hi jules....from jarl

Yesterday we took the girls and went boating, skiing and tubing with our stake president, Pres. Stucki.  The last time I went water skiing was at como lake in MT.  It has been too long.  I am so sore today.  I think I used every muscle in my body to get up on the ski.  The kids were great!  Little Emma was so afraid of dropping off the wake.  You can see her concern on the tube in the picture.  Talk to ya later family.jarl

Easter Dresses and more

Ok, wow, I have been a little busy or something, and forgot that I had these pics uploaded.
anyhooo
Here are some pics of dyeing Easter Eggs. always a fun time!! Marin was not involved in this process this year. She can start next year. :-)


Emmaline
some of our tiedyed eggs, Jarl did awesome! Sophie.

Marin liked the grass

The girls in their Easter Dresses. They look so cute and springy! By the way, this is the day that Miss Marin decided she could sit up on her own, without falling over.

Easter

I love Easter.

It is my favorite holiday.

This year, I decided to do a little something different. Instead of the traditional ham, "funeral potatoes", and other yummy comfort foods, we fixed a "traditional Jerusalem dinner". Our festivities took place on Saturday, since I had to work Sunday night. It all worked out perfectly!

It was fabulous. the menu consisted of:

• Lamb and Barley
• Lentil soup
• Roasted Chicken seasoned with Tumeric, Cumin, Salt and Pepper.
• Olives
• Dates
• Figs
• home made Flat Bread
• Hummis
• Yogurt sweetened with Honey
• Grapes
• Grape Juice (in lieu of wine)
• Cucumbers and Carrots
• Yogurt dip

The 5 older children (ages 5 to 10) all liked the feast. Everyone tried all of the dishes. It was very good, and suprisingly very filling.

Afterwards, we had a giant Easter Egg hunt out at the park, and finished the night with Angel Food Cake, with strawberries and Whipped cream. delightful!

Spring Break

This year for spring break, we stayed around Louisville.  Both Jarl and I had to work, but we still had fun.  On Tuesday, my sister and her kids came in from Lexington.  We went to the Louisville Zoo.  It was not a warm day, and quite overcast, but the crowd wasn't too big!  that was a plus.

Emma compared to a gorilla

Sophie compared to the gorilla.

  One of the first exhibits we always visit is the Giraffes.  They were inside, and up close.  Sophie and Emma took pictures.

Another fun thing we got to see was the Siberean (sp?) Tiger.  It was training time for him.  His trainer was feeding him horse meat meatballs, when he performed a task correctly.  It was so neat!  This guy is SO HUGE!!!  Sophie was very impressed that his trainer was a woman.  She wants to be a zookeeper/vet when she grows up :-)

Another fun thing we did was to go Kentucky Down Under.  It was our first time, and we had so much fun!!  I can't wait to go back.  

During the "walk a bout" we got to pet an emu:

sophie and the emu
We also got to pet a kangaroo.  They are so soft!  we learned that a kangaroo's tail is all muscle.

Marin just loved being up close with all the animals.  She would get so excited. 

Marin and the kangaroo's tail

   Emma and the Kangaroo

There were also two aviaries where we could feed birds.  The first aviary had parakeets and some other smaller birds.  

Jarl and some birds.  Thats Emma's little hand.

Emma and some birds

Quick update

Well, things have been busy, and I have fallen behind. I need to upload some pictures, but this is what is going on:

Marin is 6 months old now. she is cruising around the house. rolling and inching her way to wherever she wants to go. She is trying to get up onto her hands and knees, but still needs a little practice, thank heavens. Today, I was doing some laundry, so put her in the toy room- with everything there was to play with, she was more interested in the vacuum cord than anything else.

Sophie and Emma are doing great in school. Emma is thinking of starting Karate soon. I just need to find a place around here to do it.