April-ness

We had a very happy Easter!  I took the big kids to the Easter Pageant in the Mesa Temple, we had an impromptu Easter egg hunt with friends, ate tons and tons of candy and even held a real bunny.

Our Easter Pageant Miracle!  It doesn't start until 8pm and I got both Rachel & Andrew to take a nap that day.  We needed a pillow barrier on this afternoon, but whatever works!

Mesa Temple Easter Pageant

Andrew, Sydney, Rachel, Macy, Gracie, Kendall & Brynlee (the Schmidt's & Johnson's both have 3 girls each!)

Easter baskets - the same ones from my childhood that my mom made and I am slightly obsessed with them!

Easter Sunday best

Andrew asks me everyday if he can have a playdate.  Thankfully, there are lots of friends his age, so we can switch between Maddox, William, Ben, Emmet & Fisher.  Lately at our house, the kids have been loving dress ups - both their costume dress ups and they also love to tear apart mommy & daddy's closet and play dress ups when we are not closely watching.

As this school year is quickly coming to a close, it makes me happy to think about how Andrew & Kendall have become such good playmates while Rachel is at school.  We are all a little nervous about having Rachel home all summer, but we are excited to do lots of fun things all together!

They both love their twinner blankies!

We try our very hardest not to eat on the carpet, so the kids sit right on the edge!  I have a picture of me and Chad doing this same thing when we were kids!

Homework time!

Cheap entertainment - watching the construction on the house being built across the stress

Rachel's poor teeth this year!  She fell on the cement at school and chipped her tooth (it's hard to explain but she was swinging her legs while hanging onto a bench and just fell and chipped her two front permanent teeth.  Rather than put some bonding on them, we decided to just have them shaved down and then once they are fully grown in, then we will get a better idea of what the shape will be.  She has also had two cavities filled and has already been to the orthodontist and has an appliance in the back of her mouth to help her six year molars come in the right spot.