april in review

calendar quotes:
have courage..."do not be content to fit in-you must stand out!"
-yw conference 2010

"we make our own happily ever after" -President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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i am going to do my best at remembering what i did more than 3 months ago...sigh! our salem easter hunt had to be brought inside because of the hurricane like winds-the church floor has never looked so colorful.

we always look forward to signs of spring...when my kids see the first grass show through the snow, they are always so excited-like they've never seen grass before. (just a side note it is july 17 and koy the other day said "i miss the snow") on this particular day i had come home from work and picked koy up and as we were driving down our road he saw the neighbor boys outside and he yelled out the window "i'm home now-meet me on my trampoline!" they were all down in a jiffy...
koy loves to play with friends...any friend old, new, young, girl, boy...but he especially loves to play with friends outside-hurray for spring.
kaden competed in the scholastic bowl again this year in spelling, he got first place for his grade...he had to spell the word the other person missed: which was mosquitoes and then he spelled millionaire. i love that kaden is such a good speller, i am not and i frequently ask him-is that right?
i had to go to the mall to get something and the kids saw this hurricane simulator and wanted to go in it-i told them that's a waste of $2...we get hurricane winds here all the time! but i let them try. it was kinda funny watching their hair fly all over, the winds got up to 80mph and i know that we have had 60-70mph.
kent went to the co-op to get chicken food and they were giving free chicks away with every bag of food you bought, so we have 10 new chicks...the kids aren't as young as they were with our first batch and haven't held these ones as much so they are a little skiddish. kelsi's afraid to get pooped on now...the one perched on her is named: pirate-it is always on someones shoulder or arm just like a pirate's parrot.
for family home evening we were invited to go on a helicopter ride with brother larsen from our ward...
koy could not stop smiling, he was cracking me up-he was so excited, he got to sit right up front with the pilot-this smile never left his face, it was so cute! i got a little sick but it was so neat to see where we lived up high, we flew to the temple to egin lakes...everything looked so organized way up high.
my sister christy came for a volleyball tournament in st. anthony and we met up with her...we had to stop by the sand dunes to get some buckets of sand for her sandbox-the kids had so much fun playing on the hills, they played for about an hour: it wasn't even warm and it was windy. i sat in the car and took these pictures and i got to thinking how much i enjoy my kids...they love to play and it doesn't take much to entertain them.
give them a sand hill to dig in and they are content----i hope they will always be so easy to please:)
kelsi finished up her volleyball tournaments by the end of this month...every saturday she had double tournaments, it was quite the commitment. she was on the B team and she was such a good sport about playing her best and not complaining about being on the A team which had most of her friends, i was so proud of her.
she also improved so much, she got very consistent in her serving and once won a game with the last 5 serves in a row. i love watching her play! what a fun month...