Planting begins

In spite of colds, Ken's bad back, and rain, we were anxious to start planting our flowers and our vegetable garden this week. Friday night we started the endeavor planting our flower boxes that go around our deck. On Saturday we continued by planting some vegetables in containers. We have a lot more to do before we are finished with the planting. We tried to get the kids involved. Ian was excited for a whole 5 minutes and then just wanted to play in the dirt. Amy actually wanted to pick out some flowers to go in the flower box (with a little guidance). She was excited about her special Amy flower box.

Catastrophe Averted

I've been letting Amy practice cutting paper lately and hadn't really thought about the possibility that she'd think to cut Ian's hair, but she did put her cutting skills to use on Ian's hair. Luckily, I caught her before she did any major damage. Ian's hair is so long right now you can hardly tell. So, if this is the worst of our hair cutting stories I'll be grateful. What family doesn't have a hair cutting story? It's a right of passage of any toddler I think. I'm just glad it wasn't Ian cutting Amy's hair since it's taken her 3 1/2 years to grow her hair to it's current length!! Amy's justification "I was making it not crazy".

Climbers

Yesterday the kids got their little rock climbing harnesses in the mail. Ken was so excited to try them out. He gave the kids their first lessons in rock climbing in our back yard.

Sweet Brother

Amy got in trouble yesterday. After I told her she could come out of timeout she went over to Ian for a little comfort. She gave him a hug and then cried on his shoulder for a few minutes. Ian kept telling her, "It's okay Amy." I must have been tired myself because it had me tearing up at the sweetness. I'm glad they are such good friends and help each other when they are sad.

Temple Square

Last Thursday I thought it would be fun to take the kids to Temple Square and take pictures of them in front of the beautiful flowers. I hoped that perhaps some of the pictures would be good enough to send out for mother's day. Although a sunny day, I misjudged just how cold it was going to be so it wasn't nearly as "fun" as I hoped. The kids had about a 10 picture maximum before they were ready to go indoors - none of which turned out all that great. I might have to try again next week when it gets warmer. It's so beautiful this time of year on temple square I don't mind going twice..

I seem to have very few pictures of me with my kids. The ones that I do have aren't the greatest. So, when I find a picture that I like of me I want it to be great of the kids too. Unfortunately, this one wasn't the greatest of Ian. He must be shaking his head or something to get a mouth like that. So I photoshopped Ian's head from the picture below to try and make it at least decent. I think I need to shrink his head a little more in the updated picture but it did the trick - at least for a new profile picture on facebook :).

Here the kids are still enjoying their time at Temple Square in the freezing temperatures. And the picture below is about 5 minutes later. . . Not so much fun anymore.

So we went to the visitor's center to get warm. By this time I was tired so we didn't stay long but we did look at all the large pictures around the room and stopped at the Christus. Amy went right up to it. Ian was a little afraid. But it was still fun to be at Temple Square with the kids.

Pictures from our Weekend in Orderville

The kids love riding the bikes. They sit and play on them for hours until grandpa or daddy will take them for a ride..

Amy playing with Grandma's pioneer dolls.

Geocaching near Orderville we were led to this hole in the rock just a few miles from the house. We all had fun exploring this one (as long as you didn't think about the possibility of snakes).