The Zoo, New Calling, Visits, Easter, Friends

We checked out the A-town Zoo last weekend (as a family) and then again last Thursday (with friends) and it is really fun. The zoo can be seen in its entirety in about one hour, which is as long as we can stand to be there anyway with three little ones. :) We got a membership that is reciprocal with the Dallas Zoo, so whenever we're in town we can go to our wonderful zoo that we've been to SO many times and still enjoy every time! This zoo has a bridge to walk over the giraffe's area, so you can feed them and one of them stuck their tongue out and almost licked Little N! They also have a pier to walk out over the lake to feed the ducks (and the big mouth fish!) and the girls loved that.

I started my primary chorister duties on Sunday and it was actually a lot of fun. Not as nerve-racking as I thought it might be and the kids really liked the game we played to pick songs to sing. The bishop asked if I would like to sing in Sacrament in a few weeks. I told him I love to sing with other people, so hopefully there will be no solos in the near future. The choir isn't up and running currently but maybe we can do some quartets or something.

We STILL don't have much painting done. B did the kitchen and together we did one wall of our bedroom before bed the other night. I LOVE the color but finding the time to do it when the kids are asleep and we're not exhausted is going to be the hard part!

B asked for one small thing to make this home just right for him, so we got a basketball hoop! The girls love playing with Daddy out on the driveway and he's enjoying getting exercise. We had a most pleasant surprise last Saturday when our good friends, the Rappleyes, called and wanted to come visit since they were out our way. Crysta and I had a great time chatting, the girls all played together, Spencer was sweet and ended up going to sleep, and Chris & B got the hoop up and were able to play some basketball! Thanks for visiting guys!

We dyed some Easter eggs this year (usually just do plastic eggs) and I'm not so good at hard boiling eggs without cracking them (any tips, all you experts?) but we made a few and it was fun having the short egg hunt on Sunday morning. Then they got baskets that were already full of little toys and plastic eggs with candy in them. We watched a great video called "The Lamb of God" to show the kids what Easter was all about. J thought it was amazing. I love that she's old enough now to kind of get the spiritual messages behind the stories we share with her. She is an extremely sensitive child and, in this case, it's a good thing. :)

Our RS had an enrichment last night to celebrate the birthday of the RS and we had birthday cake and played Bunco. So fun! It's fun to get to know everyone through a game like that. We're really enjoying being here. I joined a Stay at Home Mothers group on meetup dot com and we went to storytime at the library with them and are going to a petting farm next week. Fun stuff. I sure love being a stay at home mom despite what I tell Ben every evening. Hee hee!