Misc April

Misc April

Lucas loves being a helper in the kitchen.  He was helping me mix up some dough for his special pizza.  Whenever we make things like pizza or waffles we have to make two different batches!

This was the look he came to the table with to eat!

My mom and I let Lucas go to town with his drill and the styrofoam block.  He enjoyed himself very much...and it only took both of us working together an hour or so to clean up!  The little tiny pieces were everywhere, including sticking all over him!

Grandma Karen got the girls a new Barbie make-up set.  Emilyn took it upon herself to do Grandma's make-up for her.  She was so proud, and loved showing off her work!

This is the ancient hair dryer that I couldn't bring myself to get rid of from my Grandma Anne's house.  I remember putting rollers in and wearing it as a little girl, and my mom does too!  I had to give my girls a try with it too!

The girls were so excited to go to the Daddy/Daughter princess dance.  It was a Hawaiian Luau theme this year.  It didn't disappoint.  Matt said the girls did run off with their friends, and leave him on his own though!  Matisyn apparently spent some time on the stage doing some interpretive dancing to the Frozen song which Matt enjoyed very much!  The girls came home very excited about their night!

Emilyn's Kindergarten spotlight poster for her birthday

Matisyn really wanted to try swim team this summer, so I set the girls up with private lessons at the rec center to learn their strokes.  They ended up having 6 lessons, and both learned freestyle and backstroke pretty well.  Matisyn has a start with breaststroke.  Matisyn actually took pretty naturally to it, and I was pleasantly surprised with their progress.  Turns out though that Matisyn thought that being on the swim team was playing around, not actually swimming up and down the pool!  So for now, we are happy to have some strokes down, we plan to get some more practice in this summer, and then possibly have them both try out next year for the team.  Emilyn seemed fine either way, but I thought it would be nice and convenient to have them both in together.  Since I would be pretty pregnant this summer I wasn't excited about the idea of dragging them each morning if it wasn't something they were excited about.  I do want them to try it though, so maybe we'll be ready next year!  Over spring break we all went swimming after one of their lessons.  Lucas was a little fish, and loved the little slides.  He went over and over again once he was comfortable.  Ashly and her kids met us there, and we ended up seeing some of the other girls' friends as well.  It was a fun first day of Spring Break!

Matt went out of town for most of spring break, so we tried to keep busy on our own.  One day we needed to deliver something to Uncle Mike at the Harley store.  Lucas was happy to visit all the "cycles" inside!

A picture I found from a while back of me and the girls out to lunch.

When Matt got home from his work trip, he was able to go in a little later one day, so we spent a morning at the Dinosaur museum which all the kids love.

Matisyn got her rubberbands changed on her braces!  Now that the expander is done being moved each night, he glued it up for her, and now she has a band on the two middle teeth to move those back together.  The expander did some good work making some extra room in her mouth for the teeth that still need to come in.

A smoothie get together with friends.  We are cherishing every moment we have with Alisa because we know we don't have many left.  We jump at any opportunity that she feels up to.

We took the family through the Payson temple open house.  The kids were even more amazed and impressed than I expected.  Even Lucas keeps talking about wanting to see the temple again.  They were really good, and it was a special experience as a family.  Matisyn even wrote a note on her boogie board on the way home that made Matt and I so happy we took her.