Some April Happenings

Because of our blog absence during the month of April, prepare yourself for a lot of pix and happenings. This does not cover all of April but gives you a little idea of what has been happening here the last few weeks. I hope to follow up with a few more things from March and April in future posts including Paul shaking his hips. Consider that a teaser!

A friend from church is letting us borrow the bounce house she has for when her nieces visit. The boys love it and are in it almost daily. We feel spoiled being able to blow it up whenever we want. It is just the perfect size for them--you can get a feel for its height by looking at the boys peeking over the top of it. And the second one is just a funny one of Isaac smooshing his face against the netting.

Brad had a conference in San Diego at the beginning of April so we got to spend a lot of time with him. He went to his conference each day Monday through Thursday and was back at our house in time for dinner and games that night. It was so fun for us all to catch up. Thanks for including us in your trip, and thanks for dinner at Pat & Oscar's, Brad!!!

At the beginning of April we welcomed a new niece to the family--another Katelyn Marie! (Thankfully, she came early enough that Brad and I were able to visit her in the hospital before Brad went back home.) The boys LOVE holding her (and that is an understatement) and will sit with her for as long as she stays quiet though Isaac will even keep her while she is crying (must like the challenge of quieting her).

To give Jill and Mark some time with Katelyn, we had the older two girls here for a slumber party. We had such a great time (though I was a little worried when Kenzie woke up and threw up in her bed the first morning...thankfully, it was not the flu that spread to the other three kids!!!) and did a lot of fun things together.

We spent a lot of time outside Making chocolate popcorn using the air popper

We got to spend a lot of time with J & M & family in April since we not only wanted to see Katelyn on a weekly basis but also because they all came here for Easter. We had our annual egg hunt. This year we also made Resurrection Cookies to help the kids semi-experience the story of Christ's death and resurrection (of course I have no pix of this process since that is all on video--this post is long enough without adding the video so I'll see about adding that another time).

Caleb was not too happy for this group pose

Caleb pointing out his egg in the grass he planted at our Moms' Group preschool

Notice how tall our one geranium plant has grown. I guess it likes sitting on the water line.