April looked like this...

We haven't had a dull moment in April. It started with sickness, ended with sickness, and we had company every weekend in between.

Top to bottom; left to right:

-Justin was sick during the first week of April.  I finally took him to the pediatrician after 4 days of fever, just to be told it was a virus.  He started to perk up on the drive home.  Todd got the same "bug" which caused a sinus infection.

-Caleb turned twelve!  We went to the Aquatic Center with cousins to celebrate.  He is busy with student council, orchestra (violin), 4-H (computer coding), and Scouts.

-Michael and Becky came to visit for Conference Weekend (Todd's brother and fam).  The boys loved playing with their girl cousins, especially 7 mos old Caitlyn.

-Caleb took good notes during Conference with his new Kindle, and when we played Conference Jeapardy a week later, he nearly beat me!

-While Pres. Monson was talking about treating our family with kindness, we had some serious brotherly love goin' on.

-Dillon participated in his school track meet, and Justin and I watched all his events without getting sunburned.

-Grandpa came to visit and got our yard whipped into shape.  I wish I had a recording of the moment we drove up to the nursery...he giggled.

-Grandpa made us an herb garden out of a kiwi crate from the grocery store.  He also planted corn, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, peas, beets, lettuce, beans, peppers, carrots, onions, zucchini, an apple tree, a pomegranate tree, a canna lily, a wheelbarrow full of succulents, a trumpet vine, and four pots of flowers. While he did all that, I made breakfast.

-Caleb was ordained a deacon, and passed the sacrament for the first time.

-Four generations.  Grandma Great came down with Grandpa and we loved having her here (my mom was  helping my sister who just had baby #4).  Grandma's only brother lives around the corner from us, so she got to see him as well.

-Todd and I saw Vince Gill and Amy Grant at Tuacahn, and loved it.  I'm pretty sure we were the youngest couple there, but we didn't care.

-Todd spoke at a Relief Society meeting for another ward, and thanks to my mother-in-law watching the kids, I got to attend.  I loved catching a glimpse of what he does for a living.  So much of his job is confidential that I never really get to see him in action.  This was as close as it gets, and I loved every minute.

-My sis-in-law, Carrie, and her two boys stayed with us on their way to Cache Valley.  Gabriel and Justin are the same age and had a great time playing together.  This fuzzy pic is the best I could get of two active three-year olds.

-We dyed easter eggs out on the patio, just as the sun set.  I like to do the "fluffy" stuff on Saturday, but we were so busy working in the yard that we ended up doing our easter egg hunt on Sunday. It was warm enough that the chocolate in our plastic eggs melted.  Next year we'll have to do a glow-in-the dark hunt on Saturday night.

-The kids came home from church and changed before I got a family picture, but Todd was kind enough to oblige.

-For Easter break we decided to stay local.  We toured the Jacob Hamblin home, and the Brigham Young summer home.  We planned to tour the tabernacle, but Justin had had enough.  We ate "linner" at the Black Bear Diner, and Caleb ordered the biggest "bowl" of Chili we'd ever seen.

-This is a salad I made for Todd to take to work one day. He still has to be pretty careful about what he eats ever since we started our anti-inflammatory diet, but it's getting easier.

-I got a lamp post at DI for $15, and Todd had to run electricity from my quilting studio, under a sidewalk, under rocks, and through a cinderblock wall to light it.  He put it on a timer so it turns itself on and off at night.  I love it!  The only time we play outside in the summer is after dark, so I'm excited to have light next to our sand box.

-This picture is of Justin with a breadstick from the Pizza Factory.  Todd and I had a lunch date there, and he was our third wheel.

-We are deep in the throes of potty-training.  I continued my tradition of waiting way too long in the hopes that it will go faster.  So far, it hasn't been too bad. Every time Justin uses the "potty", he gets to put a fish sticker on his ocean chart.  He has given each fish a name...one for each family member, grandmas and grandpa, and now he's adding cousins.

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-Our friends Cami and Travis stopped by on their way to CA, and we loved seeing them again. They left me with a quilt for their baby (due in July), and I quilted it during the week so they could pick it up on their way back through.

-Grandma left to go back to Washington after spending six months here in an RV park.  I still can't figure out where the time went. We have had a crazy few months!

-My Uncle Wayne and Aunt Anita were kind enough to pull our trailer back from Cache Valley (it's been there since last Summer because Todd's brother was living in it). They rounded out our 4th week of visitors.

-Todd took the older two boys on a scout camp out where it rained and was windy all night long.  I stayed home with the younger two boys, and ended up with a fever from my sinus infection. Brayden came home coughing after a night in a wet sleepping bag, and since then, everyone else has gotten sick.  Dillon has a croupy cough, Brayden has missed two days of school, and now Todd (who had just recovered from his sinus infection) has a fever.