How Was Your Date? Blah Blah Blah!

So much catching up to do. Wish me luck.

 

Jeremy and I went on a "date" to run errands together on Saturday, the 17th, just the two of us.

I went in the Orem Library for the first time in about a year and a half. One of the librarians took us to see the new library hall. Jeremy's seen it but I hadn't yet.

For dinner, Jr. made us grilled cheese sandwiches and I made us Blah Blah Blah for Blah Blah Blah Day on April 17. 

Then Nichole made us cheeseball for National Cheeseball Day. I think she's become the designated cheeseball maker/sculpter. She made it in the shape of an acorn to celebrate that the book she's writing has officially reached the word count of a full length novel. Acorn is a reference to her book.

April 17 was also Bat Appreciation Day. Jeremy, Nichole, and I kept talking about the bat, Bartok, in the movie Anastasia.

Mommy, Look

 Lucky (with two clothes hangers): I made a crossbow.

Spring Break is Over

Sigh. Spring Break is over. School school school. Work work work. Everything else. Everything else. Everything else.

We had good weather for Spring Break. It's been stormy all week. Wind, rain, snow.

Aaaaah. The wind is blowing us.

 

Monday, April 12, was National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day. We ate grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup.

Tuesday, April 13, was National Peach Cobbler Day. Jr. Jr. was thrilled to see the cobbler when I brought it out.

Wednesday was busy.

Thursday, April 15, was World Art Day. Nichole and I made a large cardboard Easter egg for a Utah County Birders activity.

 

A while back my children participated in a school project for their cousin who was supposed to teach some sign language to children. There became a big joke about signing "bacon lasagna" during their Zoom Meeting. You know- kids. For dinner Friday we ate bacon lasagna just so we could send a video of the kids signing "bacon lasagna" to my niece. She got a kick out of it.

What?

 

Last Hurrah

We had our last hurrah Sunday before the kids went back to school after Spring Break.

I recently got a baguette pan so I got to make some nicely shaped baguettes. Ha Ha Ha. 

Who knew baguettes could be so fun?

 

Jeremy and the kids played a board game while Jet played with a puzzle and a fidget spinner.

Apparently this board game had a... drinking game... connected to it?

 

Then the kids convinced Daddy to play a video game.

Good family time before everything got busy again with so many different schedules.

Hurrah!

Farm Writer Siblings

Saturday, April 10, the kids and I went for a drive around West Mountain. 

It was National Farm Animals Day so besides birds, I told the kids to be on the lookout for farm animals. We saw chickens, sheep, horses, and the cows were very obliging walking on the road and being right next to the road.

When we got home I told the kids they could do some writing as it was Encourage a Young Writer Day.

They enjoyed their time together, those siblings. April 10 was also National Siblings Day.

Spring Break- Thursday and Friday

Here's the fun we had on Thursday. Dentist appointment for two of the kids. Can that be considered fun?

We also watched another movie.

 

Friday, the kids and I drove around certain parts of Provo looking at murals on the sides of buildings. Then we went to throw rocks in the Provo River. We brought "Daddy" and Flat Stanley again.

Next time I need to make sure we don't watch parkour videos before heading out. Oh, Jr. Some of his jumping around was fun.

 

Some of it... not so much.

"My foot got stuck."

 

And some of it was hilarious. Ha Ha Ha Ha.

As April 9 was National Unicorn Day, we watched a unicorn on the other side of the fence near where we were playing.

Then we went home to watch yet another movie.

So that is the end of blogging about Spring Break Monday through Friday. 

Spring Break- Wednesday

This day was so action packed it gets its own blog post.

We started out early in the morning to head to the Henefer Lek to listen to and watch the sage grouse displaying. It was fun to take the whole family this year. Most of the kids have never gone (like I said it is an early morning trip). It worked out. Jet mostly slept through the whole sage grouse part of it. He started stirring as soon as we got to the lek. It's not so good to have a baby crying while you have windows down. We got him back to sleep, though. 

The boys in the back seat were content because they had devices. 

They did pause to listen to and look at the sage grouse from time to time.

 

Nichole, Jeremy, and I were content because we had a camera and binoculars.

There were a bunch of grouse near the road so we were able to get a good look when we were on our way out. 

After the lek, we headed over to East Canyon Reservoir. It was coooooold.

There were plenty of birds and ground squirrels to take pictures of, though. I even got to hear a loon in real life for the first time ever. I've been wanting to and I did. I was so happy.

We picnicked in the van at another spot along the reservoir. Since I forgot to bring out the Twinkies the day before, we celebrated the anniversary of the invention of the Twinkie Observed on Wednesday and had them with our lunch. While we ate, I gave the kids a background about how the Twinkie came to be.

After the reservoir, we stopped at another reservoir, Deer Creek, to look for more loons. There were at least a couple and guess what. We heard another loon calling. Eeeeeeee. I was even more happy. Two loons at two different reservoirs. Yay! 

Jet was ready to be awake by that point so we decided to go somewhere where he could run around. We went to South Fork Park. This is what we got when we arrived. 

This

vs this

Eventually everybody got out so we could get family pictures with Flat Stanley.

This is what happens when you get out so early in the morning. You fit a lot in. Jeremy and I were even able to get a nap in after we got home before we had an Easter Egg hunt in the back yard. Much different from last year when Jet could barely reach the eggs on the living room floor.

He even enjoyed playing with the empty eggs after we got back inside (we had the kids empty their eggs into ziplock bags so we wouldn't have all this candy sitting in eggs for so long).

So it really was an action packed day. We haven't had one of those in a while. I'm so glad it worked out.

 

By the way, April 7 was National No Housework Day. Perfect day for all of this. It was also National Walking Day. Perfect for running around at the park. It was also World Health Day. Getting out in nature is so good for our health.