Kacin's Resourcefulness

He came up with this brilliant way 

to display the picture

during his FHE lesson.

Glasses can be quite useful.

He just couldn't move his head.

Two More

Meet the newest chicks to join our flock.

We call them Oreo and Elvis.

When Boys Wake Up First

When I came downstairs in the morning,
I found this scene:

Sword, Dr. P, Bandaids

I daresay,
after too much Dr. Pepper,
there must have been a riveting sword fight
resulting in a flesh wound.

The Rest of April

It seriously can't be May yet!
April went by so fast.
But, then again, when I look back
at all that I took pictures of,
and then think about what I didn't take pictures of,
April was a very, very full month!

We celebrated three years
since our sealing as a family in the Mesa temple.

We ran our first 5K as a family.

We stuck together and finished in 40 min.

With our running buddy, Holly,
(one of my sweet, energetic Beehives)
who stuck with us during the race.

A friendly game of toss the water bottle

while we waited for awards and the raffle.

I'm glad we waited

because we ended up winning

a $10 Safeway giftcard in the raffle.

And we immediately used it for donuts and drinks.

We painted the boys room.
They wanted a blue room.
And they wanted to paint it.
They each ended up painting
the lower half
of one of the walls.

What else happened in April?

Eric and I started girls camp preperations

for the 4th year hike again.

Kyler got serious about the Caldecott challenge

(to read all the Caldecott award winning books

before the end of school).

I started some tutoring again.

Kacin made lots of plans for inventions

and books he wants to write.

Eric and the boys faithfully tended to their chickens.

And Eric ate my easter candy I was saving.

So now I have to label all of my treats with my name

so he will not eat them.

And that's where we leave April.

Chicken!!

There hasn't been a chicken update in quite awhile.

The girls have had some big changes in their lives recently.

Back in March, Eric broke ground on their new chicken coop. . .

To help us tell them apart,

We tagged the girls with numbers.

#7=Geronimo

#12=Chewbacca

#8 = Queen Amidala

#16=Mr. President (fyi. we changed Mississippi's name)

mid construction . . .

The day the girls moved in to their finished coop . . .

Haircut

Time for a haircut!
But this time Eric had a little too much fun
with the process.
He kept threatening Kacin
that he would leave his hair like that
if he didn't hold still.

A Boy's Afternoon

Ripstick vs. Scooter

Lightsaber to lightsaber