April 2015

I dropped the ball as far as April Fools tricks, but Faith managed some pretty sweet artwork on her brother as he slept!

Tony was on vacation from work and the kids were out of school on spring break, so on April 2nd we headed to Dalt Lake and made a stop by our favorite candy factory.

The kids glazed pottery about five years ago and have been begging to do it again ever since, so we took them to Color Me Mine. Faith made a rainbow mug which read "I 💜 my yorkie" and Christian made a pirate cup.

Afterward, we had dinner at Chuck-a-rama.

Here is a drawing Faith made awhile ago of Cinderella's castle. Amazing!

 

 On the 3rd we enjoyed a festival of grilled meats at Tucanos. Buddy managed to out-eat us yet again! And he didn't pass up the chicken hearts, either.

And we hung out at the planetarium!

The morning of the 4th was the neighborhood Easter hunt. This year it was held at the church.

Tony and I had spent many hours cleaning out the basement, so we borrowed a trailer and hauled a bunch of stuff to the dumps and the D.I.

That afternoon was the Braegger Easter party.

Little Liam & Riley were so cute!

We came home and colored eggs late into the night.

On Easter morning, the kids were excited to find baskets of candy and new kites!

I made a huge Easter/Conference breakfast buffet featuring bacon, sausage, deviled eggs, hash browns, omelettes, and Mickey waffles!!

Tony even made Skittles her own plate.

In between sessions, we enjoyed the kites at the park.

After conference, we had Easter dinner and a hunt at Peterson's.

Faith changed her Facebook profile and the picture was so cute.

I finally took her get well cards off the wall. She got some really sweet ones from school,

her friends,

(Rage Rinehart drew the darling picture of her!)

and her fellow Beehives.

Buddy made these at school:

Faith painted this pup with water colors.

And Bud made these:

Here are the kids' soccer games on the 11th.

Tony helped Bud make his first pinewood derby car on the 13th.

On the 15th we had a big snowstorm and skittles had to peep in the snow!

April 16th was the pinewood Derby!

Christian's car was not the fastest, but he still got an award and a certificate :)

The 18th was the kids' spring piano recital, and they both did marvelous jobs!

Afterward, we had some fun at Lagoon with Joy and her kids while Jordon was on a business trip.

On the 19th Tony took the family shooting at the bountiful gun range and it was the first time the kids got to shoot their shotguns.

Faith wasn't holding hers tight enough against her shoulder, so the kickback really bruised her arm and made her cry. But she was brave enough to give it another go at the end of our time there!

On the 21st I went to training for a new position I was offered with JetBlue. I am now a Blue Buddy! I still mostly work me regular reservations shifts, but get to pick up some shifts where I take calls from new hires who have questions or need help. I really enjoy it!

My training class was a great group and I loved that it was taught by Claudia Stevenson who was my original trainer three years ago.

Mom & dad came to Christian's soccer game on the 25th.

They came to Faith's later that day, but left at the very beginning because the wind picked up and the clouds looked very threatening. It started to downpour after they had only played one quarter. We thought they would call it, but they made the girls play for another 30 minutes in freezing rain! Christian, Skittles and I watched from the car, but Tony took our Yorkie umbrella and held it for himself and Coach Sabin. Tony mentioned that it wasn't the manliest umbrella, but Coach said at that point he didn't care!

We celebrated Tony's 44th birthday on the 26th. My mom even made him chocolate lush :)

Cutie Bud making an impression of his face on the 27th. He was off track from school and we got to hang out.

On the 28th I had to work, and my guy wanted to be near me so he watched a movie on his iPod.

I made his special breakfast on the 29th,

and then got him his one special request--dry ice to do experiments with!

The next day our special outing was to get my guy a giant Slurpee :)

March 2015

Here are my two guys on our big BumSack (foam filled bean bag) on March 1st.

On the 3rd, it was Christian's 100th day of school and they were invited to dress up like they were 100 years old.

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He was a grumpy old man!

On the 4th the kids made Skittles a cake for her 3rd birthday.

The 8th was so nice, Buddy & I took our doggy for a walk.

Faith had a spring choir concert on March 11th. They sounded so great!

The 14th was Pi day, so we celebrated with shepherds pie for dinner (on the left) and cheesecake pie for dessert (on the right).

March 15th found us outside at the park, enjoying a beautiful spring day.

Here are the kids displaying how their Leprechaun trap narrowly missed catching a little green guy on the 17th.

We did find some footprints, as well as tiny bites in the treats!

 We had our traditional St. Patty's feast with the addition of a pear & cream cheese jello ring.

After dinner, Christian showed us how he could finally ride his bike!!

 

For the craft/dessert, I demonstrated the rainbow donut.

On the 20th, Christian got a MUCH needed haircut. He picked it himself and turned out so handsome!

The next day we saw:

Faith even did her nails for each of the factions :)

The kids and teachers looked so cute with their colorful (sticker) musical measles in primary on the 22nd that I couldn't resist taking a picture!

On March 25th I chaperoned a 7th grade field trip to a STEM conference at USU. there were lots of science & technology job booths with things for them to explore.

It was mainly a bust because it was so packed with kids that Faith could hardly see or participate in any demonstrations. At least we enjoyed the lunch we brought!

Lagoon's opening day was the 28th. Faith didn't feel well enough to go on rides (lingering effects from the mono, we believe), but we went ant got our season passes picked up.

Since Easter would be on General Conference this year, we thought we would get a "dressed up" Easter pic on the 29th after church. I set my phone on the popcorn machine and set the timer 😁