Wild About Weather Class

We went to a class at our county's outdoor education last month.  It was called, "Wild About Weather".  It was our first time and we were really looking forward to it.  When we arrived at the building the girls were excited to find some local creatures inside.  They studied this turtle for a long time.

They got to color all sorts of weather pictures too.

 Here was another creature that they observed.  My creative little girl was pretending to "be the snake".  She is so smart and funny!

 Afterwards we went on a nature hike to observe the weather and find things that were as a result of different weather conditions.  We saw where lightning had damaged a tree, rain had caused some erosion, where wind had blown over a tree, and other interesting things.  My girls were really caught up with looking for flowers and there were plenty to be found!

It was a wonderful class and we loved it!  We're looking forward do doing more again soon.

Flying Kites!

Coloring Easter Eggs

After our Easter Egg Hunt at church we came home and colored eggs.  The little ones did theirs in the morning and in the afternoon Rachael, Ryan, and Rachael's friend Tim colored their eggs.  They came out so great and I've been trying to find recipes to use all of the hard boiled eggs!

Easter Egg Hunt

The Saturday before Easter we participated in an Easter Egg Hunt at our church.  My niece Abby came down with my brother for the day to join in the fun.  They had so much fun collecting the eggs and seeing all of the sweet treats inside.  It was so wonderful they could share the fun with their cousin too.  After all of the kids collected 10 eggs each, they let the big kids collect extra and Jacob was in heaven.  He filled his basket and came home with quite a collection of candy!  

Minah's Masterpiece

Minah has become quite the artist.  We leave a lot of the craft and coloring supplies within reach of the little kids.  She now picks out her crayons, markers, or colored pencils and spontaneously colors pictures.  She is very creative.  On this day she first colored with colored pencils.  Afterwards she found a pencil and created another picture on the other side.  She was so excited and asked me to take lots of pictures of her with her creation.  We are so proud of her and her artistic abilities!

More pictures from Minah's Birthday!

Here are a few more pictures from Minah's Birthday.  She loved singing Happy Birthday and eating her cookie!

Megan and Andy's Wedding

 The kids waiting to dance at the wedding reception

 My boys!

 Ryan and Rachael

 Our family-funny how we can't seem to get everyone to look at the camera and smile at the same time.  :)

On March 17th we went to Matt's cousin Megan's wedding.  It was a beautiful ceremony.  The weather was perfect and could not have been nicer for Megan and Andy.  The reception was very fun and the kids danced themselves silly.  It was a wonderful beginning of their life together and we were so glad we could be there to share it with them.