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Is it all about the kids? Yes, at our house

Logan's end of the year project-mostly done by himself. It's a local ice-cream parlour that operated for 30 years and then closed. New owners bought it and have learned to make all the old recipes.

Johanna backstage before her dance recital.

Ed and Log enjoying ice-cream at school. Logan got one item for every times table he learned-he passed off all 12, so it was three scoops of ice-cream, sprinkles, choclate and caramel syrup, gummy bears and whip cream (he didn't want a cherry). I helped scoop, so Ed of course had to have some.

So cute! Cam and I found this cute gosling at the zoo during his field trip there. There were a whole bunch of them being gaurded by their menacing parents.

Sorry about the fuzzy photo, but it's a shot of Logan celebrating the victory of his Log-mobile at the pinewood derby tonight. His car won the "most original paint job" award and came in 7th overall out of 27. I spent the night trying to get ONE good picture (never happened) and cleaning up vomit off of myself and Ed after Camden pulled Ed's shirt from the back and made him choke...all in all, a very exciting evening for everyone.

Recent pix

Here's Dad playing on the floor with Inky and Cocoa. It was really funny how our cat was interested in Cocoa. She watched him all night long and came right up to him lots of times-I think they could be friends!

Here are just some of our pretty flowers this Spring-the whole yard was gorgeous this year-the best we've had! I know it doesn't really show in pictures.

We went to the kids school carnival last Friday. Ed was really excited to get his face painted, though you can't tell by this picture-he loved the spider he got on his cheek. This cute girl is in our ward.

I think this picture is hillarious! We just wanted one...ONE good picture of the kids on Easter-is that too much to ask?

Easter

We had fun dyeing eggs. Ed just loved it, though was throwing the eggs in the yellow dye as fast as he could-I cooked 20 eggs, and about 8 of them were yellow. I let the other kids re-dye them, so they ended up the most interesting shades of puce!

Here's Ed shlepping eggs as fast as he can!

My Easter cookies-beautiful to look at and delicious to eat. However-not a good choice for people needing carpal tunnel surgery-that cookie dough is hard to squeeze!

Here's the Easter haul that Cam and Ed got from the Easter Egg hunt we went to. It was really cute watching Ed, who's never done one, pick up the eggs-he was going as fast as he could, which he didn't need to-their were a million eggs! So much candy! Luckily, I guess, Ed just broke the candy jar, which was full of leftover Easter and other candy.

Spring Break in Oregon

Johanna was a good babysitter for Mia and Ed during the week.

Ed loved his Diego cake! He loves birthdays!

Grandpa's thinking about joining in the sand castle making....he does.

Ed and his Mo's birthday sundae.

Look how cute Mia is coloring at Mo's. She also enjoyed finishing off Ed's hotdog.

Mom and the gang playing operation Shrek.

Here are some Spring Break pix. We had a great time visiting Grandma and Grandpa Hoth in Oregon. The kids and I had a good trip there-we even picked up Katy and Mia at the airport on the way. I was so glad Katy came. It was fun to see Mia and it's always nice to have a sister to hang out with at home...thanks for coming, Katy! I got to see my friends from home-Kari, Britta and Jennifer. I went on several walks with Dad in the mornings. The weather wasn't too bad-even a few nice days! Katy, Johanna and I had a fun time shopping in Portland. We all went to the beach one day and enjoyed a beautiful day there. It was Ed's birthday that day too. We ate at Mo's, of course-they even brought Ed a sundae with a candel on it and sang to him-he loved it!

We played on the beach for awhile before heading home. Grandma made another wonderful cake for Eddy-Diego this time. We visited the carousel and had Kevin over the last day there. All in all, it was a wonderful visit, and I can't wait to go back! I love Oregon!

New Pictures

Here's some recent pictures taken with my new camera! I'm so glad we don't have to use Johanna's anymore! It would run out of batteries every 10 pictures or so. Inky in the dishwasher

For some reason, Inky climbed right into the middle of this sagebrush and just hung out there for awhile. Looks prickly to me!

Me and my food storage buckets-I'm ironing the mylar bags shut that we put the grains into. It feels good to at least get started!

I wish I could keep this in food storage! It would be nice to open it up when I wanted to and it would be nice and fresh and keep in just this condition for 30 years!

Johanna and Logan at piano festival. Johanna was so nervous, that she cried after it was over. They both worked hard and received highest ratings (Superior) for their efforts.

Skiing at Harriman

We had such a great time skiing on Valentine's Day. We took the whole crew-and I'm glad we did-everyone loved it. It was perfect weather-not too cold-just beautiful. I always love Harriman with it's beautiful pine trees, snow drifts, frozen lake, and about a thousand swans (too many-I guess they are becoming pests!). We skiied to the warming hut (see photo of Ed sipping hot cocoa), had lunch, and skiied back by way of the lake so we could get a good view of the swans. A fun activitiy for everyone.