March-April Catch Up!

So sorry I haven't blogged anything in such a long time.  I feel like March breezed on by and April is whizzing by just as fast.  The kids only have a few weeks left of school and I just can't believe I am staring summer in the face.  Didn't we just put down our Christmas Tree??  It feels like yesterday.  Wow!

Well, my sweetie turned 41 on March 7th.  It was fun having his birthday on a FHE night so we made our family night all about him!

Tom got a lot of fun presents too.  I think his favorite was a new guitar book filled with fun songs he knows.  Tom is trying to squeeze 10 minutes into his busy schedule to practice guitar before he goes to bed.  He is actually getting pretty good!  What a talented guy, huh!!

Yeah, I spoiled Tom with his all-time favorite dinner---SEAFOOD!  There were shrimp and king crab legs galore!

Drawings from the kids are truly the best gifts ever!

Kelsey painted this for her daddy.  She wrote a saying on the front of the painting that says:
The greatest blessing I ever had
Came from God
I call him . . . Dad. 

Kohler and Tom were in heaven.  Kelsey was trying hard not to throw up!  (she's not a fish lover!)

The other day, I took Hailey to a farm.  She wasn't able to go to this farm with her pre-K class because we were in Disneyland with Kelsey's dance group.  So, she and I had a field trip of our own!

Hailey was braver than I was to hold this chicken!

This calf drank the entire bottle in about 30 seconds.  He sucked so hard that he pulled the rubber top off!

My little "Hailey Girl!"

They called this goat,"Uni-goat" because he only had one horn, like a Unicorn!  Ha!

Tom and I went to Southern  California this past weekend to have a quick weekend getaway and to hear my Uncle Robert Tall give an organ concert in a beautiful cathedral in Arcadia.  We stayed on the coast and fell in love with the Malibu coastline.  We figured we only need about 10 million dollars to get a nice place with a beach view!  Ha ha!  It was just so nice to have Tom all to myself for 48 hours.  No church calls to make, no children to attend to, no patient calls, NOTHING.  We just talked our heads off, listened to great music, took a fun bike ride through Venice Beach and watched all of the freaky people, ate a fabulous dinner at Duke's in Malibu, and laughed like crazy.  This was a much needed getaway for us.  We just LOVE being together! 

Check out that full moon in the background!

My uncle did an incredible job at his concert.  He is so artistic and plays masterfully.  I got emotional listening to him play and I felt my Grandmother's presence so strongly.  She was such an incredible musician and loved her children so much.  I can only imagine how proud she must be of him and what he has accomplished during his lifetime.  It was so great to have all of his siblings there:  my mother, her sister, Karen, and their brother John and his wife Marjorie, and their daughter Malinda.  I loved visiting with them--it's been way too long since we have all seen each other.  Family is everything and we need to keep those ties strong and alive!

Sunset in Malibu--what a sight!