Conference

 Here we are watching conference. The kids played bingo with cheerios and chocolate chips (as well as eating them). Hathaway was a bridal princess dancing in the background. Mom tried to listen to talks.

Anatomy of a Spring Break

Day 1: Hike in the Sourlands with dad

Day 2: (after Easter weekend) Spring cleaning. The kids cleaned out 4 garbage bags from the basement for donation or garbage and deep cleaned their rooms.

Day 3: Play with cousins while mom works.

Day 4: Drive to Ocean City, MD. See cool hotel with atrium full to rides, games and a swimming pool. Play on the beach. Swim in pool.

Day 5: Drive to Assateague Visitors Center. Drive around Assateague Island: see wild horses, go on nature walks, have a car picnic lunch. Visit large candy store.

Day 6: Drive home. Clean out the car. Play boxcar children while mom cleans out the car. Watch Matilda for movie night.

Day 7: First soccer game and conference.



 This is one of the rides in the atrium at our hotel.

 The visitor's center at Assateague.

 On the island--this is part of an old highway that was destroyed in a storm.

 One of the famous wild horses (we saw 16 total).

This is at the candy store. Oakley picked it up and said...."how many licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop". For some reason Bryce thought about that commercial a month or so ago and we showed it to the kids on youtube. They thought it was hilarious.

March 2013

 In March Oakley earned his Weblos in Scouts. He worked hard all year, especially during the summer.

 Bryce had a happy birthday. He took Oakley and Tessa  to the natural history museum in NY as his gift to himself. I don't know who liked it more--him or the kids (probably him). They said they had to force him past some of the bird exhibits so they could keep moving.

 We had a cold March--even a snow storm. Hathaway took advantage to play in the snow.

 Just a few weeks later we were out looking for Easter eggs.

 Bryce hid them all over the yard with nothing in them and they were just as happy to look for them as when they are filled with candy (they did get some candy in their baskets, in case you were worried about them).

 Easter clothes are hard because Tessa does not like dresses or wearing anything too girly (ie pink). Hathaway loves fancy dresses. So, we came up with these skirts as a compromise--the Easter bunny is pretty smart.