April 2019

PRESCHOOL FUN

Water table 

Playing house

Princess dance time

Letter O craft

Outside!

Audrey made a Mr Potato head out of fruits and vegetables

GRANDPA VISIT 

Grandpa and Mary Barlow came to visit for a few days.   It was so great to see them.  Grandpa took the older kids on a hike while I hosted preschool at our house.  We also took Grandpa to see Midwestern and the kids were excited about the huge glasses by the Optometry school.


TRIP TO YUMA
It was nice to visit with Joseph and Nicole and see their new home and play in their awesome yard. They were nice to host despite being in the middle of a move. The cousins really enjoyed playing together.

We visited the Mormon Battalion monument.

The kids enjoyed the park with its zipline chair and the dragon slide.

For Chole and Zeke's birthday we went to a party place where the kids enjoyed some bumper car rides and arcade games.

Probably the highlight for Brooklyn was all the cheese she could eat at the Golden Corral.  

BEAR BADGE

We are proud of Nathan who worked hard to earn his Bear badge in scouting.

EASTER

Brooklyn was excited to try out her new Minnie mouse brush on Maddy's hair.

 Like Texas, Arizona is too hot to hide eggs with chocolate candies in them outside, so we are forced to do indoor egg hunts.

The girls still wanted one outside so we hid our dyed fake eggs for them to find.  Brooklyn is still working on understanding size and tried putting the basketball in her bucket.

We have adopted the Catholic tradition of having hot cross buns for Easter.  The symbolism is that Christ overcame his death on the cross and rose again (like rolls rising).  

ROCK CLIMBING

We had fun at rock climbing on homeschool day.  Abby, Maddy, Nathan were little spider monkeys.  I was a wimp and freaked out at the top.  It was hard for me to let myself jump out and let the auto belay catch me, so I ended up climbing half way down before working up the courage to jump out.

Unfortunately Audrey inherited my fear of heights.  She reached her goal to climb up to the starfish, but then she looked down and freaked out.  Luckily a worker climbed up right next to her and helped her calm down and figure out how to get back down.

Brooklyn wanted to try too.

PLANS

Audrey made a list of everything she wanted to play with her friend Rachel when she came over.  She couldn't write down most of the things so she drew pictures and wrote "fun" at the top.

THE BIG 40

I had a wonderful birthday surrounded by the people I love the most!

OUR CABOOSE

As Jared was cutting up a watermelon Brooklyn decided to eat a quarter of it.