This is a reserve in Fort Worth that we visited. I can't remember the name but we enjoyed looking for the prairie dogs and other animals that were there. (They also had Bison, we saw them from a distance.)
This was the end of preschool, we made these jelly fish that have beads from 1-10. The kids all seemed to enjoy making them.
This was a production our church put on of the Restoration. It was beautiful and moving. The "Spirit of God" sung by the choir and accompanied by the orchestra was amazing and so powerful. There were some talented musicians that helped put all of this together, all the performers were youth from the stake.
Above is the girls painting. I love that they love to paint. It is fun to see them at this window doing their art and painting. (For a while they would do this rather often.) Below is a chocolate bar that one of my students bought and brought for me. It was so nice of her because these aren't cheap, but she knew that I and the family could eat them. So she bought me her two favorites. We loved it!
Easter morning finding and then opening up our baskets. I really enjoyed this Easter season, we definitely added a number of little traditions to our celebration and had a more Christ centered Christmas.
Above is the fairy garden house that we have been doing in the nature study class that I taught this semester. We built the basic fairy garden and then added to it each week as we learned about different things in nature. Roslyn did a great job adding cute little details.
These are pictures of the Easter egg hunt. It was fun having the two cute little yellow ducklings walking around with us.
Above was the kids lining up for our Easter egg hunt at our house. For this they always line up in order from youngest to oldest and then count to their age to go outside. Below is pictures from the Easter activity that they did at our church. The whole thing was amazing. This room showed how other countries celebrate the Holy Week. I was amazed at this art they did, so well done. It was made with died wood chips.
These are more pictures from that church activity. In the one pictured above, the kids put pictures of the Savoir on a wood block to take home. Below is the different horns that were used during Christ time. The kids could try blowing them.
They had a tomb that they had built that they kids could go inside to see the linen clothes all folded up. Really the whole thing was spectacular and blew me away, all of the amazing things that everyone had done was amazing.
Above and below is us weeding together as a family with the two little yellow ducks. Roslyn often had them sit in her lap as she weeded some. We really worked on clearing out the area under some trees at the top...I had missed this area when we originally weeded the briars and we are trying to rid our yard of these little white flowers that turn to stickers. It is an invasive plant.
Tara did it again. She sent the kids fun hats which came just in time for us to go on our big trip to D.C. were having a hat was very useful. We enjoyed learning about all of the places that she and Ron went to. It was neat because we watched a video of one of the places she talked about and then it showed up in a history or art lesson that very next week.
Above was the kids dying Easter eggs and having a snack. Below was the end of Land Animals at co-op. The kids set up a zoo organizing the animals by continent and other needs.
This was the start of our Holy Week. I decided this year to have a gift that they got to open for the first number of days. The first gift is the greatest gift we have been given symbolically of course. They opened a little stuffed lamb. The Lamb of God is the greatest gift and all of the other gifts are because of Him. Also the Israelites would bring in a lamb at the beginning of Holy Week and that would be the lamb they would sacrifice in the end. It was also symbolic of bring Christ into our home and into our life.
Above was the kids dying the Easter eggs and below was bringing the ducks to preschool for them to hold and to see.
This was our Holy Week display. We added to the story each day and had lots of books to read along with everything.
Above is a plant that I am almost certain that I got from a tulip store as a different type of tulip but I wonder if it was some type of iris, tulip mixture that the tulip part died on and the iris part lived. It was pretty though. Below was us making our earth worm farms during land animals towards the end of the semester.
Above was Roslyn and I outside working on her homework and below is what I see when I get home from seminary. I love it, lots of music going on...the piano, the ukulele and often the violin all at the same time playing their own things but it is great!
This is us playing rhyming bingo with the preschoolers.
Maebryn is really becoming quite the artist and enjoys coloring. She likes to use colored pencils and not crayons usually though. Sometimes she will bring her papers home blank from church because she didn't want to color because they only had crayons. I always think it is a little funny but from time to time she will use crayons.
Keeping up our Friday art day. We have been doing a lot of watercolor art and have really enjoyed it.
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