Changes

I have been one of Lynnlee’s young women leaders. It is really fun spending time with her at the activities one night we played games and then got ice cream cones at Macey’s.  

When we moved two blocks west we moved to a new ward boundary. We were able to stay in our current ward though since Marshall is bishop, they made exceptions. Today they announced his releasing next week and then we will start going to our new ward. Bittersweet for sure going through ward changes!

2nd Grade Books and Buddies

Sienna asked favorite Aunt Betsy to come to Books and Buddies with her. She was so excited when it worked for Betsy to be there. We weeemt sure if it would work with her schedule. I was so grateful because it ended up being more than buddy reading. We got to walk around and see their animal reports. I was able to go with Taggart to see his report and all of his friends’ reports. Betsy went everywhere with Sienna. If I had gone alone the minis would have played tug o war with me wanting to go to different classrooms. 

It just makes me so happy how much Sienna loves Aunt Betsy!

Monday Funday

There have been a lot of days off of school. My kids have loved it. It does make it tricky for me to get my hours in for work but it is a good break. 

We planned a fun day starting with soaking in the hot pots in Midway. It was a chilly morning so it felt good. 

Lynnlee’s friend spent the day with us.

My mom got us Costa Vida for lunch. Then the kids played at her park. 

That night Lynnlee had a soccer game and they won!! 

You know times when you are having so much fun taking it easy that you forget your responsibilities? Well I completely forgot the minis had animal reports due the next day and we hadn’t even started on them.

Then I realized James was suppose to ref and we had completely missed the game. 

The fun and great day quickly turned into a stressful night. We helped them get their projects done and it took me a few days to get over James missing his ref job. 

I got a few nights of more sleep and we were back on track again.

Sunday Snapshot

It’s been a long time since I’ve taken a picture of my kids after church. I really wanted to on Easter but completely forgot in the craziness once we got home. On the short ride home from the church it was chaotic and it was so liberating to let them all disperse all over the house 

So today they cooperated for a minute to snap a picture.

Spring Soccer

That’s a wrap for spring soccer for Kade. They had tough competition this season. They won half of their games. It was difficult after going undefeated last year.

Kade is a great goalie. He’s fearless and has good hand eye coordination.

Training

James and I had to squeeze our long run in on Friday since we had soccer all Saturday. The weather was so crazy Friday. It poured rain and hail right before we started. Then it was very windy during the run. The last mile was rainy and windy. It is good preparation in case we have bad weather for our race.

Marshall was good race support bringing us water since the drinking fountain was turned off by the Jordan River trail.

Golden Friends

Lynnlee has quite a fun group of friends! We were so happy to get an appointment for them to do baptism at the Timpanogos Temple. It was a great start to their day.

It didn’t work out for one of her friends to go in the morning but thankfully it worked to go a different day.

Lynnlee and I have slacked on taking selfies for her slideshow. We were planning on taking lots of selfies over spring. break and then forgot. We went to the store one night and were talking about our selfies. We decided we had to take one right there even if it wasn’t the most exciting place.

Lynnlee and I have a fun time going shopping together later at night.

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend was wonderful! Friday morning I enjoyed my morning run. When I saw the ducks in the water in the field I stopped and took a picture. I love the things I see while running. 

Saturday morning James and I ran 18 miles. It went well and he continues to amaze me!

Friday evening we had date night at the Provo Temple finished off with dinner at Hapa’s. I’m so happy temples are almost back to normal.

Saturday we had 4 soccer games in an hour and a half and they were all spread out. Thankfully Grandma and Grandpa Lowry came and helped by each taking a kid to their game.

We met up after for coloring eggs and dinner.

The Easter Bunny came to our house Saturday morning.

So Saturday the kids got up while James and I were on our run. Marshall took pictures for us. James collected his eggs when we got back.

Sunday started off with a spiritual Easter program at church. Beautiful music, scriptures and testimonies. Then we hosted my family for dinner. My parents were suppose to be in Texas for a family mission farewell. The weather stopped them from going. We were grateful to have them for the holiday! We had to take a picture of our matching stripes.

Favorite aunt Betsy came as well as Ali’s family.