Spring!

Happy Spring!!!
Julia and Ethan are doing great!! They have absolutely loved being able to go outside and enjoy the nice warm weather!!! It has been in the 70's off and on for over a month!! They both swing as high as they can on the swingset and love to explore the yard and find beautiful flowers popping up everywhere!

We just hung up the hummingbird feeders today! They are eagerly anticipating seeing the birds zip around. They are hungrily waiting for the strawberry patch that they planted to hurry up and grow! We have lots of flowers! They also planted a pea patch. They love to help in the garden. Julia has taken an interest in doing jobs. She has enjoyed earning extra money.

Julia and Ethan went up to Springfield to see Grandma and Grandpa and the farm right before Easter. They loved seeing the chickens and helping with the pigs. They got to play with their cousin Julie and that was a blast! Especially for Ethan.

Julia and Ethan loved having the Easter bunny come to visit!







They had fun with all the Easter packages they got. Thanks Dad, Kathryn, J.C., Sitto and Grandma, Grandpa and Grandma Candy!

We all went on a road trip to Kansas City. Julia and Ethan did so well with all the driving. It was about 4 1/2 hrs to KC. We were able to swim at the motel, we went and saw some historic sites for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was a lot of fun to see those places. Our church's first leader Joseph Smith was unjustly imprisoned for 4 months at one point and we went and saw a replica of that jail and Ethan was really touched by that. He talked about how scary that it must have been for the men and how hard it was. Julia loved going to the place that our church believes used to be the Garden of Eden. She said it was so beautiful, it was!






The next picture is at Far West, MO. Our church has 4 cornerstones laid for a future temple Julia and Ethan had fun running around the area. There was a stray cat that was super friendly and wanted us to take her home and/or feed her. Julia and Ethan loved chasing her around and petting her. She was super cute and it was hard to leave her there.



We were all glad to get back home safely and slept soundly that night!!

Julia can't wait for Kindergarten! We got her enrolled last week. Ethan doesn't want Julia to go to school at all. I think he realizes that he will be very lonely without her to play with. They are best friends!

April Fool?

J.C. celebrated his 10th birthday on April Fools. Thanks for all the emails, cards, and presents!