Spring break Day 1, visiting Orlando Temple

For spring break, we went with Grandma and Grandpa to Orlando. We got in SUPER early Sunday morning (like to our airbnb around 230 am) and so hung out at the airbnb and watched general conference. That evening we drove to the Orlando Temple. Bummer it was closed for renovation for a couple of years, but we still were able to walk around the outside for a little bit. 

Walking over to the temple. 

I LOVE LOVE this picture of the temple. 

Kids with the padres. 

It was a nice drive over there for a Sunday adventure. 
 

Adeline's aquarium field trip and Liam's track meet

Adeline got to go to the aquarium for a field trip. This was in a brand new area that just recently opened. I love this butterfly thing!

Crossing the bridge. 

Ryan was able to go to Liam's track meet. 

He set PR in all the events he ran, from the 100, 4x100, and the 200. 

I loved this action shot. 

And art from Adeline. 
 

Evelyn's last couple of VB weeks

I love this picture of her bumping the ball! She had some really great hits the last couple of weeks. 

Another really good hit. It's easier to capture videos of her serving than hitting, but I can't upload those very easily. 

Watching for the ball before the hit. 

A serving picture. 

It has been a fun 6 weeks Murray Rec! Evelyn said she is ready for a break though, so no more volleyball likely until fall at this point. But it was fun to see her progress and her team was fun this time.
 

Saturday adventures, Top Golf and Lindon Temple open house

For Christmas, we gave the boys some time at Top Golf, so one of the gift cards expired the end of March, so this past Saturday, Ryan took the boys Saturday morning. They had a really fun time. 

I had wanted to take our family to the Lindon Temple Open house. This is the first open house I have been to in awhile that didn't have you make reservations. I knew going on a Saturday would be busy, but if you can't tell, there is A HUGE line that wrapped all around the building. 

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We didn't plan on a long line, so struggled a little bit in heat and lack of water. But everyone endured and we got to go inside. It was very pretty of course, but there was SO many people you couldn't really stop and look at pictures more. The little daisy flowers in the celestial room huge room were gorgeous. I found out later that they are "lindon" flowers. That was fitting. 

Here we are about a third through the line. 

Overall, from when we parked and walked over and made it back to the car it was basically about 2 hours. So much longer than I planned. We went to in n out after and that was a forever long line as well. But it was a good experience. I think our kids, especially the boys, have started losing sight of how lucky we are to be so close to so many temples. 

Adeline has REALLY gotten into drawing Harry Potter characters. Here she is watching a guy show how to draw Hermione. She just recently finished book 2 and is getting close to being done with book 3. 

Liam golfing. 
 

Adeline's first art show at the Art Cottage

Adeline had her first art show at the Art Cottage. I thought this was so cool of the studio to do it for all the art students. She got to choose two of her art works to display. 

Our whole family went to support her. Adeline didn't really want to go, but I told her this is YOUR chance to have all of our family come and support something YOU are doing. 

Here is her mountain picture. I love this one. 

And her other was her lilly pad frog one. 

I am so thankful for the Art Cottage and all the great experiences Adeline has had there. She has REALLY come far in her art. 

Cool mask from some of the older students. 

 

St. Patrick's Day and Evelyn goes to OT therapy

Out of order pic finishing her obstacle course. 

The girls set up a TON of leprechaun traps. It was fun to see their creativity. And they did get some candy, but no trapping of the leprechaun. 

Went and did OT with Emma. This time we did an obstacle course in trying to use whole body movement. 

These swings are really fun for her. Emma and I were talking so much about how far Evelyn has come. 

This "t-swing" was a little tricky. 

It was a fun therapy time.