Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Marching Right Along in March with Random-ness


Ashlyn participated in an all-District festival at the Civic Arts Plaza.  One of the numbers they sang was a song from the Queen's Diamond Jubilee - the first time it was performed on this continent.  

Easter Morning searching for the baskets.  Christian found a present for Cole stuck in the door handle.  Looks like Cole wants some of the action.

Checking out the loot, with curlers in the hair, typical Sunday morning.

All dressed in Easter best and ready for church!

Dying Easter eggs fun.

The afternoon egg hunt.

After a successful egg hunt.  We had our neighbors over for dinner, too.

Ashlyn's birthday/Easter cake.

It's fun to have a birthday on Easter . . . you start the day off receiving gifts, and end the day opening presents.


At the San Diego Temple

Having fun along the temple grounds - a little rendition of "I am sixteen, going on seventeen..."


The newly renovated Mormon Battalion Museum in Old Town San Diego.  It's fabulous!

Artifacts of great great (great?) grandfather Philemon C Merrill

Panning for gold.

Spring hike on a beautiful morning.

Christian being interviewed by the newspaper for his Egg Drop Entry.

The principal, Mr. Santos, dropping an Egg Entry

The 3rd track meet of the season - Ashlyn is on her mark and set to GO!

Awaiting the starter for the 200m.

Cleaning up after the track meet is fun if you get to drive the cart around.

Conference Morning (the best!) brunch:  Breakfast pizza, Ebelskivers, Crepes.

During spring break, I took the kids on the subway downtown to Union Station and Olvera Street.
 They were grateful they didn't have to live in North Hollywood (where the subway stop was) or take the train every day.




 Enjoying a delicious filled churro.

Another day, we went ice skating and met Lisa's family there.
 brrr...it was cold.

Then we spent 2 days in San Diego.
 First stop: Sea World!





Swimming on a cool morning is remedied with pool-side hot chocolate.
 Lots of hot chocolate!
We are Honorary Members of the Mormon Battalion

1 comment:

Gloria said...

So glad I finally thought to check your blog. I stopped checking when you weren't able to add to it. So glad you are back at it. I feel like I was there with all of your activities. Love it.