Les Miserables Daddy Daughter Date

Murray really likes taking Mary on special daddy daughter dates. He got tickets to see Les Miserables at the civic center for their next date after they saw Wizard of Oz there. This production of Les Mis was all children. Leading up until their date Murray told Mary the story of Les Mis every night for bedtime and during the day too. Mary loved the story and wanted to hear it all the time. When I came home from my two week stay in California Mary knew the names of all the characters in the musical. I thought it was so cute and entertaining to listen to her say those french names.

Scholarship

Murray and JJ Lant worked on a business plan together and won a competitioin for it at SCO! Now they are taking their business plan to Florida in June to compete for the national prize! JJ has a little girl Lucy who Mary likes playing with. I heard they had a cute conversation in the sandbox together one day regarding their daddys and it went something like this:

Lucy: "Mary did you know our Daddy's won the competition last night?"

Mary: "Yea I am so proud of them"

We had fun celebrating with them at Avellino's!

One of several nights working hard!

Easter Eggs

Mary did a great job dying eggs this year! We held this activity for family night and the girls really enjoyed it! They found another kit for dying eggs and keep pulling it out. We may just have to dye some more eggs even though the Easter season has come and gone.

Mary took this picture of Murray and Rachel.

Latimer Park

On Tuesdays we like to go to Latimer Park and meet up with the mother's group. It is fun for us to play outside and see our friends! I try to pack a lunch and off we go. Mary plays with everyone and is a social little girl but not really a fan of hugs and kisses from her friends. Rachel on the other hand would hug and kiss all day long, she loves to show love. Rachel can go up the steps across the top to the slide and down by herself and she does, over and over again. We have been taking Lexi with us the past few months and she loves it too!

Easter House

I was nervous leaving the girls for a week, which turned into two. I went to Target and picked up some fun things they could do while I was gone. I chose activities that would come in handy in case of a melt down situation. One the activities was an Easter house kit. We make a gingerbread house at Christmas time and Mary loves it because it involves candy. I guess you can make a house for any holiday really. Murray took some great pictures! Thank you Murr!

A masterpiece!

Chocolate Bunnies

Yes, my children are clothed most of the time. I have no clue why mary didn't have a shirt on at this moment! Murray gave the girls their chocolate bunnies while I was in California. He was so good and took lots of pictures for me! Here are a few of them enjoying the traditional chocolate bunnies!

Early Easter

Although this blog post is late we actually had Easter early this year. I flew back to California for a very long two weeks to help my mom and missed Easter with Murray and the girls. We wore our Easter clothes a week early despite the gloomy weather, we took a few family pictures, had an egg hunt in our living room, opened baskets and decorated eggs. The girls enjoyed all of it, especially the candy! We are still eating jelly beans!

Young Women Mutual Night

At church we had an activity about temple marriage for our young women. We spent a lot of time in preparation and it turned out to be really fun!

All the leaders wore old bridesmaid dresses that Pam brought. She hung them behind a door and we got to pick a door not knowing which dress was on the other side. I lucked out with this nice peach number!
The girls made toilet paper wedding dresses with their moms and wore them down the runway to music. I worked with Madalyn on her dress and she won for most durable.

A beautiful wedding cake that went to the winners of the game we played.

We transformed the relief society room.

Super Rachel

Rachel is 16 months old now and enjoys singing "baa baa black sheep", "abc's", "motor boat, motor boat", putting shoes on and taking shoes off, eating bananas, wagon rides, bath time and dancing.

Grandma Baker's Card

We made some cards for Grandma's birthday and I especially loved Mary's card. We asked her what she wanted to say and we helped her write it. She chose to draw a picture of herself and grandma and added wiggly eyes.