Blog for April!

I read your blogs more often than I write on my own blog, but I haven't even been doing much of that lately. I will give a quick update mostly by way of pics, which are funner to look at than words anyway!



End of March a group of us headed to Orlando for Time Out for Women, always a refreshing way to spend a couple of days. About an hour out of town I had a blow out on the turnpike!

A nice young guy rescued the 7 damsels in distress only about 5 minutes after we pulled off the highway.
We had time to get out the spare and the jack, and there he was! What a guy!

The rest of the conference went off without a hitch, with even a quick trip to the outlets.

Then we headed to North Carolina for Spring Break. We were able to spend time with Dan's sister Ruth and her girls in Wilmington.

We went to the Azalea Festival (the street fair) and the children's museum. The neighbors had puppies and the kids spent as much time there as possible playing with the puppies and all of the neighbor kids. They really had a nice time roaming the quiet neighborhood with the cousins. Carson especially enjoyed all of the dogs and cats around! I think he is my animal lover. He is here petting on of the cousin's cats.

Ruth has an awesome backyard and great neighborhood for kids! Here is Danya with the Wheelers. (Danya is in the middle)

About halfway through the trip we head over to Raleigh, about 2 hours away to visit the Wing family who moved up from Miami about a year and a half ago.

It was nice to see their new house and neighborhood. The Wings also have a nice yard with trees, like Ruth. The North Carolina lifestyle seems to be very easy and outdoors, but that could be because we were on vacation! Evelyn and I hung out and the kids kept each other busy. They introduced us to Rock Band, too bad it was the last night. I could really enjoy that game! I hope we can do it a Weston's in Seattle this summer!

The drive home was easy. We did it in two days. The kids did great and we were able to enjoy Easter afternoon with Dan before it was back to work and school!





So that almost brings us up to date. This past weekend was Danya's b-day.
We did a backyard Carnival, which was lots of fun! I had lots of help from Emily's friends from church and school and a neighbor which made things run smoothly.
The kids enjoyed earning tickets by playing the carnival games, and then turned the tickets in for food and prizes.

I think it went well. The relays didn't really go over too well, the kids were too busy with the games and the balloon pump died so no balloon animals, but it wasn't too nuts despite the 29 kids in the backyard!

The only incident was Emily fell and Dan had to take her to the Emergency room about halfway through the party. This picture was obviously before the accident. (Luckily the party never faltered thanks to the missionaries who had stopped by and especially a couple of parents from church who picked up the slack!) Emily had a big gash over her eye and ended up with 12 stitches, 4 inside to sew up the muscle and 8 outside! Yikes! She was very scared, but was brave. She is our first trip to the emergency room (if you don't count Josselyn-remember her?) and our first to get stitches. We made it 11 years, and hopefully we will go at least 11 more years!