The Pirates

Our ward had a tallent show called "Latter-Day Night Live" and our family dressed up as pirates and sang and danced with the son The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything by VeggieTales. Evan also was in the skit, but he took this picture

Isn't Camie cute?

Taneal in her Pirate clothes.

Spencer even joined in on the show

Danielle danced right along with us. I figured she would get nervous and hide behind me, but she stood by my side and danced!

Easter

We spent Easter out at the ranch with cousins. We planned on riding 4-wheelers and being outdoors, but the cold weather definitely changed our plans. We had a great time indoors and the girls played hard with their cousins. They built indoor forts, played games, and watched movies. We really enjoy getting together with family.

I sewed and sewed and sewed some more. Taneal's Easter dress was in her favorite color, blue.

Camie's favorite color is not orange, but I loved this fabric so much. She looked so beautiful and was quite excited to wear "high heels"!

Danielle is as cute as ever. She loves pink and picked out her shoes. I finished her dress in February, so she impatiently waited until Easter to wear it.

Spencer is so grown up! This is his first tie. He didn't seem to even notice he was wearing it. I felt like I needed to make him something, but Evan was pretty adamant about not dressing Spencer up. He says he lets me dote on the girls, but I was not to mess with his boy!

Of course, Easter pictures are to be taken outdoors with flowers. The weather would not allow, so as soon as it warms up, we will do an Easter picture retake, somewhere in the beautiful flowers.

Baseball Season in Full Swing!

Taneal started the baseball season playing on the Cardinals with machine pitch. She hits the ball quite often, and that machine sure pitches those balls fast! She still is pretty nervous about the ball coming at her, but is doing a great job!

Camie is a star player on the Cardinals t-ball team. She sure has some power behind her hits. She still has a hard time focusing on the game when she isn't hitting. I think she spent most of her time with her mitt over her face trying to peek through the holes, or inspecting the dirt through the grass whever she happened to be standing. If started to feel better as a mom when the coach had to say her name atleast twenty time before she heard him. I'm not the only one she tunes out! T-ball sure is a fun game to watch.

Baseball is a whole family experience!

St. Patrick's Day

St Patrick's Day is a lot of fun in our home. We start out by decorating treasure boxes. If you put a box out under the light of the moon with the lid open on the eve of St Patrick's Day, leprechauns have to fill your box with their treasure! Well, we tried this and it worked! The morning of St PAtrick's Day is so exciting! The leprechauns came!

Another St Patricks Day tradition is to wear green and eat green. For breakfast we had green eggs and green pancakes with green milk. Lunch we had green apples and green grapes (with regular sandwiches). For supper we had green oven baked chicken (which was very tasty but looked . . . green), green mashed potatoes, and a green salad with green punch. We topped out the evening with green snickerdoodles!

Taneal's a "snaggle tooth"

Friday Taneal came home from school and pulled her first top front tooth. A week later, in the car on our way home from Spring Break, she pulled the second tooth that had been hanging by threads. She has the cutest smile and is fun to listen to her try to talk.

Spring Break

Spring break was spent at Grammy's house visiting cousins. The kids loved being out in the country and playing outside with cousins.

Spencer is crawling!

Spencer learned to crawl this week. He is 9 months and now VERY mobile. I love watching him move around and start to explore.

A Day at the Zoo

We hadn't been to the zoo in quite a while, so I decided to pull Taneal out of school and all of us go for the day. The night before I asked each of the girls to decide which 3 animals they wanted to make sure they saw. Taneal wanted to see the elephants, alligators, and snakes. Camie wanted to see the Giraffes, Gorillas, and Hippos. Danielle wasn't sure what all this zoo and animal talk was about, but she decided she wanted to see monkeys. The anticiaption was definately there. They suprisingly slept well, but were up and dressed at the crack of dawn hurring me out of bed. They were so excited.

We arrived at the zoo and the weather couldn't have been better. There weren't any crouds, so we picked the perfect day to be at the zoo. After about four hours we had seen all the animals on our lists and many, many more. The kids were on their best behavior, even Spencer. They were ready for another round and pretty adamant about it. The problems was that Camie could no longer walk, her legs were aching so she insisted on riding in the wagon. Same with Taneal. I decided it was time to go home. They resisted a little, but after I assured them we would be back some time in the future, the happily agreed to go home. They were tucked into bed and asleep by 7pm. What a fun day!

Camie learns to ride her bike

After months of encouragement, Camie finally decided she was ready to learn to rider her bike without training wheels.
She has become VERY good at riding her bike and even likes to "wiggle" as she rides fast! She scares me. I am glad she willingly uses her helmet, knee pads, and elbow pads because I am sure they will save her from many scrapes.

Taneal's Birthday

Taneal celebrated her birthday with her cousins, family, and neighbor. She loved her barbie cake in blue, her favorite color. Her favorite gift was the super mega stamp set from her cousins. She spent the entire next day writing and illustrating a book with all her new supplies.