Easter

Happy Easter! We had a very rainy Easter weekend, but we still had fun.
The Kids posing for a picture before church. Josh didn't really want to go he wanted to stay home and play with the fun Lego's that the Easter bunny brought.

Saturday we did an Easter egg hunt inside the house since the weather was so yucky. Josh liked to open each egg as he found them.

Friday because the kids had school off so we died Easter eggs. They had a lot of fun. We did a lot of polk a dot eggs.

Zach was the first done with his eggs. His best was his Hornets egg. He was so happy that the Hornets won on Sunday. He was wondering what his Uncle Scott thought about the Hornets beating the Lakers (Scott's favorite team). We had a wonderful Easter. We miss all our families but are grateful for you all.

Carnegie Museums

Saturday we decided to finally take advantage of the wonderful museums by us. We went to the Carnegie Natural History Museum. We new the kids would love seeing the dinosaur and other animals. Isabella really wanted to go to the art museum, but that will have to wait till next time.

Zach posing for a picture. He thought we all took to long looking at each exhibit. He did enjoy seeing where the bones were found. Most were from Montana and Wyoming.

Isabella, Matt, and Josh in front of the woolly mammoth. Sorry about the flash. Josh really enjoyed talking about how things died. Josh liked seeing the 2 T-Rex's.

Isabella in front of the Saber tooth. We had such a fun day.

Isabella

Isabella has been having a fun week. She was able to go to a birthday party for a friend from school. They had their nails done. They looked so pretty. Showing off her beautiful nails.

For party favors the girls all recieved beads for their feet. Isabella can't wait to wear them this summer.

Isabella also recieved her black belt for her recorder. She worked so hard. She worked hard to catch up to her classmates. She earned her black belt in a month. Great Job!

Isabella also got to do some martial art training for Activity Days. Here she is showing off her board that she broke. She was nervous to do it but she did it on the first try.

Showing off her awesome moves. She has been having a lot of fun. She is also very exciting for the Activity Day mom and daughter party in May.

Josh and I found a preschool for Josh to attend in the Fall. Josh has also enjoyed watching all new animals around our house. Zach is still enjoying scouts and in May he will also get his tenderfoot. He is also close to getting his 2nd class too.

Zach The Boy Scout

Sorry it has been so long since I last put anything up. Hopefully now that we are moved in I will be able to be more regular on posting. About 3 weeks ago Zach became a by scout. Zach is having a lot of fun in boy scouts. about a week after we moved. Matt and Zach went on the Klondike campout. Zach had such a great time doing the races and camping out. Matt was a little cold. I did try to talk him into taking another sleeping bag :) Oh well. Zach is really looking forward to the next camp out. Here is Zach being presented with the troop number.

Zach taking the walk across the bridge from cub scout to boy scout.

I am feeling that we are almost settled into our new house. I will be glad when we are done with dentist and orthodontist. Isabella had to have two teeth removed. She did great. Zach will also be getting the bottom braces on this week. We also have an appointment with the neurologist for Zach next week. Josh is finally attending his primary class with out mom. Yeah! Josh is also enjoying play group with some kids from church.

Moving

I thought I would update everyone on why I haven't posted for awhile. We recently moved to Pennsylvania. We drove from Louisiana to Pennsylvania in three days. We have been in a hotel now for a whole week. It is getting really old. The movers called and said they are going to be a day late so we have to wait until Thursday to move in. Poor Matt that is also his birthday. I hope it all works out. I still haven't been able to get the kids into school because I don't have 2 proofs of residency. Hopefully next week. The joys of moving. I will post pictures once we get unpacked.

Josh

I thought I would update you on what each of the kids have been up to. I thought I would start with Josh. He has been enjoying speech and is really doing well. We also go to story time and go to the park for a play group(if it is to hot we go to Chic-fil-a. Josh loves it. He has also informed me that he doesn't want to go to school. I guess well have a little while to get him motivated. Silly guy.

Josh riding his dragon. We went to the zoo on the one Saturday Zach and Bella didn't have a soccer game. We had perfect weather (83 degrees) love it. Josh loved the fact about the Kimono dragon about if it spits on you it can kill you.

Josh loves finding interesting things to do at soccer games. On this particular day he was putting leaves on a stick. He also had to get the cute skeleton jacket.

Day at the park it was Read for the Record day. Curious George read The Snowy Day. They had several games for the kids to play. Here is Josh throwing "snowballs" through the hole. He had a lot of fun. We didn't stay long enough this year to see Hugo and the Hornet cheerleaders, but we did check out the Insectitarium exhibit. Josh was so into it. He loved watching the scorpions. It was pretty active.

Halloween

For Halloween this year we did Trunk-or-Treat at our ward on Friday and we just handed out candy on Sunday. I made a fun dinner of monster mashed potatoes along with a pumpkin bread pudding. For the monster mashed potatoes I made the potatoes into a circle and then put broccoli around the top for the hair and cut carrots for the eyes and corn for the mouth. This is one of Bella's favorites. Even though we didn't go trick-or-treating this year the kids had fun handing out candy and seeing all the fun costumes. We only had two trick-or-treaters come once the Saints game started.

Zach as a Storm Trooper.

Josh as a knight

Bella as a Gypsy. I took her a while to get use to wearing the eyelashes.

Matt dressed as a desert prince and Amy went as a witch to the ward party. Matt won a prize for the scariest costume. I should have taken a picture. I totally spaced it. Next year!