Chocolate Milk

Sara loves chocolate milk and the other day she kept asking me to make her some chocolate milk. Because I was in the middle of something I asked her to give me a minute. Well, my minute must have been too long because she took matters into her own hands and made her own version of chocolate milk. Can you guess what she used for the chocolate? Could that be black pepper?

Saguaro National Park

A while back Bryan bought a park pass to Saguaro National Park. Sara and I have really enjoyed using it! On our most recent visit, Sara and I saw a rattlesnake crossing the road and a gila monster making a mad dash across the trail. So cool!

Sara taking a little rest.
Of course, she asked for her picture to be taken!

Because of all the rain, the desert is in full bloom. Isn't it pretty?

the princess wanted yet another picture before we climbed back in the car

Lava Lamps

Daniel read about how to make lava lamps on the Family Fun website. It looked pretty easy so we decided to give it a try. It made for a pretty fun afternoon.

lamp #1

this one was Daniel's favorite, go here for instructions

lamp #2 this one was Jared's favorite, instructions found here

brothers and budding scientists

Sunday Sillies

Sometimes our Sunday afternoons can get a little silly

our handsome Jared, wearing dad's shoes

Faithful Home Teacher

We are grateful for a diligent home teacher,
especially one that our children adore!

Phil Simon with Jared, Daniel, & Sara

Fred

Daniel, Jared, Sara & Fred

Coloring Easter Eggs

The kids had a lot of fun decorating their eggs.

Easter Egg Hunt

Due to the craziness we call life we didn't host our usual Easter Egg Hunt & BBQ. Instead, we did the hunt with just our little family.
It was great fun!

the participants

color assignments

taking a break for a photo op

Daniel helping Sara

taking stock of their finds

Um, yeah, did I mention that we didn't get around to making our usual bunny baskets out of milk jugs this year. Instead we used our Halloween buckets for Easter baskets. I tried talking the kids into at least dressing their buckets to look like bunny rabbits but they didn't care for the idea. Oh well, there's always next year! ;-)

Easter Breakfast

Bryan woke up very early and surprised us all with a delicious breakfast. Of course, the kids wanted a picture of their beeeaauuutiiifuuul pancake creations. ♥