We started the month with our Spring Break, but it was the first spring break in years where we haven’t gone anywhere. It was actually kind of nice to stick around home and do a few fun things and also just relax. I mean, it’s not like we didnt do anything fun - Devin had his wisdom teeth taken out, after all - and that’s always a party. :) He had a pretty quick recovery, all things considered.
Autumn’s studio had all of their company dancers do individual photo shoots, which we also did over spring break. Autumn wasn’t too excited about the thought of doing the photo shoot, but she loved it once she got there and had fun seeing what she could do. I think her favorite part was when the photographer asked her if she could not jump quite so high because she kept jumping out of the frame - she has a lot of power in those little legs. Here are just a few of her favorite pics from the shoot:
I decided to try something completely new and had Bryce take me skiing for the first time in my life. We got free passes from Bryce’s work and they were date specific, so we couldn’t change the date even when a massive spring blizzard just so happened to hit on that date (seriously - over 40 inches in the mountains in 24 hours). Skiing was quite the adventure for me - hated it after the first run but loved it by the time we were leaving. Lets just say that falling in feet of fresh powder might be soft, but it sure is hard to get back up. :) It was a fun, terrifying, exhilerating, beautiful, crazy day!
Devin decided he wanted to apply to work at the sub shop he worked at last summer again this summer and went in for an application thinking it would take a few weeks to get hired and all that. Well, the manager remembered him from last year and pretty much hired him on the spot. So now he is working 3 jobs while also studying for 4 AP tests - let’s just say his life is crazy busy and pretty stressful right now. But he is handling it all well and is excited to get his AP tests done starting next week.
We took the kids to the Tulip Festival at Thanksgiving Point - it’s incredible! Our Lillie cousins were staying for the weekend, so they got to come, too. We are loving Spring!!
Megan is busy with work, where she was chosen as one of 12 top producers for the company (which is several thousand employees) for this past month and got to have lunch with all of the bigwigs at Vivint. She said it was fun to meet with all of them and is still really enjoying her job. The best thing is that they have already told her that they would love to hire her back next summer when she is off of school. Yay for not having to do the job hunt all over again!
Autumn had her 2 final dance competitions of the dance season and her team did really well. She has loved her dance team this year - they are fun to watch!
Her jazz company (minus one) with their amazing director, Tiffany.
Her ballet company
Her Jazz company
Me with some of my dance mom friends - they certainly make dance competition days so much more fun!
Devin took his good friend Chloe to prom on a rainy April day and they had a great evening with a good group of friends. I still can’t get over the fact that his Senior year is quickly winding down already - wowzer!!
We also had one super sad thing happen this month. Our new backyard neighbors decided to put up a fence, so we decided that since we were going to have a fence cutting all along the back of our yard, we would fence in the rest of the yard so we could at least enjoy some of the benefits of having a fenced yard. So after nearly 17 years of having a completely open yard, we are now fenced in. Honestly, it's depressing. Still trying to find the benefits.
That’s about it for us - hope you all have a great month!!
2 comments:
You know spring break in AZ is pretty fun....something to think about for next year :)
I would never be able to choose my favorite picture of Autumn. I love them all; she's so amazing. My favorite picture is of all your kids at the tulip farm acting TOO COOL. Because they are way too cool!
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