Our 12 year old cousin, Eli, has started to play the Euphonium this year and had his spring concert this past week. The band played 3 songs: Pride of America, Cops & Robbers and Eye of the Tiger. The whole concert lasted less than 15 minutes…it took us longer to drive to the location than to actually listen to the concert. Good Job Eli!
While I was in Scotland my
sister and I decided to buy some frozen strawberries so we could make freezer jam. I am a little weird in that I don’t like strawberries on their own, but I do like the strawberry flavor and strawberry jam. So now that we are back in Texas my sister got everything together for us to make our freezer jam. It was mine and Kalani’s first time to make jam…I am feeling so domestic!
Kalani scooped all of this jam in the jar by herself
And this is our end result. YUMMY strawberry jam to last us for a while.
Today is Easter Sunday and they celebrate Easter in Scotland a little different than what we do in the states. Basically everyone in the UK receives a big huge chocolate Easter Egg. There are isles at the grocery store just with all of the different types of chocolate Easter eggs.
Inside each box is a huge hallow chocolate egg and 2 smaller eggs.
So no Easter basket or Easter egg hunt this year. Still Kalani was happy with her egg…it was about as big as her head!
Today we visited the Royal Family’s castle that is here in Scotland…Balmoral Castle. The castle is open to the public from April-July. The ballroom is the only room open to the public since the castle is still used by the royal family every year. However the garden and grounds are nice. It is probably a whole lot nicer in July since the gardeners have planned to have the flowers in full bloom when the royal family arrives in August. Still it was a BEAUTIFUL day and it was nice to be together as a family.
It has been SUPER hot in Texas lately. We are talking about temperatures over 95′ for nearly 20 days in a row…plus humidity on top of that. So really we it feels like it is over 100′. Normally I just stay in doors with Mason and Kalani, but I did venture out for a play date at a splash pad where some church friends were meeting up. Kalani had a wonderful time playing with friends and getting wet. I really like splash pads since Kalani can entertain herself and I don’t have to worry about her drowning. While Kalani played, Mason and I stayed in the shade and chatted with friends.
