Nose Getter

Today Abigail was going through one of her bags of "stuff" and she pulled out some play tweezers.  She very excitedly ran to me and said, "Mom look I found some nose getters!"  I asked her what she meant and she said these are what you use to get beads out of noses.  Although tweezers are used for many things, I doubt there are many that would classify them as nose getters!

New Independence

Ryan is starting to become so independent.  I love it when my kids can do things on there own, not because I don't want to help them, but because they get to feel that sense of accomplishment that comes from doing things for yourself.  Ryan is definitely starting to reap the rewards of independence.  He loves to clean his room and then have me come in and tell him how proud I am of him.  Sunday while I was getting dinner in the oven Ryan came in all dressed and ready for church.  He had done it all by himself and he was so proud.  He usually does a lot of it himself, but in the past I have had to help some.  Here is a picture of him all dressed and ready to go. 

I just love this boy, you can tell by the look on his face just how proud he is of himself.

Catching Up!

We had a wonderful Easter.  The week before Easter my Aunt Marie came and visited.  We enjoyed getting to see her, it was a busy week, but she got to see the boys practice soccer, Emily play tennis, and she attended an Easter egg hunt with me for Abigail and Ryan.  Tyson and Justin were  both sick with a 24 hour flu while she was here, but as far as I know she didn't come down with it.  Friday my Aunt Evie and her daughter and two children came to pick Marie up.  We enjoyed visiting with Alisa and Evie, and the kids had a lot of fun playing.  David and Mary, Alisa's children, are the same age as Ryan and Abigail, so it was fun for them.  Unfortunately Marie was so busy taking pictures it didn't occur to me to get my own camera out and take some pictures!

Easter was on General Conference so we got to stay home and enjoy the day.  Getting Easter clothes for the kids to wear is one of my favorite things to do, so I had them wear them to church the week before.  Here are a few pictures of them.

This is the picture of Justin he prefers, he has decided his eyes always look closed in pictures, so he was determined to have his eyes opened.  I love it when they go through this stage.  At about this same age Tyson was looking at pictures of himself and decided he didn't like how his smile looked.  It has taken about 3 years, but we are finally starting to see a natural smile of Tyson again.

Here is the picture I prefer.  It took about twenty shots to get one that looked natural.  He was not happy with this one.

On Easter day the kids did an Easter egg hunt in the house and then later they went and found some Easter eggs outside from Grandpa and Annabell.  Here are a few pictures of them finding the eggs outside.

Here are also some pictures from our trip to Oklahoma city that I didn't have downloaded when I wrote about it.

The hair that got Justin on TV!

The Memorial

Fun at the Science museum!