Ruby Slippers

I donned a pair of ruby red slippers and clicked my heels three times as there is no place like home and that is Virginia to me. The kids and I loaded ourselves and the DVD player for the journey (they did great actually!)

The kids got to:

help grandma and grandpa plant potatoes

play in the water table

eat lunch with grandpa at the vet college and feed the ducks

and indulge in the family favorite....STICKY POPCORN! This was Liv's first taste of the good stuff!

I got to nap, sleep in, and go out with friends for some catching up! Truly there is no place like home!

Anticipation

Livy is offically 18 months and so that means....that she started nursery today!!! I put her in a new dress and everything and tried very much to get a nice picture of her before we left but this is the best one I got.

Oh the anticipation for her starting; not on her part but on ours :) She did fabulous with not a tear, not a glance back at me or anything. I was amazed. She did managed to climb onto her chair and flip over it bumping her head (need to remind the leaders to watch her closely as she is a climber). It was so heavenly to actually listen to a gospel doctrine lesson as I haven't had that in well 18 months really!

Easter Preparations

Livy has enough hair for pigtails (kind of). They lasted about as long as the picture session and then one side was pulled out. We'll have to figure a way to make them last :)

We have had great fun hiding and finding eggs in practice and even had a yard egg hunt with friends recently which the kids loved.

Ian's preschool had a yard party with an egg hunt that we went to and it was great--including all the sand that we found in our shoes, hair, etc. afterwards. After Livy went splat twice on the hardtop, I put her in her stroller. (Note the scraped knee in the picture of the three of us.)

Outside

We enjoyed some time outside doing bubbles, chalk, a walk and bikes. It was great to get out and enjoy the fresh air (even if we did the bubbles in the garage!).

Be Gone Germs

Our family has had our fair share of germs these last three weeks. We seem to like sharing them a little too much.

I'm glad it is Spring so we can open the windows wide and say, BE GONE GERMS!

Big Shoes to Fill

Livy has discovered the joys of trying on shoes. Each member of the family has been honored by a Livy walkabout but she seems to love Brett's best.

I feel a clown costume for Halloween in the works.

Leftover

The youth group here did a glow in the dark sports night with necklaces in green and yellow for teams on Tuesday. I ended up with some of them after the evening and the kids went nuts! I've kept them in the freezer and they are still glowing. The only space in the house without windows is the downstairs bathroom so we went in and closed the door and it was magic!

Here is a picture with and without the flash for our "leftover" fun!