Spring Updates and Easter!

Some fun for spring!

Trevor is, as always, super creative and is always making new things with his LEGOs, magnatiles, and his stuffies. Here is a ship he made for his stuffies.

Mommy's work meetings were via Zoom, so I had pajama-clad visitors saying "hi" to my colleagues before bedtime. 

We tried new recipes and beloved old ones. This is a spinach artichoke pasta bake that was really yummy!

Trevor helped me make Auntie Trish's delicious pumpkin pie recipe!

Leprechaun trap for St. Patrick's Day!

Pi day celebrated with some pie!

Austin received his acceptance to Benilde-St. Margaret's for high school (and a $2,000 academic scholarship for doing so well on the placement exam). 

We made Nanny a gigantic sugar cookie cake for her birthday!

I got to meet Adam Casey!

Easter 2021!

Playing their new game and showing off their new books from our Barnes and Noble shopping trip with their gift cards from Nanny and Grandpa.

Austin and I volunteered at a community clinic giving COVID vaccinations.  Austin did check ins, writing out patients' vaccine cards, unpacking materials like syringes, etc. and I gave shots (all 3 kinds!).  It was a great experience!

The miracle of modern science in the palm of my hand!

For spring break, we did some activities at home and visited the SeaQuest Aquarium in Roseville.

Trevor in his time machine made of a series of boxes and some construction paper and popsicle stick controls. 

Trevor also did a paint your own birdhouse project from the local library.

SeaQuest was a different aquarium than we had been to before and wasn't quite as good as the one at MOA, but it was fun to get to touch and feed many of the animals.

We started with the iguanas.

Feeding the giant turtle

Trevor petting a Capybara

Trevor was very excited to feed the pigs!

And the ducks weren't afraid of people at all.

The main reason we tried out this aquarium was that there was a sloth!  My Sarah LOVES sloths!

 

A shark ate the boys. Oh well!

Trevor was most excited for the sharks!

The boys tried to feed the sharks, but the rays always zipped up and ate the food they were trying to give to the sharks. 

The obligatory photo to prove Mom was actually present.

Sarah and I in the aviary.

Feeding the koi pond fish.

Trevor received his First Holy Communion this April!

Trevor's room also got a makeover recently to be a shark theme and I completed a 2000 piece pirate map/flags puzzle for him to hang in his room.  We had to add some packing tape to the back because the puzzle glue wasn't quite holding it together well enough, but it worked out well in the end.  He loved it!

Alexis joined Austin and I for another day volunteering at the COVID vaccine clinic.

Sarah started playing flute this year, but they had to do band in separate small groups until they came together like this to record a concert in separate class sections.

In May, Austin was confirmed in the Catholic Church.

At the end of the spring, we got really rolling on Sarah's competition season for dance and the boys started their traveling soccer seasons in earnest.