snapshots.

It's been a fun filled first of the year so far!  We have been busy with science fair, orchestra, early morning play practice, scouts, activity days, preschool, kindergarten, and making messes :)  We are getting ready to start planting the garden, and that's always a sign that life is just around the corner...hooray!!!!

Zerin was ordained a deacon, and went to do baptisms with me for the first time on valentines day! Probably one of my favorite memories with him so far, if you don't count the one where I first met him in person :)
He also got to attend his first Valentines Dance!

Liah has been enjoying friends.  She is convinced that one of her friends, Sunny, is a sister from another mister :)  They both really love and enjoy life.  Liah is also an incredible friend to her little sisters,

I love watching them play together, and from her I've learned to be a better friend.

Aeden is a wise adult in a kid's body.  He is kind, compassionate, helpful and smart way beyond his years.

I don't know what I would do without him.

Asher is turning into a class clown and quite the performer.  He always makes me smile, but is simultaneously one of the most tenderhearted and loving people I have ever met.

I hope he never gets to old to give me his famous hugs.

Belen is....how do you describe fire?  Alive.  Belen is alive :)  She is always singing, and dancing, and performing, and always does it with everything she has in her.  She reminds me to do everything I do with flair and intensity, because otherwise what's the point? :)

Mandalen is busy learning how to be a scientist.  She is always asking herself questions and then works to find the answers to those questions.  Like for example, what happens when you throw a full bowl of cheerios (WITH milk) across the kitchen?  Or what happens when you mix an entire bottle of baby powder with a glass of water and mix it into the carpet?  Great questions that prove to me that
life with her will be anything but boring.