Talent Show

Clara and Hayley participated in their school talent show this last week. Hayley's song was too long to upload, but here is Clara's. The pic above is a pre-show pic of Clara and her doll.

Camping

The last two weekends we have gone camping. We are really excited to use our trailer and get the kids out for some fun. This weekend we went to Winchester Lake. It was cold at night but the heater in the trailer worked just fine, in fact we all woke up hot. That was a nice surprise. We have yet to catch anything fishing except our dog who accidentally got hooked, but next time we will bring real bait instead of cheese.

        

Zack's 3rd Birthday

Well my baby turned 3 yesterday and Hayley is getting ready to go to 5th grade camp next week. How time flies! Zack had been sick for a few days and I ended up taking him to the dr. on his birthday. Luckily he was better then before, so he did get to enjoy his birthday some. Here's a pic of him that I took recently after he surprised me and got himself all ready for the day. Jacket, socks, shoes... but it seems like somthing is missing. Hmmm.

I made a moon cake and Zack put his space guys on it himself. I think that he did a pretty good job! His favorite things to play with are little tiny space guys. They are hard to find! We lose them all the time.

Later that night, Jeremy took Zack bowling. Zack loves bowling. It is very odd. We don't really go bowling and I'm not sure how he found out about it, but he LOVES it! They had a guys night out and Jeremy said that Zack was the hit of the alley. He would dance when he did good (in striking toddler fashion) and be upset when he did bad. I guess it was pretty entertaining.

Stuff and Fluff

So I bet most of you don’t know that Jeremy has been taking guitar lessons. One of the young women in our ward, Kim, has been teaching him as part of her senior project. He can play “Growing Old With You” from the movie “The Wedding Singer,” a Jack Johnson song called, “Angel,” and he is working on a Dashboard Confessional song. It’s pretty cool.

This weekend WSU had an open house at their vet hospital. It’s a big deal because they are one of the best vet schools and usually kids can’t take a tour. If kids brought in a stuffed animal, the vet students would do surgeries on them with the kids. Here is Zack giving his pet parrot anesthesia.

Clara giving her bunny anesthesia.

Zack and “Butch” the WSU mascot. That guy is everywhere!

Hayley (in middle) doing surgery with Butch and a student. We love WSU! Although we still are loyal to BYU, living near WSU is pretty great.

Lately

 

Lately I have been busy doing some fun projects. It’s not quite time to plant the garden yet, so I have been busy doing other stuff outside. We are keeping 3 chicks as laying hens. It is against some rules but all of our neighbors are very excited and encouraging about it. (Like I need encouragement.) They like to say, “When we have fresh eggs.” Hmmm. Here is the completed chicken coop, I mean playhouse. I’ll make a small run off of it soon with dog-eared fence so that no one will see the birds. I salvaged some flooring and put it in for easier cleaning.

This weekend I painted a commissioned painting for a friend. You can see in the picture a smaller painting that this one is based on. She found that image on the internet.

Clara and I built a fort out of sticks recently. Jeremy calls it a hobbit house. The kids are having fun in it. It’s in the garden area and I’ll plant scarlet runner beans up it soon. We were inspired by an artist named Patrick Dougherty. You should google his stick sculptures and forts. They are amazing!

   

Easter

We had a nice Easter. We wanted to take the trailer out for the first time but the weather was crummy so it got postponed. Jeremy still took a couple of days off of work and we had a fun library day where we checkout out a bazillion books, came home and read them by the fire with hot chocolate (it was raining). We also went to the local Nez Perce Museum. It was cool to see the original church from the 1800’s that missionaries had built and was still in use. We also hit a geocache downtown.

The Easter egg hunt was cold but fun. Butch the WSU cougar mascot always shows up and here he is posing with Zack. It was nice to wake up on Easter and stay in p.j.s and listen to the prophet while celebrating Christ’s resurrection.

      

Easter Break

 

 Over the kids’ Easter break I painted their pediatric dentist’s office. Luckily it only took about 9 hours so we were able to do other stuff too. But it will fund the patio cover that I hope we get built this summer. :) It is supposed to be like an old train station, and there will be an electric train going around the perimeter of the room near the top.