Spring Break at Niagara Falls

For Spring Break this year, David took a couple of days off and we headed north to Niagara Falls. We found a hotel on the Canadian side that was right next to the Falls and had a water park attached to it!! We had a great time and the kids loved the indoor water park. We saw the falls, went to the water park, took a ride on the Sky Wheel at night, ate at the Rain Forest Cafe and just had a good time. We had wanted to take a ride on the Maid of the Mist, a boat that takes you right up next to the Falls, but they hadn't opened for the season yet. Instead, we did the Cave of the Winds. We got to go down to the base of the American Falls.

This was the view from our hotel window. You can see the American Falls.

Both Katelyn and Jacob loved the slides at the water park.

Maya wasn't too happy to be in the water.......

Maya preferred to just sit and watch!!
And just because I know everyone is dying for more pictures, I've included the slide show below!! Enjoy.

Piano Lessons

As I have mentioned before, Katelyn is taking piano lessons from a Sister in our ward. Jacob and Maya get to go to piano lessons too, since they are in the afternoon after school. At the end of some of the lessons, Katelyn and her teacher sit down on the floor and do some theory. Well, after a few times of seeing this, Jacob and Maya decided they needed to do theory too. So, now everytime the teacher sits on the floor to work on theory, Jacob and Maya go right over and sit down too. They do some clapping of rhythms and some games to learn notes. Jacob and Maya both clap along and Jacob insists on playing the games too. Her piano teacher is so nice and always includes them both and even lets Jacob take turns learning the notes and rhythms. I almost feel badly, because we are paying for one child to take lessons and yet Jacob and Maya are learning too. Below is a picture I took of them all sitting on the floor doing theory at piano lessons a couple of weeks ago.

And here is Maya just being goofy during piano lessons.