We brought donut holes to celebrate with her class that week.
We partied all weekend to celebrate her birthday! Emma wanted a "5" pancake the Saturday morning before her birthday, since it was her last day to be 5 years old. This took me several tries and a lot of prayers while I was flipping it.
We also took Emma and Hallie to an indoor bounce house on Saturday, as part of Emma's birthday celebration.
They had an awesome time! Emma raced through the whole place while Hallie tried desperately to keep up.
We gave her an early gift - a Playmobil Horse Stable - that afternoon, since it took a while to assemble and we wanted her to have time to play with it.
The next day (Sunday) was Emma's actual birthday, and we celebrated her and her cousin, Miriam, at Chuck E. Cheese's with the Jester family that evening. Miriam turned 4 later in April, and both birthday girls had a great time!
These girls got lots of special treatment at their birthday party!
The Jester party
Emma's new best friend
Hallie and I have enjoyed going on a couple of field trips with Emma's class recently.
They had a field trip to a lake for Science Technology Engineering & Math (STEM) Day, where their teacher's husband demonstrated some of his work as a wildlife biologist.
The kids got to learn about and touch fish and turtles from the pond
That was all fine and good, but the highlight for Hallie was sitting on the bus for a few minutes while it was parked. When she saw that Emma was getting to ride the bus and she wasn't, she bawled all the way to the field trip site!
We joined Emma's class for another trip to Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk.
They spent an hour observing paintings and sculptures, and asking really good questions for the tour guide (saint) to answer.
Emma got to participate in Pioneer Day at school to conclude the Kindergarten class' reading of "Little House in the Big Woods."
The cutest pioneer girl I've ever seen!!
Emma's class and teacher, Mrs. Boyce
The kids rotated through hands-on activities where they learned to quilt, make bread, churn butter, mix natural medicines, emboss leather, punch tin, and learn about hunting and trapping. All the parents volunteered to lead the activities, and I was responsible for fence painting (with water) and clothes washing. There was very little that I had to do besides show the children the buckets of water and let them go at it!
Emma's friend, Elisha, celebrated his 6th birthday, so we treated him and his mom to ice cream after school.
Emma was also invited to her friend, Lalie's, birthday party.
We spent Easter celebrating our risen Savior at church and having a big family dinner and Easter Egg Hunt in Hopewell, where Dan's sister, Robin, and her family live.
Family Easter photo
Our beautiful girls!
One of our favorite couples in the world
We have absolutely loved attending church with my parents. It's such a blessing to see them on a weekly basis.
Every year, Dan's mom organizes the Easter Egg Hunt for the kids and gives a gospel presentation about the meaning of Easter.
My mom helping Hallie find her eggs
Emma needed no help. She was done in 30 seconds flat.
My mom's cousins, Mark and Paula, visited them for several days and we got to have dinner with them a couple of times while they were in town.
We celebrated several family birthdays in April, including Dan's mom and dad, and my dad. We had parties at Dan's parents' house for their birthdays, and took my dad out for dinner at Texas Roadhouse.
Dan's brother and sister-in-law, Tim and Dawn (left side of the photo), bought an Escape Room experience for Robin, Rob, Dan, and I. The six of us left all our kids in the care of a babysitter and were "locked" in a room together for an hour. (By law, they technically couldn't lock us in, but we stayed anyway.) The room had a pirate theme, and our goal was to solve several logic puzzles, discover how to connect the answers we came up with, and unlock the treasure chest before we could "escape".
We got the treasure! With only three minutes to spare, but still! It was a very fun time together, and we made a pretty good team.
In other news, Dan's transmission in his 2002 Isuzu Rodeo died and we decided it wasn't worth paying to have it repaired or replaced.
Dan and my dad spent an afternoon trying some at-home techniques to revive the transmission, but to no avail.
After a lot of shopping around and researching online, he's now the proud owner of a 2007 Lexus RX 350! Hopefully it'll last as long and drive as well as the Rodeo did!
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