Awana awards

Brittney & Chelsey with their awards

Last night Chelsey received her 1st book award for sparkies at Awana. Brittney also received the Excellence award for her 2nd book in the T & T club. They both worked really hard to get their awards this year!!!

Easter

Hannah doing the resurrection eggs with the kids while the men hide the eggs

Even the older boys hunted for eggs

Chelsey
Jamie, Brittney & Chelsey

We started out Easter with our regular 8:00 Easter breakfast at church and a great Easter worship service. We went over to Larry & Tracy's for lunch. Most could not make it until the middle of the afternoon and so we had Easter dinner at 5:00. Hannah did the resurrection eggs with the kids while the men hid the eggs in the yard. They all had a fun time hunting for eggs, I even told the big boys that they had to go on the egg hunt and I think they had fun, Brandons candy was gone before we got home. Before we went to church I was talking to the girls and told Chelsey, "Isn't it a great day Chelsey, Jesus rose from the dead and He is ALIVE!!" She said, "No, he did that last year". It was a very funny moment, you never know what she is going to come up with!!!

Chelsey hunting for easter eggs

Chelsey went to an easter egg hunt at our city square on Saturday. There were only 4 kindergarteners there and so she found a lot of eggs. The kids all had fun coloring eggs also and the big kids even did one.

Kindergarten Field Trip

Chelsey pumping water
Petting a goat

holding a chick

Chelsey's class

I went along on a field trip with Chelsey's kindergarten class to the Stuhr Museum. The field trip was a day at the farm. The kids pumped water, rang the dinner bell, saw a goat, calf and sheep and was able to pet the goat. They also got to hold a baby chick. We ate Burger king inside at the museum and then played for a while in a play area that they have there. It was too cold to go outside and eat and go to the park.

Chelsey's kindergarten easter program

Chelsey's kindergarten class came to the assisted living in town and had a program. She had some lines that she had to say and they sang several songs. The older people love to hear the kids sing. They also passed out easter eggs to the residents there.

Track & Courtney's 13th birthday

Courtney had her 1st track meet on April 7th. She ran the 1600 and the 800. In the mile she said that she had stabbing pains in her side the whole race, she was back a ways and when she turned the corner toward the finish line she sprinted as hard as she could and ended up in 6th place. When she ran the 800 I told her to stay close to the front and she ended up sprinting in the end and ended up in 2nd place. She did a great job and it was fun watching her run.

April 8th was Courtney's 13th birthday. We celebrated by going out to eat that evening and had ice cream cake at home after. On Saturday Courtney & me and Andrea and Jadyn (her really good friend) went shopping. Courtney got her ears pierced that day for her birthday. She was a little scared but in the end said that it didn't hurt. We spent the whole day shopping and she was able to go by herself and shop with Jadyn which she loved. I think everyone had a really fun day!!!!!

Here Chick, Chick, Chick.....

Brittney & Chelsey with the new chicks on March 11

March 22, they are getting bigger

April 2, they are in the chicken house now

On March 11 we bought about 3 day old chicks. We kept them in the house for about a month and then they are now in the chicken house. The kids love them, I am sure that will change when they get big. It is fun for them to finally have a "PET"!