Todd's Tatler

Take me out to the baaaaaallgame!

1:56 PM by Amanda

Living in the vicinity of your alma mater has it's perks. For instance, a family friendly tailgate party, JDawgs, and a Baseball game for a family of 4, all for under $15!

Leaving the tailgate party.

Waiting for the game to start! Maddie danced to all the pre-game music.

Despite the rain and interrupted naptime, we made it almost through the 6th inning before having to leave!

Creamery ice cream!

The kids really liked these cool stairs...

...but weren't too keen on the new Cosmo bench.
Notice Caleb's furtive sideways glance, and Maddie's outright struggle to get away?

All in all, it was an exhausting, yet fun family outting.

Master Todd

1:13 PM by Amanda

He refused to walk for graduation, so we had our own special moment as he opened his actual diploma (aka he hammed it up, just for me - ain't he sweet?).

I'm so proud of him! The hard work and dedication speaks volumes about the wonderful person he is, and the great example his is for our children.

It's my turn to teach preschool this week, and wrap up the alphabet with the letter Z! As part of our "lesson" we learned a little bit about Jazz. Todd was kind enough to let me show the kids his trumpet so long as they didn't play with it. He didn't say Caleb couldn't when they left though!

Earth Day!

8:17 PM by Amanda

I decided the night before that we should celebrate Earth Day. Sooo....

We made paper trees,

(Madeline will tell you all about it in her own little language.)

went on a nature scavenger hunt,

("Mom I can't see you...")

inspected the growth of the snow peas we planted two weeks ago,

(Caleb stepped on one of the sprouts, and Madeline pulled up another one)

and of course, we made Earth Day cupcakes.

(We even shared some with friends!)

To finish off the evening, Caleb started our family home evening with a demonstration of how his primary teachers teach, "Who made the earth? JESUS!" (While holding up a pictures of Jesus and the earth.) Then we watched this....http://www.lds.org/media-library/video/old-testament-stories?lang=eng#2010-12-02-chapter-2-jesus-makes-the-earth

All in all, it was a good day.

Easter

10:10 PM by Amanda

Friday night, Caleb planted jelly beans. The magic of Easter helped them grow into lollipops overnight!

Saturday morning (after finding lollipops of course), we headed to BYU for the great egg hunt. But, due to large crowds, they lost control of the situation before we even got there. Oh well! We still had fun at the spring practice game, and the kids were non-the-wiser.

When we got home, the kids headed downstairs to find the eggs left by the Easter bunny! (I think the bunny went overboard this year...)

Unfortunately, the videos won't load. My favorite part of the egg hunt was Maddie's exclamation of "Uh-oh" every time she saw an egg that needed to be picked up.

On Sunday, Aunt Bridgy and Ron came to church with us. Afterward, we enjoyed the traditional Lundy egg roll contest...which Caleb won (and I just barely lost), 2nd year in a row.