The Lieslands

Rosie Marker-Hair

The girls fashion and accessories and this morning they came up with this awesome hairstyle for Rose.

Rose’s Soccer

Rose is playing soccer for the first time this year, on a U6 team. She is having a lot of fun on and off the field.

3 Car Family

Feeling the pinch with all the kids’ activities ramping up this spring, we decided it is time to invest in a third car. Andrew is paying for part of it and he will be the primary driver.

Mari’s First Soccer Game

Mari is playing soccer for Valley this year. Here is a picture from her first game, at Waukee Stadium

Today we celebrated Easter with ourselves and then we had the Reagens over in the afternoon for an Easter Egg hunt. Church was online with Lutheran Church of Hope – same as last year. Our traditions include Easter Bunny-hidden baskets (inside), Easter Bunny-hidden eggs (outside), and then a candy Easter egg hunt with the Reagens.

Pool Fence

Over this long Easter weekend we replaced our back fence, to be up to code for the pool. Our whole family and the Reagen kids came over to help with all the work that needed to be done.

Andrew and I used this two-man auger to dig the post holes. It would have been fairly straightforward, except we were working right next to the hedge, so that meant weird angles and roots.

Finished product, footprint from the old pool, yellow tape is the approximation of the new pool.

Elliot’s First Track Meet

Elliot’s first track meet of the year, in Indianola. I think he ran the 800.

Father/Daughter/Mother Dance

For a few years now I have been attending the Father/Daughter dance with Mari, Lucia, and Rose. It did not happen this year, so we staged our own dance this evening at home. All credit goes to Susan (of course).