Egg Dying for the first time EVER!

YES, this was the first time my kids have ever dyed Easter eggs. Why? you may ask. I don't like eggs, especially hard boiled eggs. I just discovered last Thanksgiving that my kids do and will eat eggs. They will eat deviled eggs, egg salad sandwiches and Holly will just eat a hard boiled egg. Well that meant we wouldn't be wasting the eggs, so decorating we did. Everybody used their creative juices, even Don and I. We each did 3 I know not that many but a dozen was just the right amount.

Family Truip to Atlanta

In April we decided to take the kids to the Atlanta Temple open house. We drove up Friday evening and stayed at a hotel. The kids were way impressed. We even got to eat there and there was fruit for Holly and doughnuts for Josh. Does life get any better?





We packed our Saturday. First is was of to the temple. The tour was quick, but the kids thought it was neat. Holly loved the chandlers and Josh said that he felt the Spirit.

Me and the kids in the courtyard.

Next we went to the Fernbank Natural History Museum. Josh LOVED the dinosaurs. I wish we had more time here. We found the coolest kid play place in the last 15 mins we were there.

Don let me get a couple of goofy pictures of him.

After dinner at Outback another exciting and special thing for the kids (and mom and dad too) we headed over to Stone Mountain where once the sunsets they do this amazing laser show off of the mountain. This is a carving in the mountain of General Lee and part of the confederate army. (I tried to take pictures of the show I just couldn't get the right setting).

We spent one more night and drove home. We really had a fun family time.

My new chair

I had to order a new computer chair for my new office. I needed something tall enough for my counter high computer space but low enough for my sewing area. I picked this one our and I picked the material. I the picture the orange was much more vivid. It actaully is the color of the 1970's church soft chairs, not nessacerily what I was going for, but it will work and it is comfy.

Ward Activity

We had a ward activity that I was over. It was a whole ward effort. The RS did advertising and tables, the YW did a spiritual thought on Christ and Easter, the Primary did a childrens Easter egg hunt, the Elder's Quarom and High Priest did breakfast and the YM did clean up. I was worried about everybody doing their part and that worring was a waste of time. Everyone shined in their efforts and we had a wonderful activity. The food has way better than I asked for and only went over $2-5's. I asked for pancakes, bacon, juice. We got scrambled eggs, pancakes that were huge and light and fluffy, ham, hash browns and o.j. It was so delisious. It was neat to see all the men cooking away. It was hot and ready on time. The kids loved the egg hunt, we made it an indoor one due to weather. The YW were sweet and the YM cleaned without leaders. I am so proud of our ward family. Sad to say I forgot to take one single picture.

What color are you?

We had such a neat Enrichment this last week. Way to go enrichment committee. We snacked on foods from the rainbow (there was tons of fruit, yeah for me Healthy). We took a personality test. you were either Orange, Gold, Blue or Green. I am very Gold and I found myself surrounded by people I truly identify with. It was really themed night and Avery tied in to the fact we are not one compartment, but we should strive to be a bit of each, because that is what our Savior is. She talked about that Christ is the light we look to and we want our image to be in his countenance. She gave us each a crystal at the end of the night because when you shine a light on a crystal it makes a many rainbows. Christ being the light us being the crystal. I loved the whole evening.

Food Storage Room Demo and Framing

Yep, I helped make this mess. It is amazing the feeling that comes when destroying something with a hammer. Of course Don was much faster than I at pulling stuff down. Don took the duct work and put it between the floor joist (or however you say that) so now we don't have this huge beam from our ceiling. It really makes the room feel more open.

So we had to fill up that new found openess with my new food storage room. Yeah! Look at the beautiful frame work Don did this weekend. He says that the wiring will be done this week and maybe some dry wall will be hung. Hmmm, I wonder what color I should paint the inside?

Her own style

Holly loves dresses and skirts. Although spring has flirted with us here, it is still necessary to wear pants and most of the time a sweater or jacket. I thought that I would post of few of Holly's combinations. I forgot to take a picture of today's out fit. It was a long sleeved blue flowered dress shirt with a plum skirt underneath that and jeans under that.

These were earlier this week. A little summer dress, (which I will always make her wear a t-shirt under, but I would pick white in color), with a purple stripped tee underneath and jean stretch pants under that. In the morning she had a lavender sweater to keep her warm and don't forget the purple high heel shoes that she loves to clomp around in.

The last one actually worked and I wished I had gotten a picture when she had her pink raincoat and matching rain hat on. Plus her rain boots and matching umbrella in tote. This ensemble is a cute lime green tee, paired with a bright blue

ruffle skirt (you know ruffles are all the rage this season) and sparkly leggings to go underneath.

She just loves her skirts and maybe she will start a trend.