Our Garden

It is that time of year again! We decided to do a garden, even though we still bought a share of our local vegetable farm. On our GAPS diet, I am going through veggies like crazy , so the more the better. We also wanted our children to be involved in working outside with us, and showing them that we benefit from hard work. Hopefully with all the yummy produce we will get, the children will learn how important it is to have a garden. Cavan built this awesome garden box to keep out those darn cats! We have a major cat problem in our neighborhood, and they go poop where ever they please. The last thing we want is for them to use our nice garden area as a litter box!. We also planted strawberries in gutters, and hung them on the fence. This way we don't have to worry about slugs. So far we just have the strawberries planted, but more is soon to come! The kids LOVED digging in the dirt. We have such great helpers.

Daniel loves to play games where he can build things! The marble game can be hard because he does like to destroy, but once it is put together he loves it! KaeLynn is very good at figuring out which pieces go where.

Easter 2013

Oh how beautiful Easter Sunday was!! We went to Nana and Papa's ward for church. All the girls had matching dresses along with the boys wearing father son matching ties. We had a delicious dinner after church. This was our first big event being sugar free and I think it went very well! I made chocolate with honey to sweeten it and the kids ate it no problem! Nana had lots of sugar free treats for the kids and we ate lots of fresh fruit! I wanted to really put our focus on the Savior this Easter Sunday. Each child was assigned a color they were to collect for Easter eggs. The eggs would spell out the word Savior. Once they spelled the word they got a book on Easter and a music CD. The children were so excited!

Easter eggs

KaeLynn loved decorating eggs! She got so messy. This morning when she woke up, I had her soak in the bath tub for about 30 minutes to get all the dye off her arms and hands. Cavan showed her how to peel the egg to eat it, but she was not interested. She kept saying she wanted yellow eggs, because she has only eaten them scrambled. We went to our friends the Garretts, and the girls did not grow tired of all the decorating! I thought after a few eggs KaeLynn would have been bored. She proved me wrong!

 

Carnival

There was this small carnival at Reynolds High School for Spring Break that we took the kids to. Our friends invited us to go, and KaeLynn loves to play her Ava! KaeLynn is so much braver then she used to be and really had a lot of fun. Daniel seemed to have fun just watching his sister go on the rides. He really did not like the carousal. The prices were outrages! So we only took her on a few rides. There was the classic melt down when we left, but at least we got her smiling in the pictures!

Outside

I try to go outside everyday, even if it is just for 5 minutes if the weather is crummy. Daniel loves rocks, dirt, sticks, and I guess all the "boy stuff". In the picture he is picking up the rocks and dumping them on himself. Then he laid down, and was rolling in it! So funny!

KaeLynn loves rocks too. But she likes to collect them and sing to herself as she walks around and makes pretend gardens. I just love the differences between boys and girls.

Big Boy

This little man is so brave. I am still having a hard time getting used to having a boy. On the play structure in our back yard he climbs up with no fear, plops himself right down to the slide and goes for it. It scares me every time! I am so used to KaeLynn's timid personality. He sure loves to play out side. He is going through a stage where he constantly goes to the back door and says "side" for outside. The weather is finally getting better, so we are not having as many melt downs as when it is wet and cold, and I do not want to go out.