April 2: Drew’s kindergarten concert was tonight. Our school has SEVEN kindergarten classes so there’s roughly 150 kindergartners, add all their over eager parents, grandparents, godparents, neighbors, co-workers, and long-lost cousins that people invite to these sort of things made for quite the madhouse. Even with my aisle seat it was impossible to get an unobstructed video or picture of the concert – apparently people forget their child is not the only child performing.
April 5: Abigail sent Justin and I a little video clip this morning of her enjoying fries and chicken mini’s for breakfast at Chick-fil-A. Both for free of course. Apparently she has quite the reputation at Chick-fil-A for free food redemption – she makes her parents proud. I was also passing by a Chick-fil-A today on my way to a luncheon with friends in Auburn and redeemed my free fries and sent her a picture. Yum!
April 6: Conference weekend
April 7: My fitness streak came to an end today. I just couldn’t muster up the energy/desire to go for a walk in between conference sessions. 62 days is quite the accomplishment and I doubt I’ll ever see that again.
Spring Break 2019
I took some notes during Spring Break so I’d remember what we did. I don’t have many pictures, but it’s still fun to look back at and remember what our week was like.
April 8: I decided to still attend institute this morning. Primarily because Carly needed me to pick up some groceries and I hate to run an errand without tying it to another errand or event. So I was gone all morning while the kids hung out at home. Abigail still had school, work and a dental appointment. Later that afternoon the three younger kids and I did a puzzle together and then I went to an evening class at the YMCA while Katie and Drew played in the kids area.
April 9: Carly left today for an overnighter with friends at the Great Wolf Lodge. We typically don’t do “sleepovers” so this was a special treat for her. Katie had her birthday party (see previous post). And Jason went biking along Alki Beach in Seattle with his friend Hyrum.
That night Justin and I went on an impromptu date night to redeem yet another free cone at Ben & Jerrys and catch a late movie.
April 10: Today was a stay-at-home day to catch up on life and laundry. The younger kids were allowed some electronics time. I ordered a bunch of prints to update the frames in our house. Probably a trip to the library, cause we seem to go to the library at least once or twice a week around here. The kids fly through books. Not necessarily an exciting day, but productive.
April 11: I did a bunch of baking this morning – banana bars, banana muffins, etc… The kids used to eat bananas like crazy, I’d buy 4 bunches a week, but lately they end up getting overripe and I have to bake em’ up into something. We’ve eaten a lot of banana bread these past few months. All that baking warranted an afternoon at the gym and the kids and I finished up a puzzle so we could get ready for a fun game night with the Gibbs.
It was a fun night and the Gibbs brought lots of yummy treats - root beer floats, cookies, salsa. Drew had such a great time that he included it in his school journal the next week.
“My spring break was so fun. First the Gibbs came over to my home. Next we played some games. Then the Gibbs went home.”
April 12: Spent a huge chunk of time today going through Jason and Katie’s clothes and sorting out what no longer fit. Going through Katie’s clothes took a long time because she also has a bunch of clothes from her older sisters that we needed to try on and sort. Abigail was taking the ACT the next day so she spent the day studying. The girls have been babysitting a family in our neighborhood for nearly three years and tonight was the first time Carly (or Abigail) had ever actually interacted with their kids. The kids have always been asleep in bed when they arrived – even if it was as early as 6pm. So crazy – bout time in my opinion.
April 13: Today was a baking day for me as I prepped for Katie’s birthday tomorrow – rolls, cake, chicken for her requested gnocchi soup. Justin and Jason went to a movie with Benjamin and Talmage Reynolds.
April 20: This morning was the neighborhood Easter egg hunt (see Easter post).
Jason went to his buddy Jack’s birthday party today at Gameworks in Seattle. Most tween and teenage boys are gamers. Since we don’t have a gaming system Jason doesn’t have many opportunities to play. He definitely enjoyed it, but he felt way behind compared to the other boys.
Today was also the pinewood derby. Since the church changed age the kids advance into young men’s and young women’s in January Jason started attending deacons at the start of the year so he is no longer in cub scouts; however, our ward invited the activity day girls to participate in the derby. We initially said we weren’t interested. Justin pretty much despised having any role in the derby, but Katie’s leaders bought her a car and told us we could simply “leave the wood as a block, nail the wheels in, put on the stickers…” So we reluctantly participated. Let me be clear, Katie was excited about it – it’s her parents that weren’t. Justin rounded down the block just a tad and Katie gave it a paint job and it performed as well as the effort we put into it. Katie’s car raced in four heats – she placed last in three of those and second in one.
Each kiddo was given some sort of award – Katie earned “Most Realistic”
Just two crazy kiddos
April 21: Drew lost his first tooth a few days ago. Reluctantly we’ve let the tooth fairy back into our lives.
Look at that cute little gap! I told him that he can’t lose his top two front teeth though cause those are my favorite. I’m typing this two months later (mid-June) and we pulled out his second bottom tooth as we were walking into our pediatrician’s office on May 29 and he’s already working on wiggling the next one loose. I wouldn’t mind if this kid would stop growing up so quick.
April 25: I love this tree in our front yard – and that little boy in the background trying to get more comfortable riding his bike – (yep, still on training wheels).
