A Picnic

We took advantage of Spring Break and dad's vacation time and had a picnic at the awesome park by our library. It was a beautiful day for it. After we ate the boys played on the toys for a little while then Jongr and I went to the library, while dad, Jonev, and Jontu stayed and played on the toys some more.

Camping and Fishing

We recently had a ward campout at Huntsville State Park, it was lots of fun and the weather was perfect. On Saturday morning Jonpa took Jongr and Jontu to a fishing class and they got to learn about fishing in TX and then for the last part of the class they got to fish. Jonev and I joined them for the second part and I had lots of fun helping the boys too. We didn't catch anything this time, but we plan to try again.

Jongr won this giant yellow tackle box at the raffle at the end of the class. He was super happy!

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo

We had so much fun this year and ended up staying for almost 5 hours. We still didn't get a chance to see all that we wanted to, but the boys enjoyed themselves and I did to. Thanks to our friends the Dattilo's for inviting us to join them and some of their other friends. The first thing that we did was the Farm to Market experience, the kids get to walk through with a basket and collect different things at different stations. In the one below they get a seed to plant, and then they collect a pepper, or onion, or carrot, or whatever they have planted to take to the market. Here is Jonev planting his seed. You can see he is holding one of the eggs that he collected from the chickens, he loved it and didn't want to let it go.

This is the best picture that I got of the group of kids that we were with.
Jongr decided that we needed to take a picture with this momma cow and her baby, we had walked down a long isle of beautifully groomed cows and got almost to the end and here was this cute little calf. Jonev was so interested in the animals that he didn't want to look at the camera for more than a second and I didn't catch him looking.
The boys loved climbing on the tractors, Jonev especially and again he wouldn't hold still, he was so excited by actually sitting on a tractor. It is just like Grandpa B's but green instead of blue.
I love taking the boys to the livestock show and rodeo, besides the cows, we also saw pigs, goats, sheep, hens, rabbits, and baby chicks hatching. It reminds me of going to the State Fair when I was a little girl. While we were eating lunch we sat and listened to the auctioneer interviewing the kids that had animals in the livestock show. It was pretty interesting.

St. Patrick's Day

A new wreath, inspired by the one here from Linda at Craftaholics Anonymous. I wanted to make something with shamrocks, but just couldn't decide for sure how to display them on the front door.

I also made Shamrock pins for us, hopefully they survive until next year too.

Go Texan Day and a Visit to the Stables

Jontu's primary teacher invited us to her stables where she has about 30 chickens. This is one of the roosters that has 2 combs, it was one of the roosters that was born there. The boys had so much fun helping to feed the chickens, gathers the eggs, and feed the horses. I am so thankful for places like this that are close by so that our boys can get a taste of the rural life a little more than our visits to family.

Here are the boys with the eggs that they collected, we got to take some home too. They loved that the eggs were all different colors, especially Jongr. It made for a really great evening.
Go Texan Day is celebrated at Jongr's school and most others in the Houston area to kick off the Houston Rodeo. The kids learn western dances and then on Go Texan Day they dress up in their cowboy clothes and perform for all of the parents. It is a lot of fun. Sorry for the blurry pictures.
Jongr with some of his classmates. Jonev, Jontu and I enjoyed watching and even dancing a little bit. Jonev especially loved watching everyone dance all together. He loves to dance too!