Annika's Class Website

Here's a picture from Annika's Kindergarten class website - the kids are showing the bird-feeders they made. TJ, on the left, is in our ward and he and Annika have played together since they were babies. Annika is also friends with Maggie.

Spring Break Skiing

We finally got our Spring Break skiing pictures back from the disposable camera. How did people survive before digital cameras?

Annika wanted to know why they didn't have any purple ski boots to match her purple ski pants. One of Annika's favorite things was being pulled up the bunny hill by the tow rope!

Annika also enjoyed skiing down the hill between Rob's skis! Unfortunately, I couldn't get the disposable camera rewound fast enough to get a picture from the front, but they were very cute!

Steven the Speed Demon! Steven is a "natural" on skis, and he even took some trips down the Intermediate runs with Rob on his first time skiing.

Julia the skiier!
Spring Break skiing was a new experience for us - it was a beautiful, sunny day and we probably could have done fine without coats and hats!

Annika's dress

For some reason, Annika loves to wear this dress. I'll have to look - somewhere, I have a school picture of myself wearing this dress!

Readers

Julia and Annika, reading a book before church yesterday...

Annika the Explorer

To answer Lindsey's question...here's a picture of Annika's Halloween costume when she was 3 years old!

They Crack Me Up

The latest humor (intentional or not) from each of my funny children...

JULIA
At the LDS Prom, they had the girls put one of their shoes into the middle of the dance floor. The guys each ran out to the pile and picked a shoe, found the girl it belonged to, and they had a slow dance together.

The guy who picked Julia's shoe was really tall, above 6'. He gave Julia her shoe and said, "Hey, it worked!" Julia asked, "What worked?" He said, "I made sure to get a big shoe, so I wouldn't have to dance with a short girl!"

STEVEN
Julia went to Pike Place Market with a friend a while ago, and she brought home a 50 lb. bag of glutinous rice along with a sticky rice pot and the huge basket you use to cook it (it looks like this, except the basket is a bit bigger: http://www.laotravels.com/images/food/stickyrice.jpg ).

We were talking about with all the technology we have in the world, why is making sticky rice so complicated that you still have to use a special pot and a big basket...?

Steven said, "I bet they have a better way to do it in China because they're ahead there."

Someone asked, "Why, do you think they have better technological advances in China?"

Steven answered, "No, they're just a day ahead of us in China. It's tomorrow there."

ANNIKA
At Annika's school, they make a big production out of every fund-raiser. There's a high-pressure assembly, where they get the kids all excited about (plastic dollar-store) prizes or whatever the cause of that fund-raiser is.

The other day, Annika came home all excited about the latest fund-raiser. She said, "We have to get pop for the poor children in Canada!"

As it turns out, the kids are supposed to bring in pop cans to be recycled, to raise money for school supplies for children in Africa!

I went to the store today and bought some pop so we could help those poor children in Canada...

Julia's LDS Prom

Julia and Joseph went to our 6-stake LDS Prom yesterday and had a great time. They went with a group of friends to dinner at Chang's Mongolian Grill before the dance.

Take a look at Joseph's purple tie and shirt to match Julia's dress!

You can click on the photo to see the details of Julia's dress.

Annika and her Scooter

Since the weather started to clear up a bit, Annika has been scooter-ing around our neighborhood whenever she gets a chance!

Annika the Yahtzee Champ

We played Yahtzee for FHE tonight, and Annika had some really good rolls! One time, she had (3) 5s and put the other 2 dice back in the cup. Suddenly, she stopped shaking the cup and said, "I found another 5!" and she pulled a die out of the cup...and added it to her other 5s.

No, we didn't let her get away with it!