Saturday, March 23, 2013

Catching Up

Here’s what’s been going on (at least stuff we’ve done where we’ve also taken photos!)

Ward FHE activity where there was dancing! Brandon and Neil taught a couple folk dances

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End of February, went to the park and Lily tried out the swings for the first time!


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March started off with a snowstorm that piled up several inches, took down our tree, and took out our power for the whole day!

Schools took off 3 days because of the snow.


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Brielle finished up her tumbling class


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And her art class


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Her masterpiece is the bottom center


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I had a very happy birthday with lots of great gifts, and a yummy pizza dinner!

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Brielle enjoyed the ice cream that came with her kids meal


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We went to the Virginia Maple Festival, but forgot to take pictures of the giant maple trees with the buckets on them collecting the sap.
We had delicious maple donuts and Maple pork bbq sandwiches and brought some syrup and treats home for Brandon since he was working.
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We dressed up for St. Patrick’s day

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We went to a community Easter egg hunt. Brielle’s haul of 5 eggs was plenty. Some kids filled their baskets while others only got a few! We think there should’ve been rules about how many you could get. At the end you traded all your eggs for one little treat bag, so at least that was fair. They also had raffle prizes so Brielle and Lily got some cute Easter window clings.

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2 comments:

Sean and Jennie said...

I love all the pictures but especially the one with Brielle and the ice cream and the one of you and Lily on St. Patricks day=) What a huge snowstorm! Looks like you guys have been having lots of fun!

Darrell & Carol Peterson said...

What fun times you've been having! Lily in the swing reminds me of pictures of Brielle in the same kind of swing. After seeing how energetically both Brandon and Neil were dancing it's hard to believe one was really tired after a long shift at work and the other was getting over the flu!! Brielle looks like a gold medal gymnast enjoying her tumbling class. That must have been some snowstorm to take out that huge tree and your power. You are so smart to have Brielle's hair up in darling ponytails for her art class--she's a budding modernist. Looks like some yummy pizza -- and Brielle scored an ice cream with the kid's meal! Glad you could go enjoy the maple festival (if those doughnuts were anything like the apple one's--I hope you ate one on my behalf). Great photo of your St. Patrick day duds. And love the one with Brielle proudly holding her Easter basket after her successful hunt. Lily looked nice and warm in her cocoon!