Baptism Photo Shoot

It's been a long time since I've done a real live photo shoot.  My sweet friend texted me and asked if I would take some baptism pictures of her cute little girl.  We headed over to a local park and got some really nice ones.  These are some of my favorites.

Easter

We did our Easter the last Sunday in March since the girls were with their dad on the actual holiday.  Yummy dinner and awesome company.  Can't ask for more than that!

After church we colored eggs.  This was a marble kit and they turned out really pretty.

I went super light on the candy, not wanting to spoil things for the actual holiday.

Our yummy dessert!

It was cold outside so we did our egg hunt inside.

Belt Promotion! - Purple

Little One and I got our purple belts two weeks ago.  First was mine in the morning.  The girls we really sweet and both wanted to come watch.  I handed them the camera and let them take a couple of pictures.

Little One took forever to take this one.  I'm surprised my smile doesn't look as fake as it felt. LOL

Wahoo!  Purple belt!  One step closer to black!

I have made some of the most awesome friends here.  They are such good, good people and they help me want to be better myself.

Showing off our new belts!

Little One was going to get hers later so we went ahead and took a picture with Mr. Jade and Mr. Te.

She's all focused and ready.  Not the others so much. LOL

Look at that awesome warrior stance in her kata!

She and Josie are inseparable.

They got to be partners in self defense.

Love the smile!

She can get her leg up there for her kicks.

Always wanting to demonstrate.

I got to sit by her and give her her belt this time.  She is doing the respect thing to Mom, Dad and Ira. :)

She gave me a big hug after.

Mr. Tanner was leaving on his mission so all the kids gave him a big hug.

She is on the right-ish, in the middle with almost the tallest fist up.

Like I said, inseparable.  Her bear also got a purple belt and as such was in the picture.

Then she wanted one with Mr. Lawrence and Mr. Jade. :)

Volcanos!

We are into the earth science half of the year in science and so we did a volcano.  It was so much fun!

First we painted it.

Then we did a couple of test mixtures, trying different amounts of ingredients.

Not knowing exactly what it would do, we tried the first one outside.

Once we had it right we did it in the volcano itself.  Little One wasn't liking the smell of the vinegar. ;)

Natural History Museum - U of U

Also in February, we went to the Natural History Museum at the U.  We'd been studying about fossils, rocks and minerals in science and they have exhibits there that went along with that.  As usual, we went with our friends in the neighborhood that are homeschooling as well.  They had a blast and I was surprised they didn't want to go when we were out of time.  I love that she enjoys museums even though she's a kid.  Nothing like the school field trips I went on when I used to work at a school.

This was a sim-city kind of thing.  If you do *this* then *this* happens.  They really enjoyed it.

There is a room with windows where you can watch paleontologists at work.

The girls thought this was really neat!

There were lots of beautiful jewels!

They got to see where pearls come from.

They had a butterfly thing with a scientist there we could talk to.  That was really fun too since we studied butterflies last year.

We had the guy all to ourselves most of the time.  He was really nice to talk to. :)

And last but not least, this is how Little One had our minerals and the chocolate arranged   I'd always thought that chocolate was a vegetable. ;)