Eggs, candy, baskets, and more candy

Saturday-Easter egg hunt at Sun River Church. Marco got the most candy! It was free and we were in and out in an hour.

Easter morning-discovering their baskets-more candy.

In their Sunday best. They were not cooperating very well in the group shots.

Finally, Easter dinner with Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle B. They had ANOTHER egg hunt and MORE candy.

It was a great weekend.

Spring Break

Spring Break was just the thing we all needed! No schedule, no homework, sleeping in, playing, relaxing, spring cleaning-it was a good mix of them all!  We started off the weekend with two dinner parties-one with the missionaries and our new babysitter Sister Myers (she’s a widow in her 70s) and then we had a new family from our ward-our fellow Salvadorans, the Castillo’s on Sunday. It was a little bit stressful-I can’t have people over without stressing out, but it was nice.

Monday we slept in and did chores, then I took the kids to the mall to see the Easter Bunny-as seen in the earlier post-Sylvie was the only one who would sit on his lap. The kids had a sleepover at Grandma’s one night, played at the neighbor kids’ house one day, we went to the park with some friends another day. Went to the library and Costco another day.

Julio had a busy week traveling for work-Fresno, Stockton, Redding-so he took Thursday off and we went to Six Flags. It wasn’t crowded, the weather was good and we had a great time. Marco was disappointed because he couldn’t go on all the rollercoasters. Lucia went on a big rollercoaster by herself! Sylvia loved the spinning rides, and Tessa loved the carousel. Julio lost his keys some time during the day, but luckily, someone turned them in to the lost and found.

spinning!He barely fit!

They almost touched the giraffe!

After the white water rafting ride-they were soaked! I was glad I didn’t get on it!

The end-Sylvie was wet and cold, we were all tired and ready to go! But, we will be back. We got season passes so we can go all summer long!

 

Update #1-Sylvia

Sylvie was the only one who would sit on the Easter Bunny’s lap today at the mall. Lucia said she was too old, Marco wasn’t interested, and Tessa was scared.

Sylvie has been making friends at school. She was invited to two birthday parties this month! She had a great time at both and both moms have requested play dates with her. It makes me feel good to know that people accept her and like her. She can be hornery, but she can also be very sweet too. She loves it when people come over and is the life of the party. It’s funny though, whenever people will call her anything (Cutie, Silly Girl, whatever) she will say, “ My name’s not (whatever), it’s Sylvia!”  The other day ,the kids were talking about what they want to be when they grow up and Sylvie said, “I’m going to be a swimsuit model!” She would wear her swimsuit all day, every day if she could. I’m constantly telling her to turn off the sprinklers or hoses outside because she can’t stay out of the water!  I went to help out at the Jog-a-thon at the school the other day. I missed Sylvie’s run, but it was probably a good thing since she was in one of her moods. She wasn’t liking the whole scene and told me afterward, “I didn’t want to race! I don’t like those kids running!” The running, noise and chaos were too much for her. She kind of had a meltdown. It’s typical for her, if the routine is off at school, she’s not happy.

I’m setting a goal to update the blog more often. I will try to write a post about each child in the coming week.