Tulips and Bouffants

Sam took the kids to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point this week. Kate, Clayton, and Ivy were in town from Arizona. They, along with Taylor, joined Sam and the kids for some optical delight. Diana, our little anthophile, was in flower heaven.

Penny, Diana, Douglas

Douglas, Penny, Ivy

Diana

Penny

Ivy and Douglas

The kids with their Aunt Taylor.

Diana loves this book and all things related to styling hair.

So, Sam gave Diana a little bouffant of her own. Diana was quite pleased.

Penny's gymnastics meet, Layton Temple open house, Douglas's spring piano recital

Penny at her first gymnastics meet.

Grandma and Sam took the children to the Layton Temple open house this week.

Tristan, Grandma Margaret, Douglas, Emilee, Kayla, Diana, Lydian, Penny

Tristan and Lydian are Andrew's children. Emilee and Kayla are Andrew's step-daughters. Andrew is now married to Stacie (Sam's sister) and they are expecting their first child together, due to arrive in August.

Douglas had another piano recital today.

He cracks me up! He's so comfortable that he can take a second to look over at the camera while he plays.

All of the participants in the recital, with their piano instructor on the right side - Laurissa Neuenschwander

Douglas and two other participants received awards for the AIM (Achievement in Music) Festival. They had to pass tests for listening, technique, theory, and performance.

Diana loves the plant world

 

The other day I found Diana outside studying our neighbor's plant and finding information about it in her book of plants. Oh, how she loves the plant world!

Penny joined Diana for a bit.

Diana's 5th Birthday

 

Our cute Princess Diana turned five today.

Diana was excited for her birthday present from her aunt, Taylor. They went to a salon together to get their nails done.

Opening presents. The reason everyone is laughing is because Sam asked Diana if she wanted to know about the day Diana was born, to which Diana promptly replied, "No."

Sam made this beautiful Easter cake for Diana's birthday.

Grandma and Taylor joined us to celebrate Diana's birthday.

We've been watching the old He-Man TV show over the past few weeks. Diana loves the He-Man character. So, I acquired a little He-Man figure for a smaller cake Sam made.

"By the power of Grayskull, I HAVE THE POWER!"

The birthday girl with Grandma.

Diana's final gift was a girls night out at a Disney princess concert in Salt Lake City.

LEGO family history project for Sam

 Douglas, Penny, Diana and I put this LEGO set together for Sam yesterday, in honor of her love of family history.

These are the photos we ordered for the project: