All of April (in one long post)

April 1st started off with a visit from our cousins who were moving from Georgia to Utah and decided to stop by and visit for a few days.

 Brooklyn loves when she gets to play with someone her age.

Too cute.....wish they got to see each other more often. 

Trampoline Time

Speaking of trampolines, Mikayla was jumping on the trampoline and twisted her ankle which became swollen and too painful to walk on. So she got to use crutches for a couple days. The first day I think she kind of enjoyed them but realized quickly they weren't all that fun when her armpits started hurting and she wasn't able to move as quickly and freely as she likes to. Luckily it was just for a couple of days.

Katelyn finds herself falling asleep sometimes in strange positions

Checking out the local train replica with Brooklyn

Mikayla and Kambria petting the baby pigs at a street party.

These kids really wanted to play in the rain. With temps only in the 60's I thought it was a little too cold but then decided it didn't really matter since I'm not the one getting in it. Although if I did, I think I would be dressed more like Brooklyn was.

So they got their fun in the rain.

Crazy kids

Silly kids

April showers bring May flowers

 Katelyn turned 8 months old in May and started crawling. She only did the army crawl for about a week and then decided it was easier to get on all fours to crawl.

And now that she is she mobile she gets into all sorts of things (dog water bowl).

And in no time she started pulling herself up!

 Austin met up with his cousin Klayton and his papa Cliff's to work on their pinewood derby cars. He really wanted to make his car into an arrow. When I asked him why he said because his cousins' car was an arrow last year and it was fast.

Giving his arrow car a paint job.

Then it was race-time.

 I love the looks on some of the boys faces!

Austin's car (the green arrow) won 1st place and he was super excited about that!!

 1st--2nd--3rd place

I think Craig and Jeff are just lucky that Cliff knows how to build the derby cars, enjoys it, and does it so well that they don't have to.

 Cousin Love

Watch out....she won't bite but she will try to suck on your face!

 Mikayla begged me to do a bake sale so on the last day of April that is what we did. We had the kids cousins over and spent several hours doing the prep work. Mikayla and Kambria worked on the fruit-loop necklaces.

 Austin and Klayton dipped the oreos in white chocolate and sprinkles.

We made some ice-cream cone cupcakes too.
Very cute but not for sale!

I sent out a text to our neighbors and family in town about their bake sale and we had lots of visitors and some great tippers! 

It was a bake sale success!!

March Memories

On March 2nd, our dog Abby turned 11 years old.
Present time

She finally got that big bone.....along with a new collar and chase toy.

On March 3rd, Katelyn's first tooth broke through and was found by Austin. And by the end of March she had 2 teeth!

Participated in the Shamrock the Ville 5K....my first timed run since Katelyn was born. I knew I wouldn't beat my fasted 5K pace but got pretty close at 28:45. My goal was under 30 min so I was happy about it. My nephew Connor ran with us and beat us all coming in 2nd for his age group.

Sister Love

We spent an afternoon at the park and Austin and Madeline spent a lot of time making a stick house.

They did a pretty awesome job!

Playing dress up

We were out of town for Kambria's birthday so Mikayla took her out to Braum's to celebrate.

And by the end of March, Katelyn was sitting up by herself. What a big girl!!

Easter Weekend

We had a couple lessons with the kids about Easter and the reason we celebrate it. We had a great Sunday meeting listening to church members bear testimony of Jesus Christ. I am grateful for Christ  and that He was willing to bear and suffer all things so that He would know how we feel, so that we could repent, so that we could return to live with Him again. I am grateful to know that He not only died for me but was resurrected. And because of that miracle, we know that death is not the end. There is life after death. We will see those we have loved and lost again. When you stop and think about that truth of the gospel it is beautiful!! And that is worth celebrating!!

Series of Easter Sunday Pictures:

Trying to get a perfect picture of 4 young kids is almost next to impossible. But we got pretty close!

My 3 beautiful girls!

On Saturday, the kids found their hidden Easter baskets at Dennis and Vicki's house

Somehow Mikayla convinced me to make Easter egg sugar cookies after churchWe had Easter dinner with everyone at Dave and Debbie's house followed by the egg hunt. I was so happy that Brooklyn was finally able to walk after injuring her knee so she could participate.

Aleesha and Nick helped Katelyn find some eggs.

And by the time I was done taking pictures of the 2 little girls hunting eggs, the big kids were already finished finding all the other eggs.

Happy Easter!!