For family home evening this week, we went to Phil and Beth Conklin's farm. Phil and Beth are the Gospel Principles teachers in our ward.
They have two baby calves that need to be bottle fed. Emily did it, but she wasn't too crazy about it.
Jessica did fine with it, she even pushed their heads out of the way if they got a little too bossy.
The word sounds cheesy, but Madeline was genuinely delighted by the whole experience.
Since Grandma was in town, we had an early mini birthday party for Emily. She was pleased to have early gifts and lots of attention.
We made it official, with a bunny cake, hand decorated in a most painstaking way by Joanne.
And after all that work, we just set it on fire and then cut it into pieces.
On Saturday, we had a baptism for twin girls in the ward who just turned 8, followed by a birthday party in the gym.
We also, finally, filled the sand box in the bottom of the playhouse that I built last summer. It took 800 pounds of sand to fill it.
As you can see from the sandbox picture, we have been fortunate enough to have a couple of sunny days recently. The rain and gray have returned now, but we were grateful for the warm and bright days we had for the weekend.
Matt
More presents arrived. She's been opening presents all week!
They played Piggly Wiggly, which consisted of hiding in one another's sleeping bags and having each other say "oink, oink" in funny voices so they could guess who was in there.
And no girls sleep over would be complete without an evening of makeovers.
All in all, it wasn't too bad. And she even got us to sing to her one more time, until next year.
They have two baby calves that need to be bottle fed. Emily did it, but she wasn't too crazy about it.
Jessica did fine with it, she even pushed their heads out of the way if they got a little too bossy.
The word sounds cheesy, but Madeline was genuinely delighted by the whole experience.
Since Grandma was in town, we had an early mini birthday party for Emily. She was pleased to have early gifts and lots of attention.
We made it official, with a bunny cake, hand decorated in a most painstaking way by Joanne.
And after all that work, we just set it on fire and then cut it into pieces.
On Saturday, we had a baptism for twin girls in the ward who just turned 8, followed by a birthday party in the gym.
We also, finally, filled the sand box in the bottom of the playhouse that I built last summer. It took 800 pounds of sand to fill it.
As you can see from the sandbox picture, we have been fortunate enough to have a couple of sunny days recently. The rain and gray have returned now, but we were grateful for the warm and bright days we had for the weekend.
They all worked diligently on getting the eggs ready to roll.
On Easter morning, there were a few token offerings.
The girls helped mommy make chocolate suckers.
Joanne got the girls Easter dresses in Mexico a couple of weeks ago.
Grandma with the Easter dress girls.
On Saturday we also had a primary activity (Easter egg hunt), a wedding, and a baptism. I didn't get any pictures of the wedding or baptism. It was the second wedding I've performed as a bishop. I don't have as much practice with wedding as I have with funerals. We did get this shot of the girls with the bunny crafts they made at the primary activity.
Emily's little head is poking up in the middle here.