Merrill Family

My Baby Caroline is growing up!

Her first big painting project!

She was so proud!!!!!
Look at that smile!!!!!

We love spring time, even though it still keeps snowing while the flowers are blooming.....

We are having fun having spring time

science experiments!

We are learning about plants and which ones you can eat. We put celery and carnations into water with blue food coloring, we will find out what happens........

Well, they did turn blue! Pretty neat, but you think the kids don't like vegetables and they ate them before I could get pictures. (so if you dye the vegetables' the kids eat them better...? Haha)

Then each of the kids have caterpillars that they are taking care of and they get to watch them turn into butterflies! This is the first stage:

We got to do their absolute favorite thing, play with their cousins at the park!!!

(Meika, Capri, Kendall, and Caroline)
(Baby Jade and Caroline)

Satya, Lucia (twins), and Jesska all have a birthday within two weeks of each other......
So we had a fun time having a night out on the town!! I can't believe we stayed out passed midnight. We had so much fun just laughing together! I love my sisters. They are my best friends! Thank you girls for being so amazing and such good examples!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE COOLEST SISTERS!!!!

Lucia and her kids brought Sierra up for a
fun weekend to visit.
Loren took the kids on a fun "roller coaster" ride up and down the hills on our property.
They all loved it!
(Trenton, Kalicia, Brooklin, Charlotte, and Caroline)



Caroline and I went to go cheer the boys on at their
Blue Ridge Track Meet.
(Austin does long jump and Jon runs the two mile and one mile.)

WOO HOO!!!!! Go Austin and Jon.......run run run!!!!!

Over a year ago, Loren bought me some citrus trees for my birthday because I miss having citrus trees when living in the valley. So we move the trees in and out of the house permitting what the weather will be.......well, it's working! We have been enjoying fresh lemonade!!

They do get heavy hauling back and forth. Also the wind and cold does torcher the poor trees if we don't get them in fast enough, so Loren is building me a nice little green house, so we can plant them in there!

Can't wait!