Catching you up

Here are a few of Alex's actual birthday. Even though it was a whole month ago I like the one of him and Max eating birthday cupcakes for breakfast and opening his presents in the car. He probably won't do that again for a long time. And since we drove to Iowa on his birthday (because we went home for Easter), it lasted 25 hours.



Both boys had their moving up ceremony for cub scouts. Max got an additional surprise. At the end of the night an adult cubscout gave Max a used boyscout shirt. He told Max the shirt had belonged to an active boyscout that had done a lot in scouting. He said he wanted it to go to the youngest scout that night and that was Max.

Yesterday the kids got out of school early, so we made manna. It tasted and looked alot like sugar cookies, the Israelites (sp?) probably would be jealous. But the kids had a lot of fun and so hopefully the lesson that went with it about God providing for us will stick.


Sophia doing her karate moves (she's not taking lessons).


Max won 3 months of free karate from a birthday party. Here he is showing you his moves.

Easter

For Easter this year we were able to go back to Iowa. It was wonderful, we wish we could make it an annual tradition. I was going to show pics. of Alex's birthday (which was the day we left for IA), the pinewood derby and our church Easter egg hunt and Easter in IA, but I realized that's a lot of pictures, so I'll catch you up slowly. Here's all our Easter celebrations in Iowa.




Easter at my dad's with all 9 cousins. We had a great time together and the kids loved hiding and finding eggs for each other.


The Steffen Easter was a lot of fun,and very relaxing. There were about 300 eggs that these 7 kids on the swing found!





The Easter Bunny and Easter Frog came to Grandma Steffen's. Everyone was pretty excited to dig through their baskets, and so Henry was the first to find a hidden Easter egg.



We celebrated at Great Grandma and Grandpa Wood's with Uncle Nick, Aunt Joni and Kale and Brady.