April

April. The beginning of the end. The last month of school. I don't remember much. It's a blur. It's crazy, now a few months later, I can see how I was just living on the edge of sanity. I'm so glad I have pictures to help me remember what went on. Bekah's 3rd birthday. There were cupcakes, family (Dynelle and her kids, Chelsey and Cody), and presents. But it's kind of gone from my memory. I am not going back to school!

Peekaboo!

We went to baby animal days with the Howcrofts and Watkins. The girls loved the animals!! 

I asked the girls to stand together so I could get a picture. They did a group hug, which ended up on the ground!

They were being puppies...kind of...

We went out to Vernal for Easter. So much cousin time resulted in lots of pictures!

We went to Baby Animal Days at the Western Heritage Museum. Bekah got to ride the Shetland ponies (hence the helmet) and she really did love it. I just didn't get a good picture. We got to pet all sorts of baby animals. Bekah was in heaven.

She pretended to be asleep and requested a picture. Xander just hung out in his stroller and kept a serious face any time I talked to him. He was not impressed. I guess he probably thought, "I'm a baby, too. What's the big deal?"

Like I said, he was not impressed. But Bekah sure was! And you can see Cody in the background. Of course, we went with the Watkins.

Sometime during the month (no memory of when, of course) we went on a drive and Garrett discovered how very beautiful our car is to him. This is his car commercial picture. For only $30,300, we'll let you make this beauty part of your family!

I love pictures of my sleeping babies.

Backyard fun. Thank goodness it's warming up!

First time in a swing and loving it!

We got a new couch! It's beautiful

He started pulling to a stand. 8 months old.

Dang, I can't get over this girl's style. She's awesome!

Garrett got me some flowers for finishing school. He's so sweet.

We went to Dynelle's, Always a happy time!

March

March was the half-way point through our last semester. It was busy! First, there was Ally's baptism, then I had several home-visits for school, I had just finished my first week of lead-teaching the preschool class and had a couple weeks to plan my next week of teaching, and Garrett was running here, there, and literally everywhere as he worked on classes, his job, getting his internship planned, finishing research, etc. (I put etc, because I'm really not sure what he was doing all semester. We were both so focused on doing our own stuff that we really didn't have much of a chance to figure out what the other person was up to.) Amid all the hustle and bustle of trying to get school done, I was able to take cherished moment here and there to talk to my babies and catch some pictures. They made all of it so much more intense and difficult, but so much more worth-while!

This is her princess face. She loves wearing her favorite blanky as a princess dress.

The second week of the month, we headed out to Moab to show our kids the famous Arches. We were full of reminiscing since at the end of the summer we would celebrate our 5th anniversary of marriage, and Arches was where we spent our honeymoon.

                Bekah cracked herself up with this trick

That girl absolutely loves climbing rocks with her daddy. She sees rocks and immediately tries to get to the top of them!

Xander was an awesome trooper the whole time. He just looked around and hung out in his carrier. He had it pretty good!

On our way home we stopped at a natural history museum. Bekah loves these! 

Little diva, talking to her phone, with her purse and shades. She loves pretending she's grown-up, and she actually does a pretty good job!

By the time he was 7 months he was into everything and loving it! He mostly loved wrestling and tickling. Every night before bed, he and I would rough-house to get him ready to sleep through the night. It worked pretty well, and it was so much fun!