Spring Snapshots

Knitting and Reading

This girl spends so much time knitting and reading these days. She is hoping to sell her knitted items to make money for horse camp. (Camp will take a couple years of saving...so this is a long-term goal.)

Shopping Dates

We had one-on-one shopping dates again this spring to get the bulk of our spring/summer clothes. We get to have a treat that day to make all that trying-on more bearable. ;) Makin chose donuts and Lorelei choose ice cream.

Super Mario

The boys were so excited to see The Super Mario Bros Movie in 3D!

Airplane Gliding

We enjoyed some fun with a glider I had stashed away.

Sunday Funday

We enjoyed playing putt-putt and our usual Sunday movie night.

Man-Of-The-House 101

Brad taught Makin how to replace Lorelei's bike tire over the weekend and they discovered one of the replacement tubes was the wrong size. When the tube came in the mail, Makin got the replacement all done so we could enjoy taking Lorelei's bike on the trail that day.

Ortho Update

The expander is out and a retainer is in! We are working towards the upcoming surgery, which included sending x-rays and pictures to the surgeon.

Gardening

We are enjoying some new plants again this spring.

The Cove

We received some free Cove passes and had to use them up before May so we enjoyed a weeknight trip out for some swimming fun.

Spring Recital

Our girl still loves her Polynesian class! She had her recital in April this year and had one of her most elaborate costumes yet! This year the style of dance her group did for the recital was Tahitian.

Couldn't resist a quick horse visit.

Most of her class.

Lorelei and Layla with their teacher,
who they call Auntie Christine per Hawaiin tradition.

Community Sale Weekend

The kids have learned that it's ideal to have a sale during the community garage sale weekend. Both kids have items they are saving up for and had been working towards this event...but the timing wasn't ideal weather-wise or schedule-wise. We did the best we could and they did earn some money but not as much as they would've on a typical weekend. Now they are working towards having another sale in the fall. We haven't found any free farmers markets but we are looking. :)

ManeGait Event

Lorelei and I both signed up to help at the large fundraising event - ManeGait's Country Fair and Concert. We spent the day helping with crowd control at the petting zoo!

Bluebonnet Photo Shoot

"The bluebonnet is to Texas what the shamrock is to Ireland, the cherry blossom to Japan, the lily to France, the rose to England and the tulip to Holland." - Jack Maguire

"Now let's take one without the book..."

Easter

We enjoyed celebrating Easter.

The kids painted egg wreaths for their rooms.

One of their favorite lunches of the whole year - the egg carton lunch!

Part of the fun is seeing if you can guess what food is in the egg.

Egg Dying

Baskets

Photos (though not sure how much that part was enjoyed... ;) )

We spent a relaxing Easter afternoon with a mix of watching The Masters, some time at the field near our house (Makin), coloring (Lorelei) and eating carrot cake cookies.

Happy Easter!

March Memory-Making Moments

Half Birthdays

March brings the halfway point! We now have a 14 1/2-year-old and 12 1/2-year-old. We celebrated their days with the treat of their choosing.

Decorating Progress

This girl has been waiting patiently for us to work on making her room theme into what she would love - a Hogwarts Dormitory look. We spontaneously stopped in at a resale shop and she was so excited to find a wardrobe...making progress on her decorating dreams!

New-To-Us Firepit

Our much-loved firepit died about a year ago and we decided it was time to go ahead and get another one. We decided to go for a wood-burning firepit this time around and are loving some nights with family time around the fire on the patio!

New Library

We were so excited to check out the new library!

Before they moved libraries they encouraged us to take lots of books home to lighten to load of moving. We had SO many to return that first trip. :)

Vacation Weekend

We didn't go anywhere but gave ourselves a recharge weekend where we ate out more than usual and made sure to set aside some more time for fun.

Nana's Spring Visit

We enjoyed our time with Nana! 

 - Lorelei enjoyed telling her all about the camp she is currently saving up for. (Pic on left.)

Back To The Future In the Theater!

Nana brought us sugar cookies to frost! So Yum!

Checking out Lorelei's Newest HP book.

That time Makin shot Nana in the toe and the picture captured it perfectly...

Puzzle Time!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

That time we tried to go to an Irish Pub on St. Pat's day but it was a 2 hour wait...
and then we decided to leave because there were many people having too much to drink...

Shamrock Shakes!

Complicated Puzzle Complete...except for that one piece that was missing.

Girl time while the boys went to Brickfest...which included a Cookie Society treat.

Brickfest

Brad and Makin enjoyed a chance to check out some awesome Lego creations. :)

He followed instructions to assemble a tile to contribute to the floor mural.
(Pic of that coming up...this was part of Iron Man's fist.)

More Legos

Makin enjoyed switching out his Lego bonsai tree to the spring season as well as making a Rubik's cube engineering project (he found how to make it online) to bring to Lego Club.