Spring Fun

This is a complete hodgepodge of random photos from this past Spring! Enjoy!

I know this doesn't look like spring, but it was. 

We started playing soccer and baseball as soon as you could walk in the snow without sinking.

A trip to the Zoo!

Some outdoor fun!

The Science Museum. We went with some friends this day. And then decided to get a membership. We have loved going there!

This is in the butterfly garden!

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Great Brook Farm. One of Alan's classmate's had a birthday party there. It was a lot of fun!

Grandpa Robertson sings in this great community choir. Each spring they put on a great performance that we love to go to!

And spring isn't complete without a "Popcorn Popping" FHE

Disassembling a crate. I think he and his dad had fun here.

House Updates

So, we had a great winter this year. And not only was all of the snow a lot of fun, but it turns out that all of that indoor time makes for a good time to buy furniture and other home improvement types of things. Here are a few of the things we did this year to help make our house a little more homey.

We've been needing a rug for the front room. Nothing like cold wood floors in the dead of winter to inspire a rug buy. :) The kids obviously thought this was much more comfy and started making snow angels the second I took it out of the box. (Snow outside is too deep for snow angels)

And then they entertained with the box itself.

We decided to try to make our basement a more comfortable place to be and scored these couches on a good sale at Jordan's.

And found this on clearance when we were buying the couches.

And this is our new pellet stove. We love it. It really makes the basement a warm and comfortable place to be in the winter and just makes the whole house feel warmer.

You put the pellets into the top here and it feeds it down into the fire. Super easy to operate, and hopefully a good investment for many more cold winters. :)

Ikea. Who doesn't love Ikea? Another fun winter visit. I just loved this picture.

This was the purchase we made there.

Next steps are painting the basement and replacing carpet...It's looking like a project for next winter. Though we did get our kitchen painted and most of the upstairs bathroom. And then we stalled. Outside work took over...

And here are the fruit trees we planted for Mother's Day. Two peach and two apple. Unfortunately the animals have loved eating these things... fruit, leaves, bark. We'll see how they survive. We'll have to find some way to keep critters away!

A Trip to NJ and Easter

So I'm so slow in updating this that we've been down to NJ twice since this trip. Oh well. Here are a few photos!

We went down this weekend to see my little brother Nate in his high school musical. (You can see he's not so little anymore!)
They performed "Big Fish." It was phenomenal. We absolutely loved it. Scott even liked it! (And he doesn't like anything. :) I was bawling. The music was great. I highly recommend it, if you ever get a chance to see this musical. And Seneca really did an amazing job. We're so glad we came down, even if Nate didn't know we were coming. :)

We went down the week before Easter and Grandma and Grandpa Foulk did a little egg hunt for the kiddos, which they loved. :)

And here are a few pics from our Easter preparations at home!

Dying Easter eggs with Grandma and Grandpa!

I think most of these cups somehow ended up spilling this year, but we still had a lot of fun!

Easter Morning!

Easter was on Conference Sunday this year. So since church didn't start til noon we took a walk to Alan's school where he showed us the pussy willy out front. A fun sign of spring after a long winter!

And of course, the traditional bunny cake. Super delicious as was the dinner that we ate before hand. All thanks to Grandma Robertson!