This week

 

Ada's soccer game today... they only had 4 players show up, so we combined teams with another two teams that hadn't had enough show up.  It was fun and they meshed really well for not knowing each other.  Ada knew Adam Maya from elementary, so that was fun to catch up a little.

Jer bought us tickets Drybar comedy this week.  It was fun.  And it started at 9:30 pm.... so kids were in bed and we had fun.

Our 70 year old neighbor was frantically trying to fix sprinklers late at night before his sod got laid the next day.  Our kids grabbed shovels and dug up broken pipes. Jer, Larry and Scott fixed the pipes and Marjorie, Ada and I buried and leveled out the sprinklers.  I thought it was fun and Seth especially liked digging in the mud.  He kept yelling, "I found two more broken ones!" and stuff like that.

Mutual was a combined activity.  It was simple and fun. 

We surprised Ada.  The school district has had her painting on display at their offices and they wanted to acknowledge her and the other students on display.  We didn't tell her and she thought she was in trouble as we went into the district office.  It was her first time ever watercolor painting and it was an assignment on surrealism.  She made an eye into a landscape.  The best part is that she went over parts of her painting with a sparkly something, so in person it shimmers.

Ada's principal went to school with Aunt Margaret, so this is kind of a fun picture.

Hannah's been crashing alot at our house. I'm glad she feels comfortable enough to relax and get some rest here.  She's officially moving to Japan at the beginning of June, so we'll soak her in while we can.

It's been really windy lately.  Evelyn made her own kite and had a lot of fun playing in the wind.

Easter Sunday

The Primary sang Gethsemane.  I was in tears.  The music leader's husband died within the last year and she has dived into these Primary songs head first.  She had them following her for crescendos and decrescendos.  She put her heart and soul into teaching these kids and these kids have responded in kind.  I've never seen such an attentive Primary number. 

Our music coordinator for the ward has decided to teach the youth how to lead music.  Sam volunteered for this Sunday.  I loved seeing him up there.

 

Easter weekend

 

Annual family Easter Picture.  I can't believe how grown up my family is getting.

Saturday we had our neighborhood Easter Egg hunt, which was nice.  It was good to get time to meet and chat with new neighbors and catch up with old ones.  We skipped Ada's soccer game to be able to stay for it....  But we did make it to Seth and Sam's games right before our Wilcox family Easter party.

Friday

 

Friday we went to our first ever escape room.  It was fun.  It was a King Arthur room.  We had to find 6 swords to unlock the golden egg to win.  It was two rooms and we had 3 people in each room.  We had one hour to solve about 25 puzzles.  We did it with about 3 minutes left.  We did need help for two of the puzzles from the game master.  One of them we got right but the mechanism wasn't working and he had to bypass it. 

After the escape room, we went swimming with Beth, Jack and Rose.  We followed that up with some pizza from Brick Oven. (and video games at home)

Yummy

Brad said that we needed to try this Italian place called sipori.  He was right.  It was so good. We had pasta and savory crepes. The kids tried European style hot chocolate and then we ordered pastries to go.  The kids were talking about loving it so much and the owner said that he would hire Ada if she were 14.  She about blew a gasket and was even trying to figure out how to ride the frontrunner train.  I told her maybe later, but right now that would be a ton of travel time for a first time job.