The Gabrielsen Seven

The Gabrielsen Seven

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Paul's 32nd birthday

 My first sunburn of the season after playgroup with the girl cousins.
 24 kids at our playgroup!
 Weird Charlie. Safety first!
 Alice looked like this a lot this week.
 Danny loves playing in the dirt. And scooting around on the sidewalk ripping up the bum of his pants.
 Baby's first fudgesicle. He's crying because he wanted one in each hand.
 Charlie loves peanut butter and jelly on a tortilla.
 Goggle baby.
 General conference set-up.
 Projected on the wall.
 Fudgesicles outside on a warm day after a picnic dinner.
 The boys loved the elders that came over for dinner. But when the New Zealander gave the prayer with an accent, Charlie said, "He just prayed in another language. Are you from Texaco?"
 The spotlight poster we made for Alice.
 Our fun walk down Bountiful Main Street for Paul's birthday.
 We love our little town!
 A little stream we found.
Paul said my shirt was the same color as the blossoms.
 The old Bountiful Tabernacle.
 Paul's birthday dinner.
 Filipino pork BBQ, grilled pineapple kabob, and Filipino egg roll.
 Sugar cookies for dessert.
 We bank at Bank of America, but the only ATM/bank within 100 miles of us here in Utah is this "cash withdrawals only" ATM at Trolley Square. I had to get a picture with the mythical machine.
 Alice's funny hairstyle.
 General Conference activities. None of them really kept the kids entertained.
 Preparing our triops kit (like sea monkeys).
 Alice was pretty happy about it!
 They were supposed to hatch in 2-4 days. It's been a week:(
 Pukey Alice.
 Poor kid.
 Photo shoot after she was feeling better.


 Cute boys!
 Me and my tulips.
 Weird Charlie licking the pudding bowl. It kept him occupied for a LONG time.
 Mom teaching Grace how to roll egg rolls.
Alice won't take off her new goggles!

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Spring Break 2016

 Charlie hunting for eggs after church on Easter.
 Egg hunting in the back yard.
 Me and the apricot tree.
 Alice hunting for eggs.
 Grace hunting for eggs.
 Cuties after they found them all...we hope!
 Easter dinner: egg gravy over toast, leftover ham and rolls, pear slice.
 And of course a bruleed peep!
Too brothers on a cool Easter evening.
 The kids had all dressed in matching pajamas to get Spring Break off to a good start!
 It didn't look much like Spring Break outside...
Danny dressed for the weather in a turtleneck. He loves riding that giraffe:)
We had Lucy's family over on Wednesday. They didn't have Spring Break, so her two older kids didn't come, but I convinced Lucy to bring her niece for Alice. Charlie, Grace, Malcolm, Hannah, Alice, and Lincoln had an indoor picnic lunch. (Still pretty cold out.)
 April Fool's Day. The kids LOVED planning some pranks for Paul, including toy snakes in his bed and toy food in his lunchbox. That apple slice totally looks real!
 Charlie got pretty silly for April Fool's Day in Alice's new swimsuit.
 And her panties...(clean!)

Yes, that's Grace in Charlie's (clean!) underoos.
Lunch outside between sessions of Conference today. Of course, the first nice day of the week and we're inside watching TV all day - ha!