Me and My Boys: April 2014

Monday, April 21, 2014

Easter Festivities

This was the first Easter that I can recall where I haven't celebrated at least partially with some of my siblings/parents (or extended family when I was at BYU). Instead it was just us this year.

Dyeing eggs

On the hunt...

Bryson figured out real quick that there is something yummy in those eggs!

I made our traditional Easter dinner all alone this year! Ham, funeral potatoes, deviled eggs, veggie, and rolls. We enjoyed spending the day together and discussing the special, real reason we celebrate Easter: because our Savior, Jesus Christ was resurrected and lives!

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Garden

Matt is the gardner in our family; I love reaping the benefits. Last year, we weren't able to do much of a garden because we were moving. We planted some tomatoes, and as we feared, didn't get to eat any of them as they were ready to pick a few weeks after we moved. Matt's been working hard this year, experimenting with different variables to see what yields the best results. We have room for a bigger garden now. Yay!

Tomatoes on the left, peppers on the right

Corn up top and herbs at the bottom

spinach, onions, carrots

Entire garden

We have some strawberry plants growing well so far too that you can't see well in any of the pictures. Just as in the past, Caleb loves going out to check the progress of the garden each day. He gives us a count daily of what's growing...so far 8 tomatoes and 2 strawberries.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Piano Progress

Caleb really wanted me to post a video of him playing his latest piano piece. His piano teacher asked Caleb to learn the right hand of the first two lines this week since it's a difficult song. That only served as a challenge to Caleb. He learned the entire song in two days (both hands) and had it memorized after four days. He can be quite determined.

Birthday Boy!

Carter's 4th birthday was last Sunday, March 30th. The poor kid had to wait till after church to open presents because I had early-morning meetings. (I was just called a month ago as the ward Primary President.)

He requested an Incredible Hulk birthday cake. It was a team effort between Matt and I...we just did the best we could. Of course Carter was ecstatic!

Carter requested an Incredible Hulk cake last year as well. (Still an obsession a year later?) But I convinced him to have a Captain America cake instead since making the shield was going to be a lot easier than Incredible Hulk. So when he asked for Incredible Hulk again this year, we had to make it happen.

Later that night we got together with my family to eat cake, and Carter got to open a few more presents.

(I forgot to turn my phone sideways while videoing.)

Matt and I also celebrated birthdays this past week. Mine was also Sunday, the 30th, and Matt's was Wed. April 2nd. Another year older and wiser too...

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Gone Fishin'

Saturday after Caleb and I finished our 5K, Matt took Caleb and Carter to the neighborhood pond for a fishing tournament. Caleb caught two fish (7 and 8 in.), which wasn't enough to qualify for any prizes. They sure had fun though!

Caleb is trying to get the attention of one of the judges to come measure the fish.

Bryson and I were getting bored at home (it was a 3 hour tournament!), so we ran over to the pond to watch for a while. Bryson has just started giving kisses, so Matt told him to give the fish a kiss. Not very nice!