May

5.5.18  Cousin Katie is such a great babysitter!  She shared these pictures with me of the fun they had while Jared and I were out. (You can almost tell in this picture that Caroline has very very short bangs. Apparently they were getting in her eyes so she cut them off.  *sigh*

5.3.18 He has the right idea, but the execution needs a little work.

5.5.18 We were invited to a cinco de mayo party.  Good food, good folks, good times.

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5.13.18  Happy Mother's day to me!

5.16.18  Happy birthday to me! I got to give Grandma and Grandpa their Mother's day/Dad's birthday gift... and eat my cake, too.

5.17.18  We had a very successful preschool co-op this year.  Caroline loved it and we had some great ladies and children who participated.  This was at our little "graduation" party.

Hike to Diamond Fork hot springs

My brother, Adam, and my parents happened to have overlapping visits.  Adam wanted to go for a little hike so we took off for Diamond Fork.  It was a great hike and it was great to have enough adults to carry all the kids. They certainly wouldn't have made it all 6 miles!

They loved the hot springs! There were lots of little bugs flying around, but otherwise it was perfect!

Camping at Diamond Fork

We tried out a new spot for us at Diamond Fork campground.  A few friends came up Friday evening and we hiked around a little bit and roasted marshmallows.  We stuck around and camped and it was such a beautiful spot! I felt like the colors were so vibrant.  Pretty clear blue sky. White snow topped mountains. Spring green grass.  It was lovely!

April

4.1.18 Happy Easter!!  The kids were pretty excited about their Easter baskets.  All the candy had a pretty short life expectancy. 

Matthew thoroughly enjoyed his Conference crepes.

Helping me pick off cilantro leaves... and eating the stalks. 

Easter egg hunt with cousins.

Caroline drew this heart and wrote mommy all by herself.  Pretty sweet.

4.2.18  We were given a puppet stage and these guys had a fun time with it.  I took some really cute videos of their "plays".

 4.2.18 He saw the older guys in time out and must have decided it looked fun. He put himself here.

4.4.18  A blissful moment of them playing peacefully together.  I live for these moments!

4.5.18  The weather was nice enough for a hike so we convinced Haley to hike up the horse trail to Whiting campground.  I'm sure we didn't go quite the speed she would have liked, but we made it all the way there and back and I mostly only carried Matthew.

4.7.18  Cute kids playing on the arcade games at the mall. Without quarters or tokens, of course.  Who needs those?

4.11.18 Little Sahara.  We went with Jamie and her two little ones and had a blast playing in the sand.  It was such a nice day until the wind started blowing sand in faces, but by then they were about all played out anyway.

4.13.18  Start em' young!  Helping daddy do a little bit of tile work.

4.14.18  One of the joys of spring...  Mud puddles!  Ben and Wyatt were filthy and oh so happy.

 4.21.18  This has been consuming way too much of my time! Someday it might even be finished.

4.21.18  Visiting friends who had baby bunnies.  The kids thought they were cute and would hold them until they wiggled- at which point they would drop them on the ground- much to my dismay.

4.22.18  Good looking crew heading into church on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

4.24.18 Why buy real toys?

4.27.18 Bring on the warmer weather!