I had so many pictures to choose from, and I couldn't pick, so I just made a messy collage of all of them. You'll have to look at it bigger to see any detail most likely, but there's some cute ones, so I'd suggest it! ;) So I have stories for many of the pictures, but probably too many to share. The piano one is how I found my piano the other day when I sat down to play. The cover had been down, so I opened it up and found army men lying on all the keys... Jeremy swears it wasn't him. Mason is a very messy eater, but boy can that boy eat. He is a heavy, big boy, and there's good reason, he just eats and eats. If he is really upset, one sure way to cheer him up is with food! My brother and sister-in-law got a bouncy house for their daycare that they brought home for the weekend, and the kids had lots of fun in it! I found Brenna on Easter Morning sleeping on her floor... so sometime between 11PM and 7AM she moved, and I have no idea how long she slept on the floor!

April was an exciting, busy month for us! It was full of exciting things, and tomorrow marks the end of the month, and possibly the end of me! Which is why I'm writing today. Ok, I'm being a little bit dramatic, but seriously, tomorrow I will find out if I am still tough or not.

My family was here early in the month, it was my sister's birthday, my friend Pam Leavitt came to visit!! and it was her birthday too! It was my birthday, I turned 25! and Easter, Jeremy's brother and his wife Aly came to visit from Utah and we got to meet their sweet baby, and to finish it off, tomorrow I will run in The Warrior Dash at 4:30.

I was so happy to have my family visit! I can't remember if they were here into April or if they left at the very end of March, but either way, it was wonderful to spend time with them!

I was also thrilled to see Pam! I love catching up with old friends, and her little boy was so cute! Him and Mason will be buddies one day when we live close. I didn't get any pictures of that, but she did!

Turning 25 was an exciting idea, but turns out, it's much the same as being 24... or 26 I imagine. I did get a very sweet note from my husband, and the promise of some new glasses, which I am very excited for! Oh, and a bunch of Pampered Chef stuff last month from my show! And some awesome visitors!

Justin and Aly came to visit... which I also don't have any pictures of, but Aly is a photographer and she took some family photos on Easter... or tried to. The kids were less than cooperative, but not her sweet baby. Isla is tiny, and adorable, and definitely gave me a case of baby hunger. Unfortunately though, Mason has a terrible case of jealousy when it comes to me holding other babies... not good! She really is the cutest baby!

This weekend, Jeremy is gone to scout CAMPOUT (I keep calling his monthly camps scout camp, and have been told numerous times that that is misleading and incorrect... it isn't scout camp, just a scout campout) tonight, and then when he gets home tomorrow, I will be hurrying off to the race... I almost need to go potty just thinking about it! Or is there a more grown up way to say that? I can't remember anymore) I will survive though... after all, my wonderful husband has been kicking me out of bed every morning this week to run (since my training has been sub-par at best) and he also reminded me that I went through 12 hours of full blown labor with Brenna with no pain meds... I can do hard things, and I can do this! haha or we shall see.

And I am excited for the experience tomorrow, and the week to come, because on Thursday, we are having our first married couple vacation that isn't to see my family, to Washington DC! We are going to see all of the patriotic sites (yippee) and Jeremy's sister Nichole (Yippee!) and generally just enjoy being adults on vacation (with one little son) and seeing family who we rarely get to see!

So, wish me luck tomorrow, and hope that I don't die, and then we'll take lots of DC pictures to share!

These are the only pictures I took of Easter, but I'm excited to see the ones Aly took and see if either of my kids cooperated enough for a good one!

No Hope!

So, first of all, they have Toy Story 3 on Netflix already! I'm so excited because I love the Toy Story movies, and Brenna does too now! She has watched it twice, and I have to admit, then end chokes me up a bit. The first time she watched it, I tried really hard not to cry, but I did get a little emotional. I don't know if she had noticed that or not though, but today, she just finished watching it, and I looked over at the end and she had watery eyes. I asked her what was wrong and she said that it is a sad part of the movie! haha No hope for this girl... she's going to be as emotional as her momma. Maybe even more, I don't know if I started that young! She may have just been doing it because I had before, but she never appeared to notice me getting emotional. After the movie ended I said "That's a good movie, huh?" and she said "no." I said "What? You love Toy Story!" and she said "It gives me owies in my eyes.". Haha I guess it's ruined now... too sad of an ending. I just laughed and laughed, which I think embarrassed her a bit because she didn't appreciate me trying to hug her better. That's just a funny story, and I have lots of pictures, so here's a few of my cute kiddos!

Fort building with Daddy... this was lots of fun!!!

Brenna, actually pretending to sleep in her tent.

Brenna decided a good snack would be butter on shredded cheese... no clue where this came from.

Mason loves drinking out of giant water bottles. He also loves playing pass, and playing peekaboo with Brenna. They are getting along better now that he's more durable, and Brenna's learning to be more gentle and kind. I love my kids so much! And my husband too! I'm a lucky girl!