Claire's Spring Break

Claire had her spring break a week before the rest of the kids. I think she really enjoyed hanging out with me for the week with no other kids around. She also got to spend the week with Grandma Linda since she was visiting. 

We went to the park a couple of times to hunt for lizards, try to catch butterflies, play with her cousin, and have fun! We visited our favorite bakery, walked the street fair, and shopped. It was a nice week and a great reminder to me that slowing down and enjoying the simple things in life is so important. 

Conference Weekend

Robert, Linda, and Jane made a weekend trip to Salt Lake City, Utah for April general conference. They had a great time. They watched the Saturday morning session in the Tabernacle. Linda and Jane attended the Saturday afternoon session in the Conference Center and all three of them made it in to the Sunday morning session in the Conference Center. They got to see our new prophet speak. They had to leave the hotel at 6:30am and walk to the conference center to stand in line in 46degree weather to get the Sunday tickets. They said it was worth it. 
They played in the snow, Linda did baptisms in the Salt Lake temple with names she found, swam and exercised at the hotel, did some shopping, and had Easter dinner with my Aunt Carole and my cousins. The Easter Bunny even found them at the hotel!
I think the girls will always remember this trip they made with their dad.
Bruce, Claire and I stayed home this time. We had Easter dinner with Gregg and hung out with my mom.

Eagle Scout Project

For Bruce's Eagle Scout project he chose to build three 8' long storage benches and two table carts for the after school enrichment program at Scholarship Preparatory Academy. It was an ambitious undertaking that took a lot of volunteer hours and dedication. We had a lot of generous help from cash to man hours. Paul Plyler, Bruce's former primary teacher and 11yr. old Scout leader was so helpful in helping Bruce choose and implement the project. He came up with the blue prints and put in a lot of time and effort to see it through. We're all so grateful! Here are a few pictures of the journey.

How is this wood going to turn in to everything we need?! Panic setting in. :)

Paul Plyler, our hero! We started of in his backyard.

The Priest group helped pre-drill holes and pre-cut pieces and load the wood in to our van.

Again, how? Everything ready to get started our garage.

It actually happened...7hrs. straight working and building this Saturday.

The following Saturday, Grandpa and the missionaries helped us paint.

Bruce, Robert, and I helped put on the locks.
Delivered! He did it. We're so proud.

Our Last Speech Graduate

Claire graduated from speech last week! She has worked very hard on her articulation and finally mastered her R this year. We're very proud of her. She's been in speech and language therapy since kindergarten. Hooray for Claire and hooray for all of my kids being out of speech now! It's been a long road. 

New Beginnings

Jane attended New Beginnings a few weeks ago. They introduced Jane and had a color run.  She is so excited to be starting the Young Women's program when she turns 12 in August. She's enjoyed the Activity Days program but she's ready to move on now that she's twice the height of all of the other girls. :) We love Jane and we're excited to watch her experience all that comes with getting older. She's especially excited about being able to attend YW camp this year. Soon I will have two girls in Young Women's. 

Here's to new beginnings. 

 Complete with colored teeth. :)

Farewell Sayre!

My nephew got called to the Colubus, Ohio mission. 

We are so proud of him for being willing to serve his Heavenly Father for 2yrs. 

We went to his farewell talk over New Years weekend. He did a great job. 

Bruce, Brodey, and Sayre

 Our little Sayre is all grown up. :)