Cherry Blossoms

Conference weekend we went downtown to see the

Cherry Blossoms on the mall in Washington D.C. They were at their peak. The pink blossoms were absolutely beautiful. Matthew and I went and saw the cherry blossoms shortly after moving here 8 1/2 years ago. As far as the rest of the family this was their first time seeing the blossoms on the mall.

It was a beautiful day and nice one to get outside after being in the house for two days listening to conference. A lot of tourist had the same idea as us and therefore the mall was packed. We turned several heads as they oohed and awed over our four boys.

Tommy's favorite place in the kitchen

Tommy loves to sit on the high counter when I am baking something yummy. Whenever I pull out the Kitchen Aid he quickly runs around the counter and climbs up on the bar stool and pulls himself on to the counter. He sits down and puts his feet on the lower counter. He always waits patiently while I add all of the ingredients into the bowl of the Kitchen Aid. When he begins to see it turning into something and my back is turned, he quickly puts his fingers in and pulls out some dough. When I am completely finished he says, "Taste!" I then give him the beater and he is in his glory. The funniest time to watch him is when I am baking bread or cinnamon rolls, because he keeps snitching little tastes of the dough here and there. What a Silly Boy!!!

Thank You

Thomas came down with the flu about two days ago. We have had two long sleepless nights. He seems to be doing a little bit better today.

As usually Thomas takes a bathe while I get ready. This morning when I turned the blower dryer on Thomas started screaming in the bathtub. I turned my blow dryer off to see what was the manner. I asked him if his uckies were coming, he replied "No." I asked him if he was ready to get out he said, "No." I finally turned the blow dryer back on. Once again Thomas started screaming, so I turned the blow dryer off. As soon as the blow dryer was off Thomas replied, "Thank You." I chuckled and turned the dryer back on. Thomas screamed again and once again I turned the dryer off, to which Thomas replied, "Off, Thank You."

It was pretty cute. I love hearing him talk, especially when he's not prompted. His ears must be sensitive to the noise since he is sick.

Lucky Duck comes for a visit

Joshua is in school at Hope Preschool. It is a Methodist church which also runs a preschool. Joshua's teacher is LDS and is in our stake. She is such an amazing teacher. Christopher attended the same preschool and had the same teacher. At the school each class has a name such as Purple Pandas, Cardinals, Yellow Birds, Rainbows. Joshy's class is named the Lucky Ducks. Mrs. Bower has a duck named Lucky. Lucky goes home every weekend with a different child for a fun adventure. He says, he gets board during the winter months with Mrs. Bower. Lucky brings a journal with him and we have to keep track of the fun adventures we have with Lucky. Well, Joshua came home a couple of weeks ago with Lucky. We had a fun weekend together.



Christopher was so EXCITED to see LUCKY!!!

Easter Grass

A week and half ago for our activity for Family Night, we planted our grass for our Easter Baskets. The boys loved dumping the dirt into their containers, especially Thomas who did it all on his own as if he was one of the big boys. Each boy then took handfuls of seeds and placed them on top of the dirt. Matthew and Christopher chose to cover up their seed while the rest of us didn't. We each watered our own containers and moved them into the kitchen, hopefully to a spot that gets lots of sunlight. Now we wait and cross our fingers to see if it will grow in time for our Easter Egg Hunt.

Joshua's Concoction

Joshua's favorite snack is a piece of bread which he puts applesauce on top of and then tops it off with cheerios. He invented it many months ago while he was eating the three ingredients separately. On several occasions he has tried to get Ryan or myself to try it. So far I have been able to talk my way out of having to eat it. However, Ryan has tried it. In Ryan's words, "It was the BEST Bread, Applesauce & Cheerios sandwich he has ever had and the only one!"
As you can see from his grin below, Joshua LOVES it and is very PROUD of himself.

Chef Matthew

With Matthew getting older, he has been requesting to learn to bake and cook a lot of different foods and goodies. I taught him a while back how to make cookies. For the longest time I would be in the kitchen hovering over him, making sure he got all of the measurements right. Well, the other day the boys and I were outside playing when Matthew asked if he could go in and bake some cookies. He said, he owed his dad 10 cookies for something. I told him that that would be fine. He disappeared in the house and I stayed outside to watch the younger boys. A while later I came in and found him completely done mixing the ingredients, he was scooping the dough on to the cookie sheets. The cookies were delicious. I was so proud of him. I think I like him getting bigger and helping with the cooking. He is a natural, he must take after his father who loves to cook.