Gabe's 9th birthday, Easter, and more

The past month has flown by! The highlights were Gabe's birthday and Easter.

When we got back from Florida on March 10th, we had told Gabe, "Your birthday is coming up in two weeks, but we just got back from Disney World so we aren't join to do a huge birthday party this year." So we let him choose two friends from his class (he chose Caden and Carter) and we took them (and Caleb) to iJump in Idaho Falls on the Saturday before his birthday. It's this giant indoor trampoline gym. So Josh went in there with the four boys while Avery and I went to Kohl's for the hour. ;) Then after that we all went out to lunch at Lucy's Pizzeria. It was a very low-stress party. I didn't have to plan anything or clean anything up.

Then somehow I got roped into helping out with the Miss Rexburg pageant. A lady I know just a little bit who is in charge of the whole thing asked me to help. So that's the random picture of the girl I was in charge of like, "hostessing" (helping get dressed, help with hair, etc.) and coincidentally she won! lol It was all because of me I'm sure...

This past week we celebrated Easter. It just so happened to fall on General Conference weekend, so we had a nice, relaxing, stay-at-home four day weekend. The kids only had Friday off for their "Spring Break" so we didn't leave town or anything. On Saturday, we did our little neighborhood Easter egg hunt at the elementary school. The Boyter's went down to Utah for conference, so they weren't there. So it ended up that my two boys were the oldest ones. I hid special football and basketball shaped eggs for them to find (and we hid them a lot harder around the playground than the ones for all the toddler girls!) The other kids that were there were Avery, Kendalin (Milner), Harper (Hemsley - but her mom was in the hospital recovering from having her her baby sister the day before! So it was Ryan and his mom that brought Harper and I hid her eggs) and then also Evan (Buis) and I think that was it! Shalee was going to come with her girls, but then they got sick so she didn't bring them. It was perfect though I thought. The little girls had fun each finding their 20 eggs and the boys were seriously challenged finding all their 20 eggs! haha Way more fun than the cry Easter egg hunts that are over in 30 seconds.

Then on Sunday morning the Easter Bunny came and hid the boys' baskets in the playhouse and Avery's behind the living room curtains. They east got a book in their basket, the boys each got a small nerd gun, Avery got chalk and bubbles, and then some candy, goldfish, and treats. Caleb had his gone the fastest. ;) (as usual) I think Gabe still has some of his left.

Other little things that happened were that we went to the new Cal Ranch store (they moved into the old Kmart) and they had all their baby chicks and baby bunnies. So that was fun for the kids to see. Also, Avery ended with her toddler preschool on April 2. She was so sad. She loved it! I had gotten her on the waiting list for Spring session about a month ago, but they told me she wouldn't have a very good chance of getting in again since she had already done it. But then they called me just yesterday and said they had someone cancel so she could come again in the Spring! yay! It's basically this preschool they do at the college where the college girls who are studying to be teachers have to plan all the lessons and activities for the kids. But they are so young and gung-ho that they always do such a good job! And Avery loves playing with the kids and at the little playground they have so I am so happy she can go again May-July. It's just twice a week, for about an hour each time, but it's so fun for her.

That's all the updates for now!

Here are a few pictures! (Me and caleb swapped clothes one day - that's the first picture.. scary that we almost have the same size waist… hahaha)
Oh and I am also redoing Avery's bedroom - we painted her Oak furniture white and we are going have a mural painted on her wall! The tree picture and some sort of castle… I am hiring an art student from the college to do it so we'll hopefully have pictures of that to show next time! Here are the befores!