April Fools, Surf Club, Fabulous Families

6 hours in the ER. Our neighbor wasn’t feeling well (she’s doing much better now) so Rachel and I got the full new hospital tour. We’ll be back here again sometime for our family (most likely our boys?). I’m sure of it:

Last day of basketball…. Sarah and Josh got to shoot some hoops with their Granddad:

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So this mom tries to come up with an April Fools trick every year. Past tricks were chocolate pudding in a cup with a straw and calling it “thick chocolate milk.”

Here was our dirt cake from last year.  Another was miniature fried eggs and bacon (2010):

This year I tried the ole’ freeze-water-in-a-bowl-and-cover-it-with-cereal-and-milk-for-breakfast trick:

Talk about icy milk:

Bonus this year:  The King of Cheerios (aka my dad) was in town so I got to (try to) fool him too:

I’m already collecting ideas for 4/1/2014 so if you have a good one, send it my way.

Sarah tricked us all by stuffing crumpled newspaper into the toes of our shoes… awesome.

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Surf Club

We got together with a few families from our homeschool co-op to catch some waves.  Mrs. Fretwell with her board looking sweet!!!

Surf club moms. Only the two moms in black knew what they were doing:

My first long board attempt was just plain ugly. It was hard to simply stand up on the board in still water, I have not idea how I would do it in a wave, in motion.
But I loved the colors of Alison’s board… so cute it makes me WANT to be surfer, but it’s harder than I thought!

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Day hike with our friends Payton and Tabitha:

We love the Goff family:

Dinner guests: the wonderful Campbell Family!

We had quite the recital that night… piano, guitar, flute,violin, viola and cello!  So great!

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Rachel is loving trains right now… her siblings help with track layout, and she takes care of the rest.

March 8-mile run… so thankful for these gals!

And you know you want to see the devoted Mr. Garland do the sprinkler dance on stage at church, right?