Welcome Spring!

This has been an amazing week of weather.

Today this cutie is outside, eating ice cream, and swimming.

It's 80 degrees today!

Flowers are coming up everywhere, we planed our seeds for Easter Basket grass, and last night we BBQ'd. Loving this!

St.Patrick's Day 2012

We set lots of traps for the leprechaun, but didn't catch him. He did leave us lots of gold!

(and he turned the toilet water green..)

LOVE this fun fruit tray! We had our Relief Society 170 Birthday Breakfast in the morning and it was wonderful! The classes were excellent.

B took Bruce on a hike, Jane went to a birthday party, Kate and I made cookies & played, and James napped.

For dinner we ate green salad, limeade, and "Beef on Weck." yum!
The weather was beautiful 70's and we spent most of the day outside.GREEN!
*Earlier this week Kate, James, and I went to play BINGO with the residents and they all loved Kate's silly rainbow headband.

9 on the 9th!

Happy Birthday Sweet Jane!

(her classmates all made this great card, and her hair is all wet from swimming)

This beautiful girl turned 9 today and I'm really not sure how she got to be nine so fast. These years really have flown by.

We had a fun morning with birthday breakfast and presents:
Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Damstedt for the sewing machineThank you Grandma and Grandpa Miller for the cool letter, sequin hat, and funny bunny.B got her her own set of clamps, I gave her a certificate to get he fingernails and toes painted. Bruce got her the google webkinz, Kate drew her pictures, and James gave her a mini lipstick set.

She went to school and brought yummy real fruit juice bars as her treat.Tonight we went to dinner at Panera, Jane ordered Chicken Noodle Soup, and then we went swimming as a family.
After swimming we came home and had birthday cake.Happy Happy Golden Birthday Janey!

"Playing tag"...

This morning I was driving Kate to PreK and she was looking up out her window and said,
"They are playing tag."
I didn't quite know what she was talking about and thought maybe she was having some heavenly vision :) .. so I asked "Who is playing tag."

"The telephone lines"

"What do you mean?"

"They go and then get close together and then run again."

I thought that was a cute way of looking it.

The rest of Winter Break and Les Mis.

On Wednesday and Thursday we played with lots of friends at our home and at others.

Then Friday we went to the Science Museum and stayed there a while.

Jane and Kate played puppets:

On Saturday Jane and I went on a special date to play mini-golf. It was all "black lights" so the picture isn't the greatest."

Everyone went back to school last Monday! :)

Last night B and I went with some friends to see Les Miserables. It was excellent!

I LOVE the music and it was my 4th time seeing the play. Once was when I was 16 or so and my brother Jason gave me tickets. I took his fiance and my mom. Then I went twice in New York over 2 different summers there. It was B's first time seeing it and he was confused, but enjoyed it. There were a few dramatical differences from the times before. The most notable was when Jean Valjean sang "Bring Him Home" he sang it at the baracade before the fighting started and not after in the sewer The death of little Gavroche was pretty dramatic too. I sang along in my head to all of my favorite songs. Eponine had an amazing voice and Fantine was really good too. Javert- oh I could listen to all of them sing for a long time :) Thanks for the wonderful evening!