"I've got pieces of April..."

On April 1 Trey and I took Poppy and Boden to Antelope Park to play. They loved it. Poppy was much more adventurous on the slides than Boden. But it was a beautiful day and they ran all over the place. Then we all went to lunch at Runza.

April 2 the kids and I decorated Easter Egg Sugar Cookies. It was a fun time. Sticky but fun. They used some corn syrup paint that I had made. 

April 3 - Bryan had been making a street lamp for a friend of ours. Some other friends found the top at a flea market and Bryan created the pole and base for it. 

He finished it all and repainted it black. Tim sent a picture of himself by it tonight after he and Bryan got it in at his house.

I think it looks amazing.

April 5: Easter Sunday

I took a picture of the desserts we had for supper but none of all the actvity...Jon and Alicia and their kids joined us, Ashley, Bobbi and Travis and Jayme and Trey. It was actually nice to do an evening meal because Bryan had a chance to rest before it. 

April 9: I had to work, it was Hudson's 8th birthday. He was so excited!

Then I hurried home from work because our friends, Prince and Pilar Amukamara, were in town and were coming out to dinner. It was so fun to see them. They are expecting their first baby in June. I am so glad it worked out for us to see them. Bryan invited Jeff Petersen and two of his boys come out.

I just love these kids! (I look like I worked all day and forgot to fix myself up at all before anyone came...OH wait that is what happened...)

Jeff's son, Danny, was pretty thrilled to get to try on Prince's Super Bowl ring. Not something a kid gets to do every day. 

This sweet girl. I made her some cookies. Little girl baby themed.

April 13: I had mentioned to Bryan that Jayme wanted a swingset for Poppy. He got on Craigslist and found a LIttle Tykes one for $40 in Eagle just down the road. So off we went and got that for her.

Driving down "O" street with a swingset in the pickup.

Ashley came over and helped us with it.

Poppy thought Grandpa was going to be "youd" with the tools. So she kept plugging her ears.

But we got it up and together and she was thrilled!

She wanted me to use the slide.

My legs are as long as the slide...

So much fun for $40.

Jayme sent me this later that evening. Worn out from playing on the swingset. 

Today I kept hearing our air handler outside running and knew I had turned off the furnace. So I called and finally the poor guy got here at 6 something, fixed the handler and went on his way. So glad I called before something worse happened. 

Bryan leaves on Thursday morning for a 10 day trip to Israel. He will be one of the teachers on the trip. I chose not to go. They are traveling with 70 people on this tour. It will be his first time there. I'm glad he gets to go. I will tell you more about that and have pictures later.