Scout garage sale / bake goods sale

 Our scout troup and young men's program had a garage sale the middle of May.  They made $1300.  To help the scouts I decided to make cream puffs and eclairs to be sold for $5 a box.  I think I did 13 dozen batches of the things.  Fortunately they all sold but it was because the scouts and the scout leader specifically got creative in their marketing.    I have 2 boys that really benefit directly right now from scouting and I am really appreciative of the program.  Probably would have been wiser to just make a donation - but the project was fun.  I certainly had never made that much frosting before!

Easter breakfast

This was our Easter breakfast.  I called it Bunny Bottoms as my kids like any reference to bottom or butt.  They or course like the M&Ms and gobbled them up first.  I thought that they were cute and deserved to be documented.

Chinchilla

Over Spring break we had Andy the chinchilla stay with our family.  He was an escape artist and did more wandering around the house than I would have liked, but the kids had a ball with his being "ours" even if it was only temporary.

 Andy the chinchilla lives in Mrs. Christopher's classroom.  He is well loved by Connor and the whole class.  Since we had him for Easter we decided to give him an Easter basket and sun glasses for the occasion.

Spring break / Easter / and Misc. pictures

 Andy has been making the Toothfairy work lately.  Here he is pictured proud of loosing his 12th tooth. 

 During spring break it was a common sight to see the boys all up on Connor's bunk bed building something or playing on their Kindles.  I was sick and so I was especially glad that they were willing to entertain themselves.

 These are our Elders.  Elder May and Elder Hussie.  They have been terrific with the children and I'm so grateful to have their help in teaching the gospel to the kiddos.  We have a tentative baptism date of June 1st for Connor and Andrew's baptism.

 On sunny and warm days the activity of choice is to climb trees in the back yard.  Andy is especially proficient.  Non of them shy away from the camera.

 Connor peaking through

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 The day before Easter we took the kids to play miniature golf.  The town of Manlius provided some Easter baskets and a picture with the Easter Bunny.  On the way out of the building after taking a picture with the Easter bunny Benjamin whispered in my ear..."That wasn't the real Easter Bunny, I saw his skin."

We saw these tracks in our front yard.  The kids thought they would compare sizes.  That was one big raccoon!

We had Jessica and Dave (Andy and Connor's former foster parents)  over for a campfire.  The kids came in after jumping on the trampoline and were glued to the TV.  I thought it was cute to see all 7 of them on our couch.

Raingutter Regatta

The boys participated in our Cub Scout's Raingutter Regatta a few weeks ago.  They loved making their boats and then racing them.  I love the boys that they get to participate with -they are a terrific examples and a great group of boys.  I feel luck to live here and know so many of the good people that live near us!

Snow snow go away

I've decided that I'm ready to be done with snow.  I love it but I've had my fill.  Last week we had a really heavy snow fall and this was the result to our trees.

Thankfully, they have righted themselves again and we didn't loose any branches with the weight of the snow.  The kids and I had a fun snow-day and Daddy even got to come home from work early.

Our Andy lost a tooth this week.  It was his 11th tooth and he was so excited about it.  He wrote the most hysterical note to the tooth fairy - and the tooth fairy wrote back.  He is out math boy.  He can't get enough math.  To the tooth fairy he wrote "Dear Tooth-fairy,  Can I please have a gold coin instead of a dollar.  Then as a salutation..."Want to try some math?" and included10 math problems --with their answers on the back.

We were all stunned when the tooth-fairy wrote back in teeny-tiny print. "Andrew, I love math!  It makes the world go around.  Great work on the multiplication.  I gave my last gold coin to a boy in Kentucky who lost two teeth today.  I will pack extras next time.  Keep brushing your teeth.  Gotta go now, a girl in Angola just fell asleep.  Love the Tooth Fairy.  P.S.  Can you do 100X100?  And, the smart tooth fairy had completed all the math problems.

This morning Andy was up before 6am and wrote back to the Tooth-fairy.  He cut her response out of the original note and has added this subscript: The answer to 100X100=10,000 "If I lost all of my teeth will I still get to see you?  Because, I want to still write to you and do math.  Please try 200X200.

We'll have to see if the tooth fairy comes back.

What a crack up!