(to be sung...) Announcement, announcement, announcement!

We are excited to announce that we will be moving! To New Zealand! We've decided to take a collective leap of faith all the way down to the southernest southern part of the Southern Hemisphere and officially live as Kiwis (for awhile, at least.) It's something that we've been considering of for a while, but I finally managed to talk Jay into it. Beaches, environmentalists, and family close by, gardening year-round, and the Rugby World Cup are just a few of the things we have to look forward to in 2011. We're blowing this American popsicle stand sometime in February (fingers crossed!) We are so excited for the boys to run barefoot through cow pies at Grandma and Grandpa Snow's house and hopefully Jay's life will be be a little more stress-free. I'm going to compost and learn to say things like "hun-eye" (honey) and "st-eye-nky" (stinky). We will live in Auckland but I have a feeling we'll spend a lot more time in Keri Keri at the farm or in Hot Water Beach digging in the sand. Hooray!

Charlie's bath with the big boys!!

He likes it...

..Or does he?

Yes, He likes it...it's just the getting clean part that he doesn't like (typical boy!)

This weekend we went to the Earth Day celebration that NASA hosted on the Mall. Jayson was in heaven surrounded by science and space stuff. Aidan was happy too because they had bananas and balls to throw. Charlie's always happy. We also went to the French Festival in Georgetown and met the most amazing balloon animal guy! He made Aidan the cutest Odie the dog and Jayson an alien/astronaut.

Jayson is coming along at swim.

I never know what I'm going to find when I open the doors of our house! Jayson was experimenting in the bathroom sink with stuff that floats (or not).

It was that time of year again! Jayson's school recital did not disappoint. And of course, Auntie Crystal was there to see it.

I felt so bad about our first trip to the zoo that I decided to take the boys back. It was another unfortunate trip...we lost poor Tiger! Later that night out of desperation Jay bought a new version of Tiger at Toys R Us. At first Aidan wasn't sure about the nose. But after a few tosses in the air and some kisses on the nose he said.."I like it!" Kiss, kiss.."I love you, Tiger!"

Jayson and the boys are so excited that warm weather is coming and we're getting our garden going.

Aidan's antics!

Happy Easter! Happy General Conference! This year Easter Sunday was on the same weekend as our church's semi-annual General Conference so we had just hung out at home on Saturday and Sunday and our good friends Nadia and Isaac and their kids came over for an egg hunt and Easter dinner. And...ta da! A two-layer pavlova!

Reading books with Dad...

The boys and I went to the beach one day during Jayson's Spring Break. It seemed like such a good idea, and they had a lot of fun! It's HARD to keep 3 kids happy and out of the ocean all by myself! The next day we went to the zoo, which was even harder...so hard in fact, that I didn't take a single picture!

Oh, I love these babies!!

we had the best time at the Kite Festival on the National Mall! It's held every year to kick off the Japanese Cherry Blossom Festival. It was a lovely clear day and Crystal came and we met some friends as well. Jay and Jayson flew our transformer kite like pros.

Happy Birthday to our favorite five year old!! In astronaut style, Jayson turned five on March 26th. Our heroine Auntie Crystal came to watch Charlie and Aidan so Jayson and I could go to the Air and Space Museum. Then we rode the Metro and met Jay in the underground tunnels where he works near the Pentagon and had lunch. After that we came home and had a solar system cake with hilarious planets made of rice crispy treats. Lumpy? Yes. Round? No. Delicious to no one but Aidan? Yes.

I've been practicing my pavlova skills (the official dessert of New Zealand)

I made a cake for my friend's shower...