this is my favorite pic of my mom.  Evs just loves grandma and i think she feels the same.

Katie is definitely working the 'stache in this pic

we attended Mick's birthday 'stache party.  Katie really did a great job and we had so much fun.

btw

I saw that title on some elses post and I thought that my blog has definitely been put at the back of my mind a lot kind of a 'by the way, I forgot to tell you' sort of situation.

We just finished our spring break and we had a good time.  spring break is a good practice run for what summer is going to bring.  by Thursday i felt like we finally had a good rhythm so that bodes well for the fast approaching last days of school.  we had a craft and art day when it rained.  we played at parks and enjoyed  our trampoline when the weather was agreeable.  we even visited the BYU dinosaur museum and took the kids to baskin Robbins.  my favorite was the night we set up a projector and watched Disney cartoons outside  like at a drive in movie.  it was a little chilly but we all bundled in sleeping bags and blankets; so much fun!
here are some pics of our recent adventures.

the kids put together a bubble circus and performed amazing tricks.  i was so impressed

 we had lots of fun playing at the dinosaur museum.  Fiona was almost eaten by the prehistoric crocodile, Ian was grossed out by dino poop (coprolites; check out this link for a funny though false story about where the name came from: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2008/10/how-dinosaur-poop-got-its-name/  My college professor told me this story when he first heard my last name ), and Wesley showed me what he'd look like if a giant land sloth tried to eat him.

I had no idea

So I was thinking that I had kept up on this blog.  At least that I had posted about Christmas.  I had no idea that I had slacked off so much.  Our Christmas was great.  We celebrated New Years with friends and the kids had a great time.  Wes mess turned 9.  He had a fun Lord of the Rings party, the favorite game was looking for rings like Gollum.  A bunch of little 9 year old boys scooting around like chimpanzees and hissing 'precious' is quite entertaining.  His cake was the eye of Sauron and it actually turned out AWESOME (I was so excited with my first cake using fondant).  I forgot to get a picture but here's a link to where I found the idea http://www.geekosystem.com/eye-of-sauron-cake-always-watching/

Well, today is Fiona's special day and we also had the Kindy 500 at school.  So much fun.  I just love seeing all the fun cars.  So much creativity!  My favorites this year were the mystery machine (the little guy driving it even had a scooby-doo hat on), a butterfly and 2 princess carriages.  I was surprised by Fiona's choice.  She wanted a Hello Kitty car NOT a pony mobile or a princess carriage both of which are here passions right now.  I guess it's good she's branching out a bit.

And I have to of course include a pic of our ever sqishable Evs, he is 8 months now.  He isn't crawling, there is no need, his sisters bring him everything his heart could ever desire like a little king.  He is quite the singer and gets the giggles over certain words like 'soup', 'apple' or 'shark'.  He is so fun.

I just love those cheeks!