Laugh out loud

I love those moments when I laugh out loud at something the kids say or do. Just a minute ago, I was in the same room with Arianna (who was in a 'fort' in the corner). I was concentrating on something else, so I didn't understand her the first time she asked me the question. When I asked her what she said she repeated, "Mom are you going to whip me into a gallop?" I laughed out loud. She is such a crack up sometimes. (Can you tell we read a lot of books about horses?)

We are still alive. It' s been a long while since I've blogged. Ever since we got the new camera, I can't just upload pictures out in the kitchen, which is where I regularly use the computer; the camera software is on the computer in the office. For some reason, that really seems to stand in my way of blogging. But, we have had lots of great adventures and fun times- especially with a fabulous Easter weekend now behind us. I love Spring! Here in California where we live, I feel like we have been enjoying Spring since January. We started seeing the trees bloom then and we still get to see blooms and buds everyday. On Sunday, as I sang with and talked to the Nursery Children (18 months to 3 years) I told them that even the trees know that Jesus was resurrected! Seemingly they have been 'dead' all Winter, and in the Spring they burst forth with newness of life. There is no coincidence that Jesus was resurrected in the Spring of the year!
As the scriptures teach,
"All things denote there is a God; yea even the earth,
and all things that are upon the face of it" - Alma 30:44