Sunday, May 3, 2015

Spring Break and Beyond

The rest of April was way too much fun.  It flew by sadly but I am excited it's May because that means summer is near!

The first part of spring break I deep cleaned Memphis' room and the hall and stairs.  2 rooms behind but I can catch up this summer.  My mom flew in on Wednesday during spring break and we had fun shopping, going out to eat, and as always spending way too much money:)  That Saturday we drove her to Layton to meet her mom and sister and they took her on to Logan to stay for another week there.  Spring break is always much needed but it is also brutal because it's a taste of summer and we just didn't want to go back to school!

While my mom was in town she watched the kids so we could go car shopping!  Yes, we have had many many cars since I met Danny.  9 to be exact!!!!  Well, for the last 7 years Danny has been trying to convince me that we needed a van.  I struggled with the stereotype but then thinking about this summer of long road trips and needing to take extra people places I finally gave in and said I would look at them.  I was hooked and Danny told me I had to admit that HE IS RIGHT!  HA HA!  Ok, I LOVE my new van!  Fully loaded with tons of awesome extra features, I AM SPOILED.  The van is definitely a keeper.  Now to pay it off so that Danny can get a nice new truck!



My mom also got new spring outfits for her grandkids.  She sure loves to spoil them:)  My mom knitted the little yellow shrug for Kayzee's dress.  I LOVE it!



The Thursday after Spring Break my sister Alicia and her husband Fausto drove over from California.  He has never been to Utah so we showed him around and we had to take him to Porter's Place for scones!  My sister kept asking what the weather was going to be like.  I kept telling her sunny and nice but the day before they showed up it SNOWED!  Random short snow storm, typical utah weather.  It lasted long enough to play in it so the kids were excited.  Then it all melted in time for a nice weekend.

We all took Friday off of work and school and drove to Logan for the weekend.  First we all met at Maddox for lunch.  My dad, brother, and sister, drove down from Washington and met us there as well as my mom and grandma.  So fun to see my family again!





My sister Alicia announced to everyone that she was expecting her first baby!  I AM SO EXCITED!!!  Finally one of my siblings is having a baby!  Another reason Alicia came up was to take some of my baby stuff home with her.  YAY!  Friday night we went over to my aunt's house to my cousin's little girl's birthday.  PARTY HATS!



Saturday was the reason we went up to Logan.  It was my grandma's 80th birthday party!  HUGE turn out!  About 100 people.  It was such a nice way to celebrate my grandma's life.

 I got to help decorate
 Some of my grandma's oil paintings.  I have been collecting a lot of her paintings.  They are all over my house now.  12!  I definitely got my artistic talent from her and my love of teaching.

 Great grandkids sang her a song





(Side-note) Danny pointed this out to me that we drove up North every single weekend in April.  1st weekend up to Brigham City for Easter, 2nd weekend to Layton to drop off my mom, 3rd weekend to Logan for the party, and the 4th weekend to Bear Lake.  Danny was not too happy to travel that much but he joked that he had all the billboards memorized.

Yes we made a nice weekend trip up to Bear Lake to stay at my grandma's condo.  No one else wanted to use it so we invited our neighbor friends.  I kept checking the weather and it said rain and snow all weekend but we lucked out and it only rained during the night.  It was a little cold in the evenings but it was a great weekend!  We had fun swimming in the hot tub, going to Paris, Idaho for a hike and to see the little town, playing on the beach and playground, and just having fun with friends.



















Also during April it was what my school calls dad and donuts.  Dads come to read with their child and have a donut.  Well, with the kindergartners they introduce the lunch room to them for when they go to first grade so they let them have a pizza lunch with their dad too.  Danny took off work early so he could go to school with Memphis.  My class during that time was on a field trip so I got to go have lunch with them too!  It was so fun! Too bad I didn't get a picture:(

I have been upping my running because I finally registered for a 5k on May 16th.  I am so excited!  I haven't run in a race since my 1/2 marathon in 2007.  Getting back into running has been hard but I really do love it!  Memphis joined me one evening and ran 2 miles with me!  It was awesome:)  Love my running buddy.

My mom also bought me a bunch of new books for my birthday so I have been enjoying reading!

Memphis being silly one day!

Memphis' class was practicing for the dance festival at the end of the year and I just happened to be on my lunch break so I snuck by and took a pic of him dancing.  He was hammin' it up he is so funny!

Now we only have one more month of school and then it's time for SUMMER!!!!

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