Spring Photo Dump

Spring went by fast, obviously!  We had tons of snow this winter, and late snow in the spring.  But it finally did warm up and was quite beautiful.

We were inside a lot though with our new baby!

Here are a few of the things I managed to capture through the chaos.

Silly kids doing a size comparison.

 Kate with her state "float"- she did Wyoming. Hence Old Faithful lol.

 Dying Easter Eggs!

 Maris with her eggs- poor girl looked homeless the first couple of months of Emma's life!

 Easter Bunny Day

 Easter pictures- I was prepared with outfits before Emma was born, and we have 1pm church so I was able to help everyone get ready!  So we got cute pictures even with a 9-day-old baby. :)

 I was pretty happy with how they turned out.  My FIVE kids!!

 THIS started happening!  Running, with Owen riding his bike since there's no room for him in the stroller now. :)

 I got to enjoy plenty of times holding sleeping Emma early in the morning. :)

 Maris tried to potty train....for like 6 months.  Still haven't accomplished that....sigh.

 A lot of THIS happened (Maris smothering Emma haha)

 SPring snow!

Katelyn had her Rococo performance, cute as always!

 Eric went on a campout, and I allowed my kids to play in a "closed" splash pad. 

 Emma started smiling!

 We drew pictures with chalk for an FHE activity

 missionary tag Owen!

 classic Whitney

 kate

 Katelyn did Hope of America. Only Emma and I went, I loved it!!

 Emma discovered selfies.

 Katelyn made the finals of the 100 meters in the ALA 5th grade track meet!! I was so thrilled!!

 Katelyn scored the role of Wendy in her 5th-6th grade Drama class production of Peter Pan.  She did awesome!!

with the Darling family and Nana,

 with the Lost Boys who shot down the "Wendy bird"

 talking to Peter, Michael and John about why they needed to leave Neverland.

 being made to walk the plank by Captain Hook!

And that was most of our Spring!  next up: Whitney's stuff.

Maris at 3!

It is time to stop trying to catch up and record life right now!  Maris is 3 and she is hilarious.  I want to get better at writing down more of the funny things she says and does.  So here are a few things:
- She likes to talk in a conspiratorial whisper.
- She loves to do puzzles.
- She loves to watch Dora the Explorer and loudly answer all of her questions.
- She has been trying to make up treasure hunts lately.  The other day she asked Katelyn to come do her treasure hunt.  Katelyn went down stairs and saw a bunch of little pieces of paper sitting all over the room.  Maris picked up a random piece of paper from the table and said "this is the first clue!" Katelyn asked, "what does it say?" Maris said "it says 'couch'." So they picked a piece of paper from the couch and katelyn asked "what is this clue?" and Maris said "I don't know what it says, it can say what you want it to say" So Katelyn picked another spot where she saw a "clue" lying.  This went on for a while until all the papers were gone, and finally on the last one Maris said "it says "there's no more clues'." and she got out an applesauce and a fruit strip for Katelyn's "treasure". Haha.
- she comes up with funny insults such as "you kicky little weird!"
- she loves to talk to Emma. It is so cute.  She calls her "little cutie pie Emma" in this cute little voice.  If someone else is talking to Emma, Maris will squeeze in between so Emma will see HER instead.
- She LOVES to run.  She can run fast and far, and regularly runs a mile with only a few breaks riding in the stroller.  It's so cute to see her little bouncy blond ponytail going along!  When the kids ride their bikes and I run with the stroller, she keeps wanting to get out and run and try to keep up with them, and she gets so disappointed when they get ahead of her. :)

 

Maris' birthday back in June was a fun day with cousins, parks, splash pad, presents, a Minnie Mouse cake, and Sonic slushes. 

Doing the Hokey Pokey, one of our favorite silly activities!

 Also, Maris has had a lot of cousin time lately and she loves her cousins!  Jenna is her favorite but she loves them all, it's so cute, she calls them her "friends".