The Mergenthaler Family

I'm still behind on news.  Since Easter was about a month ago, I'll keep my prattling on about details short and just let you see the pictures. On the Friday before Easter, we spent some time dying Easter eggs after school.  Sean loved his eggs so much that he insisted on carrying them around with him in a plastic bag.  I found them a couple of hours later on Emily's bed.  They had been abandoned so that he could "dress up" in a new outfit. Every Easter, Andrew and Ricky think it is so funny to wear their Easter baskets on their heads.  I have to admit that it is pretty silly! Andrew thought it was so silly, he had to wear his hat to the ward Easter egg hunt. I managed to find matching outfits for the boys and new dresses for the girls the day before Easter.  Our church starts and 9 a.m. and I wasn't feeling great that day, so we don't have many pictures.  The kids all looked very nice.  Maybe I am a little biased, ...

It has been a couple of months.  Don't think we aren't doing anything.  We are.  I just haven't (until now) taken the time to get all the pictures off of my camera.  Our computers are getting old and slow and I just can't convince myself to sit and wait long enough to upload pictures.  Be proud of me today because I did it!  I'm only going to talk about spring break.  Easter and Prom will probably have to wait, but at least it's something. For spring break, we took a 4 hour road trip to St. Louis, MO.  We stayed for the weekend to see the sights.  It was a lot of fun!  We went with another family that lives near us.  We were quite the group with ten kids and four adults. We drove down there on a Thursday morning.  Our intent was to spend the afternoon taking turns going to the temple.  My friend, Nicky, and I left the men in charge (watching a BYU game) while we went to the temple.  When we finally...