Other Recent Happenings

One of our many Come, Follow Me activities. The kids wrote down ways we can let our light shine.

Matthew and friends at a friend's birthday party. They played video games in a game truck.

On the same afternoon, Megan went to a party for one of her classmates. She spent most of her time in the obstacle course. (There is netting in front of the course which makes it a bit hard to see.)

Matthew in the washing machine.

Matthew and Sarah

On the way home from the triathlon, we stopped at Kartchner Caverns and went on the Big Room tour. The Big Room is the hill on the right of the picture, the Throne Room is the dip in the middle and the Rotunda is to the left of the dip. We really enjoyed the tour. We learned a lot about the cave and about bats.

Matthew (snuggled up with his mama)

Watching the first Harry Potter movie. Since going to Universal Studios, we have some little Hogwarts hopefuls in the house. It was cute how they dressed up for the movie.

Me got together with some friends for a Girls Night when a friend visited from Utah.

Megan and Sasha during a playdate at our home.

Matthew and the two girls enjoyed playing on the slip and slide.

Megan searching for eggs at our neighborhood Easter egg hunt.

Matthew on the hunt

Matthew with his balloon sword.

Jumping with his sword. (I don't recommend doing that with a real sword....)

Megan enjoyed the cookies.

Hailey, Sarah and Katie with matching face paint.

Matthew also got an ax.

Megan liked her balloon Pikachu.

Oh no!

Easter 2019

The Easter Bunny came on Saturday. Matthew was so excited for this that he woke Megan up about every hour all night long.

Matthew with the Easter baskets.

The egg hunt.

Megan stacked all her plastic eggs.

On Easter, we dyed Easter eggs.

Butterfly Wonderland Field Trip

Megan and Matthew's classes took a field trip to Butterfly Wonderland. I was excited to be chosen to accompany Megan's class.

Megan with one of her good friends, Yuvraj, on the bus.

Me and Megan

Our group in the 3D theatre.

Some of the emerging butterflies. Happy birthday butterflies!

This huge moth had just emerged as well.

One of the many butterflies we saw.

Mating butterflies

There are a few hens wandering around.

Our group: Karyssa, Megan, Amari, Omar and Yuvraj

What lovely butterflies!

Matthew's class went the day after Megan's class. One of my friends was his chaperone and sent me a couple pictures of him including one with a butterfly on his arm!

Triathlon in Sierra Vista

Megan and Matthew completed a triathlon the first weekend in April. Matthew had been wanting to participate in one for quite awhile and was excited to finally be doing it. Once we registered Matthew, Megan decided to do it as well. They'd been practicing running and swimming and biking as well as the transitions. We went down to Sierra Vista for them to participate. They were considered 9 year olds since they will be 9 by the end of the year. Their race consisted of a 50m swim, 3.3 mile bike ride and 0.5 mile run. They both finished in under 30 minutes:

Megan time: 29 min 18.0 sec

Matthew time: 29 min 39.7 sec

They were proud of their accomplishment! Matthew would say, "I did a triathlon so I can do that" about other things. He wore his number bib on for the entire day.

Megan and Matthew in the transition area before the race.

Matthew checking out the water before the race.

Megan swimming around a bit in the shallow pool.

Megan right before the swim.

Matthew lining up before the swim.

Swimming.

Some pictures from the bike ride.

Sarah running alongside Megan.

Matthew catching up to Megan.

Sarah running alongside Matthew. She said it was harder to keep up with Matthew than with Megan.

Megan and Matthew transitioning from bike to run.

Matthew and Megan (and Sarah) at the start of the run.

Megan running.

Matthew running.

Megan, Matthew and Sarah on the podium.

A short video from the triathlon.

After the triathlon, Matthew and Megan played on the playground. They were excited to find a merry-go-round and enjoyed riding it and pushing others on it.