Recital Time!

I guess you could say I am just one proud auntie!! Lora had her dance recital this last weekend and she did awesome! Her dance studio presented Sleeping Beauty, the ballet, and Lora was part of the last act doing the Puss in Boots dance. It was so cute. There was about 12 girls and she was honestly the only one that did the whole dance, very unusual for the preschool class. She's a natural!! Duke felt like it was th longest recital ever, but he also hasn't ever been to one. It only lasted an hour and twenty minutes with a few awards at the very end, unlike our usual 3 hour recitals...it was a breeze! Very fun to see her excitement about one of the things I love. Great job Lora!

Lora with her "favrite" uncle!

She's the one on the right...perfectly posed!

Sisters, after a great performance!

What a "wonderful" investment

Hello big safe! So, Duke has a bunch of guns that his grandpa had been storing. My father-in-law said the only way we could bring them home is if we got a safe. We looked at them, or Duke did, all over and found some on sale. It ended up being $100 more for twice the size. So we invested in it! For all those important documents right?

We had to rent a U-haul to bring it home and then needed 5 guys to get it out of the truck. 1000 lbs. later, it is now sitting in the garage waiting for us to move again. Funny, funny, one thing I really never thought I would own and the first big purchase we made together! Woohoo!

Duke felt like it was Christmas all over again! Beautiful, huh?

Really, a U-haul?

And this is it!!

April Weekends and ALL the visitors

Mary and Me

The first weekend in April Mary came to visit!! I hadn't seen her since the wedding and it was about time. We had a lot of fun exploring... and finding the "long cuts" to different places. We went down town and then while we were there went to the farmers market. It was fun and not really what I expected. We also went to some hot springs and thats where we went the longest way possible but it was a fun little adventure.

Jared, Mary, Brooke, Me and Duke


Me hiking down to the hotspring

The second weekend in April MomE came to visit!! She made the trip after dropping Karissa off at school. We had a great time and spent a lot of it with Keith and his family.

The third weekend in April was Jared and Lindsay's wedding (Duke's friend)!! We took the trip down to UT and stayed with mom. We took the girls, Lora and Adeline, with so they could spendthe weekend with GramE and boy was it a trip!! We also got to see Duke's dad and the rest of our family down there in. Quick trip but always exciting!

Adeline passed out just for about 1 hour on our 5 hour trip down...and boy doesn't Lora look excited, more like exausted!

The fourth weekend in April Alisha came to visit!! They came for a cousin's baptism but stayed with us and also stayed a couple extra days with the kids. We had a great time and I now understand how much time you have to plan around kids schedules of sleeping, eating and changing diapers.

WHAT A MONTH!!

Thanks to all our visitors!!

Me and Thunder (my favorite dog) at Keith and Audra's