There's Addie sitting on her window sill watching the neighbors on their deck.

Mom and Addie finish off the room! 

May 1st--Remember how we always made up silly games and did crazy stuff when we were supposed to be taking a Sunday nap? My girls are already starting! We found them giggling in one of the entertainment center cabinets last night.

Makes a nice cage, huh? 

Thoughts for the Day

Leave it to Emerson to have said something I have been trying to find words for.

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Oh, yeah. Chew on that while I try to find time to write between painting the new house, babysitting, laundry, housework, Young Women, Ward Dinner preparations for tonight, Fast Sunday combined YW lesson, packing, and--oh, yeah, personal hygeine. Do I really have to get DRESSED today? Where will I pencil THAT in?

Lest I sound whiny, here is a quote I am painting on my laundry room wall this week (courtesy of Aunt Marti):

"May we never be discouraged in doing those daily tasks that God has ordained the common lot of man." --Joseph Fielding Smith

More soon...

Sunday Dinner Outside

We had a cook out next to our apartment on Fleshman Creek with our neighbors, the Mhemberes from South Africa (via Massachusetts). That's Godfrey, Rosemary, Addie, Tanaka, Me, Heidi, and Tsitsi (laying on the blanket because she got cold). We had delicious food, but it was way too windy. PS: Here's how you say their name: "mem-BARE-ayz." It's not as hard as it looks.

Heidi, Addie, Tanaka, & Tsitsi (under the blanket) at our Sunday night cook out. My girls love Tanaka and Tsitsi! 

APRIL SHOWERS

Remember all that sunshiney fun we had last week? GONE. All week long (Monday thru Friday, anyway) we had slushy rain. Oh, well...the May Flowers come next, right? There's Addie on April 18th...

The rain came down like snow, so it was really fun for the girls to watch from this, our living room window. 

Last Monday for family night, we got pizza. Addie always calls those box holder things "Barbie Tables," so she fed her Polly Pocket some pizza with it (that's the Polly Pocket that rides an ATV). 

This picture was actually taken APRIL 7th when we went out to dinner with my parents and grandparents. We celebrated Heidi's birthday since they were leaving in the morning. The restaurant people gave her ice cream, put this sombrero on her, sang a song in Spanish and took this polaroid. It cracks me up.