Wow. I knew I was behind, but I didn't realize I was THIS far behind. My bad.
I found this in Colin's backpack. He's too young to be in love with a girl from school, right? I texted the picture to my mother-in-law who works at the school and asked her to investigate this girl and make sure she was good enough for my boy.
Looks like Jude's eardrum burst early in April. It certainly explained why he had been such a terrible sleeper the night before. Poor li'l guy. More sickness to follow.
Jude playing Tenzi.
Conference! I love coloring in the Conference packets more than my children do. That round head template was perfect for drawing Elder Cook.
How Nate watches General Conference.
I love playing with Potato Heads. The kids probably helped me, but it was so long ago I can't be sure.
Awww, look how cute and little he was!
Playing at the cool park. Until some obnoxious big kids showed up and starting using language I wasn't comfortable with, so we bailed and went to a different cool park.
Spring Break hike to Battle Creek Falls! Thanks for going with us, neighbors! This was the only day that had nice weather during all of Spring Break, and the hike was super crowded. We almost didn't find a place to park!
I think Jude was trying to tuck Nate into bed.
So in April Nate and I started looking at lots to build a new house on. I loved this one. You could see the whole valley, and it was just beautiful.
There was already a house built on it though. And the house was beautiful, it just wasn't exactly what we wanted. And we decided that we aren't moving unless we can get exactly what we want.
Kate lost another tooth!
Creepy pile of doll pieces leftover from my awesome white elephant present I made.
Nate wears multiple pairs of sunglasses!
The following are pictures my kids took with my phone one day:
Jude loves making silly faces.
Our windows were so dirty! But I could only clean half of them because I didn't know how to take the screen off. The CLR worked wonders to take all the gross mineral deposits off.
I love that my kids love Legos. I just wish they would play with them more often because they are usually kind to each other when they play Legos.
We celebrated my niece Lydia's (or Lyddie, Liddy, Lid-E) first birthday. I gave her books. She obviously loved them.
That day was also prom for Maple Mountain High, apparently. We came home to see this parked outside of the neighbor's house. I was a little jealous, having never ridden in one myself. For my senior prom the boys rented a 15 passenger van, and it was awesome. They even had a red carpet.
Nate has discovered that he can shoot darts with deadly speed and accuracy using the PVC pipes from our fort kit. I do not like it when he shoots at me.
Gray didn't mind being shot at as long as he had his helmet shield.
Nate thought he would give an extra long pipe a go. It was not a success.
My sweet li'l Baby Swan. This was Kate dressed in her Swan Lake costume for the first time. She was so adorable.
This is one of my favorite books. We read it for Grandma Book Club (I put it on the list ages ago, and someone besides me FINALLY voted for it too). The grandma who usually leads the discussions didn't quite get the book, so she asked me to lead. I said sure. I pulled out my sticky tabs and reread the book, promising myself that I would only mark the really REALLY good parts. This is what my copy looked like when I was done. Most of the ladies in the book club didn't care for the book. They just thought it was weird. But after I pointed out what I loved about it, they were more open to it. "I need to read this again so I can see what you saw in it," they all said (well, some of them said). That felt like success to me. If you haven't read this book, you should. Neil Gaiman's other books are amazing too.
Jude started running a fever, which means he basically stopped living life and only wanted to be held and to sleep with a blanket covering his face. I moved the blanket for this first picture. After a few days of constant fever and no other discernible symptoms, I took him to the doctor. The doctor looked at his ears (I had explained about the goop leaking out previously) and said Jude's ears were infected. I asked him to do a strep test too, because we have been burned by strep before. The doctor said the antibiotics would treat both infections anyway, but I wanted to know if he was contagious or not so I could be on the watch for my other kids getting sick and limit Jude's contact with other kids. Sure enough, he also had strep. Poor kid.
I love giving Gray haircuts. The pre-cut mohawk is my favorite. He's just the cutest.
