Happy birthday Grace

 It is hard to believe that Grace is already six.

I love her sweet dimples.

She still loves owls so she had an owl birthday cake.

Good job Grace, way to blow out the candles.

Opening her presents with some help from Merry.

She is such a sweet girl.
I heard her making wishes on dandelion fluff the other night.
Her wish, "I wish everything was beautiful."
So do I.

She collected a bouquet of wildflowers for me.

I love my sweet Grace.

Another baby blessing

Eliza and I visited Utah to see Papa and his daylilies.

Brother David and brother John were also visiting so they were put to work.

Papa is supervising in the background.

Eliza by the daylily seedlings

and the pretty tulips

Eliza met her new cousins Sam-I-am and Phelps.

Papa and his 2 youngest daughters.

Brothers Dan, John, Mike and David.

Christian jumped in the picture as well.

Papa with 6 of his kids.

Now the real reason we went to visit is for baby Phelps' blessing.

Papa with 5 kids and 2 grand babies. 

The sweet family.

3 generation of Genho men.

The proud papa.

There were lots of other cousins around but they were to busy playing in the barn (Joseph)

and by the chicken coop (Isabelle and Lorraine) to be bothered with lining up to take pictures.

Monday night

After dance class Merry relaxing with a book.

Notice the starburst wrapper on the living room floor.

Grace showing off her dance moves.

Eliza showing how it feels to be teething.

At least Grace can make her happy.

Adam with yogurt lips.

Harbor getting a bath.

Happy Easter

 The crew in their Easter finery

Grace with her egg haul.

Adam making sure the eggs are fully stocked.

Jacob counting his eggs, he told me that I did not do as good of job hiding them this year.

Maybe he will be too old to egg hunt next year.

Merry and her eggs.

Eliza demonstrating the proper way to egg hunt.  First you find the egg.

Next you place the egg in the basket.

Then you climb in the basket yourself.  Oh wait I don't fit.

Harbor wishing he could join the egg hunting fun.

Happy Good Friday

 We took a road trip to Fort Lauderdale to see temple open house.

It was beautiful and the kids thought it was awesome.

 Merry and Grace both loved the glass room (Celestial Room).

Jacob loved the mirrors in the sealing room. 

Adam liked the oxen.

Eliza was pretty cooperative until we went to leave the Celestial Room and then she had a melt down.

Four hours in a car there and back and we still are all talking to each other.

Why the laundry is never done.

 

Every evening in spring we must pick the blackberries.

Then we must eat the blackberries.

 

Yummy!!

Eliza must be supervised while picking the blackberries because she likes to pick the green and red berries too.

Eliza must be fed some blackberries.

Yummy!!

 

Then we have to check on the monarch caterpillars on our milkweed and discuss if there is enough milkweed for all the caterpillars to eat.

A turtle was found so the whole crew had to check to make sure the turtle had a home.

I would probably stay in my shell if I saw all these kids coming.

More random pictures have to be taken.

 

And more pictures

Still even more.

And the turtle is still in his shell.

Good night turtle.

Happy berry season.