Our April was jam packed with fun. Here is our busy month in reverse...we went to see the Cherry Blossoms at the Capitol with the rest of Utah. I think social media has made these Spring Blossoms a little too popular...I don't remember these kind of crowds when I lived across the street from the Capitol building.
These four are our world.
I loved watching Silas and Millie walking the path hand in hand.
Lou loves getting rides on the wiggle cars with the older kids.
We are all loving the warm Spring weather that has finally arrived. Lou is probably the biggest fan. She would prefer to be outside all day and cries when we have to come inside.
We went to Bring Your Own Cup Day at 7-11. This may be an annual event for our family.
Millie had a Let's Play Music Year 2 recital. She played the song "If I practice every day."
I made my first batch of sourdough bagels. They were so good...they will for sure be on repeat around here.
Phin and Millie each invited a friend to join us at Red Butte Garden for their free day. Millie was terrified
Seth's friend Sarah invited us to her wedding reception and Seth was able to get together with many from his High School group. Paul, Preston, Matt, Seth, Chad and Justin.
Sarah and her husband are moving to Minnesota. Their reception was designed to give guests the Minnesota Fair experience. We received tickets when we arrived and could use the tickets at various food trucks...World's Best Corn Dog, Bruges, Fiiz and Donut Kabob.
Nona made Millie a new dress and she couldn't wait to wear it the next Sunday.
Millie got her final cooking subscription box. This one was to China and included shadow puppet theater.
We got season passes to Cross E Ranch's Baby Animal Festival. We went one rainy Friday afternoon and pretty much had the place to ourselves. We loved the new location of the barrel train.
Both sets of KIDS were adventurous on this particular visit.
Lou LOVES the calves. She says MOO when we visit them.
We walked around the Capitol the week before the Cherry Blossoms were at their peak...and enjoyed the nearly empty path.
Millie has been loving Activity Days. She came home from one activity with a plate full of sugar cookies that she had decorated herself.
Our school custodian is AMAZING. One morning she had some ducklings and dropped by my room to show them off to Phin and Millie before school started.
He also loved their punching bag and thinks we need one too.
Phin performed in the 4th grade program this month. They sang all sorts of songs about our great state of Utah. Phin played the tambourine for the final song.
A little shot of our fairy garden. We have a migrating fairy garden that moves around to the prettiest spot in our yard. This time of year that happens to be our front flower bed.
I am figuring out this whole Sourdough bread thing. This was a loaf of Orange Cranberry and it was delicious...I am pretty proud of the scoring on this one too.
Millie had a Marilyn Monroe moment after church one Sunday. She got a kick out of her dress poofing up. It reminded me of winter mornings standing over the heating vents in my nightgown when I was growing up.
Our little weeping willow tree was uprooted in a recent wind storm. Seth spent a good chunk of a Saturday morning chopping it down.
I had a very strong helper when I took down the Christmas lights.
We also went to the member preview night at Cross E Ranch. It was so nice to have a night without big crowds.
Lou LOVED the jumping pads.
They added a huge ropes course area and my kids could not get enough of it.
Millie has been terrified of the baby goats since they tried to eat her hair a couple years ago. She cautiously watched us from outside the goat pen until she felt comfortable coming in.
Seth's work rented out a theater for the Mario Brothers Movie. We were able to take our Activity Day boys to the movie. Silas and Millie also dressed up in their Halloween costumes. I loved hearing Silas laugh during the Donkey Kong and Mario fight.
We had a wonderful Easter. We got a new house for our Fairy Garden.
The kids also got a little airplane gun launcher. Silas looks a little panicked here...but I promise he loves it.
Lou loved searching for Easter Eggs.
It took a little coaxing, but I was able to get some Easter photos of each of the kids.
Seth's boss gave us AMAZING tickets to the last Jazz Home game. We invited Seth's best friend Matt and his wife Tonnie to join us. This is a photo of Seth right after he caught a free hat.
We spent Spring Break down in Escalante. We joined my parents and my Mom's dear friend Rebecca for a few days and then our friends the Newbold's joined us. On our way home we stopped and hiked the Mossy Cave outside Bryce Canyon.
Our kids got along so well with their kids and loved playing Werewolf each night with their family.
They also played some Nintendo Switch together.
We took them to one of our favorite spots...Devil's Garden.
We did Spooky and Peekaboo slot canyons with them. Out of the two slot canyons, Peekaboo was a little more our style.
Lou was pretty cold after Spooky slot canyon and Chloe was kind enough to lend us her coat so Lou could warm up.
Spooky was very narrow. We didn't make it all the way through.
In this photo you can see just how tight it got...it actually got quite a bit narrower than this.
It was so fun to see our kids get to know our friends.
We went to the Visitor's Center before our friends arrived to make sure that Hole in Rock road was open and that the slot canyons would be safe.
We have a tradition of having the kids kiss the lizard out front.
When we were at the cabin over Christmas break we hid a Geocache box. Jeff hid the box in a different place and we had a fun adventure trying to find it. We even had to cross an ice bridge.
Kim totally spoiled our kids the spoils in the Geocaching box.
Phin getting a "bear hug."
Nona counting doing "This little piggy" with Lou.
Lou and her friends the bears.
We hiked near the property one day and found the hieroglyphs.
In the background you can see the cabin.
Phin loved checking on the fort he built over Winter Break.
We walked down to the waterfall.
