The sun was actually out all day on Sunday and it was beautiful. We went to Lake Meridian after church and walked around for a bit. The older 2 girls had fun rolling down the hills.
That evening, we enjoyed our new backyard and even had a fire in the fire pit for the first time (and roasted marshmallows, of course.)
Enjoying our BBQ chicken dinner
Last night was Celebration of Learning at Sage’s school (or what I would call Open House). It’s so fun to be on the parent side of an event like this, instead of being the teacher getting everything ready. I just got to show up and enjoy it and give Sage lots of hugs and tell her how proud I was of her. (And as a teacher, I have to say the room looked amazing!!! There were so many great pieces of student work everywhere. Mrs. Dean put in lots of time to get everything ready and it looked great!!)
There was a brief time (25 minutes) to see her classroom and many of the projects she has completed over the school year. Then the kindergarten did a musical performance for the families. Her classroom was full of so many things they had worked on and she was so proud to show us around (in the midst of the 100 other people in the room at the same time). It was crazy, but so much fun to see her in her room. It was also fun to see some of her friends and a few of our neighbors too.
Here are a few pictures of our evening:
After many days of seeing Sage get on the bus, we got to get on with her and ride to school. There is not much parking at the school, so they had a shuttle set up from the QFC parking lot down the street. Molly and Ashley were very excited!
Tadpoles – very exciting!
A letter to the Earth on Earth Day
(Dear Earth, I will recycle for you. I will save water. I will clean for (you). From, Sage)
Showing us her seat (which is now near her friend Shanthi and she is very excited!!)
Both AM and PM kindergarteners and their parents and siblings in the classroom during the short 25 minutes it was open. . . The room was so crowded you could hardly move! (But we still loved it!)
Small moment story written every month – this was my favorite part of the room because we could see how much she has grown as a writer throughout the year. The previous months’ stories were paper clipped behind the current month’s story.
Each month they do a self portrait. Sage was very excited about this month’s tear art portrait. Notice the pink bow?
Showing us the plant she is growing in class
Reading her writing journal to Tom
Molly checking out the listening center
A view across the room
Sage with Aunt Patti (Sorry Uncle Chuck, I didn’t mean to cut you out of the picture.)
Kindergarten performance out on the lawn
Sage is toward the top middle wearing a black coat and a purple lei
Sage and her friend Addisyn from down the street
Showing us how she logs onto the computer in the lab each week
Ashley enjoying the bus seat to herself on the way home
Sorry in advance for the long post . . .
The day before Easter, Sage had another T-Ball game and there was an Easter Egg “Hunt” at the same park, so we thought we’d let the girls do that and then head over to the game. It was not exactly a hunt, but rather a ton of eggs on the ground, roped off for different age levels. Tom took Sage to her section and I stayed with the little ones. When the siren went off, they gathered their eggs. The two younger girls seemed very excited about it and didn’t seem to mind how crowded it was or that the eggs were just laying on the ground. Sage asked why they didn’t hide them. Maybe we’ll skip the chaos next year . . .
And notice the dirt? In this HUGE park with green grass everywhere, the eggs were in dirt. Not sure who planned that one . . .
After Sage’s game, Tom headed off to work and the girls and I headed over to Chuck and Patti’s house to dye Easter Eggs with cousins. Ashley was a little young and I should have probably put her down for a nap instead of letting her “help”.” She really liked it and the counter around her came clean in the end.
Now on to Easter morning . . .
When the girls got up, we made resurrection rolls for breakfast. They are basically a biscuit with a marshmallow inside the melts and leaved a hole, representing the empty tomb. It kind of worked (probably because we used 4 mini marshmallows instead of one regular one – I’ll use large ones next time). But they were excited to eat them, open our last resurrection egg (plastic Easter eggs with a symbol and verse having to do with the Easter story) and listen to the resurrection story during breakfast.
I love the conversations we get to have with the girls during our morning devotion time at the breakfast table. They don’t always go as smoothly as I’d like them too, but we are trying! Sage asks so many good (and often hard to answer) questions. Of course she usually asks them when Tom is not there, but then that gives us more to talk about with him the next morning so he can help me answer them! Molly is slowly starting to understand things, at least I thought so. After church on Sunday when I asked her why Jesus died on the cross, she said, “Because He made a bad choice.” Oops. I guess we’ll have to keep talking about that one. Ashley just smiles and loves to look at the pictures in our Bible Story book and sings and bounces in her booster seat when we sing. We had a wonderful time of singing the other morning with Tom playing the piano. It was great to be able to sing worship songs together as a family.
We had some Easter music on while we were getting ready for church (which made me miss singing with our So. CA friends!) Then the girls and I headed off to church to meet Tom who was there early because he was playing the piano for some special music.
After church we had lunch, gave the girls their Easter baskets, had an egg hunt, rested and enjoyed a yummy meal while watching the movie Tangled. We had some video of the rest of our day, but the video camera decided to delete the files when I plugged it in to charge. Nice. It was a fun, relaxing day, or at least as relaxing as things can be with 3 kids. 
Sage is play T-Ball through the Maple Valley Parks and Recreation department. We were able to sign her up with a few friends from her class and she is enjoying it so far. Here are a few pictures from her first game last Saturday at Lake Wilderness Park.
Not the best picture, but can you see Lake Wilderness in the top right of the picture? What a beautiful place to get to play T-Ball!!
April 6th, I had the privilege of going to the Spring menu tasting at Tom’s restaurant. I went with my dear friend Lauren (who has been with me to all of them so far) and a few ladies (and a husband) from my MOPS table. It was so nice to get out for an evening and enjoy some great food. I only wish Tom could have sat down and enjoyed it with us!
Susan, Marcy, Michelle, Lauren and I (Mike is taking the picture)
So I’m a few weeks behind in blogging, but better late than never, right?
Over Spring Break, the girls and I went with some friends to the Cougar Mountain Zoo. It’s close to home, but none of us had been there before, so we thought we’d check it out. We went on the only dry day of the break, luckily, and enjoyed a few hours there and then some time having ice cream and playing at McDonalds on the way home.
Iris and the girls
Sage feeding a llama.
For some reason Molly wanted her picture by the footprints on the ground.
They had lots of statues of animals at the zoo (almost as many as live animals – the zoo is really small).
