Josh is reading his book while looking out the window. He’s finishing up some reading that we got behind on a few weeks ago. It seems appropriate to read about the Westward Expansion and the hardships those settlers faced when they didn’t make it across the mountains before winter it …

Grandma wrote a riddle of some sort that each of the kids had to decipher. It boiled down to them each having a certain type of egg they were to hunt. Nathan had a LOT of fun with this! He was racing all over their yard. Everyone got in on …

Connie and Jerry are long time family friends. Mom and Dad C also invited them over for Easter Dinner!

Both parents were there for Easter dinner. Here are Mom and Dad B, Tim’s folks.

Mom and Dad C had us over for Easter Dinner. They hid all of the Easter eggs and the kids had a LOT of fun looking for them.

Eggs, eggs, eggs. We boiled two dozen eggs for coloring. Here are a few before we get started.

Josh with his eggs… patiently coloring each end with a different dye. Emily liked double dipping hers. She’s quite creative. Nathan wanted MORE EGGS! Next year we’ll have to double the number we color.The kids had a LOT of fun coloring Easter eggs this year. Amanda wasn’t home to participate …

Here are the eggs after the kids were all done coloring them. Lots of variety! We made some of them into egg salad sandwiches and left part of them out on the counter for decoration for a few days before having to toss them.

Tim worked a lot this winter, but the few days he wasn’t able to work he offered to help Nathan or Josh with their school work. Here he’s helping Nathan with his preschool… hmmm… no wonder the boys would rather have dad help them instead of me (LOL).

The week our co-op was studying the Industrial Revolution his class decided to focus their attention on the invention of the paperbag.