Hello, everyone!
Today was a great day—we planted flowers in the hopes of attracting butterflies to honor my Granny who recently passed away. We miss her terribly but remember her with the utmost fondness.
David has gotten our whole family interested in geocaching, so another thing we did in Granny’s honor was to create & plant a geocache on the Oregon Trail near our home. We all walked up & picked the spot, so it will be interesting to see who is the first to find it; and even people who never had the pleasure of knowing Granny will get a small glimpse of her unique personality. If you’ve never heard of geocaching, you can read more about it here: www.geocaching.com
To back track a bit…..we had a lovely Valentines Day. David & I got to have a date night thanks to the grandparents. :) And I also took the kids to a Valentines Day party with the Idaho Moms’ Network. They had a lot of fun!
In March, we celebrated St. Patrick’s Day, and the kids had a blast with the treasure hunt the “leprechaun” left for them. We made green food, listened to Irish music, and they even got to take a green bath! Here are some fun photos:
We also took Ariel to Kindergarten registration in March, and that was exciting! It’s kind of sad too that she is growing up so fast! But she was very proud & did well with her readiness “exam” by identifying shapes, numbers, colors & counting & telling stories. She’ll start in August.
We did some fun things with the Idaho Moms’ Network including a pee wee soccer trial class at the park. The kids loved it! And Ariel was thrilled when she won the Lego tower building contest at the library!
We also enjoyed four Easter celebrations in the month of March! We had one with the Idaho Moms’ Network, another with our own little family, one with David’s side of the family combined with his Auntie Jill’s birthday, and the last one with my parents & sister. The kids were just thrilled! Though I think next year we really need to work on encouraging everyone to leave quarters rather than candy in the eggs for the Easter egg hunts because that was a whole lot of CANDY! :)
Ariel had her preschool bike rodeo in April, and we all had so much fun watching her participate. She really thought she won the whole race, and was so excited that she grabbed Dylan & picked him up in a happy embrace. So cute! It was great having Nana, Grama & Grampa there too!
We celebrated David’s grandma’s (Laurice’s) 80th birthday near the end of the month. Ariel & Dylan sure enjoyed the cake! They really like singing the Happy Birthday song too.
We attended another birthday party the very next day—my friend’s Jessica’s little boy, Adric, who turned two. So now Dylan thinks it’s someone’s birthday everyday (technically, it is…but not always someone we know of course). Ha, Ha! The kids had a blast playing in the backyard and eating cake again!
Ariel also started her Hot Shots gymnastics class in April, which is a class for more advanced 3 & 4 year old girls. She gets to do more floor work (routines, cart wheels, & such) and she also gets to work on the “big girl” bars, balance beams & trampolines. She was a little nervous about the changes at first, but she’s doing great now.
And of course the end of the month brought very sad news of my Granny’s passing. Angie & I flew to Minneapolis & then drove to Iowa to be there with our family for the funeral. It was the most beautiful ceremony I’ve ever seen & so perfect for Granny—she would’ve loved it. My cousins, Tom, Ryan, & Greg made it personal and tailored to Granny individually by creating a perfect eulogy, playing a beautiful harmonica song, and reading one of Granny’s poems. We were all moved to tears of course; but we were able to sit down & reminisce later and laughed so hard sharing stories of Granny and honoring her wish of remembering her with our smiles. She will never be forgotten; her optimism, strength & love will be in our hearts forever.
We had a brief visit with Jackie (my sister), Xander (my nephew) and Bert (my stepmom) while we were in Iowa. We look forward to spending more time with all of the family again soon.
Love to you all,
Tammy, David, Ariel & Dylan
p.s. Here are some bonus photos:
1 comment:
Hey Lady! Good work on your blog. Love it! Great pictures, your kiddos are getting so big!
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