April in Review!

 My brother and sister in law welcomed a new baby boy!! His name is Brave Ledger, and he joins his big brother, Roman. I am so happy to have 2 amazing nephews! We had a blast in Charleston getting to visit. 

My two best friends got me out of the house and we went to the movies. I am doing a little better since dad, but last month was still very, very hard. We went to see the new Channing Tatum movie and it was hilarious. 

Caleb went to his military ball! He wore the same uniform he always wears to things, but they wore bow ties that night! He was so handsome! 

There was one evening I went to visit mom for a little while and as I was leaving, there was this beautiful sunset outside. Just about everything makes me think of dad these days. I also saw a red cardinal on the kids' trampoline awhile back. The legend is that if you see one after a loved one dies, it is to bring you peace or something like that. Mom saw one outside her window at home, too. 

We have started the tradition of going over to moms and having lunch with her every sunday. Gives her a chance to see the kids. And she actually has people to cook for, and she loves it!! She loves to spoil everyone with her cooking skills ;) I also like to help her out around the house some when I can. 

Brooke had a band concert, and we all got to go watch. They did amazing this year and sounded great! We are really going to miss band next year, but Brooke will just be too busy to keep up with it anymore! 

Brooke's maw and paw came to see her at the concert 

Arnold took me on a date night for the month of April! We love our monthly dates! Its so important to "date your spouse" so you dont lose that connection! 

We celebrated Easter at moms, like usual. She cooked yummy food for us! Grandpa came over too. Before lunch we went to church and it was a beautiful service. 

I took over the plates and napkins to moms.. and in case youre wondering, YES the napkins are pioneer woman!! :D But the plates weren't.. but they were still cute!! 

We set up Arnold's tripod in moms back yard and took bunches of pictures. And yes I love a good color scheme for holidays so this year we went with pink. I know my dress is more purple. Long story, but at the last minute I found out that my dress I had bought didn't fit right. 

Arnold is in a band with some friends of his and they try to occasionally do shows out in public. A guy in the band wanted to throw a private party for some family members and friends and so the guys played in his backyard and we all got to go out and eat BBQ. It was a fun evening.. we took the kids with us. Turns out the drummer's daughter is Brooke's homeroom teacher! haha.. small world. 

Brooke and I hanging out listening to the music :) 

The last day of Spring break Arnold took off work so we could take the kids to do something fun. We thought we'd go to the mountains and have a picnic. The weather was nice for the first time in forever. We decided to take mom along with us, and had a lot of fun! 

The night before we were at Target buying stuff to take to the picnic and Caleb saw some frisbees and said he had to get one.... it was a choice between a dinosaur or a unicorn and rainbows :D 

We ate sandwiches and fruit at the picnic table. Rachel somehow got Grandma to try Takis for the first time. The kids walked down to the creek. And before we left, Arnold and Caleb and Rachel went on a short hike. 

A town near us had a fair and everyone from the kids' school were going, so of course our kids wanted to go too. We took them, bought their wrist bands, and waited for their friends to get there. After that we realized we had nothing to do! Neither of us like big rides anymore. So what did this old boring married couple do?? We sat in the car in the parking lot and ate greasy fair food together :D On the way back up the hill to get the kids, I accidentally fell into a tiny pothole in the grass and fell. I hit the ground pretty hard!  I caught myself with my hands and I scraped them up, along with my right leg. I had bruises everywhere. Arnold went up to the first aid tent to get an icepack for me. Thank goodness they have those for people like me, haha! I was really hurting that evening, but after some Aleve and rest I felt a lot better. 

We finally convinced Rachel to get her hair cut!!!! She decided to go with bangs also. She instantly looked older and the cut looks so cute on her! She also recently got new glasses, because at her yearly eye checkup we found out she became even MORE near sighted! Poor girl. 

We celebrated Miss Ruby's 1st birthday!! Every occasion is a reason for cake, right?! So I ordered a cake online from the bakery, and I had them write Happy 1st Birthday Ruby on it. I. didn't request anything else with it, but they assumed Ruby was an actual human baby and included a free smash cake!!! :D That was so funny.... I felt bad they had made it!!!!! 

My best friend got married!!!! I was so lucky to get to be there beside her on that day. I am so excited for her, and looking forward to meet baby Ensley too! 

After the wedding we all went out to lunch, and Arnold was able to take a break from work and met us there.