I have been told I am a terrible blogger. I don’t feel bad. I will just add it to the list of a million
other things I am terrible at, Zuma (dumb facebook game), mothering, presenting
sharing time (which I am currently avoiding prepping for), gardening, cooking,
cleaning…like I said, “add it to the list”.
I would love to be able to detail all of the amazing and
exciting things that have happened to our family since we last posted, but I
can’t even remember what I made for dinner two nights ago, so detailing month’s
worth of activities is impossible.
Let’s see if I can hit the highlights.
February was all about Odyssey of the Minds! I helped coach Bubba’s team two to three
times a week, and Pie’s team seemed to practice almost every day, but all of
the hard work paid off. Pie’s team won
first place in her division at the Regional competition, which means her team
qualified for State. Bubba’s team did a
great job (if they had judged them competitively his team totally would have
won. He is in the Primary Division so
they don’t go on to State. This
actually made me pretty happy since I didn’t have to keep coaching.
In March we hit the Air Show again. We had a great time. My kids love watching the planes, and as usual
it did not disappoint. We also had a
visit from Matt. I know he wanted his
own blog post, but he didn’t bring Valorie with him, just a whole bunch of
stinky boys, so he doesn’t get his own post.
Not to mention he taught Brady a whole bunch of April Fools tricks. Let’s just say, there was a whole bunch of
screaming and panic when Pie turned on the water in the kitchen and the sprayer
drenched her. Really? Who thought teaching a six year old to tape
down the handle on the kitchen sink sprayer was a good idea?? We
wrapped up March with a trip to the State Odyssey of the Mind competition where
Pie’s team took 4th. I won’t lie, I was quite relieved. The top two teams go to World’s, which will be held in Iowa this
year. I don’t have a clue how we would
have fit that into our jam packed schedule…maybe next year.
In early April we were lucky enough to have my sister and
her husband and my niece Lou come for Spring break. My kids were in heaven. They LOVE getting spoiled by their Auntie. We also found ourselves up to our eyeballs in
Football again. This time Bubba is
playing in a Flag only league and we are all enjoying it much more. He can play in this league until he is
fourteen, which will be better for Mom than having him go to tackle next
year. On April 20th I was
lucky enough to get to see College Daughter graduate from Brigham Young
University. We are so proud of all of
her accomplishments. Although, what do I
call her now? Full-time Employed
Daughter? Oh wait, I guess we could call
her Engaged Daughter. Yep, you read that
right; she also got engaged the same weekend.
We are very happy for her and her fiancée (he doesn’t have a blog name
yet). My Dad and Step-Mom also visited
us in April. We had a great time with
them. They got to see Bubba play
football, and we took them on a day trip to Julian, CA. It was so nice to get to spend some time with
them. To top off our crazy April Bubba
turned SEVEN!!! I am not sure how that
even happened. He is my baby. Luckily he still likes to climb in my lap
every morning and snuggle for a few minutes.
May---I don’t know, I am too tired to think about it. Lots of dentist appointments, lots of
swimming, lots of car repairs (Maybe that is why I am so tired. Do you see the trend of money freely flowing
out of my pocket book?). School will be out
this month, and the kids have been loving all of the end of school activities.
Thanks for all four of our readers who kept checking for
updates. Hopefully I will post at least
once a week.
