Happy birthday to Grace

Grace's baptism

Grace was baptized by Brian, it was such a sweet day.

 Some pictures of Grace at the great 8.

 Sweet girl.

 A partial smile

because she was sick of pictures.

 Grandma Stott, Keely and Kristen were able to for the day.

Grandma and Grace.

Family comes to visit

 Brian's brother Kyle and his wife Stacy came to visit so we went over to the ranch to visit David and Leslie.  This is a picture of the 3 siblings. 

Papa came too because he was about to make the trek back to Utah for the summer.

We had a fabulous lunch at the rodeo grounds courtesy of David and Papa.

Eliza and the birds

 Eliza in all her pink finery.

 We had a set of Carolina wrens convert a doll house on the porch into their abode.

They decided that the attic would make the perfect nursery.

Eliza has been fascinated by them and climbs up to look at them every day.

They made a nest out of the coconut fiber hanging basket liners and some wrappers they found on the porch.  Thanks for cleaning up birds.  Here are the cute? babies.  There is actually five in there.  Sort of a tight squeeze.

Easter Day

The kids all dress up for church on Easter Sunday

Adam has grown so tall this year, he keeps outgrowing his church pants.

Grace's eyes are so red from the oak pollen.  Spring in Florida is not nice to her.

Eliza got to the chocolate before I took her picture.

Jacob ready or some candy.

Pretty Merry in her flower crown that she will probably never wear again because she said it was way to itchy.

Eliza was the only egg hunter that was slow enough for me to capture on film.

The whole crew after the egg hunt.

I found Eliza at one in the morning gorging herself on Easter candy.  She started screaming for Jacob to get her a glass of water.  Next year I need to put her basket up higher.

Egg dying

On Saturday we prepped for Easter by dying eggs.

Adam was very watchful over his eggs while they were in the dye.

Unfortunately he was not so careful with them once they were dyed so several had to be eaten.

Adam and his super hero egg.

 Eliza was a very good dyer, especially of her hands.

They were pink for a couple of days.

 Eliza and her bunny and her lady egg.

 Grace the master egg dyer.

 

 Merry supporting Percy Jackson while dying eggs.

 Merry's eggs.

 Jacob finally got off the computer and colored a few eggs.

 The Easter party part I.

The Easter party part II.

Spring Break

 For spring break we took a trip to St. Augustine.

The first stop was Fort Matanzas.  The kids liked this fort because you got to take a ferry to the island the fort was on.

 They liked the giant oak tree that were in front on the fort museum.  

You can see how smooth the branches are from people climbing on them.

 We also visited the Castillo de San Marcos by this time Grace's oak pollen allergy was in full bloom and she had to hold her eyes opened.

 The cannons were the best part of this fort according to the kids.  I liked the maps.

 More of the awesome cannons.

 Of course there was this guy who was pretty awesome too.

We also went to Fort Caroline in Jacksonville.  The French fort was not nearly as awesome as the Spanish fort so we have no pictures and figured out why the Spanish beat the French.

 On the way home we stopped and visited Papa in Gainesville and visited the butterfly museum.

The butterflies particularly like Grace's pink shirt.

Happy Spring.