Saturday, March 31, 2012

March happenings

Although it continues to rain and rain and rain...we have been finding ways to enjoy our spring.  Austin participated in the 3rd grade music concert at school.  They are in the middle of a unit on Africa.  They tie-dyed shirts a week before and wore them for the concert.  Austin surprised us by having a special part for the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".  He was one of the lions prowling the stage, chasing other "animals" during the song.  The whole class tried out to be lions and only 2 students were chosen.  It was nice to see him enjoy having a "stand out" part.  He has usually shown himself to one of those kids who prefers to just blend in with the crowd.


This is our friend Jacob who is also in 3rd grade at the same school, and attends our church.  All of the 3rd grade classes got to be part of a drum chant to open the concert.


I got to volunteer in Austin's class and help them with this mask/art project.  During the 2 hours I was there they only completed the eyes, nose, and eyebrows.  This was a very involved project but it turned out really cool!


Austin and his teacher after the concert.


Ezra and I made coffee filter butterflies that are now hanging in the window to cheer us.


The boys have been entertaining themselves by loading the couch with all the pillows and blankets they can find.  The hang out up there and of course bring their guns and shoot any bad guys they see outside or indoors. :)


My dad bought the boys Tigers hats.  Austin was sure he needed a good hat like this for baseball practice.  Opening day for the Tigers is this week!


Of couse, we had to color Easter eggs.


We are looking forward to celebrating Easter in a week and the chance to celebrate the reason for our hope!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

A day at the zoo

We went to the zoo at Point Defiance yesterday.  The boys had no school and I didn't have to work so I decided to go for it.  The weather these last 10 days or so has been dreadful.  CONSTANT rain.  COLD rain.  VERY depressing.  I decided we were going to the zoo even if it meant getting rained on all day.  God was very gracious though, because even though it was raining pretty hard when we got there, it tapered off pretty quickly and the sun even came out for the majority of our time there.  It was very therapeutic for me. Austin was my little photographer.  He took all of the animal pictures below.  It was a really great day to be there because it was not crowded at all and the animals were pretty active.








Leprechaun Day!

We made a leprechaun trap this morning.  I didn't want to miss this opportunity to enjoy young minds that still might not be sure if this leprechaun stuff is real or not...  I don't know if the leprechaun was supposed to appear last night or tonight, but it could be that our kids might wake up tomorrow to see that a little mischief happened in the house while they were sleeping...


Thursday, March 8, 2012

100th day of school


Christian came off the bus yesterday with this hat on.  I love that he still likes to do stuff like that and is not embarrassed.

We haven't been doing much that I felt like blogging about lately!  I have been a little down this last week because my parents left.  They were here for 2 weeks and we had a great time.  We went to the Seattle Aquarium and the boys and grandparents spent one night in a hotel and did a lot of swimming.  I also bought several new light fixtures for our house and my dad installed them.  We can actually see after dark now in our downstairs room!  We also spent a lot of time just hanging around the house which was nice.  I was also able to get caught up on my yearly scrapbooking!  Somehow I didn't take many pictures of our activities though.