April Catch-Up

I realized now that it is May that I blogged nothing whatsoever in April! So now I am playing catch-up! I need to make a mental note to not get behind again - it's been crazy going through the pictures and trying to select a few to include in the catch-up marathon! So here we go! April was a busy month, the girls competed in their last dance competition in Logan, Utah, we had few nice days and capitalized on them and we experienced our first snow day of the year - in April!! We tried to get a cute photo of the kids in their Easter clothes, Jonas was a sabotaging force! We had a play date with the Keppners, we miss them so much and it was so fun to see them! So here we go - catching up marathon style!!



Here is the best we could get of all the kids together in their Easter outfits - Jonas will not sit still for anything - love this wild age so this is pretty good considering our little man!

They loved walking back and forth across this bridge, not great for a picture but they loved looking at the river below!

Jonas on the bridge - such a handsome boy!

We had to go check out the zoo on the first nice day we had, this is the new lioness - we just love going to our little zoo!

Audrey and Savannah in their Ice Cream Freeze costumes - this is their hip hop dance - is is really adorable and it's been fun to watch them perform it this year!

Genie costumes - this is their jazz dance - really cute too!

More genies!

Lunch in Logan with another dance family, we are really good friends with them, we have kids similar ages and the wives and the husbands all get along - it is fun to hang out with the Hansens!

The girls finished up their dances and wanted to watch some of the performances of the older girls and Jonas had completely had it with dance for the day, so Larren took him on a drive for a nap. This is what he looked like when he woke up! This competition stuff may be the absolute hardest on him! Poor thing!

Cruising the streets of Logan we come upon this odd sight, I can still hear the girls' giggling in my mind when they looked out the window and saw this sight in the other lane - we have no idea what it was about, but what a funny sight!

Enjoying drawing on the driveway on a sunny day!

The Keppners and the Coverts!! Savannah, TJ, Hyrum, Jonas, Jerrico, Jorie, McKadee, Audrey and Grace! What a group! It was so fun to see them! They were here visiting family for spring break, we were so lucky they had an afternoon for us! Their two girls are to this day Savannah and Audrey's best friends, it was so sad when they moved, but so nice that they still come to Idaho Falls a couple times a year to visit family! Can't wait to see them again in July!

Jerrico and Savannah and just like true best friends they both got glasses this year!

Audrey and McKadee!

Here is naughty Grace in time out - obviously she takes this process very seriously!

Ronan and our cat Avery! Avery is the sweetest most patient animal ever!

Our first picnic in the park with daddy - hopefully many more to come this summer! Audrey had been to the dentist that morning and was still totally numb so she didn't return to school, her lucky day and fun picnic in the park!

Jonas loves hats, cowboy hats, baseball caps even an occasional crown! So cute!

Homemade pizza night! Grace and Savannah getting their dough just right!

Grace getting saucy!

A SNOW DAY on April 7th! No school today due to heavy snow! Unbelievable! Of course it was melted by noon and the girls spent the rest of the day outside riding bikes!

Savannah slept over in the little girls bedroom one weekend in April and when I went to check on them in the morning this is what I found! I just love that they have each other! What sweet sisters!

A spring break outing to Blast Off! What kids doesn't just LOVE a ball pit! Grace couldn't get enough!

This is actually a picture taken at the end of March at the Camas Prairie Bird Refuge. We took a drive out there on a Sunday afternoon with Bryan, Jamie and company and Emily and Ronie. It was a fun afternoon and I captured this awesome picture of Grace and Mckade! These two are three weeks apart in age and are inseparable at every family gathering. I love watching them play together, one of their favorites surprisingly is house, they have the perfect set up for a mom and a dad. One time at a family event at my house I went down to check on them in the playroom and they had drug out a bunch of grocery items from the storage room and had the play grocery cart and were shopping together! What an amazing blessing to grow up with your cousins!