the old shelves,

but,

By Golly,

I think we did it!

{Well, actually, my sweetie and his dad did it, I just smiled and put the cans on}

Thank You!

Kids Thoughts about Life

About a box of Life Cereal

"I want some Life!"

"I haven't got any Life!"

"My Life is alllll gone"

"Mom, do you have any Life?"

"I like Life, don't You?"

"Life is soooo good!"

"Do we have any Life?"

"Life is my favorite!"

and when the kids say they would prefer Life for a snack, I always have to muse,

that yes,

"Life is definitely full of surprises!'

Sand Box?

Check.

After being inspired by this,

okay, and maybe the thought of my boys always digging up my flowers-

in an effort to satisfy their desire to dig,

We decided to make our own one of these.

We've been working on this for a couple of weeks and we got the load of sand dumped in our driveway today, so we started to work, filling her up.

When I was a wee sprout, my friend Sarah (G.), had a marvelous sand box that seemed huge, and it had a seat all around it and we could dig to china.

So, when we decided to make our own dig box, I said it had to be like Sarah's was.

Huge, a place to rest our buns, and lots of sand

{the new neighborhood hang out}

B said: "This is the best day EV-ER!"

C said: "I LOVE it!"

J said: "WAAAAAA" (I don't want to get out!)

Now these guys can rest easy

Sigh.

Off We Go....

To Nursery

Perhaps his parents,

{and everyone else in Sunday School},

were looking forward to it more than him,

But he did awesome.

No tears,

until I came to take him home.

{Guess he needs more Nacho Nights}

Nacho Night

A New Tradition

The last Friday of the month

at our house will be,

affectionately called,

Nacho Night

{our fourth monthly Nacho Night.}

{see the beans!}

I'm not sure if we decided to start this tradition, so that Mom could make sure I get my monthly quota of nachos met, or for some other reason; like we wanted to start something where at least once a month, we were spending a Friday night hanging out as a Fam.

We thought if we started it now, by the time the boys were older, they would know and look forward to this night, and as schedules and lives get more hectic and filled with outside influences, that this would be a night they would know was for family and nachos,

and not want to miss it.

We put out the goods

(everything from homemade guacamole to jalapenos)

and everyone gets to pile their own.

(Here I will let you in on one of my secrets: I noticed that if I put beans (like kidney or black) on the table, that they didn't get touched. So now, I put them IN every meal I can- especially easy to add to any Mexican dishes, and down they go- without a thought,

and I feel like Super Mom who got her kids to slurp down

some good for you, fruit of the heart.)

Then we lay out a blanket,

munch on our nachos,

and watch a movie the kids have picked out.

This week it was Bolt.

{Munching our Macho Nachos}

{Quesadilla Muncher}

We Love You Nacho Night!

P.S. C tried a jalapeno, brave soul

RuB A DuB DuB

I Found My Two Boys

Playing in the Tub

Comfy.

Don't You Think?

Our Weekend

El Husband-O had to spend a few days in

St. George-O

doing some marketing at a convention,

and since I have some folks that live down yonder,

we decided to make a trip out of it,

and bring the gang.

So while Dad was doing his work thing

(boring)

we did things like this:

Play at the park

Fly Kites

and spend time with G'Ma and G'Pa B

When Dad was done

(doing the boring stuff)

he joined us for some afternoons of

visiting the St. George Temple

and a trip to

Where we had a picnic

and got to enjoy some of this:

Orange

Sandy Beaches-

er, I mean Dunes

Where we did wild things,

like

and

Then we taught the Old Folks

how to

play some Wii

We had a great time

and we were so GLAD we got to go

with Dad.

Happy Easter!

{My Handsome Gang}