Sorry I’m almost a month late on this. It’s mostly pictures, but they are too cool not to post.
This is the “Field of Honor” near our home. People all over Boise can put up a flag to honor a war hero in their family. It was really cool to read their names and the wars they fought in. Perfect thing to do with small children on Memorial day. Twenty minutes in and out!
Wesel boys at the BBQ
This Mother’s Day I was peacefully enjoying my French toast in bed when there was a huge crash downstairs in the kitchen and Liberty started crying/screaming. I couldn’t tell if it was a “my limb is broken and I really need my mom” kind of cry or an “I’m hurt, but mostly scared and don’t need mom all that much” kind of cry. I opted for the latter so I could enjoy warm food for once, but she kept crying for mom so I went down. She was balling and covered pretty much from head to toe in powdered sugar. I had to try really hard to stay and give her a hug instead of laughing and running for my camera. After a good long hug we were both sufficiently covered in powdered sugar. She and the witnesses explained that she had been sitting on the table trying to sprinkle her own powdered sugar on her French toast from the container at one end of the table to her plate at the other end of the table. (Might I just add here that if Mom had been in the kitchen Liberty never would have been on the table OR attempting that long distance feat with the powdered sugar on her own.) She lost her balance, plummeted head first to the ground, hitting her head on a chair on her way down. Her plate landed on the floor with a tremendous crash, spreading the love of the powdered sugar ALL over the dinning room floor. The kitchen also looked like a bomb had gone off because when you let an eleven year old boy cook you breakfast he will cover every inch of your kitchen with mess. I wish I could say that I got to enjoy my warm food after all, but that was not to be. All that being said, I will take that mess over the barfing children some of my friends got to take care of on their Mother’s Day.
Liberty and Levi presented me with these sweet gifts after breakfast.
Notice the expensive packaging she used.
And inside: 
Flowers from our yard. Notice the powdered sugar still in her hair.
Those flowers happen to resemble a heart and so Levi got creative with his card: 
If you need a translation it says; “Mom, I (heart) You. Love love love this cute little card! Thanks, Levi!
The rest of my Mother’s day went splendidly until my kids came home with “The Paper”. You know the one. The fill in the blank questionnaire about Mom that all primary kids come home with on Mother’s day. What I like best about mom is……., what my mom does best is……., my mom makes me laugh when….I love my mom because……. When they are little and their primary teachers are helping them fill it out they tend to be pretty cute and hilarious. But when my older children are left to answer it unaided, it is not so pretty.
Cade: What I love most about my mom is “she provides the four needs of all living things: food, water, shelter and space.”
Let’s hear it for warm and fuzzy!
Reagan: My mom makes me laugh when “she says something funny (very rare)”
I resemble that remark!!! I can’t help it. I can be funny around other people but not my kids so much. It’s sad I know, and even sadder when your kid calls you on it.
The day was saved by French Silk pie and a new set of pots and pans to replace our wedding pots and pans which are finally biting the dust.
Thanks everyone for a wonderful day!
On the Thursday before Easter, baby Bryce was born!
We had all six Wesel/Hymas cousins at our house that day. I was dumb and tried to dye eggs too. Dying eggs with 6 kids under 12 can be scary. I don’t know how other people do it. It’s one of those traditions that tends to send me over the edge. I would gladly pay someone to dye eggs with my children. Any takers?
Bryce!!
Our Neighborhood puts on an Easter egg hunt that was pretty fun.
You can guess what colors her basket was full of.
More Easter egg hunting
The Easter Dress
This was a fun Chemistry science experiment on density we did this week.
Guess which item stopped at what level.
Every time we read about it in the science book I kept wanting to say Destiny instead of Density.
This little girl brought me a perfect bouquet of flowers yesterday. 
She brought these to me after I looked out the door to check on her and found her chatting away with a total stranger in the neighbor’s driveway. If I could remember back to when I was her age I would have been having flashbacks I’m sure. I now know how my mother felt with me wondering off and talking to total strangers.
Liberty went to the dentist for the first time this week and thanks to the tv attached to the ceiling, (the MOST ingenious idea I’ve ever seen) she did fabulous. The dentist also pulled out Levi’s second tooth this week!
And I got this video this morning of Liberty dancing to Vivaldi’s summer during our classical music lesson. Sorry the music didn’t come through in the video very well. Am I wrong in thinking she has natural talent? I’ve been raising boys, who don’t do this kind of thing, but it seems to me she’s pretty good.
We’ve had lots of little big things happening around here lately.
I found this little girl totally asleep one night IN her laundry basket after having emptied its contents onto the floor. I don’t know what she has against her bed, but most nights we have to pick her up from off the floor and put her back in her bed.
We enjoyed our semi annual Conference Crepes at General Conference. 
Thank you so much, Reagan, for ruining the picture. Sigh.
Last week at pack meeting Cade earned his Bear award. 
That’s a bear skin hat, not a new hairdo.
And then he demonstrated how to reel in a fishing pole for all the boys.
Levi finally got bloody in a GOOD way this week by losing his first tooth! 
Every week it seems Levi is knocking a tooth loose and we’ve been lucky he isn’t toothless by this point. I’m very glad this one came out naturally.
My friend’s daughter graciously gave Liberty a ton of Barbies and a doll house too! She has been in heaven for days! Thank you so much Bethany!
Those of us who have had to help dress the Barbies when it is too hard for Liberty have NOT been in heaven.
We spent a fun afternoon at Aunt Janie’s last week.
Feeding the chickens
Holding the chicks 
Wearing a cow pelvis
Riding Horses
The kids absolutely love Aunt Jane’s. I wish we could get there more often!
Levi started his first season of soccer! 
His team is the Dragons.
That’s Levi out in front. He was all over the ball!
Having big brothers can be a pain some of the time, but it was a definite plus for Levi out on the soccer field. He really knew what he was doing and was totally fearless. But I guess that kind of describes Levi with everything. Fearless.
We were actually late to Levi’s game on Saturday because just before we left, a mother duck and her ducklings wondered into our yard! We have a small irrigation ditch in our neighborhood and we think that’s where they came from.
Eventually she made her way back out again. I hope they found their way home again.
On April Fools Day the boys did all kinds of things to play jokes on people and though most of them flopped, this one was funny. I came home to a foil wrapped plate from Levi. When I opened it, this was inside:
It’s a Brown-E!!!!
In other, not surprising news, Levi had yet another head injury this week. Five minutes before it was time to leave for church last Sunday he decided to jump head-long into the corner of the bunk bed. Luckily, he did not break the skin, he just earned himself a huge goose egg. His sister decided to poke it with a pencil later in the week, thus the red scab you see on his forehead in the middle of the greenish yellowish bruise that is now left.
He was being such a goof when I tried to take a picture of it today that I decided to put them all on.
It’s a shame he’s trying so hard to wreck his adorable face.
This month we’ve been studying the American Revolution in history and Reagan wanted to try making some scone type things he saw the British soldiers do in a movie. He didn’t have rocks and fire like they did, but he had flour and water.
Two weeks ago Rock informed me that for date night (in two weeks) he had signed us up to run the Bo Glo 5K, a night time, everybody wears glow in the dark clothing, run to support Cushings Disease research. I haven’t trained for a 5K in years! But I ran the whole thing! Who knew! Of course I cannot walk today, I’m so sore, but it’s conference weekend, so that’s OK!!
I never post anything on Facebook because I’m never really on Facebook, but I decided to post this picture and the response was pretty funny, I must say. My favorite comment was that Rock is a dork, but he has really nice teeth. LOL. He does have quite the cheeser grin, for sure.
