April 2014

So, what happened with our family in April 2014?   If you just so happen to be a grandparent, aunt, uncle or cousin to our children, you may be wondering what DID happen in our lives back in April, since our blog got put on "hold" for a while. Whether or not you find it interesting, here's the scoop!... ;)

Easter morning seemed to be a good time to snap some pictures of the kids out behind the barn.  It was super cold out, but they did pretty good at trying to look happy and pleasant...

Acturally I LOVE these pictures of the kids!  As their Mother, I think each picture really captures their personality in a single shot...

April was a busy month with a lot of pictures!  Randy put in a new electric fence for the goats, with the help of Colter and Kyla...

He also started the garden.  These little plastic tents that he designed made it possible for him to do it...

It wasn't long before we were enjoying two kinds of lettuce and two kinds of spinach from the garden...

 Kyla loves to cook and bake and I couldn't resist snapping a couple of pictures in April of the delicious suppers she made us.  This one was Chicken Pot Pie.  All.from.scratch!  Oh yum...

 Kyla also started violin lessons in April.  Mostly she's tucked away in her room when she practices but sometimes before bed, she plays a little for us all...

For science, Colter made this model of the Solar System.  It was both a fun science and art project...

Colter and Randy also got to spend a few mornings out Gopher hunting...

 Maya loves chicks and even though we didn't get any of our own chicks this spring, we made sure to stop by Murdocks on afternoon to see the baby chicks!..

 Maya also had her friend Sabrina over one day to decorate Easter eggs together.  All the kids go in on the fun...

Melita loved the glitter sparkle egg decorations... 

 At some time during the month, Melita and I decided that we needed to plant some flowers in the flower pots so we bought  pretty pansies.  Thank you for being so tough and cold-hardy you little pansies...

Also in April, we enjoyed these two.  Ginger really was growing fast!..

And we got in a couple more skates at the Ice skating rink...

I had some fun making these paper pinwheels for the kids pictures and for spring decorating.  They are still hanging up in my house because I love them so much...

Ah spring!  Here are the girls, on Easter, at our friends house, enjoying the afternoon...

Well, that's all for now, until I get album pages made for all these months.  I'm trying to get through these months so I can get onto more current events. :) 

Happy Friday everyone!  Enjoy your weekend.  Alison