Seth's Soccer

Seth's been a great defender this year and it's been fun watching his confidence expand.

 

Sam's soccer

 Blue Raspberries!  Sam's had a great team this year and it's been fun to watch them learn about each other and their strengths. 

Easter catch up

 

I've been very crazy busy the last few weeks and I'm finally able to sit down and write a few catch up posts.  We had a late Easter this year.  Sam was on band tour to Disneyland, so we celebrated after he got home.  This year we really tried to focus on Christ all week instead of just on the day of.  I loved some of the things that we did and I look forward to doing it again next year.

We had an Easter dinner with my parents. I loved that.  It was nice and very quiet this year.  Both Sharon and McKay's families have had surgeries this month so it needed to be a quiet month.

Our yearly Easter picture... sans Sam.  

We had an Easter dinner with the Robertson cousins too.  It was just us, the Hansens and Jim and Judy.  It was fun to see everyone and enjoy talking.

Seth, Walter and Ellie.  I'm going to miss when all our kids are too old to just play like this. They're just so cute.

Our Easter Egg hunt as soon as Sam was home.  Since the kids are all older, we hid about 6 eggs per kid in very random and much harder places.  They enjoyed finding them and eating chocolate/building lego flowers for the evening.

This week

Today a friend was buried.  When I was small, my parents hosted a family of 6 from Vietnam in our home.  Lan, the 16 year old, played on the tramp with us a lot.  I remember the happy talking women in the kitchen.  Dhoa loved me and I loved her back.  We were baptized on the same day.  We took them to Sundance to experience snow for the first time. They cooked duck for us to experience for the first time. Their Dad died at the age of 84.  I was really sad not to be able to take off work to go to the funeral and hug them all, but I'm so glad to go over memories of good times with good people. 

These two have figured out that they can actually climb into the piano.  Half of me cringes and half of me giggles.

Spring is here along with sidewalk chalk and bubbles.

Is she comfortable or not?  I'm not sure.

Ada and I released lady bugs into our garden.  It was a little underwhelming this time... A lot of the lady bugs were very lethargic.

I'm having a surgery and won't be able to eat very much for a few months... so we went to my favorite restaurant for one last hoorah.

Ada made me these for Mother's Day.  Aren't they beautiful.

Our bush is bursting with flowers this year.  One or two bald spots where the kids climb through the bush but oh my goodness.

 

Last performances

Evelyn was part of the multicultural program this week.  Her friend did the hoop dance and it was fun to watch the Tahitian and Hawaiian dancing.

Evelyn got her braces on.  Hooray!  This is after her spacer has been in for two weeks.  She started putting her straw between her teeth.  It was funny.

First day with braces.  She doesn't like how sore her mouth is, but she's got this.

Sam finished his AP Euro test and picked up his first pair of glasses.  He's been so excited.  He keeps saying, "I can see what that box on the shelf says."  

Last band concert and last early morning Jazz Band rehearsal until next year.