April Recap

Hard to believe there could possibly be anything else to write about for April after so much was already covered. I mean, April was a pretty busy month for us...

- California
- Disneyland
- Easter
- Ethan's 5th Birthday
- Ethan's birthday party
- Fire truck park
- Ethan's swim lessons

But, I think I can still find a couple new things to write about...

* Spring has sprung! Well, by now we are nearing summer, but in April all the flowers and trees were blooming...

Our bluebells.

The neighbor's apple tree.

The neighbor's dogwood tree. I really caught this one just barely before all the blooms were gone. For three Springs now I've been meaning to get some good pictures of that tree and I always miss it!

* Playdates. Since I am not working right now, I try and help out our friends if they need a kid or two watched for a couple hours during the day every once in a while. One day in April we had 2 kids in the morning and 3 kids in the afternoon with about a 1/2 hour overlap between the p.m. kids being dropped off and the a.m. kids being picked up! Ethan plays well with all of them, so it usually works out pretty well.This little cutie is Emily (almost 2) and it was one the first times she was at our house, so she was very quiet but super sweet. I couldn't resist this picture because of her cute little ponytail sticking up from the helmet!!
{Notice the jungle we call a yard behind her?! Yeah, we were pretty happy when our landlord's guys finally came to mow it in April! Not for our lack of trying to do it on our own (long story)- we just don't have our own mower.}

* YM/YW ward talent show. Since Sean is in the YM presidency, he got to participate and then it just happened that the Activity Day girls that I work with went to the show so I was able to video this little gem showing off the YM leaders that are oozing with talent!

 

* Geo-Trax. We love our Geo-Trax in this house, but since they take up quite a bit of room to make a full track, they usually make an appearance once a month or so and then stay up for a few days. This track was from April and Ethan and I thought we were pretty clever for being able to engineer a 2-story hill and some cool zig-zags/switch-backs underneath.

* First trip to Klineline of the season!! We had some AWESOME weather the 3rd weekend of April and ended up at our fave summer hang-out Saturday evening with several other friends and family. We had a picnic dinner, dipped our toes in the cold water, kids fished, kids played at the playground and adults played some frisbee in the squishy, soggy grass. Good times. :)

* Oh, and in case you're wondering... no date-night-movie-of-the-month. We were too busy with everything else all the other weekends. I did, however, finally rent and watch Thor in preparation for The Avengers coming out. We also re-watched Iron Man, Iron Man 2 and Captain America! We got movie night in May, though - any guesses what we saw?!

* Random picture of my boys... Of course, they're sleeping. Snuggling together one Sunday after church.