Welcome Spring!

We finally had some real spring weather last week!!  It started to warm up just a little on Friday.  Kyle and I decided that we could have a fire in the pit and surprise Evangeline.  She has been so into camping.  I think I remember they had a little unit at Miss Linda's back in the fall where they talked about camping and since then she talks about it a lot.  She got a book a couple months back called Ladybug Girl and Bingo go Camping.  It's about a little girl that dresses in a tutu and goes camping with her family.  Evangeline was just mesmerized.   That would be one of her dreams come true.  So anyway, I picked her up from preschool and told her that we were going to have a campfire and make S'mores.  She was so excited that she wanted to go back to Miss Linda's and tell her friends about it.  Of course we didn't, but we did invite Ammie to join us.  We had lots of fun that night.

When we left church on Sunday we walked outside to weather that was clear up in the 70's with not a cloud in the sky.  Wow, I needed the sunshine.  It was amazing how good I felt all day.  Every moment was spent outside.  We played...

 

We painted out toenails...

We ate our lunch outside and I even did all of my lesson plans for the week outside.  Kyle cleaned out and washed the cars.  We organized our garage.  It's amazing what some sunshine and warm weather can do for a person.  

This is us saying "spppprrrrriiiiinnnnnggggg"!

My baby brother turned 30 on April 5th.  We celebrated at Sushi Umi with my dad, mom, Kyle, Evangeline,  Zachary and Candice.  Evangeline was hamming it up as usual.  She loves to "read" the Very Hungry Caterpillar.  Here she is "reading" it to Uncle Zach at his birthday dinner.

They adore each other.

Can't believe my little bro is 30.  He has really grown into an amazing man.  I'm so proud of the kind and loving person he is.  I love the wife he chose.  It is such a joy to observe him and Candice together.  It's so evident that they love each other so much.  She is a wonderful addition to our family.  Zachary is such a hard worker.  He has really bloomed at his company.  He has worked his way up to a rather high position and was even sent to Japan last month.  His employers think a lot of him.  He has not always made life easy on himself, but he has overcome all of the bumps in the road and really made something wonderful of his life.  Anyway, I love him.  I wish him another year of blessings, good health and happiness...and many, many more after that.  It is a privilege and blessing to get to share my whole life with a person like him.

For the past several years mom and I have gone to Greencastle, IN for the annual Fiber Frolic, a fairground full of all things to do with fiber arts.  Each time I go it's almost too much for me to handle...just so full of inspiration!  Sadly this year we missed it.  Mom had an Autism convention in Indy on Saturday so Friday was our only day to do it.  I picked up Evangeline after school and we met mom at her house.  We loaded in her car set off.  About two blocks away from her house we realized that it was only open until 7 and there was no way we were going to make it in time.  After getting over our disappointment we decided we had better go shopping instead.  It turned out to be a very fun girls night.  We all three got some spring clothes and then went to dinner together.

Love my two best girls.