We did celebrate April Fool's Day on April 1. I am amazed that no matter how many times I do the jello instead of Kool-aid trick, I still have kids that fall for it. This year, I put the jello in a pitcher so when the boys tried to pour it out, it wouldn't come. I did mugs for Jeremy and me. It's a nice trick because they still get a treat out of it.
In April, Lucky got to go to a friend's birthday party. I love that the friend's older sister (still younger than my oldest) volunteered to run things for the party. What a great sister. So the kids played games, did some face or hand painting, had treats (made by the mom), and enjoyed present opening. Jeremy and I stayed, just in case we were needed for crowd control, but we really just chatted with the mom most of the time since she's our friend. Lucky had a blast.
April 2 was National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Guess what we ate.
April 3 was Fish Fingers and Custard Day. Guess what we ate.
We went to visit our friends in Kaysville during Spring Break and took them cookies to say thanks for their kindness to us last Summer.
My ministering sister brought me daffodils to brighten my day.
Jr. and Jeremy went to see the sage grouse displaying. Nichole and I missed it this year.
We watched General Conference at home and had nachos, of course. Jr. was able to watch his first Priesthood Session with Jeremy. They enjoyed their time like Nichole and I enjoy our time when we watch the Women's Session.
On Sunday, we had friends over to watch Conference with us.
After Spring Break, plenty more happened.
Our upstairs neighbor texted us to say, "There's a turkey in the backyard." Yep, a wild turkey hanging out in the backyard. We get some interesting birds here.
Jeremy did a couple sculptures for the 15th anniversary of the Tulip Festival and got a commemorative pin. It's the year for commemorative pins. He also got commemorative pins for Orem's Centennial.
April 18 was National Velociraptor Awareness Day. We took that opportunity to start Nichole on the Jurassic Park movies. Tee Hee.
Jeremy received VIP tickets to FanX in Salt Lake City. We got pins there, too. Lucky went with us the first day and dressed up. Just Jeremy and I went the second day and dressed up.
Lucky did pretty well that first day. We figured he is just the right age. He stayed with us and didn't run off. He did well in the one panel I cared about going to- Warwick Davis. Since we had VIP tickets, we got a nice close seat. Lucky and I talked about different movies Warwick Davis had been in and he enjoyed it. I always liked Warwick Davis before but through his panel I came to like him even more. He's a great guy, funny, nice, and he didn't say anything that made me cringe or need to cover my son's (or my) ears.
I was done by the end of those two days. I enjoyed it but I was done.
April 21 was Easter. Church was wonderful and dinner was nice.
For FHE the day after, we had an Easter egg hunt with our upstairs neighbors.
April 26 was National Pretzel Day. We had pretzels dipped in cheese sauce.
We got out and did our short-eared owl survey again in April. We didn't see any short-eared owls but Jeremy and I did see some burrowing owls.
Nichole got free tickets to an orchestra concert so she and I took a mother-daughter evening and enjoyed the music together.
Jeremy was asked to teach at a balloon jam in Salt Lake. His subject- how to break a world record.
So there was plenty we did in April and now I'm done blogging about it. On to May.
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