Easter and Spring Break

So April started off with another wonderful General Conference. I really love having the whole weekend to spend with family and dedicate to listening to the words of the Prophet and his Apostles. Our tradition is that Ethan and Lydia get to pick out a special treat to eat and because it doesn't start until noon here in the Eastern Time Zone, on Sunday Jason let Ethan and Lydia help make crepes with strawberries and whip cream. Oh so yummy!

Our conference activities included some magnet shapes, memory, coloring pages, and Lydia doing Dad's hair. :)

We had a lot of fun the week of Spring Break. Ethan had a week off of preschool and we took the opportunity to do some extra fun things. One was a trip to the Cincinnati Zoo for Zoo Blooms. The zoo has thousands of tulips that are absolutely gorgeous. I just love tulips!

We also had a fun trip to the Cincinnati Museum Center with my friend Renee Dison and her family. They just reopened the Museums that were built in the old train terminal several months ago after they were closed for over a year for repairs and renovation. It was fun to see some of the new things in the Museum of Natural History.

They played with exhibits featuring science principles, dressed up in old fashioned clothes, painted, built new things, and just had a wonderful time!

We were invited to Carly's Easter Party next door. My kids had so much fun decorating Easter baskets, eating yummy food, doing an Easter Egg Hunt at the elementary school, and sack races. It was such a perfect day outside that we were outside practically all day and I got a little sunburned.

The next weekend we drove to Indianapolis to the temple there. I took the kids to the library while Jason was in the temple and then we swapped and Jason took them to the park. Again, we had such nice weather and visiting the Indianapolis Temple was awesome too! So beautiful!

 We did our annual dying of Easter eggs that the kids love, and Ethan had his preschool Egg Hunt and party. As you can see, Ethan only picked up green eggs. I guess that makes it a little more of a hunt since they just lay hundreds of eggs on the open ground and let the kids go. Ethan's favorite colors right now are green and brown (camouflage colors) and Lydia's favorite colors are purple, pink, and green. They are constantly both wanting the green plate, or the green fork, or the green cup, etc.

Ethan and Lydia love to try to do their hair in the mirrors so see what they look like.

Our home in the Spring. We just planted daffodils and tulips in the front yard which looked really nice this year.

Easter weekend Andrea and Nate and their four children came to stay with us. The kids had so much playing with their "cousins." Jason and Andrea are actually the cousins. Saturday morning we went to Jumpzone where they had an egg hunt on the inflatables. Lydia found one with a prize for a free ICEE.  We also stopped at Chick-fil-a afterwards for lunch and watched a movie in the afternoon. In the evenings after the kids were in bed we just talked and played games until late!

 Sunday morning we went to church together and tried to get a few family pictures. :) In the afternoon we made Resurrection Rolls talked about the Resurrection for our family lesson.

We're doing our team cheer, Burninghams on 3!

 We ate lots of yummy food and played a lot with the kids. They keep us all busy, but it was so fun to be together! Ethan, Bailey, and Matthew slept in Ethan's room and they loved to laugh and talk to each other before finally falling asleep.

Monday morning before Nate and Andrea headed back to Michigan, we visited Smale Park in Cincinnati. The weather was finally nice enough to be outside and the kids loved playing at the park together. Unfortunately Jason had to work and missed the fun.

Thanks for coming to visit us Nate and Andrea. You're welcome to come back anytime!