April

T. and I went to Salt Lake City during Conference weekend to attend his mission reunion. It was a fun getaway for us. We were sad that we couldn't get tickets to Conference, especially since we stayed at the Marriott across the street from Temple Square. We watched the crowds from our window and watched Conference on TV like everybody else. Attending the mission reunion was an amazing experience. His mission president was Elder Zwick, who is now a member of the Seventy. He is a phenomenal speaker and the Spirit was so strong when he spoke. I learned some great things about my husband and about my own life as well from Elder Zwick. We had fun seeing the sights around Temple Square. I always enjoy going there, no matter how many times I've been before.




PC's first Scout camp out was in April. It was so fun to see all three of my boys ready to go in their uniforms!

All dressed up for Easter Sunday. A., being the only girl, is usually the only one who gets anything new to wear for Easter. I know, no fair, but the boys really don't care. This is usually the only time of year that I can get them all to take a picture all dressed up. Not the greatest background, but you have to go with the moment before someone starts complaining!

This one was happy to get his picture taken.

PK wanted a cool picture to post on this Facebook profile, so we took these pictures. He wanted them to look dangerous. He did a pretty good job! Thankfully, no one was hurt during this photo shoot.

March

March began with a Sabbath Day tragedy. It was Fast Sunday and we have 3:00 church. So we were really looking forward to eating dinner when we got home. We were especially looking forward to the homemade soup that was simmering in the crock pot and the homemade bread baking in the breadmaker. During Relief Society, I'll admit to thinking about walking in the door at home and being greeted by the smell of homemade bread, ready to eat. You can imagine our shock and disappointment when we got home, opened the door and saw this:

Apparentely, it's not a good idea to leave the breadmaker close to the edge of the counter and then turn it on. It moves around while it kneads. And no, that's not a warm, freshly baked loaf sitting there on the floor. Just a dry ball of dough. So sad!

We enjoyed our first annual Orange Day with the D Family. We all got together at my parents' house and picked and juiced oranges. All the livelong day. A LOT of oranges. But it was fun to do it together and even funner to take home gallons of freshly-squeezed juice.







We had a super fun weekend when some of our Whitty cousins came over. All of our kids have a cousin their age to play with and they always make the most of their time together!

PK likes to watch those TV shows where they remake someone's car into something way cooler. He decided to remake Aubrey's old pink bike and give it to E. He did a great job and E. was so excited.

E. came home from school one day in March with a fish. Yes, a fish. Apparently they had some kind of carnival and all of the children got a fish as a prize. Yipee for us. (Can you detect my sarcasm here?) But it was ok because the teacher sent home a little envlope with enough fish food for one day. Seriously, one day? Ya couldn't shake a little bit more food in there? Because the kid will loose interest in the fish by about day four. Luckily we had an old fish bowl so all I had to buy to keep it alive was a container of fish food. Really, couldn't they have sent the kids home with a sucker or a noisy kazoo or even a fake tattoo? Anyone whose child takes preschool from me can count on the fact that I will never, ever send your child home with a fish. Never. But you can't beat the look on this kid's face!

Here's an example of some good Sunday fun. This activity is probably not on those lists you made in Sunday School and Primary about things to do on the Sabbath Day.


Yes, the boys decided to chain PK to the swingset. Whatever floats you boat, boys. At least they're doing it together, right?

Random cute pictures from the month of March:

My All-Time Favorite TV Commercial

Can you feel the love?

A Love Story

(First let me say that I totally "blog-lifted" this post from my sister.

Thanks, Jenn!)

It all began in 1969 when these two fell in love.

They were really cute together and decided they wanted to be together forever.

Together they made this great family, four girls and one boy.


All too soon, it turned into this:

They soon discovered that being grandparents was much more fun!

Dad finally got all of his boys!

And Mom still has enough girls to do lunch with!

Because of them, we each get to enjoy our very own family.

And this one is looking forward to this great adventure.

And this one just looks back on all of it and loves it all and gets to laugh!

Thanks, Mom and Dad, for embarking on this great adventure!

(Pictures by Lindsey Bennett, March 2009)

Who's Counting?

Yes, I'm really behind and have a lot to post, but today, for my own sanity, I just need to say this.....

Thirty-three.

33.

XXXIII.

Treinta y tres.

Trente-trois.

Trentatre.

Treizeci si trei.

The atomic number of arsenic.

The jersey number of Larry Bird and Kareem-Abdul-Jabar.

The number of innings in history's longest baseball game.

The traditional number of racers in the Indianapolis 500.

The largest positive integer that cannot be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers.

But most importantly......



The number of days left until my children go back to school.
(Bless their little hearts, I love them to death but I have completely lost control of the house and people around here are getting hot and grouchy and bored.)

Thank you and have a nice day.