Phone Picture Update

A lot of these are still from April.  Somehow I am quite behind, but all the same, better late than never.  :)

This was my Conference setup for one of the sessions.  I love doing puzzles during Conference.  :)

   One day we stepped outside to go to the bus and saw this beauty on our bush.

The boys have been very into the Bernstein Bears books lately and one day Jared asked me to read a whole bunch of them.  I did so without falling asleep, so it had to be documented.  :)

  It is warm enough that water play has begun.  :)

 While watching Alan and Ethan play a game, Jared found a new and fun seat.

 Another day Jared decided to make a trap.  He used almost a whole skein of yarn (that I've had for years and years and finally decided it didn't matter if he used it), and by the end it went through all the rooms in our house except Alan's office.  It was crazy and awesome!

 Some days preschool just makes me happy.

 In addition to water games, we've also started moving the trampoline around the backyard to the shady spots.

 I made a drawstring camera bag for my trip to Utah and was quite pleased with it.

 Jared created with the scraps while I worked.  :)

 Another preschool day...this time we started with Play-doh and I had to laugh that all the others had lost interest and moved on to other things, but my Jared can do Play-doh forever!

 I started some spring cleaning tasks.  I was so pleased with how well this worked!

 For a few days, every time Ethan came home from the bus, he lay down in the shade of the tree in the front yard.

And some from May:

More Spring cleaning...I forgot to take a picture of the before, but this is the cupboard that the boys can get into.  It has the plastic plates and cups and random plastic containers.  For the before, imagine a great mess of plastic items that all try and fall out at you when you open the cabinet door.

 And the art cabinet was about the same.

 I was so pleased to find these containers that almost perfectly fit into the cupboard and have a drawer-like containing effect.

 Plus, the lids are great white boards!

 I love having the boys help in the kitchen (sometimes)  and I was so amused by these misshapen cookies.  Sometimes imperfect is perfect.

 I had to laugh at Jared one night.  Once he's in bed, if he is naughty, he loses a stuffed animal.  Apparently he had something particularly awful planned because he threw down three animals in advance.  Luckily my question prevented the bad behavior.

More organizing...I found some can racks that actually fit on my pantry shelves.  So far (weeks later) things are staying better than I've ever had them stay.

If you've made it to the end of this post, congratulations!  I didn't mean for it to draw on for so long.

When I told Jared it was time to go to the bus stop, he hollered out, "Oh good!  I need my big brother to survive!"  Then they walked home like this.