April part 2

It is currently the end of July and I have just now uploaded all the photos from Jon's phone. Hence, the reason I am doing an April part 2 post.

 

Behind the scenes of the Thanksgiving Point photo shoot.

Easter egg decorating, hunts and parties

 Thanksgiving Point Tulip Festival

April 2014

General Conference weekend. We built "tents" like the people of King Benjamin did to listen to the prophet. Grandma Robyn sent the kids a general conference packet to do while they listened and the boys thought it was great.

When they got tired of the tent and the packet they turned to some of Jon's toys from when he was a kid. That kept them busy for a while. 



We are loving our Thanksgiving Point passes. We went to the tulip festival several times. The flowers were different every time. 

Amy and I took the kids to BYU as one of our spring break activities. It was always a lot of fun to walk around BYU campus again. Great memories!  

During spring break the kids had their first golf lesson of the season. They take golfing very serious. It always helps when grandpa brings treats to bribe them to listen carefully to his instructions.  

Shawn is doing great with his golfing. My dad says he is a natural and really thinks Shawn has a lot of potential. Shawn seems to really enjoy it too.

We went and checked out the flowers at Temple Square. Amazing! 

I thought this picture was too funny because it showed each boys personalities perfectly. 

Look how sweet Shawn is. He really is sweet most of the time until he lets his inner Hulk out. 

Jon and I went to the annual traditions ball at BYU again. It was fun, not as fun as last year, but still fun. It was just nice to have a night out together.

I took Shawn to Boondocks for our date. He hit the jackpot on one of the games and over 300 tickets. That was one excited boy! 

FotoFly was having a promotion when I got Carver's birthday pictures done. The promotion made it possible for me to get these Easter pictures at Thanksgiving Point done for free. I loved the photographer because he was able to get Evan to smile. Not only smile, but a genuine smile. 

I also got a date this month with this handsome little man. I let him use the booster seat instead of the 5 point harness and he thought that was pretty much the best thing ever. We also went to Boondocks and he loved that I just handed him tokens and let him play and do whatever he wanted. 

We checked out the city's Easter egg hunt. Too crowded! I think we will stick with my family's egg hunt and call it good. 

Evan started soccer. As you can see, he was not thrilled with the idea.

And here he is half way through the game. He was loving it so much he decided to push his own teammates out of the way in order to get the ball.

Carver loves to just look out the window. Most of my windows are pulled up at all times. Then I caught this picture. Of course! That is where he gets it from. Love my boys.

Well, soccer in the rain was not a success.

We have had a lot of bad attitudes and grumpy family members lately (see above photo). I decided to do a Family Home Evening lesson on anger. I used Angry Birds as my examples. Each type of bird represented a different bad quality. We talked about not letting ourselves get to the angry bird stage and then ate this angry bird fruit pizza.  

Carver is loving the outdoors. This kid would spend all day outside if I let him. 

Morning chat over a fruit popsicle. Yes, they are eating popsicles at 10:00. It was one of those mornings. 

Shawn decided that Easter egg hunts were too fun to only do on Easter. He kept all the empty plastic eggs and then hosted MANY egg hunts for his little brothers. They had a blast and didn't even care that their was nothing in the eggs.

I hope you had a good April and a  wonderful Easter!

March 2014

We visited my Grandma and Grandpa Jensen. The kids have so much fun running around their massive yard, playing in the sandbox, and learning new things from Grandpa. Shawn found some quality sticks in the yard and my grandpa is helping him cut off the side twigs to make it into a sword.

I went to help at the school and as I was walking down the hall I saw this kids story about leprechauns. I thought to myself, "I need to work with Shawn on his writing more. He can read well, but needs to improve his writing". I started looking around the hall for Shawn's leprechaun story and ended up back at this one which had Shawn written on the back. Haha! After looking at all the other kids' stories I am not worried about his writing anymore. :)  

I teach a preschool co-op with a few kids from the neighborhood. Tiff came on the last class before St. Patricks Day. A lady from her mission gave her and some other sisters this lovely outfit. She came in the door of my house and sprinkled gold candy on the kids and then taught them a leprechaun dance that she made up on the spot. I think she deserves the best aunt ever award for be willing to do it.

The week after Tiff got home from her mission, my family all headed down to Bryce Canyon. It was nice to go when there wasn't any snow since we usually go in February. We had a fun time and now Evan begs every day to go back.

We just bought a Thanksgiving Point annual pass. I have not been very tempted in the past to get one, but with the new children's museum opening soon and my boys being a little older, I thought it was a good time to get one. We have already gone several times and they are LOVING it! I am sure we are going to spend the entire summer in the farm country, gardens and children's gardens (with splash pad and activities and more). We will spend the winter in the dinosaur museum and children's museum. I am actually pretty excited for this pass. Doesn't hurt that it only takes us 10 minutes to get there. 

Carver has decided that I don't feed him fast enough and wants to take on the responsibility. Look at that proud little face.

Tiff got home at the beginning of March and we are so thrilled to have her back! Yay! Tiff's home! 

I made my first and last turkey this month. I had bought a turkey when they were on sale after Thanksgiving. I finally bit the bullet and made it. It turned out yummy, but I was so grossed out of manhandling a raw turkey that I am not sure I could do it again.

Having 1:00 church is the pits. Carver is always tired and grumpy during church and we get out so late that we don't get to do much after church. One morning we decided to do something before church so we drove to the Oquirrh mountain temple and just walked around. It was a beautiful morning.