Bug Explorers

This is a buggy time of year and my children don't waste a minute of it! Any time we are outside they are searching the ground to find another little crawler. Just this morning the children picked upwards of six rolly pollies on the way to school. They will let them crawl up and down their arms and on their shirts.
Last week they explored lady bugs and learned quite a bit about them. There are so many bugs: grasshoppers, caterpillars, butterflies, beetles... So much to explore.

New Pictures

We've added pictures from our Texas Springtime adventures (click here).

Search and Find

We had a fun Family Home evening using the Friend as our guide (click here). We read a few stories about our chosen topic to learn about, then our activity came from page 17, to guess the items we would see at church. Then Clark had a great idea to take each child around the house and take picture for the rest of us to guess. We really had fun! Some of the pictures were hard to guess, here are a few:

All on an Elephant

I thought this compilation of pictures was funny. My children have such ideas and all with a bronze elephant.

Amazing!

After years of living in Texas we have never gone out to do the Texas tradition of taking pictures in the bluebonnets. We have actually one seen them once before, because of the drought we have been in for a few years we didn't see many in recent years. We really wanted to capture it this year in case it is the last time we see it.

We found a field near our house and had fun seeing flowers all along the way. Some of those flowers are pictured in the previous post, but the ground was too wet to actually go into the field. Yesterday we finally did it. The children were cute and wanted to hold hands.

David loves finding thistles, which really are a beautiful flower.

I had no idea how big these flowers were. The children would go explore and when they were lying down, they would disappear in the flowers. As you can see, the flowers are almost as tall as Benjamin! Beautiful, just beautiful!

Texas Spring

This year has been beautiful.

I love Spring.

New Pictures

I took my youngest son grocery shopping today, and he was the most popular little boy in the store! It seemed that everyone we passed either smiled, said "hello," or tried to tickle him; he must be in that super-cute phase.


If you want verification of his (and his siblings') cuteness, take a look at our new pictures from our March escapades (click here).