We had so much fun together in April. I always love this time of year as the weather is warming up and we can spend more time outside. We also had a lot of fun Easter celebrations spread out through the month and got to spend a lot of time with friends and family. We're so blessed.
Moonshine Arch 💓
General Conference was at the very beginning of the month. I always love General Conference, though the kids are still learning to appreciate it. Ben's tradition growing up was to do Legos during conference and mine was crafts, so we did a little of both with the girls.
Cousins 💓 I made a lasagna for dinner, which is hard for our little family to eat on our own, so we invited Ben's cousins over to hang out Saturday night.
Sunday morning, the girls made a fort out of the table.
We also did jelly bean structures during conference, where they got to make whatever structures they wanted with toothpicks and jelly beans. Rylee always makes tiny weights out of them 😂
The week before Easter, our ward had a party at the park by us. They did such a good job with the party and we all had so much fun.
Ashtyn's "lunch" that she dished up herself 😂🤦
The week leading up to Easter, we also got to go visit Ben's Grandma Leah. She helped the girls decorate chocolate marshmallow eggs with frosting. Oliver thought her cat Glitter was the coolest thing.
The girls' paper Easter baskets of Easter eggs.
During the week leading up to Easter, we also had an Easter egg hunt with some of Ben's cousins' and their friends. We did mostly stickers and coins in the eggs. It was really windy, but the kids had a lot of fun with it.
Easter weekend was pretty lowkey for us. Saturday, we had Navy come over and decorate Easter eggs with the girls. The egg dying kit I got came with bunnies to decorate and that was Parker's favorite part.
Rylee loved holding the eggs 💓
One of the bunnies Parker put up started falling off that night. Ben and I couldn't help but notice that it looked a little like it was crucified ...
Easter morning 💗
Oliver loved his basket!
On Easter morning I had a stuffy nose, so I stayed home with the younger three while Ben took Ashtyn to church (she really wanted to sing Gethsemane during sacrament with the primary). Parker and Rylee played outside all morning, so while Oliver was sleeping, I did all the prep work for our Sunday dinner.
After church, we went on a hike with Ben's cousins Chris and Ashley. We did Moonshine Arch, a really good hike for kids. It ends with a really cool rock formation that is fun to climb on.
We had a blast hiking with Chris and Ashley!
It was so nice to come home to a yummy dinner after the hike (we had worked up an appetite!). We had a roasted chicken with mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, zucchini, asparagus, and deviled eggs.
After dinner, we went to Lindi's and had sugar cookies.
The week after Easter, my mom came out to visit. She watched girls for Ben and I so we could have an overnight date for our 9th anniversary. It was so fun to spend time together without the need to get back to the kids!
We ate at a place we hadn't tried in Vernal, the Vernal Brewing Company. We got brussels sprouts and bacon, Caesar salads, and a hamburger to share. It was all yummy food!
We also stopped at the library to browse books together 😂 and got ice cream. It was so nice to have the whole night to be just do whatever we felt like doing.
The weekend after Easter, we went out to West Jordan to visit my family and had a blast. The kids do really well on the car trip. We give them each a bag with some snacks and a notebook to color in and then let them watch movies (usually The Swan Princess and The Emperor's New Groove). We usually stop once for a bathroom break. Oliver struggles a little more, but he did really well on the way out (the way home he cried a lot more).
On the way out on Friday, we went through Orem and stopped to see one my friends Itzel and her husband. We ate at a pizza place with them and then played Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza at their apartment. It's Ashtyn's favorite game right now and she loved it. I loved catching up with them and the kids loved seeing both Itzel and Tanner (they are basically the girls' favorite people).
My grandma did an egg hunt on the Saturday and we were so happy to be there and see my family 💗 I will always be grateful for everything my grandparents do for our family.
I can't believe the cousin I used to carry around as a baby is now helping with my kids at family parties 😍
Play time at my mom's house! Rylee loved this dress up, calling herself a vampire. The girls were super excited to see their cousins and to spend so much time with Grandma Dee 💗
Sleepovers with Grandma! Ben and I also got to go on a dinner date while my mom watched all the kids again and we got to spend some time with Jon. We love going to visit people in West Jordan.
The kids loved the rest stop we stopped at. They thought the self flushing toilets and hand dryers in the bathrooms were the coolest 😂
Oliver is so cute sleeping in the car 💗
We also had fun at the park!
Oliver loves swinging 😍
Rylee 😂
Building blocks together 💗
Such musical daughters 💗
And Parker 😂
At the end of March, Ben released a puzzle game inspired by Tic Tac Toe called Tic Tac Tanks. Ashtyn and I both had fun playing it!
Ashtyn's life drawing 💗
Parker's drawing of our family 💗
Rylee had a little fall down the cement steps in the back.
Oliver loves his sisters 💗
Rylee also got a little fever. She got over it pretty quick though. It's been nice to not be as sick as often as the weather has warmed up, though we've still been sick some.
Dad snuggles 💗
Just a cute naked boy because of blowout diapers.
He's so cute 😍
I love sleeping babies 😍
Oliver is rolling over more and more and starting to scoot around some.
I love watching Oliver play 😍
When you're just picked on 💗
We stopped using Oliver's sleep sack in April and started putting him on his tummy. It's helped him nap a little better. For a little bit, it helped a ton (at least one 2 hour nap everyday!) but now he just rolls over as soon as he wakes up 😂
Oliver has light hair, but he also has some really dark hairs mixed in.
Yogurt is one of Oliver's favorite foods.
Oliver loves to sit up and he is getting really good at it.
Trying to get some sun together despite the wind.
When Oliver is having a struggle, he needs his Momma 💗
During a no-Dad party, we made cookies and cream ice cream. It's now Oliver's favorite 💗😂
When the ice cream is all gone 😂
His favorite thing right now is to sit up and play with the plastic tea set. The girls like to say, "Oliver is going bonkers with the tea set!"
You can also tell from this picture and all the paper pieces the girls scattered around that Oliver isn't actually mobile yet.
Oliver screeching 💗
I love watching him play with stuff 😍
He is just the cutest 💗 also, the "where is your underwear" in the background is pretty much a daily thing around here 😂😂🤷
We are so blessed to be together and to have the friends and family that we have!
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