Sunday, April 20, 2014

April 20, 2014

Happy Easter.  We had a wonderfully busy week in our house.  Here's a little bit of the fun.....





For family night on Monday we colored eggs.  The girls had so much fun choosing the colors.  Lily tried really hard to make a striped egg - like the ones Papa makes.  She was so proud of it and had me text a picture to Puna.  Annie loved all the colors and wanted to dye more as soon as she finished her last egg.  We told her one dozen was enough and she'd have to wait until next year.


While the kids and Mommy stayed warm inside coloring eggs, Daddy put together our new trampoline.  Wahoo!




 We spent the rest of family night jumping together on the tramp.  Even Tommy liked it - as long as we didn't bounce too hard.  The girls really like playing Ring Around the Rosie with Mommy on the trampoline.


After lots of jumping and a short bath, the girls wanted to embellish their eggs.  They spent about a half hour coloring and adding stickers to all the eggs.


We decided to use part of our tax return to pave our driveway.  The crew came out and spent days prepping for the concrete edging.  It was all finished on Thursday afternoon.  Next Monday the whole thing will be paved.  We are excited to get this finished!

Mommy is trying to get a playgroup started in our neighborhood.  We took a turn hosting it at our house Wednesday morning.  We had 11 moms and over 20 kids.  Thank goodness the weather was great that day.  Most of the children ended up playing outside.  It was the best turn out we've had since starting it last month.



Thursday morning we went to story time at the city library.  This week there were lots of songs and activities.  All the kids were given a plastic egg that rattled to shake during the songs.  Tommy loved his little red egg.  He didn't want to return it when story time was over.  Thursday night Grammy and Grampy came to tend the kids so Mommy and Daddy could see the Mormon Tabernacle Choir perform Handel's Messiah on Friday.


 We loved our short trip to Salt Lake.  We strolled Temple Square and the City Creek Center.  The flowers were beautiful and all the hyacinths smelled so sweet.  We tried a new restaurant called Brio Tuscan Grille.  The food was fabulous and the restaurant was beautiful inside.



Around 6:30 we walked back to the Tabernacle and saw this huge line!  Seating for the concert was not assigned.  We jumped in line right away.  It was a perfectly warm night.  We had a nice evening waiting for the concert to begin.




When we were allowed to enter and choose seats, the violins and a few others were still getting notes from the conductor.  Mommy got as close as she could to listen and get a picture.  Once the Tabernacle was full, it got really warm.  The whole audience was using their programs as fans.

The choir was amazing.  The soloists were very precise and talented, but Mommy loved the mezzo soprano the best.  One nice touch was, the program contained the scripture text for each song.  Daddy appreciated that so he would know what the singers were saying. 




Saturday morning we returned home to happy faces.  The kids had fun finding their Easter baskets and opening them.  The favorite toy was miniature Anna and Elsa dolls.  Lily and Annie have been playing with them nonstop since Saturday morning.  Grampy took the kids to the city egg hunt.  The girls came home with a lot of candy.  Grampy helped get some project done around the house and the kids had fun playing with Grammy and showing Frozen to their grandparents for the first time.





After Grammy and Grampy left to go home, we made the kids pull some weeds before doing our family egg hunt.  Tommy found one egg in the grass and was content to just sit and play with it while the girls found all the others.




Tommy came down with a fever on Saturday afternoon.  He took a short nap in Daddy's arms and then fell asleep in the hallway while watching Mommy work.  A little Motrin helped him sleep through the night.  He woke up Sunday feeling a little better, but still very clingy and wanting to be near Daddy.



No comments:

Post a Comment