Birthdays, Easter, and Fun

Austin watering his Great-Grandparents seedlings

Heidi, Sivai on Blaze

Nathan, Irvin, Sivai, Keely

We visited my family in Kansas over Easter weekend. All of my siblings were home except Renee and Nick, who we missed in our crazy house of fun. We also enjoyed having my grandmother from WA there to visit. The grandkids had a blast at the farm playing with their aunts and uncles and all of the animals. We had a busy weekend with my brother Wyles' b-day on Friday, Sivais' on Saturday, plus my parents Regional church conference on Sat. and Sun., plus Easter on Sunday. I took a bunch of pictures, however it takes so long to upload with my internet so I will be posting them in the days to come.

Happy Easter

Monday Morning Bunny

We woke up to this little guy right out our front door this morning, it must be the Easter bunny coming to check on us :) The kids loved looking at it, especially Lily.

Kindergarten Photo

I passed on Sivai's fall kindergarten photo because he had a cheesy grin. I'm glad this spring one turned out! What a cute kid, and doing great in school. He turns 6 next week and is so excited to "grow up." In his mind it is a huge achievement, and I can't believe we have a 6 year old!

SPRING!

I am so excited for Spring to be here! Austin and I planted our starter seeds for the garden and flower beds a couple of days ago and they are starting to sprout.
Sivai plays outside every day and is already complaining, "It's hot" at 65 degrees.
Lily actually wants to go outside and can get around easily.
We're going to try some of our garden in raised beds, our soil is clay here and doesn't make for the best gardening. We are in a desert after all. There's a lot of work ahead to get our garden going and things cleaned up, but it's a welcome change.
Now, if everyone in the family could not be sick it would really be nice. The past three weeks have been rough, 3 different "sicknesses" traveling slowly but surely from one person to the next. I hope we all have it out of our systems soon...my house is suffering.
I finally got around to deep cleaning the kids' bathroom today and while I was brushing Austins' teeth tonight Sivai came in and said "Oh, looks like we got a new toilet Mom."

All Planned Out

Sivai's a funny kid. Over the past few days I've learned about his plans for the future, the long term future. He's convinced that he is going to go to college, here in Vernal, then join the Army. He asked me if there were girls in the Army, I said yes, so he's going to find his "one true love" in the Army and get married and have kids. He has also informed me he will be moving to Grand Junction, CO to live; in a purple house. Sivai is also sure that he will live close to his brother so that they can see each other every day.
I don't remember having everything figured out at this age...but it sure has been interesting try to figure out what's been going on in his head.

Lily

I realized I haven't posted a picture of Lily in a while. She's grown up a lot in the past two months. She jabbers away and joins in on all the fun with her brothers, and can be just as rough. It's fun to have a girl and see all the differences, like actually listening and following instructions. I can't wait for this summer to see how light her hair gets and for her to really play outside for the first time.