April
For April Fools Day I thought it would be fun to do a little prank on my kids. Jeff and Cedric were having home lunch at school that day, so I made a very "funny" lunch. I swapped soda for water...
I dyed their apples blue...
I put their sandwiches in a mac & cheese box...
And their cookies in a tomato sauce can.
I included a note, so they would look inside the can and box and not just throw it all away.
Jeff got a pretty good kick out of it. However, for Cedric, it wasn't as funny. I guess he got in trouble at recess and had to eat his lunch that day in the office. I felt bad when I found out.
Sophie put ketchup on her arm and acted as though it was blood to fool Lily.
Eventually, Cedric was happy that day after I showed him the new bike I'd bought for him, since he was outgrowing his old bike.
Jeff used the money he'd collected at Easter and bought his recent favorite game, Cover Your Assets. He learned about the game when he stayed at Grandpa Kent and Grandma Suzy's house a few months back. He's taught all the neighbor boys how to play it.
Lily used some money to buy a hair extension. It didn't fill out her head the way her real hair does, so they only way to make it look real was to braid it.
Sophie had been watching a show where they make homemade pizza's and begged to make them one night. It's not my favorite thing to make, but the kids loved it. Sophie was pretty proud of her pizza.
Lily and Sophie made a fairy garden together one afternoon.
On General Conference Sunday, we had our traditional conference rolls and listen to conference. The kids did pretty good to find quiet activities during the sessions.
With the weather warming up, we've been eating outside more on our new patio table.
We took the kids one day to see Zootopia.
Lily and her good friend, Sammy happened to wear matching outfits the day of Sammy's brother, Jordan's baptism.
Sophie likes to help make my bed while I'm saying my morning prayers.
I've started helping with my step-grandma, Kay (Suzy's mom) about once a week. She spends the day with me and helps with the preschool classes or my own children. We've enjoyed getting to know her better and she's such a sweet and helpful lady to have in our home.
I've also been watching my niece, Charlotte about once a week. Tom's mom had some back surgery that has a long recovery process. Since she's normally the one who helps with Charlotte, Maren's been having me help watch her.
Lily can usually be found climbing a tree somewhere.
I tried doing some fun hair-do's on Lily for a few Sundays.
She hadn't had sponge rollers in her hair since she was about three, so she wanted to try them again. At first, they came out way curly!
But they softened a bit and she looked beautiful.
One day, it was super windy. So I bought some cheap kites at the store and we all went to the park that night to fly them.
We had Sammy, Jordan and Hailey with us that night too. It was a fun night together.
Last spring, Tom went over to our bishop's house and watched as he started a bee box. Ever since that day, Tom's been wanting to get honey bees. He's been studying up through books and videos to know how to care for them. He got some boxes from the bishop and ordered some bees. The day those 3,000 suckers arrived, Tom was like a kid at Christmas! He was so excited, and we all had fun watching as he poured the bees into their new hive.
One day Sophie was at a friends house playing. I noticed that night, that her ponytail looked like it had been cut.
Sure enough, her friend had cut her hair. She felt bad, but it wasn't much so I wasn't too worried.
The next day, my hair dresser friend came over and evened out her hair again. It even brought back some of the curl!
Tom goes away on little trips a lot. I was starting to give him a hard time about it, so he told me to go do something. Although that wasn't the solution I wanted, I took him up on the idea and decided to go to BYU Women's Conference. This was months ago, but the time finally arrived. My good friend, Tiffany went with me.
We left Wednesday night and drove down to Orem. We stayed at my cousin, Alana's house. She and her husband were out of town, and although her brother was temporally staying in her basement, we pretty much had the house to ourselves. We went to dinner and then grocery shopping. Of course, we made some stops at Krispy Kreme Donuts and Swig before the night was over. We had fun talking and watching Netflix in the evenings.
The conference was so wonderful! It was such a good way to fill my spiritual cup, have a break from the stress at home and have fun.
We learned a lot about Charity. I took over 20 pages of notes over the two days! I wish the feelings and knowledge that come with a conference like this would last forever.
We got to here from some wonderful speakers such as Sister Burton, the Relief Society President, Elder Rasband from the Quorum of the 12 apostles, and John Bytheway, our favorite speaker from our youth.
The next day, I had our Young Women spaghetti fundraiser dinner and auction. Although we didn't get as good of a turn out as we would've liked, we were very successful with our fundraiser amount.
Life's busy!
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