Bedtime Story Jammy Party

For Family Home Evening (We try dedicated one night each week to spending quality time together.) we decided to have movie/slumber party complete with popcorn of cours. The kids totally dug the idea. What did we watch? Bedtime Stories of course.


The movie in the background.

Emily looking slightly like a frog.

The kids in their jammies w/ daddy in the background.

Easter Pictures at Last

Marci's Stats According to Kayley

In preschool, they talked about how great mothers are (I really like that subject.). They asked the kids some questions about their mothers. The bold print words and numbers were her answers.

My Mom is 60 years old.

My Mom is 18 inches tall.

My Moms favorites color is green.

My Mom's favorite food is cereal.

My Mom loves to go to her mom and dad's house.

My Mom weighs 17 pounds.

My Mom's best friend is Cindy.

My Mom loves it when I wash the dishes with her.

The Academy Award Goes To....

Kayley and Jonathan have been taking a theater class through an organization called Up With Kids. They have learned all about staging, singing, dancing, cooperation, and so many other things. After all of those classes, they got to perform their production, "Enchanted...starring YOU!) for Woodstock Elementary and then for all of the people they invited at Bonneville Junior High.



They are the two little "coneheads" on the far right of the front row.

Afterwords, they had the presentation of the Academy Award. It turns out they all won one. They were each presented with a statue that resembled Oscar. Jonathan couldn't keep his eyes off of it. He still carries it around everywhere.





Jonathan was studying his award as we were leaving McDonald's (Guess who got to pick the restaurant after the performance.) and exclaimed, "He has a golden bum!"

Easter Egg Splash

We like to do things that are a little bit different or quirky around here sometimes. One of our favorites is the H2O Easter Egg Hunt/Easter Egg Splash at the Murray Rec Center. This is our second year doing it. In case you were wondering, and I know you were, they do not actually put candy in these Easter Eggs. Afterwords, they show their stash of Easter Eggs to the staff and they get a bag of candy. :D



Kayley, Jonathan, and their friend Logan checking out their stashes before they get to play in the swimming pool during the open plunge.



Got their attention. Not!



Can you spot Kayley?

***WARNING*** Graphic Medical Pictures!!!!!

That having been said. Here are a few pictures of my knee at one week after surgery. If you are sqeemish, turn back now.

Here is Kayley trying out my crutches on for size.



This is what my actual leg looks like in my "immobilizer" that I get to where for another month. YIPPEE!



Here is what my leg looks like now. I do bruise easily, but still....

Adventures in Knee Surgery

I had knee surgery last Monday (April 20th. I actually had injured my knee for the eighth time about this time last year. Since my last injury I had been wearing a brace that looked very much like this:



The brace that I am now supposed to wear for a month looks like this:



It is a little bit annoying because I have to mostly walk with a straight leg. When I wear it under pants it looks really funny. I then refer to my re-cooperating leg as my "Michelin Man" leg.

I can now walk with the use of one crutch. Kayley has been trying hard to make my crutches "fit" her. Her solution is to use the hand holds as her arm rests. I will try to get a picture of it for you. :D

Hurrah for Susan Boyle

I have always been a major fan of the underdog. It is just part of who I am. I couldn't help cheering when I saw the video of Susan on Britain's Got Talent. She did not give off the best first impression. Most people were seen sneering and thinking that she had no business being there. Boy did she show them! Good for you Susan. If you want to check it out you can see it on YouTube following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z0h1NNk1Ik

Enjoy!

Our Wonderful Children's Museum

On St. Patrick's Day, our local The Discovery Gateway Children's Museum let us (and anyone else who wanted to) discover all the fun things it has to offer for free. Kayley had been there before with her Aunt Kim, but it was my first time. What an amazing place it is! I took a few million pictures while I was there. I won't bore you with all of the them, but here are a few.



Kayley and the rock wall. She kept on wanted to try it until she was satisfied with what she could do.



This is a random cool jeep that you could pretend to put gas into. Jonathan and Kayley just thought that it was cool.



This is part of the "grocery store" they had set up for the kids to experience.



Here they got to use teamwork to help "build" structures.



This was in a structure that resembled a beehive. The kids loved it because you could send balls into these tubes where they would go flying off. The bonus is that you would get hit with a small blast of air. This of course, was Kayley's favorite part.



They had this cool defuct helicopter that the kids could explore.



Here is a "Mad Scientist" making "Leprechaun's Brew". The kid's found this absolutely fastinating.



Jonathan had fun building with these unusual blocks.

Today I'm Grateful For...

Today hasn't been a particularly wonderful day, but still there is a lot I have to be grateful for. Here are a few things:

A shed to put our fruit trees in on this SNOWY spring day.

The fact that we didn't plan our fruit trees already thus they are still alive.

We went home before doing errands, so Jonathan's pull up blow out happened at home. (Sorry if that's TMI).

Having a childproof lock on our door so that Jonathan couldn't open the door for the person that rang the doorbell during my bath.

I'm grateful that it was just our next door neighbor and they phoned me later.

I'm grateful for baths in general (I must say though that I miss the uninterrupted kind).

Warm clothes on this very chilly day have been much appreciated.

Finally, I'm grateful to have yummy cinnamon rolls to eat that my wonderful husband made for us yesterday.