The 2nd half of April 2016

April 16th- Rich's sad, swollen eye while he had pink eye. He's still such a cute little guy though. :)

April 21st-

When tornado Aisley hits while Keaton is gone to school.

 Aisley is becoming quite the pro at riding Keaton's small scooter. We are loving all the Spring walks we are getting in (in between the rainy days) lately.

 Pink eye in the OTHER eye now... Poor guy.

I'm for sure the dinosaur lately...!

More pictures of this happy, swollen eyed boy.

Aisley took a tumble out of my mom's car and hit her face on the door. (Luckily, my mom caught her and she only hit the door instead of the concrete!)

 April 22nd-

The super random treat the kids picks from the dollar spot at Target. Ha, ha. Surprisingly, they actually liked them. I had to take a picture cause I was laughing so hard at their asian?? treat!

We went out to dinner at the Spaghetti Factory with our best BFF's the Spicer's. (Where we found out all in one foul swoop that they are expecting baby #2 AND moving to Washington State! We are excited for your new adventure friends, but we will miss you!!!) After dinner we went to City Creek to let the kids play in the play place, where I attempted to get a picture of these cute girls together. It was fun to let Aisley and Annalise play together!

April 23rd-

She told me she was wearing glasses just like her aunt Amber. :) Ha, ha.


April 24th-

All 3 of our kids LOVE their uncle Curtis.

The kids riding the horses at Grandma Shauna's house.

I need this shirt. Ha, ha.

How I'm sure Justin wishes our new house plan was!!!

April 25th-

We've been having some pretty rainy days lately. We made a quick trip to Dollar Tree and barely made it back to the car before the rain hit.

I just really loved this. I too love Sister Hinckley.

When you don't think you're tired, but you are and you fall asleep during "quiet time."

Our back door neighbors have a hole! Let the noisy and dirty construction begin!

 I treated myself to a much needed bath and some chocolate. (My new bathtub is very nearly one of my favorite things about our new house... I've taken a bath more nights than I haven't since we moved in! And, yes, I always have some chocolate and a good book to read each and every time. How could I not?!)

April 26th- This sweet baby trying to patiently wait for me to finish doing my hair so that I could feed him. Isn't he the sweetest thing ever?! I sure think so!

April 27th-

These 2 brothers make me quite happy- each.and.every.day.

Partying hard at Crayson's firefighter birthday party! Complete with real, live firetruck!!! Happy 2nd birthday Crayso!!!

April 28th-

Over the weekend uncle Curtis taught Aisley a new trick! How to cross her eyes! Aisley LOVES learning new things from her uncle Curtis. (The list is becoming quite long- how to block the sun from her eyes, blowing on her hands to warm them up when they are cold, how to pump her legs up and down while swinging...)

Rich loves spending time in the jump-a-roo. He is quite the energetic jumper!

April 29th-

April 30th- I love having a bouquet of flowers in my kitchen. Especially in the Springtime. I treated myself to this beautiful and colorful bunch of flowers.

A final day trip to DC...

May 31st- This past weekend was our last weekend in Maryland. (I don't even want to talk about it- it is so hard to say goodbye! We have really loved our year here. We have made all kinds of friends and have loved just about everything about living on the east coast. Even the humidity has grown on me a bit.)

Bright and early Saturday morning we drove to the DC temple. (I love how the temple just peeks itself up over the tops of the trees as you round the corner on the freeway... such a beacon of beauty and light. We love the DC temple.)

Before heading over to the temple we dropped the kiddies off with Justin's great aunt, Janet Weeks (her and her husband Fred Weeks are serving a mission in DC right now)- and she so kindly offered to babysit for us! Thanks again Janet! You are the best! And, both of our children LOVE her!

After doing sealings in the temple together (which was so great, as always) we met our friends from Utah- Wade and Sara Jacobsen (who currently live in PA) at the visitors center and picked up their little boy, Lucas, so that we could watch him for them while they went into the temple. We took Lucas with us back to the Weeks apartment and were able to visit with Janet for a while, while the kids played. It was a great visit.

After the temple and visiting with Janet we went with the Jacobsen's to Cafe Rio for lunch and then headed to the National Zoo in DC. It is a super fun (and free!) zoo and we are so glad that we got to spend some time with the Jacobsen's there before moving back to Utah.

Cute little Lucas!

The National Zoo is the only zoo that has Panda bears! Our new favorite animal to see at the zoo by far! They were so cute!

Keaton also loved the monkeys!

And we saw naked mole rats for the first time ever! They are soooo weird! (Remember the show Kim Possible where the boy had a naked mole rat for a pet?! Ha ha.) I wish I could have gotten a better picture, but until you see them in real life you can't really get the full affect of how strange these blind and naked creatures are! They have long fang teeth that hang unnaturally out of their mouths and they live in these tube burrows and all snuggle up together... they were so weird, but fun to see at the same time! Ha, ha!

 Our family with the gorilla. (Who seemed to be posing just for our pictures!)

We also loved this cute and super playful orangutan who was tucking himself into his blanket and bed of straw for a late afternoon nap. He kept fluffing his blanket and tucking it in around him- it was so cute! (I don't think I've ever been to the zoo when the animals that we saw were so interactive/fun to watch! The gorillas and the pandas were also super fun to watch! It was great and so fun for Keaton and Lucas.)

This happy girl was just content to be along for the ride in her stroller. :)

Wade and Lucas with the big dinosaur bone.

Thanks Wade and Sara for such a fun day! We are so glad we had a chance to let the kids play together and catch up with you guys!

We ended our day the same way we started it- as we got another glimpse of the temple on our drive back home.