May excitement

A random collection of pictures from April and May...

One of our favorite family evening activities is seeing how high Dad can bounce the kids at this park.

Nathanael's class FINALLY got to go back to school all together and for five days a week starting May 17th!  To celebrate, they had an outing hike one day, and since they were walking right past our house, we used it as a belated birthday celebration for his class.

Ice cream and watermelon break!  (And hand sanitizer of course)

THE RESTAURANTS REOPENED ON MAY 19th!!!!!

The kids and I tested and went on the first day during a break between school activities.  It was so wonderful to eat fresh schnitzel and fries at a restaurant!  We really missed that.  I think they were last open in October, but I have lost track...

And this is also crazy exciting:  Eva got her ears pierced!!!  An early birthday gift for this beautiful girl.  So proud of her!

She was not so sure she was ready, but still excited.

Tiger Lily has enjoyed the nicer weather, and she regularly deposits small creatures at our doors.

Eva is starting to learn typing at home.  (They don't learn it in school here!)

One of my new songs was chosen to be reviewed by Keith Getty and Matt Merker during a live webinar.  So cool!

Garden Progress and Gregory's Green Thumb

With Lockdown #4 looming in March, we decided to buy garden plants a bit early this year.  Perhaps a bit too early.  But we wanted to have new plants in the ground at a good time, and with the gardening stores closed, we would've been in a bind.  So we are glad we did it.  But it meant for some creative shuffling of plants and flowers and trees at multiple points in March and April!

Our back porch is finally a special space for us to use.

Gregory put in stepping stones for us!

Everything is planted!

Saving the window box flowers!

Spring beauty and new growth!

And finally our new house number :)