Casey's quiz

Favorite color:  you know, the dark green
Favorite food:  mashed potatoes
Favorite movie:  Star Wars
Favorite TV show:  Avatar
Favorite trick at gym:  back handspring
Favorite thing to do with dad:  Play games with him
Favorite thing to do with mom:  read books
Favorite thing to do with Sam:  play basketball
Favorite thing to do with Zach:  play lightsabers
Favorite thing to do with Maggie:  make forts, sleep in it, and play
Favorite thing to do with Jill:  play dad with her
Favorite thing to do with Anna:  push her around in the laundry basket with stuffed animals all over her
Favorite friend:  Elizabeth
Favorite toy:  Star wars guys
Favorite Primary song:  I'm Trying To Be Like Jesus
Favorite song:  "Uh bo bo bo buh bo"
Favorite Star Wars guy:  girl: Luminara  boy:  Obi Wan
Favorite Animal:  Cheetah
Favorite ice cream flavor:  chocolate
Favorite Restaurant:  Taco Bell
Favorite Scripture Story:  Nephi had courage
What are you good at doing?  Playing with Star Wars guys
What do you like about yoursef?  I'm nice
What makes you happy?  When people are nice to me when I am nice to them
What are you afraid of?  If I was swimming in the ocean I would be afraid of real live sharks
What new thing would you like to learn this year?  multiplication
What would you do with $100?  I would pay some of it with tithing, and buy Star Wars guys
What do you like to do for other people?  Help them with stuff
What is your favorite thing to do at school?  play on the swings
What do you wish was different at school?  the red tickets were bad and once you filled up 100 tickets you would have to stay on the fence for the whole recess and that the yellow tickets were good
What are you excited for in second grade?  to have Mrs. Land
What is your favorite thing to do in Arizona?  go hiking and play card games with Nana
What is your favorite thing to do in Missouri?  City Museum in St. Louis
What do you want to do in ten years?  could I go on my mission yet?  no.  oh. go to the beach.
What do you want to be when you grow up?  go on my mission. What about after your mission?  I don't know what I want to be yet.  Oh, yah.  A pet store person.

Jill's quiz

Favorite color:  purple and pink
Favorite food:  applesauce and pancakes and cream
Favorite movie:  Anastasia
Favorite TV show:  Octonauts
Favorite trick at gym:  crab walk
Favorite thing to do with dad:  Go and get an ice cream cone
Favorite thing to do with mom:  Go to Walmart (I about cried)
Favorite thing to do with Sam:  Shoulder ride
Favorite thing to do with Zach:  Back ride
Favorite thing to do with Maggie:  race
Favorite thing to do with Casey:  race
Favorite thing to do with Anna:  jumping on the tramp
Favorite friend:  Lauren and Ashby and Will
Favorite Toy:  Dollies
Favorite Primary song:  I am a Child of God
Favorite song:  Anastasia's "Once Upon a December"
Favorite Princess:  Ariel
Favorite Animal:  It starts with a "B" . . . b. . .b . . . b . . . Bunny Bunny Bunny
Favorite ice cream flavor:  Blue Moon at Spring Dipper
Favorite restaurant:  McDonald's
Favorite scripture story:  Shadrach Meshack and Abednego
What are you good at doing?  Jumping
What do you like about yourself?  That I can sing
What makes you happy:  Going to the beach
What are you afraid of?  Monsters
What new thing would you like to learn this year?  Front limber without touching my head
What would you do with $100?  I would leave a lot home and buy a Dora toy
What do you like to do for other people? Getting diapers for mom
What are you excited to do in preschool?  Play with Mrs. Cawvey
What is your favorite thing to do in Arizona?  Play witch with Nana
What is your favorite thing to do in Missouri?  Go to Ashby's
What do you want to do in 10 years? Nothing
What do you want to be when you grow up?  An artist with a paintbrush and some paints

Best of the Weekend

I spilled gas in the back of the car last week.  It really stunk.  So, off it went to be spiffed up and freed of its bad odor.  It came back just in time for a trip to KC, still a little damp.  Note to self:  Do not get the car detailed the day of a trip.  It WILL NOT have time to air out and you will battle a wet towel smell for the weekend.  But, on the bright side, wet towel smell is better than spilled gas smell.  

 Anyway, off we went to the KC temple open house.  We had cupcakes, met fantastic friends, played at parks, ate at a railcar restaurant, changed in the car, more than once, visited a KC ward, ate lots of fruit snacks, stopped to get milk for a bottle, lost a bottle, bought another bottle, found a bottle, ate more fruit snacks, found a Target, drove in the rain and wind, spotted no tornadoes, and drove with the windows down for some fresh air.  But THE BEST was the temple tour.  What an awesome blessing to have our whole family in the temple together.  It is an absolutely beautiful temple, decorated with rich, warm tones.  We were able to have discussions and help our children feel eternity just for a second.  It makes everything else seem mundane and temporal as you walk and feel the spirit of the temple.  We all felt the love the area Saints have for their very own temple and ached for those early pioneers who were persecuted and denied building a temple so close by.  We all felt them rejoice in the realization of a dream, even though it took 180 years to complete. Our only regret and wish is that we were closer and could enjoy the temple and all the beauty that it has to offer more often.  Thanks again to the Palmer's and Arnita's for meeting us somewhere in the middle.   

It really was a great weekend.

best of the day

April 10 - 

We went to the pool.  I need to take my camera next time.  Anna insists on having a life jacket on while sitting in the gutter of the pool.  Every now and then, she would topple over for a quick dip.  

She was not so pleased with this arrangement.  

But, she kept climbing down to perch on the gutter for another unexpected dunk.  

On the way to the pool Jill was in a hilarious mood that ended with her calling Casey a funny name.  Because we were all laughing in hysterics, none of us can remember anything except that it ended in "slob".  Funny girl.

For papa

We still have caterpillars.  They won't be butterflies.  They will be moths.  Google eastern tent worm, click on the images, and you'll see how disgusting they are.  Yuck.  And even worse, they squirt if you step on them.  We have stained concrete, but not the good kind.

Best of the Day

April 8 - 

Easter brunch

"He is Risen" video

Michele's talk in sacrament meeting

missionaries for dinner

 

best of the day

April 7 - The Jung's and Wood's came over for bbq and a glow in the dark easter egg hunt.  Definitely a hit with the kids.  All requested a repeat next year.  I wish I could have taken pictures, but that just doesn't work with my camera.  It was fun to see the kids running with their glow bracelets and necklaces hunting for eggs.  Michele brought a fabulous cobb salad dip that I have been craving ever since.  

So, a good day filled with filling eggs and filling our tummies.