We may have started a new General Conference tradition this year. On Saturday between conference sessions we went on a bike ride on the Julian Wash trail and had a picnic.
The kids are getting more and more endurance so it's fun to be able to go on slightly longer bike rides. We're glad to have this paved, vehicle-free trail so close to our house. It worked great to get a little exercise in, then head back to sit around for another 2 hours watching more great talks at General Conference.
Annie and I spent a good bit of Sunday's conference putting together puzzles while we listened. We finished this 100 piece puzzle, then started on a 500 piece puzzle, which Annie claimed she would help me with. But mostly I did it myself. :)
Rachel did The BFG for her reading fair project this year. She did a great job and hers was selected as one of the top projects from her class that went on to be judged in the school-wide reading fair.
We have been planning on going camping as a family, but when the day came Rachel had caught a stomach bug Annie and Ryan had had earlier in the week, so we postponed it for a week. When the next week rolled around it was super windy and the weather was going to be pretty cool. Since we were planning on camping at Patagonia Lake we thought it would be worth it to wait until we could actually get in the lake without the kids getting hypothermia, so we postponed it again. Hopefully this weekend it works out.
Instead of camping we were able to go to our ward BBQ. Ryan and Megan were pretty cold and we hadn't brought jackets because it's April and it didn't even cross our minds that it might be cold enough for jackets (yes, we knew it was too cold for camping, but that was supposed to be in the middle of the night that it was too cold). Ryan kept asking if there was a jacket in the car, so I went to check and we did have one. It was size 9 months. Megan at least had long pants and socks and shoes on, where Ryan had shorts and sandals, and he had been the one so insistent on us looking for the jacket, so we let him have it.
He insisted that we zip it up for him, too. I was surprised that it even went on him at all.
Ever since our trip to Idaho where Ryan got to ride on the super fast green motorcycle, green has become Ryan's favorite color. One morning when he was wearing green pajamas, Ryan happened upon a few other green things he began collecting.
Annie has been participating in a co-op preschool/book club this semester. It was our turn to have the kids at our house for a few weeks in April. We had a lot of fun with everyone coming to play. We did one week reading books about pets and making pet rocks, and another week reading popcorn books and making popcorn bird feeders and eating popcorn for snack. The kids spent a lot of the time swinging and swinging and swinging.
Sunday all ready for church:
They wanted to get on our bed next to the picture of Jesus for a picture, too.
The kids got a kick out of trying on Daddy's glasses.
We pulled out the slip and slide one of the warmer days. The kids had a good time.
This is their new "thing" they do all the time.
Apparently getting in the bin where we keep all the yard toys/balls is a great place to hide or relax.
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