Sit back and relax!

I've somewhat updated the blog....so...sit back, get a cold beverage and enjoy the pictures!!! It might take you a while :)

Classes

For a long time we have wanted to give our kids the opportunity to join a class or do an outside of school activity. In January we were blessed with help to be able to do this. So, Alia wanted to do dance-so we signed her up for a Ballet class. She has class every week and will be in a recital on Fathers Day. These pictures were taken on picture day for her recital.
Elijah needed to do some type of sports...so we signed him up at the Little Gym for a sports class! Perfect! He has gotten to learn skills for golf, frisbee, hockey, baseball, gymnastics...there are some others but I forget.

Sports Class!

Here is elijah at his Little Gym sports class! He goes once a week for an hour and he absolutely LOVES it! And we love it because he gets to work off some of the energy he has! It makes for a great bedtime!

Images of Easter

He is Risen!

Our friends, the Reeds, invited us to celebrate Easter with their family! We (well, maybe mostly me) was so blessed to have somewhere to go!!! We had a great time and it felt like we were part of the family!

Well...as usual, my boys make quite the picture :)

We dyed eggs after church. The kids enjoyed doing this...but Ethan made it pretty interesting.

The Easter bunny came!

spring Break...

The second half of our spring break was spent in san diego visiting our good friends Dan and Tracy!!! We had a great time! We went to the Birch Aquarium, the San Diego Zoo, played at the mall and went strawberry picking. Thanks so much Dan and Tracy for hosting us and taking such good care of us!!!

Some of the strawberries we picked.

Spring Break trip 2-San Diego

Pictures from the San Diego Zoo!!

We got to ride the Aerial Tram! The kids thought that was great! :)

Elijah and his buddy :)

I thought this was funny...the elephant is getting a pedicure! :) Lucky elephant :)

Pictures from the Aquarium...

Alia's Easter celebration

Alia's class had an easter egg hunt on the last day of school before spring break. I think she got to find 17 eggs!

Here she is with some friends.

This is one of Alia's favorite school friends.


Here's my big girl!! Isn't she cute?

Elijah, Easter & Eggs

Elijah smiling after his school easter egg hunt :)

Daddy and Elijah!



Here's Elijah's class talking about the meaning of Easter.

Goodbye baby curls, goodbye.

Oh...I finally gave in and took Ethan for his first haricot. It was getting pretty wild and crazy...but I was so sad to say goodbye to all the little baby curls. SIGH. But he does look so cute with his new hairscut! ;)

This is the after picture. I just took this picture after his nap so he's a bit messy.

Here are both the in process and the before picture. Do you see all the crazy fuzziness coming out from behind his head in the pic below?? crazy! He did really well getting it cut. He sat on a booster all by himself and didn't cry at all. UNTIL the clippers came out. And yes, I was the mean mom who held his head so the back bottom could be trimmed. It needed it SOO bad. And I figured if I was paying for the silly haircut I might as well have it be finished! ;)

Spring Break Trip 1: the LBC

The kids and I took a trip to Long Beach to spend the weekend with my parents while Jason went to a men's conference with some guys from church. We had a lot of fun hanging out with gramma and grampa! :) I didn't take many pictures but we did go to the Aquarium and I got some pics there. Enjoy!

Elijah touching the sharks.

Alis touching the sting rays!

Ethan touching the sea stars!

Poor Ethan didn't want to be in any group pictures :)

Fishies!!! Ethan learned the word fishies during spring break.

MOPS today

This was our creative activity for MOPS today. I've been looking forward to this activity all year-it was a highlight for me as I've been planning and prepping all the crafts this year! And it was a hit!!! The moms loved it!!!

This pendant is a sample I made-printed the Chinese character for "love" on computer paper and used it for the pendant!

The moms all got to choose their own paper design for their pendants. There were so many adorable choices!

Then they came to these tables and picked their glass tile, bail and chains! And back to their tables they went to create! It was so fun!!!!
*all the materials were purchased at Annie Howe's etsy website. she's got great ideas!

First dentist visit!

This month little Elijah had his first Dr appointment!! Such a big boy! I can't believe he's going to be 4 in May! Oh...time...can't you slow down? He did a great job and his teeth are great! Hooray! And he was way excited to come home with a little baggie of teeth stuff, including a TRANSFORMER toothbrush! Perfect!! Enjoy the pics.

My Leprechauns

So I tried to take a picture of the kiddos this morning but it just wasn't working. :) Once everyone was sitting nicely Ethan decided to lay back far enough that he was laying down! And once the other kids started laughing about it...it was all over! Ethan laid down EVERY time I tried to take a picture. Who knew he could be such a trouble maker.

So, enjoy my attempts. :)