The Treehouse Museum

Paige's preschool had a field trip to the Treehouse museum. Scott and I decided to tag team the girls so he followed Ashley around while I followed Paige around. I wonder what we'll do with three kids?? Here are some fun pics of their exciting and busy adventures.

The "tulip" festival

My cousin was recently baptised in Eagle Mountain and I was asked to give the Holy Ghost talk. We decided to make a day of it and visit Scott's sister, Ginger, at the same time. It happened to be the Tulip Festival that day and although there were very little in bloom due to the weather, the grounds and company were still beautiful.








Paige thinks she's part of their family

Fun Random pictures

Sometimes they do get along

First bloody nose

Only dad could sleep like this

Monkey see, monkey do



Why does dad keep making me dress like Erkel?

This was 5 minutes after leaving preschool.

Scott did Ashley's hair and was quite proud of it (as was I!)

Easter

Easter was full of events this year. To begin the "week" of events, we started with Troy and Sonja's (Scott's brother and sister in law) temple sealing followed by an early Easter dinner. While participating in dinner, they had thrown together a huge easter egg event for the kids. Paige and Ashley had tons of fun and really got into it, especially having fun with cousins.






Next on the list of events was the easter egg dyeing. Paige didn't quite understand the difference between dyeing and dying. We had a lot of fun picking colors for our eggs. Paige wrote our names down on different eggs and Ashley just wanted to drop the eggs in the glasses. After the egg dyeing, we had a family home evening on the true meaning of Easter. When we asked Paige what Easter was about, she answered with the usual bunny, candy etc. We then gave the lesson on the crucifixion and resurrection. Paige really soaked up true purpose and it was later instilled in her brain when she gave a short talk about it in primary. We are so proud of our Paige and her ability to understand the simplicities of the gospel.




Next came Easter morning. Can I just say that the easter bunny is still trying to get into the swing of things at our house and wasn't as prepared on the candy front or the hiding of the eggs until the last minute. It didn't matter, Paige and Ashley still had a great time finding the eggs and then they wanted to hide them all over again. They didn't hardly eat any of the candy and we ended up taking it to Scott's work anyways. Then we put on their beautiful Easter dresses and did up their hair with Paige actually letting me straighten hers. Pictures are always interesting because they never look at the camera at the same time! Next, off to church to celebrate the true meaning of Easter.


After church, we went up to Logan for a yummy meal where once again, the kids had another easter egg hunt. You can never have too many of those. How grateful I am for the sacrifice Jesus gave of when he died for me and the beautiful gift of the resurrection that alows each of us to return to live with him and our families again.

Paige's parent day

Paige's preschool had their semi-anual parent's day. She is such a smarty and loves to go to preschool. We were excited to see all that she had learned. The first thing they did was sing the "red" song. I knew this was coming because she had been singing it to me all week. There are a lot of different styles to sing it such as holding her nose (the skunk style) and opera stle. Next was a little jaunt on the balance beam and then a somersault on the mat. She went so fast that I could not capture her in any worthwhile images. She also identified notes on a piano with a little story and pictures but when it came time to sit under the guitar as they were identifying instruments, she refused. She wanted to sit under the flute. Oh our sweet yet stubborn little Paige. Paige has such a desire to learn. She soaks up everything. She has started to read because she wants to know what all of the billboards say. She gets so mad at us when we pass them too quick and she can't repeat all of the letters in the title. After Scott and her teacher had a discussion on Paige reading, she began to give Paige books so that she can learn words. She has been cruising right through them and is all the way up to the 13th book. We are constantly amazed at how she will read everything(that's simple of course) and is constantly asking for our help in pronouncing stuff. She has such a memory and as we read the book of mormon, she wants to know about Nephi and Lehi vs Laman and Lemuel. She loves the story of the tree of life and getting the plates from Laban. We finally showed her the movies so she could picture all that she was reading.







We love our smart little Paige who can manuever the laptop better than we can. We love her desire to sing and even makes up her own songs. We love her creativity as she makes "tents" with all of the blankets in the house. We love her desire to cook and how she'll bring her stool into the kitchen right next to me so she can pour and stir. We love her snuggles and although she doesn't like our kisses, we love to tease her with them anyways. We love her strong personality and although it is a challenge, we know that this will be a blessing for her. We love when her sweet spirit occasionally comes out to help and love Ashley. We know that we will see more of it with Brett, whom she already has a desire to meet. We are grateful for our fun little Paige and love her more than these words can express.