"Any Way the Wind Blows"

April 12 is Look Up at the Sky Day.  Well, one of them.  To celebrate, the boys, Jeremy, and I watched The Muppets version of "Bohemian Rhapsody" because the song has the phrase, "look up to the skies..." and because it's funny.

We also went outside and looked up at the sky.  There were no Muppets in the sky... this time.

Siblings Day 2017

April 10 is National Siblings Day.  I took Jr. Jr. and Lucky to the library today.  I picked up a little calendar of reading ideas for April there.  For April 10 it suggested celebrating Sibling Day by reading the book Ish by Peter H. Reynolds and discussing what the little sister did to help her brother feel better.
Since we were at the library anyway, we checked out that book so I could read it to the kids at bedtime tonight.

Thank you library for helping us celebrate.

Spring Break 2017

We just finished Spring Break for the kids.  Boy, was it busy.  We did some awesome things, had some great family time, and stayed out pretty late some nights.  I hope to do individual posts about some of what we did (besides what I've already posted), but here are a few highlights before I get to those posts:

We saw ground squirrels and itty-bitty ground squirrels (we've been thinking they were prairie dogs, but we recently found out we were wrong- they are ground squirrels).
Here's a picture of me looking at a ground squirrel.

 

We saw the other kind of squirrel.  You know the kind with the bushy tail that has been fed by too many people so it comes up and begs even though people aren't supposed to feed them?  We didn't feed them.
Here's a picture of Jr. looking at a squirrel.

Here is a squirrel photobombing a picture of the kids.

click on it if you need to see it larger

It was good we had such good weather to have such adventures during Spring Break because this morning we had to scrape snow and ice off our windshields before going to church.  I didn't get a picture of that.

Two Words....

California Condor

Mommy, Look

Pants!

Walk Around Things Day 2017

April 4 was Walk Around Things Day.  Jeremy walked around Powell Lake in Lehi and saw lots of birds.

Fish Fingers and Custard Day 2017

Ashton Gardens at Thanksgiving Point are open again.  Yay!  I took some time this morning walking around the Gardens.  I've missed that.  It really is so relaxing.  Lots of birds singing a lot in the morning.  And beautiful flowers.  Love it.

They are getting all ready for the Tulip Festival which is coming up.  This year, because the tulips are coming up early the Tulip Festival is going to last about a month.  Wow.

This evening because April 3 is Fish Fingers and Custard Day, we had our traditional fish sticks with vanilla pudding to dip them in for dinner.  Jeremy also made a pizza out of some of our Conference nachos leftovers.  Yumm.