Happy Easter

The Famous Easter Family Picture

Easter Boys after Church

Janna and her boys

Yes, finally got his hair cut!

Somebody's in MY BED

In the morning, is it going to be summer?

Two Saturdays ago the boys thought it was summer. It was 70 degrees and our home teacher brought over some toys that their kids had out grown. He brought over two cars, a slide and a teeter totter. The boys loved it. Rusty put on his swim suit and they asked if I could turn on the sprinklers. Of course the next day it was blizzardy. It was also Stake conference and Luke was in the choir. I went, but we only lasted 5 minutes after it started. The boys were being good, but Van started coughing so hard that he threw up and Stone kept on sneezing. I didn't want to be "those" people who bring their sick kids, so we left. Maybe if I made my kids wear clothes outside in March, they wouldn't get sick. Poor parenting.

Here is Rusty trying to bust a toy out of the ice. Safety first.

Van in his Blue's Clues outfit. He has started pulling himself up and climbing up the stairs. The other day he climbed up 10 stairs. Yes, I was next to him the whole time. I don't need another poor parenting story to tell.

Van loves driving the car.

Oops.
Both Van and Rusty had ear infections last week. I think Stone felt a little left out because he didn't get to sit up on the counter and get medicene. The night Rusty got his ear infection, I was up with him and he said, "I want a band aid on my ear." How sad. They are both doing fine now.

Stone is the only boy in his primary class. He has never liked going to church, ever. But last week he got a new teacher. It is a newlywed couple. Now, he likes church and actually wants to go because he has a boy teacher. He keeps asking how many days until Sunday.

Busy, busy

I moved to a new job this week. It is about half the distance as my other job. That is good b/c my fuel pump went out on the Honda and I haven't been able to get it fixed yet, so it only takes about 10 minutes in the morning for Janna and the boys to take me to work.

The job I am now on is a 3 story building for the government and I am the Concrete Engineer. I'll be there about 6 weeks I've been told, long enough to do all of the foundation work and stem walls. Then I'll go back to do the topping slabs for a week, and then I'll go back to do the site work, e.g. curb, sidewalk, light posts, etc. In between I think I'll be going back to Palazzo Verdi to do site work there. Rumor has it that Palazzo Verdi 2 could happen later this year which would be right next to the first one. So anyway this is probably boring for anyone to read, but it is what is going on around here.

Van has gone from a broken femur to the flu, from the flu to a cold with an ear infection. Rough year so far for the little guy. The other boys are also getting over colds and I think at some point we've all had one. I'm on my 2nd go around. It was fun having our moms come again. This time they overlapped and we got to have both of them here for a few hours. The boys love it and keep asking when they are coming back. Twice in 2 months and now they want it to be every month.

We got the kitchen done finally except for the floor. Last Saturday I put up the new blinds and finished putting the hardware on the drawers. It looks really good. Unfortunately the picture was taken before the blinds were installed. Janna will have to take another picture.