March was a beautiful month for our family. We began the month by attending Kathy and Quinn Dally's sealing in the Payson Temple. It was wonderful to be in that special place and witness the sealing. It was fun to have the Burnsides and other family visit for that occasion. We were also able to participate in the Provo City Center Temple dedication on the 19th. The last weekend of the month we went to Logan and spent some time with the Kay family for Easter.
Easter Eggs with Logan & Sadie
Easter Dress
With spring here in full force, Kas and the kids began frequent trips to the park, earning the first sunburns and skidded knees of the year. Addie has started sort of sleeping through the night, though she seems to be fighting one of her naps which makes things interesting. She loves sitting up and being entertained by Hinckley and really doesn't like to be alone. Hinckley continues to love reading, and we went to a few construction sites to see the trucks and diggers. The MTC expansion project is massive and we watched that for quite some time. Hinckley also helped Kas and Nana in the garden this week and Addie had a blast with Grandpa.
We went to the Provo Spring Festival where Hinckley had a frog painted on his face and he won a few little prizes at some booths. Addie had fun grinning at people and petting puppies. We also had a ward service project and Hinckley moved about with gusto picking up trash and sticks for a surprisingly long time, service is really quite fun when it is a whole family affair!
Addie with Nanna and Grandpa H
General Conference Break! (Addie, Hinckley - he is hiding behind the stroller, kassie, Grandpa and Nana, Grandpa H, Austin H)
Freezing Spring festival - Hinckley's frog facepainting
Grandpa Williams and Addie-boo
I had a month/week of "lasts" at BYU and am officially graduated. I loved my program and learned so much. There is a lot to chew on related to life after graduation, but for now I am trying to just digest the fact that I won't be a student anymore, it is pretty strange. It was an amazing weekend in April that I graduated with Lucy, and she got married the next day. To celebrate Kas and I went skydiving with a few other family members! It was an amazing trip! We had loads of family in town and Hinckley was in heaven.
Graduation with my number 1 supporter
Skydiving gear and ready to go
Hinckley with his cousins
Graduating with Pa and Lu
Tristan being a wonderful cousin and friend to Hinckley
Addie with her cousins
Kas and I continue to train for the half marathon we are doing later this summer and have started feeling a tad more comfortable running outside. We are running a lot each week, and while I feel my cardio health is really great I don't think this format for exercise is the best for overall health.
We had a fun time swimming at the Provo Rec center yesterday. Hinckley went down some slides by himself and enjoyed splashing around without being reprimanded (he loves splashing in the bath too). This was Addie's first time swimming and she was very interested in all the kids running around and the water splashing everywhere. Kassie and I went to Improve Broadway, a really fun improvisation comedy show where they also make up musicals on the fly. I was laughing tears for much of it!
Addie is such a fun-loving and beautiful baby. She has started clapping her hands, and adores watching Hinckley do just about anything. I have never seen a child eat like she does! She has about three times as much food than Hinckley does it seems like, and is crying for more before the spoon has hardly left her mouth. She often just sits and grins, looking around her with her arms and hands wiggling about as if she is moving to a tune no one else can hear.
Eating laundry
Sitting with cousin Tommy
Happy hi five after bath
Kicking it at BYU
Hinckley and I went to a fathers and sons activity where we ate some food and played some games. Hinckley was intent on playing with the 5-6 year olds and frequently came to tell me that "the kids won't play with me!" Poor kid always wants to be with older kids it seems. He continues to love reading/being read to and has a great sense of humor. He saw me massaging Kassie's feet and wanted a turn, and then he decided he just loves "grabsaging" (insert "grab" instead of "mass" in massage"), and spent a significant amount of time trying to rub Kassie's feet. Pretty hilarious!
I can't believe it has only been two months since Hinckley joined our family! It feels like a lot longer than that and he is growing so big way too fast! At his two month check-up today, he weighed 13 lb 12 oz and was 26 1/4 inches long. Apparently he is so tall that he is off the medical charts for his age. Hinckley is such a happy, easy-going baby. He smiles, laughs, and coos a lot. Having him in our family is so fun because he helps us realize the joy of everything once again. He smiles at bright colors or new sounds, enjoys kisses and cuddling, and squeals in delight at seeing nature when we take walks. Yesterday at church it was like he had a rubber neck; for about five minutes he just kept turning back and forth to take it all in--the sights, sounds, and smells. Today he had to get three shots at the doctor's office and even that didn't phase him for long. Oh he screamed and his face got redder than I have ever seen it. I held him and fed him afterwards and then ...
The final product of "make me a match" that I labored over exceedingly. I was actually sort of unhappy with it all not because of the performances of anyone but mainly just the story. We had to write all so quickly and the re-write it time after time and then storyboard it and really break it down. In all this rush I didn't realize till I was actually shooting it that I really didn't care much for the story as a whole and thus my motivation suffered greatly. I don't think I need to tell epic dramatic tales to care about them but I do want to have a strong point and also a specific conflict or issue that is approached and resolved. I am starting a screen writing class tomorrow and possibly I will gain some insights as to how to develop good stories. Ones that I care about. I don't know why I feel so interested in telling stories - particularly in that I haven't felt very confident with the stories I have come up with. It is extremely hard for me to come up ...
It is that time of day when the house is quiet, the table is half covered in pots, pans, and tuber ware with food scattered across. The car isn’t in the garage and the dog lies sleeping on the blue blanket. The sun lies somewhere back there, behind the cloud over those mountains. It makes some nice gold colors on the rocky face of the mountains outside of the window. I guess it is so nice because at this time of year there is a lot of plants and flowers in the back yard so the gold makes it seem sort of dreamlike. Yeah, I’ll do em I guess. Call it being nice or being bored. Does it matter? Approaching the sink I am nipped by the denting smell. The eggshells, scraps of mango, carrot peel, and chunks of tofu drip in my fingers. Oh yes, the trash is under the sink these days. Drip once, drip twice on the floor. The water in the frying pan trembles, shaking the crusty flakes of burnt egg. Yogurt and peanu...
What a beautiful family! Thank you for sharing and creating this amazing history.
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