Grandparent's Day

Last Friday was Grandparent's Day at school. We were so excited that both sets of grandparents could come again this year. Grammy and Grandpa Peterson won the plaque the second year in a row for coming the furthest! And I think Grandma and Papa Ice were in second place! So we are very blessed to have had them all come.





We all met for lunch at our usual celebration restaurant, Logans! It was a fun day.

Sushi Sweetie

I have been getting into sushi lately after some friends of ours had us over for a sushi party a month or so ago. I think it is so yummy! And Paul likes it too. So I had this same friend over yesterday to show me how to roll my own sushi. We had lots of fun and the sushi tasted delicious!

Olivia rolled her own little sushi roll

She was very pleased with the results!
Olivia and Micah (the friend's son) who loves sushi
Trying out the chopsticks - Olivia preferred the strawberries over the sushi. :)
The finished product - we rolled in rice, egg, carrot, cucumber, and cream cheese. Also included tuna in some and a mystery fish in some, which I won't disclose for the sake of the weak-stomached among us.
It was yummy!

Spring Break

We enjoyed a nice little getaway earlier this week. The kiddos are on spring break from school, so we took advantage of the time off and headed to the Great Wolf Lodge in Wisconsin Dells. Paul made my day on Sunday when he said we could leave early (we were going to leave on Monday) and stay a night in Madison to visit Adam and Kelly Love! We had so much fun at their beautiful house. We even stayed up until about 4 am playing Settlers - these are people after our own hearts! :) The kids had so much fun that I even heard one of them say "Can we just stay here and not go to the waterpark?" Now that is high praise!

All the kiddos (except Chloe) had a slumber party

The marble run was a hit

We made it to the Great Wolf on Monday and enjoyed three days of swimming and water slides. My body was so sore from going down countless water slides with Noah. He is just tall enough to go down the big slides, and he had a blast! Noah and I went down one water slide about ten times in a row, and there were 79 steps to get to the top (Noah counted :) ), so I was one sore mama.

Accessories make the outfit

Olivia loved the wave pool

It was hard to get a clear picture of Noah because he was in constant motion!

Chloe especially loved the chairs. :)

Sharing a bedtime snack

Daddy and the kiddos

Easter At Our House

Happy Easter! These were some of the scenes at our house this past weekend...

After the egg hunt, surveying the loot
You can tell by Chloe's shirt that she had already been enjoying some Easter candy!
Love Olivia's face in this picture
A little more excited here...

The masterpieces - notice the egg shells in the bottom of the pic - we ate the ones we broke!

Olivia's favorite - pink, of course!

Praise God!

We praise the Lord that Noah accepted Christ as his Savior today! At lunch we were all talking about what we had learned in Sunday school, and we were discussing what Easter means. The conversation led around to salvation and I said to Noah, "Maybe someday you'll want to be saved." I have said this to him in the past, and he usually says "Maybe someday Mom." We have never tried to push salvation with him. But today he said "I want to do it today!" So we said "How do you get saved?" And he replied "You pray to God." We said "What do you say?" And he proceeded to tell us exactly what you should say and what you need to believe. Paul and I looked at each other and said "He's ready!" So Daddy got to lead Noah in taking this important step - how special!

Noah was so excited about getting saved. We wrote the date in his Bible (which is what he's holding in the picture below), and he called both sets of grandparents to tell them the good news right away.

Olivia was so excited for Noah too. :) She leaned over to Paul during church tonight and whispered "I'm SO GLAD Noah got saved today!"

We feel so blessed that God answered our prayer today by saving Noah. Our prayer for the future is that our girls will also be saved and that our children will glorify God with their lives.

The Mismatched Family

Who knew that unmatched socks could be so cute?

Wish I had thought of this idea!

Grammy's Visit

We always enjoy Grammy's (my mom's) visits so much. This time she came for a week and we all got thoroughly spoiled. These are some highlights from her visit.

Livi helped Grammy cook

Chloe improving her eyesight
Livi's new dress, umbrella and flowers -

she was in dress-up heaven.

Noah's new marble run -

great fun for a kid who likes constructing things

We played soooo much Settlers - and had soooo much fun!
This is the "one-more-picture-before-you-go" picture

Notice Chloe has her shoe in her hand, all set and ready to go with Grammy!