Spring Break was the last few days of March and the first few days of April. Joseph, Kimball and Rebecah went to Greenville, South Carolina, for Spring Break for a Coffey Classic/school golf trip for Rebecah. They were gone an entire week, so I planned a few fun things for the three youngest while they were gone.
Spring Break - Cicero
Playing pickleball.
Popsicles with friends.
Roller skating.
Lincoln, Annika, and I also went to the Palmyra Temple so they could perform baptisms there. It was a great experience. Lincoln invited one of our "grandma" friends from church to join us and she did.
We all enjoyed having a more relaxed schedule with fun, easy meals that we all liked. It was a great Spring Break even though the four of us didn't go anywhere.
Spring Break - Greenville, South Carolina 'Coffey Classic'
Team Dinner and night golfing for Rebecah:
The Coffey Classic Gang
Kimball gets an employee discount at Cracker Barrel, so the group ate there a few times on the trip.
On the way home Joseph and the kids stopped at Shenandoah National Park. Joseph and Kimball did a sunrise hike together.
Since Easter was the same day as General Conference this year we decided to celebrate them on two different Sundays. General Conference for us is 12-2 PM and 4-6 PM, so it makes it very difficult to prepare meals—especially a bigger holiday meal—so we just ate fun, easy foods on Easter Sunday. Joseph, Kimball and Rebecah were out of town on Palm Sunday or we would have done our special dinner then. The Sunday after Easter we had our Easter meal. It helped to draw out our Easter season by an extra week. We participated in our regular Holy Week traditions, as well.
Lincoln started the braces journey this month. His teeth don't seem to be too bad, so he's scheduled to have his braces for just 2 years. He was in pain the first few days, but didn't complain too much.
Festival of Arts
Lincoln and Eden had drawings in the festival this year. Eden's was the corn picture.
I love the bright colors she used.
Lincoln didn't want to be in a picture with his drawing.
Seal of Pent-literacy
Kimball finally finished his last part of his language seals. He had to go to the continuing education building in Syracuse and give presentations in each of his four foreign languages for 10 minutes. He has no problems speaking Dutch and Spanish so his preparation for those were minimal. He isn't quite as comfortable in French and Western Frisian, so he prepared a little more for those two language speaking assignments. He practiced the night before and I listened to all four of his presentations. I could tell he was searching at times for words in French and Frisian, but he still did well. The day of the presentations he had three back-to-back presentations, but he felt like all of them went well. His Dutch presentation was via Zoom with someone in the Netherlands since the school district couldn't find a Dutch speaker locally. The Dutch translator ended up speaking Frisian, as well, and while he was not initially asked to listen to Kimball's Frisian presentation, he agreed to do it when Kimball told him that the school didn't know how to find a Frisian translator. I'm so proud of Kimball for setting the goal to achieve literacy in four different foreign language. The Seal program was changed this year and it was a lot harder to prove competency this year than in previous years. He will tie the New York State record for the seal of literacy in five languages and set the school and county record. He LOVES languages!
