The second graders at Jacob's school was recently treated to an art lesson by a local artist. J was quite excited to create something from chalk.

Benjamin amazed me with his memory. He recently took first place at the AWANA bible quizzing. One of my greatest desires is for my kids to be learning God's word and hiding it in their heart. They are such little sponges during the younger years. We recently found in a stack of my books, a Bible Quiz book my Mammaw gave me dated in 1991. The boys loved testing their knowledge. Benjamin particularly enjoyed it. He is currently reading through the Power Bibles and amazed me with how the stories are coming together for him. Here is B with his medal from the quizzing.

The local hospital has a health fair once a year and the boys enjoy going. This year there was a egg decorating station.

There was a table with an buffalo leg on it. The kids got to explore it and look at tendons, muscles, etc.

The hands on spine. Jacob was telling the lady all about it :-)

40 days left of school ~ at least for Jacob. Not sure if Benjamin will be finished by then! None of the boys are doing spring sports, so pretty quiet and uneventful at our house!

The snow is melting up at the resort and JR will probably be able to start some of his landscape projects by late April. Hopefully at least one of the boys can go to work with him each week. It is hard to teach them to manage money when they don't have any money to manage. (The have never latched on to the 'jobs' at home ~ although the chores are not an option for them.)