More From CALIFORNI-A

One of my good friends here grew up in CA, where her family still lives and her husband just got back from a little trip home and brought us these:
FRESH, yeah, like from the Pacific Ocean, so cool, we are SO clueless! We have always been landlocked our whole lives!! Emma was the only one brave enough to hold them.

Even a little creepy for her too though!

Didn't your Mother ever teach you NOT to play with your food! It was YUM! We had a fun time "dissecting" them, as much as we could stand it, and we also realized we know NOTHING about crabs, or is it crab??? Sounds like a good homework assignment!

When Life Gives You Lemons

What do you do with them? I need some recipes! Some of Ryan's seasonal workers are back from California for the Summer. They work on some sort of citrus farm during the winter (in CA) and always bring me a bunch of lemons and oranges. There were a couple of HUGE oranges:

They are so FRESH, right off of the tree! I love it every year when they come back and they know I expect some yummy fruit!

I am FOR SURE making a lemon pie, I ♥ Lemon pie!

Emma and Her Friends

Yesterday Emma stayed home from school. She just needed a day off I guess. Ryan was mad at me for letting her stay, but I kind of wanted a day with Emma too. SO she helped me get the house cleaned and then we went to Jerome to see one of the ladies I visiting teach, (she is in the hospital). We did some groceries and went to lunch at McDonalds. While we were eating, well I was the only one eating, everyone else was playing I heard Claire's name being shouted all over playland. I figured there must be another Claire there too, none of my kids were shouting for her. Well Claire comes off of the slide and this trail of kids come running behind her shouting her name! Emma had told all of her "new friends" to help her keep track of Claire. I am pretty sure every kid there was taking care of Claire for us. Emma came to eat a little and one little girl just stood and waited for her. I asked her if she needed something, she said she was just waiting for Emma. Oh Emma is such a friendly little socializer!

Cheer Clinic

The Cheer Clinic was a success! The girls had a great time!Ashley doing the dance.


Emma cheering!

Claire's cute uniform from Aunt April! Thanks!

Poor brother gets dragged around to all of these girlie things! He didn't mind he got to play basketball and wear shorts!!! So cool!

Emma's BIG News!

Emma taught herself to ride her two wheeler this weekend! In all of the kayos of moving Bob and Sara, plays, and cheer clinic, she somehow found time to ride her bike!




Look at her determination!

It is so just like Emma to do it all by herself! She wants to do everything by herself! Except when she doesn't of course!
YEAH Emma!

The Pied Piper Play

Ashley and Emma got to perform in the Pied Piper Friday night. They had a great time and it turned out really cute! Ashley did say she would like to be with the rest of the third graders next year (instead of all of the younger kids). I told her she had better start growing then! Poor kid might always have to be a rat/skunk/seahorse. Emma doesn't mind being the rat again, but she will probably be the one who gets a bigger part next year, seems like it works like that most of the time!
She is TRYING to have a great time!No need to try here, Emma makes a great little RAT!Another busy week down!!

This March(y) Week

We have just been hanging around this week. Ashley and Emma are working on a school play again and are both pleased to be performing as RATS, yes, rats. I was afraid Ash was not going to be happy with that but when we got out to the car she said "Mom guess what, I get to be a rat!" I took that as her being happy about it. They have been rehearsing and getting ready for the show tomorrow. They also get to perform their cheerleading skills on Saturday night! I cant wait to see how it all turns out, it is so cute!

Justin, Claire and I have just been hanging around the house. Today we had story time and this afternoon we made some cookies.

Claire is showing her "goggles"She has been watching lots of Dora and Diego this week too.

Ryan is busy, busy. He is feeling the PRESSURE! He is frustrated with not being able to do it ALL. I will be glad when summer is here, things mellow out for a little bit, before the BIG storm anyway! He is tired, and working hard. We have been practicing our massage skills on each other that we learned from our class in February. It helps to relieve some of the days stresses! The snow is just about gone, and so is the mud, thankfully! I cant wait for the grass to turn green again.

Ashley's Sunday Birthday Party

I think we are finally done celebrating Ashley's birthday! She decorated her own cake with lots of Littlest Petsthe frosting looks not so good, but it really was yummy, it was a little runny, but I wasn't going to waste any so I dumped it ALL on the cake, it was a GOOD cake, not so much pretty......she didn't leave any room for candles either, she only got one on the very edge, silly girl! and got more presents from Jaci and Tayson. What a spoiled girl!
Another posterity picture!

Sunday Shots

We LOVE Sundays at our house! It is so nice to have everyone together and nowhere to be, and to worship! Gotta love nice clean, (I wish I could add well behaved) pretty children too!

Ashley in Wonderland!

Ryan and I took Ashley to Alice in Wonderland last night. We loved it, Ashley really loved it. It was fun to see in 3-D too. All of the people in the theater (and us) looked so funny with those big geeky glasses on, but it was fun! The movie was not like the last Alice, it was about her 13 years later going back to Wonderland. We had fun, Emma cried because she didn't get to come, the kids all stayed with Grandma and Papa and had a good time. We went out to eat afterwards which was fun too, Fun times for Ashley! She is growing up WAY to fast!