April 2010

Wow! This month has been a great month! Full of lots of things to do and get done. As well as enjoying TIME together as a family. Yep that's right, the first of the month Patrick was busy finishing off tax season and then once the 15th rolled around we got our Dad/Husband back! With Patrick having more time to be home, the kids have been enjoying their special time with him. Porter is always so excited for the day when Dad is home and how he gets to go outside and PLAY! Dad has a rough time at work now-a-days because he realizes what he could be doing if he were home, playing with his kids, making them(and him) smile and laugh! We also took one day where Patrick built some shelves in our Garage to help with storage. We have absolutely no storage in our home and so we've had to improvise. Now that our family has grown to 4 we are realizing we are growing and need more space. More space for what we already have and for more growth. We told ourselves we were building the shelves to help with space not to free space for new things! Anyways Patrick did a wonderful job with the shelves and we are very proud of him and his skills.

The beginning of the month we started out with Easter!  Easter was such a fun day for us. We woke up and saw that the Easter Bunny came to our house!! The bunny was very kind and left Porter for a good hunt for eggs! As soon as Porter heard there was stuff inside the eggs and then opened them and found candy...of course he had to eat all the candy in the one egg before he could move on to the next. It was too funny to watch.We had so much fun watching him! It was especially fun watching him get the egg from the clock.
The second weekend of the month, my niece, Maddi, got baptized and confirmed. Because it was still tax season I took the kids down to Utah County alone, w/o Patrick.  It was an enjoyable weekend, and I was able to make the 2 hour drive by myself with a 2 year old and a 3 month old alright! Friday night we arrived at Grandmas and Brandon and Holley came to hang out and have dinner with us! I was really excited about that! We had tons of fun being with them and enjoying some of our last moments together before they move. Brooks is such a cute kid and growing up so quickly. Brandon was very kind and entertained Porter and Brooks with the Legos for about 30 minutes!
The next day was the baptism. It was a wonderful baptism and was lots of fun seeing family. It was the first time many of my family got to see Kinley. We enjoyed the lunch after the baptism at the park. Even if it was a bit chilly. Porter's cousins were great to entertain him and play with him! Especially Bryce who took Porter over to the Basketball hoop to shoot the Football, yes! I said football! Everyone was so confused when Porter would go up to them and point and say shoot. Because to them it sounded like he was saying ZOO haha what a funny kid!
Then to end the month Patrick and I were able to go to the 2010 MBA Graduation Banquet with the guest speaker, Elder L. Tom Perry. We were blessed to be able to go shake hands with Elder and Sister Perry and have a small little chat with them! He really is a TALL guy! Amazing how he's almost in his 90s and he can stand as tall as he does and also have the mind and speech capacity that he does! It was really neat to have that special opportunity. My first time shaking an apostle of the Lords hand. Dean Anderson compared Elder Perry to the Wellsvilles. The Wellsvilles are the extremely tall snow-capped mountains that I get to see everyday out my bedroom window. Dean Anderson not only compared the tall, snow-capped part about the mountians to Elder Perry, but also the steadfast and immovable constant man he is! It was great and I will forever remember that.