Fencers

The Entire month of April was dedicated to putting up a vinyl fence on the corner side of our house.  Wow, it sure was alot more work than we anticipated, but we are sure glad that we did it!   We went the "cheaper" route and did it ourselves, with plenty of help from our awesome neighbors.  We had to plan it out (took us a whole day), dig holes, discover that our sprinklers were in the way, decide to do a concrete mow strip, dig a trench, pour mow strip concrete, set posts (alot of leveling involved), cut panels/rails, install panels/rails,  install 2 gates, and finally put the post caps on!  Our kids were getting pretty sick of hearing that we were busy doing the fence.  Avery even talked in his sleep about building a fence...

 .

 Here is a photo of Avery & his cousins in the post holes.  Its just like one of Amanda's brothers in post holes when they were little.  The grass that is cut out in front of them was going to be our garden (we had someone come cut and haul it away for free).  However, we changed our mind and moved the garden along the road side of the fence (instead of the south side).  We are a little fickle like that :-)

The Nature Park

We decided to go to a nearby nature park one Sunday afternoon.  The kids really loved the ducks, the pathways, and especially the little canal running through the park.  Lily and Avery could have sat by the canal  all evening.   We love that it has been such nice weather that we can go and enjoy the outdoors as a family!

What its Really About

This year we tried really hard to explain the real meaning of Easter to Avery.  We tried not to talk about bunnies and baskets too much.  We tried to focus on the Atonement and Resurrection of Jesus Christ.  We had a really good Easter lesson where we talked about Jesus and then we watch an animated video about the resurrection.  Avery really got into it.  He was so concerned for Jesus on the Christ, but understood that He did it for us to be happy.  We want him and everyone to know that we do have a testimony of our Savior, Jesus Christ!  He lives! And we are so grateful for all He has done for us!
So for a reminder of what its really about, here is a couple of videos from "Mormon Messages"put out by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints about our Savior and the true reason of Easter.

Easter Adventures

Better late than never! Here are the restour Easter Adventures!

Coloring Easter Eggs with some friends.  Avery really got into it this here.  He had to put the egg in the dye all by himself using the little wire holder.

We went to our niece's baptism the Saturday before Easter.  After the baptism, we had a fun Easter Egg hunt.  Lily sure got into the spirit.  She would not let anyone come near, let alone touch her egg basket.  Both kids came out of it with alot of loot!

Easter Sunday was great! We were at Amanda's parent's house for the day.  We did all the fun stuff after church.  We had more egg coloring, another egg hunt and just some fun together!  Lily was asleep while everyone else was looking for their baskets, but we still hid it after she woke up.

all tuckered out

the Easter spoils