What a Spring Break!

We had so much fun this past week, it really is nice when all of the little Jedi's are home and we can do things on our own schedule.  We started the week off with a bike ride at the park, finding a geocache and  some Texas sugar cookies.  We decorated them for our FHE activity on Monday night. 

 Jonev enjoyed putting the sprinkles on all by himself.  

 Jontu was especially happy because the cookies were his idea.  Everyone got to pick one to eat that night and one to save, all of the kids chose to save their biggest cookie for the next day.  That surprised us.  

We went to the library and listened to Mr. Victor read books about bugs, and brought home lots of books to keep us happy for a few weeks.  We rode our bikes around our neighborhood and down to the school.  The boys love riding around the carpool circle at the school and chose that over going somewhere else.  The boys were able to keep themselves happy and busy with some new pearler beads while Jonli was napping.  They made 10 in all and lined them up by type.  We used almost every bead from the new package.  It had been awhile since we played with them.   

 Thursday we went camping at Huntsville State Park with our cousins.  We found this cool bug on our hike the first day. (It's the green thing on the boardwalk below Jontu.  

 The next day we went on a much longer than expected hike looking for geocaches, we were gone a little more than 2 hours. 

 The kids did really well, they were pretty tired by the time that we got back to camp.  

 Jonli loved riding in the back pack and was able to take a nap in it too.  She didn't want to get down, it was pretty cute.  

 Jongr by one of the controlled burn areas, it was neat for him to see the new trees growing up where they had burned.  Right now in science he is studying habitats and so this enhanced his understanding of it.  

 Jonli decided that this log looked good enough to get out of the back pack for.  She and Jone enjoyed sitting on it while we waited for a few of the kids to walk across the creek and find another geocache.  

 Boys and fire, need I say more?  They were so tired after the hike that after we ate lunch we drove over to the big Sam Houston Statue and found another geocache and then bought the kids a Sonic drink.  It did the trick to perk everyone up again and then they were ready for more fun by the time we got back to camp.  

 Yes, we still had cell coverage at this beautiful park. 

 Roasting extra large marshmallows for our yummy smores. 

 We finally got around to some fishing on Saturday after breakfast, here's Jongr putting his own worm on.  

 It was pretty sunny and therefore a little warm sitting out on the dock without any shade.  Jonev loved sitting and holding the fishing pole, when he got a chance.  None of our party caught any fish this time, but we were able to watch someone bring in about a 10inch bass and a large crappie.  

We all enjoyed a ride in the canoe too, thanks Brandon for all of the fishing and boating fun.  They even saw an alligator out in the canoe, good thing it was on the other side of the lake from us.  

Playdough, make-up, and the Art Musuem

Some of the things that we have been up to: 

 We made some homemade play dough to keep our busy little fingers busy.  

 Jonli's getting so big and she played with the play dough as long as Jonev did, it was nice to be able to get some work done in the kitchen and not have to worry what she might be getting into.  

 Lately she has been getting into my make up.  It makes for a big mess in my bag and on her.  If you look closely you can see that she has makeup on her left eye and cheek near her nose.  

 here's a close up, if you enlarge it you can see it better, thankfully most of the stuff that she has gotten into is light in color.  She definitely knows that she is a girl!  

Thanks to some of our good friends we were able to take the kids to the Fine Art Musuem this week for free.  It was an adventure, the kids loved it, but it was a little more stressful for us.  The guards kept asking us to make sure that we kept them from touching anything even the glass. 

 Here are the kids outside of the Indonesian Gold jewelry room, it was beautiful and made us think of our dear friend Debie from Indonesia, she has royalty in her family lines and probably has loads of stuff like this at home in Indonesia. 

 On the way home from the art museum we stopped to get a geocache.  It was a fun day! 

 Here is another picture of Jonli after she has been into my makeup again.  I don't think that I am going to have any left after she is done with it.  

This week is Spring Break and we have a camping trip planned for Thursday-Saturday, we are looking forward to enjoying some more time together.  

Blue and Gold, Go Texan Day, and Other Adventures

Go Texan Day marks the beginning of the Rodeo in Houston and the school that the boys attend celebrates by having the kids perform dances they learn in PE and they all get to dress up like cowboys. It is always the last Friday in February.  

Here are the kids before school that day. 

 Jongr performing one of his dances, he really didn't want me to take his picture.  That's his "really mom" face you see there. 

 Jontu was a little bit more excited that I wanted to photograph him, he did a really great job learning all the steps for his first year.  

 One of the dances they teach the kids has a part where it asks "how low can you go?" and of course all of the kids end up laying on the floor.  It's pretty cute. 

 Jonli, Jonev, and Jontu at the end of his performance.  It is really crowded in the gym. 

 Here's Jongr at the Blue and Gold waiting for dinner to start. 

 Here's a picture of the cake that Jongr and Jonpa made.  It turned out really cute. 

 They won an award for most cub scout oriented. 

My brother Ben came to visit us before his work conference, we had a great time doing some geocaching with him and have made a goal to find at least one cache a week this year.  It shouldn't be hard since there are caches in almost every parking lot around Houston.  LOL! Thanks Ben for such a fun time and for all of the good food.  Unfortunately this is the only picture that I took of him.  We miss all of our family and wish that we could spend more time with them all.