The rest of March

Oh, the joys of homeownership... A few weeks ago, one morning, I walked out into the kitchen to get the kids breakfast and found a mound under our kitchen floor near the dishwasher. As the next few days unfolded we found it was all due to a leak in the dishwasher which damaged the flooring in the kitchen area. We've had people come out to pull up the flooring and air everything out along with the insurance adjuster which ultimately led to finding out that our flooring cannot be matched and we will need to replace our entire main floor flooring.

It was Sam's turn to bring home "Bruno" from preschool to have some adventures with. 

 We had a ward Easter Party which included breakfast, activities for the kids and an Easter Egg Hunt. Here's Noel in the egg race.

 Here's Sam in the egg race.

 Easter Egg Hunt.

 Here's a picture Noel drew of herself with the Easter Bunny.

 Dying/Painting Easter Eggs.

 Morgan being silly;) 

 Easter morning. 

 My 20th Week Pregnancy Photo. I'm much bigger now at 23 weeks. It's amazing how quickly the baby and your body grows. 

 We went over to Ems and Ben's home for a wonderful Easter Dinner. We watched a video of the Resurrection, visited, and ate delicious food.

 The kiddos eating Resurrection Rolls (also called "Empty Tomb Rolls")

 Noel got a hair cut. Here's the BEFORE...

 ...AFTER.

 My parents came to Utah for General Conference and we were going to be out of town over the weekend so we met up with them a few days before, in Salt Lake for dinner. We had a great time.

Sam: "If I went to space I would...fly into the big red spot. I would walk into the black spots too."

 Noel has been learning a lot about our nation. She drew this picture of the American Flag.

 Noel had what is called the Kindy 500 at school, which is where all the Kindergartener's build a box car and on the day of, they perform in a special program singing patriotic songs and reciting a phrase they've memorized in relation to our nation. Then after all the parents leave, for class time, they "drive" around to different stations learning more about the United States of America. She had a blast making this truck with Morgan. She particularly wanted a truck (that's my girl;) and she wanted it to be pink and have black flames, and she wanted her license plate to be from California. Don't you just love her?

 She is third in line to recite her line she memorized. She did so well.

 Noel is in the top row next to the kid in the navy blue shirt. She sang all of the songs so well. 

 Sam, waiting to see her in the parade.

 There she is! 

She's growing up too fast. Just another month and a half and she's done with Kindergarten and will be moving onto 1st grade:( She's too smart to promise me that she will stop growing up. So I make her promise to stay just as sweet as she is right now:)