Megan is 9!!!

Our little Meg turned nine on Monday! She wanted dinner at Sumo Sushi, of course. Here's her dessert, tempura cheesecake!


She had lots and lots of presents to open:

















Yesterday, she had her bday party with friends at the ice skating rink:












It was tons of fun!


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Catching up

So much has happened in the past few weeks! Here is a glimpse:

Meg and Jess belong to the Science Club at their school, which is dedicated to hands-on science demonstrations. Here they are doing chromatography:


And here they are with the old vinegar and baking soda trick :





Jessica's grade sang a cute Earth Day song to the whole school at the school assembly:


Katie can do some cool braids on me now:


I divided "a few" of my perennials to share with Mary and Justin:


We enjoyed famous authors visiting our schools last week for our district's annual Authors in April. Here's Laurie Keller giving drawing lessons to grades K-1:


Jessica's drawings of an otter, Arnie the donut, and six faces:


Megan's artwork for her grade's author is the pink one:


Megan's author won the Caldecott medal this year! Brian Floca:


Dad and I went to Alpena last week to deliver the plants and help with garden prep:


Dad started going thru the garbage at Justin's work. "These pieces of wood would be perfect for plant markers!"


We moved the arbor into place:


We hung the beautiful new swing:


Jessica's choir sang in the annual concert:


So did Katie's and Megan's choir:


Then they all sang together:


Both choirs sang at mass yesterday, too. Katie had a solo to lead the Alleluia, and Megan was in a trio for the communion song:


Tonight was the choir party at church. Lots of food...


Followed by lots of bouncing!


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Easter

Easter weekend started with a trio of soccer games. Meg's was first. She scored a goal to tie the game, while on defense, with her left foot, with 30 seconds to go in the game!



Then we had our neighborhood Easter egg hunt:















Then Katie had her first game of the season. She was incredible on defense, and she scored a goal off a corner kick! Unfortunately, it was called back due to a handball. :(



Jessi had a game, too, but I forgot to take pics. She was a goal-scoring machine! I think she had six goals, and several assists. We all got our first sunburns of the spring. Maybe they'll let me put on sunscreen next week!

We dyed eggs:






Easter morning:





















After church:






Katie decorated all of the cookies:






We had a delicious dinner out on the deck. It was 70-something and quite hot and sunny!



Meg had to finish the sparkling cider. (This kid is getting homeschooled for college!)



Finally, we decorated the lamb cake. It was a success!



It looked more like Beau than a lamb!


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