A Couple of April Celebrations

April 2 was National Burrito Day. We had burritos for dinner and took some to Jr.

It was also Hans Christian Andersen's Birthday, aka International Children's Book Day. We got another Discovery Kit from the library so for a couple of days we read children's books and did alphabet puzzles and activities, since this one was Alphabet themed.

April 3 was Fish Fingers and Custard Day so we had fish sticks and vanilla pudding.

We also continued on with our Holy Week family scripture study discussing Good Friday. 

Spring Break 2025

Spring Break for the kids was from March 31-April 4 plus the weekends before and after.

Spring Break was, as often happens in Utah, a break from Spring. See our snow?

April 1 was April Fool's Day. I told everyone dinner was Fend For Yourselves but I did make "Kool-aid." It was actually Kool-aid. My family never knows from year to year if it's going to be Kool-aid or Jello. I made sure to use air quotes every time I mentioned it that day, though, so it added to "trick."

 

April 2 was National Walking Day. I made sure to get out for a walk by the lake that morning.

I walked around a playground later chasing after Jet. Lucky helped.

It was also Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. Yes, I did go around singing, "Peanut Butter Jelly Time." We had some peanut butter and jelly pretzel snacks. They're like the peanut butter pretzels but with a coating on the outside. Yumm.

 

April 3 was Fish Fingers and Custard Day, World Party Day, and National Burrito Day. Woohoo!

April 4 was Walk Around Things Day. I walked around the store to get groceries and walked around the van to get the groceries.

 

April 5 and 6 were General Conference days. So good.

Jr. Jr. decided to make scones for everybody Saturday morning so with a little help from Dad, he did. He is a sweetie. They both are.

We had our traditional nachos, of course, and General Conference snuggles! April 5 was Love Our Children Day after all.

Saturday night we had our traditional Saturday evening session brownies. We had to start from the middle of course. Don't you love how traditions get started? This has been a tradition for more than 10 years. I blogged about the first time we did it on October 5, 2014.

General Conference wasn't all about food and snuggles. I tried to go in to it with very specific questions and listened for specific answers and I did. It was very personal some of the things the Lord let me know through the Spirit while listening to these speakers. I am so grateful.

 

Lucky got more service in during Spring Break. He twisted free balloon animals for people at the park. 

He came with me one day to tie quilts for Humanitarian Aid.

He was fine. He just likes to make silly faces when I take his picture.

 

Lucky also made a bouquet of balloon flowers for a sister I minister to for her birthday. There was enough that she was able to separate the flowers for her family members. They enjoyed that.

 

There we go. Spring Break 2025.

Spring Break 2024

The boys had Spring Break April 1-5.

O.K. So we did celebrate April Fool's Day on April 1.

I put on the menu plan that we were going to have Ogre Stew and Muriel's Pretzel Knots. What we actually had was Italian Bean Soup and Garlic Knots (from A Season of Family Meal Plans), which looked enough like the other dishes. Bwah ha ha. Unfortunately, I think the soup was quite a disappointment to Jr. who had his hopes up for Ogre Stew. Honestly, I prefer Ogre Stew myself. I did traditional gelatin in place of Koolaid again, this time in a pitcher.

A couple of my boys put April Fool's notes on people's backs and I found one in my hair at one point.

The next morning as we were getting Jeremy ready for work, we found one more April Fool's prank we missed the night before.

April 2 was Peanut Butter and Jelly Day. It was also a Palindrome Day. 4-2-24

 

April 3 was Fish Fingers and Custard Day. We had our traditional dinner and watched several episodes of Doctor Who.

Jr. Jr. rationalized video games by naming a fish, "fingers and custerd," in Minecraft. "This is my fish, fingers and custerd."

 

April 4 was Walk Around Things Day. I went out for a walk along the lake starting in Vineyard and since it was Walk Around Things Day, I had to walk all the way up to Vineyard Beach, which by the way isn't much of a beach right now because of how much water there is in the lake (yay), and around the Geneva Cooling Ponds by Lindon Marina. Then I walked back and it was such a pleasant walk. It really was. I took our new camera and got to see some birds for the first time this year. Oh, I love walking and birding.

It was also National Burrito Day so we had burritos and Spanish Rice for dinner.

April 5 was First Contact Day. The boys saw it on the calendar and wondered what it was so I explained to them how, "A guy built a rocket and flew up into space on April 5... what year does it say?" "2063." "Yeah, 2063. And Vulcans saw it and made first contact with the humans." The boys were a bit confused and finally asked, "Is that from a movie or something?" "It's a Star Trek thing," I explained. So now they know.

Celebrating the Beginning of April

April 2 was National Burrito Day. It was also National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.
A couple of us watched that Peanut Butter Jelly Time video with the dancing banana. You know the one I'm talking about.
Our dinner was kind of eclectic with peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, burritos, and chicken fajita soup (The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner) which I needed to make because I had some ingredients waiting in the fridge for it.

 April 3 was Fish Fingers and Custard Day. We celebrated the usual way.

Rapid Fire Catching Up

9:05 am- O.K.  How fast can I catch up on what's been going on?  We've had a bunch of stresses so I'm not going to talk about everything.  Here's what I will say:
March 14- Pi Day.  I didn't get up my YouTube video of Lucky and ZZ making a pie.  I'll eventually get it up.  I did work on a balloon sculpture.  It was a circle.  That fit in with Pi day.

March 15- Ides of March.  We ate Little Caesar's pizza.  That works, right?

March 17- St. Patrick's Day.  Nichole and I wore green and went to see my niece play Wendy in her school play of "Peter Pan."  She did a great job.

For dinner that night, we ate leprechaun-sized food.

March 20- First Day of Spring.  We had a nice spring salad to eat.

March 23- Neighborhood Culture Night.  Jeremy represented Hungary.

There were pinatas.

March 25- International Waffle Day.  Yes, that's what we ate.

March 31- General Conference.  Nichole and I got up really early in the morning to pick up a friend and got to a lek to see the sage grouse displaying.

At home we watched General Conference and ate nachos.

April 2- National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day.  We ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches then had an Easter Egg hunt and colored eggs with friends.

April 4- Walk Around Things Day.  We did our short-eared owl survey and walked around the van to look for birds.

April 5- First Contact Day.  Jeremy and I watched the Star Trek movie, "First Contact."  I didn't take pictures.
April 8- Draw a Picture of a Bird Day.  I can't find the picture of the birds that were drawn that day, but here's one Nichole did another day.  It was again based on a photo we took.

Besides these specific holidays, there were also birding trips, balloon twisting, and somewhere in there, Nichole had an orchestra festival and Jr. was Jack B. Nimble in his school play, "Law and Order: Nursery Rhymes Unit."

 

I know you don't find peacocks in the wild in Utah, but Jeremy and I were driving along and saw these and wanted to take pictures.

Oh, and go see our balloon sculptures at the Tulip Festival going on right now at Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point.  New sculptures every week.

So there.  Rapid fire catching up. -10:22am.