Pool time...

Well we had a blast at the pool yesterday...Daddy's do miss out sometimes while that are at work, but I took some pictures to share.

The...as I should probably call them when they are playing together...triplets Addie, Logan & Alyssa were hard to keep off the diving board...great workout treading water for me...the only drawback is I miss all of the fun talk at the other end of the pool. 

By the end Logan even surpried me and was jumping in all on his own (with his jumper of course...and not off the diving board), but he let his head go under and everthing and was fine with it and kept doing it.  And he went all the way to the other side of the pool turned around and came abck as well.  My only concern is him getting too used to the floaties...I think I need to teach him how to swim, but he is still a little young for lessons I think.

Never before had I ever considered a pool with kids, but after he did so well yesterday...I may toy with the thought...I would love the option of swimming laps for exercise...I don't like to run, but I do like to swim...or at least I did :)

Church Changes

Sunday March 25th Daddy was called into the Bishopric.  We were able to have both sets of grandparents here so that Popo could ordain Daddy as a High Priest and Papa could join in the ordination. 

We have been adjusting to Daddy on the stand every week since and are doing fairly well. Mommy was released from Primary President April 15th and was called as the Gospel Doctrine Teacher. She had no idea how easy she had it before...kind of, but really I am enjoying my new calling and the increased depth of study that has been sent my way.

here we are in our cute spring/summer church clothes...Logan loves his ties.

We are also adjusting to Daddy being at meetings fairly regularly...Logan and I seem to have the same conversation each Monday-Thursday morning:

Logan:  Where is Daddy?
Me:  Daddy is at work.
Logan:  Daddy not at work, Daddy at church.

cute little kiddos :)

Ward Campout 2012

Rain or shine the Esquivels like to camp when it is not too hot outside.  The campout started off nicely.  We had lots of friends gathered around the fire cooking their dinners...as we were finishing dinner it started to sprinkle for a second...and then it started to POUR...the kids were under the Smiths sports brella until we got our EZ up that Dadddy thougth might be good to bring in case it rained...thank goodness.  We learned lots of we should really add to our camping gear list...including a manual pump since our rechargable one was malfunctioning.

Playing while dinner is cooking

cheesing it up for the camera

waiting out the rain...soaked

Tuesday May 1st 2012...

will forever be remembered as the day Logan caught his first fish :)

WAY TO GO LOGAN!!!

Decorating

the kids love to paint...I need to take a picture of what the painted without permission as proof.  They decided it was time to put a little color on their walls...up until now we only had the one side done...

Logan concentrating really hard

Alyssa adding a little something here

Logan taking a step back to see how well he has done

Alyssa adding a little bit more

they did a great job didn't they!  And they each got to pick a bird and what color they wanted theirs...of the vinyl colors Mommy had on hand :)

Easter 2012

We spent this Easter in Austin again with the Ruske family.  Since joining pinterest I have seen tons of cute ideas and there were a lot of Easter ones...so here are a few I catually got to do this year.

Carrot chicken salad sandwiches

Chick deviled eggs

Carrot shaped carrot cake cookies

Chilling at the lake house

And of couse the hunt!!!

Easter Bunny & Firetruck 2012

The kids had a great time seeing the Easter Bunny, but especially the fireturck.  It has been over 2 months now (now that I ma finally posting) and even now when they see a firetruck they talk about Jenny's house and Elizabeth & Brody and easter eggs.