Spring Breakers in Utah County Part 2.

Beautiful Astrid on Easter Sunday

Watching Micah adore Astrid makes me feel warm inside. He does it often. I was so glad to capture it.

I love how he has his hand holding onto her dress. I think he will be assigned to screen her future dates.

The typical Micah pout.

 

Handsome Jack. Why must you grow up? It's getting harder and harder to fix your hair in the mornings because you're approaching my same height. I'd let you do your own hair, except then we'd wind up with this:

 

 

 

 

Bowling at BYU is quickly becoming one of our favorite vacation activities. I lost to every single one of my children.

Even Nathan

We went to the new Thanksgiving Point children's museum. It was fun, but crowded. We had one adult for every child, and I'm still amazed we came home with all four children. 

Allan joked that this trip was the most time he'd spent with Astrid since her arrival on earth. She's a fan.

Nathan is our first child to thoroughly enjoy drawing and coloring. I love that he is so serious and holding such a tiny pencil.

Aunt Molly and newly presented Uncle James invited us to their new place for an amazing dinner. Deep dish Chicago-style pizza and Nutella Banana Cake. It was more than amazing, actually. The boys felt quite at home among all the toys.

Astrid received her first BYU apparel. It's already too small.

Here was the highlight of the trip. Jack and Allan attended the Saturday afternoon session of General Conference with my dad. I dropped out last minute due to nursing mother anxieties. Jack still talks about Elder Bednar's memorable tale of an early life of crime. See here.

We really did enjoy our trip, though we weren't able to cram in everything or everyone we would have hoped. Unphotographed, but still in our memories, are eating at The Mandarin, evenings with Aunt Becky, Five Guys Burgers and Fries ("and Peanuts", as Micah is always quick to add), Allan's and my failed date (Astrid!!!), my ultimately disappointing shopping trips, playing with Cousin Henry, and my new super blonde bob. Oh, and Dungeons and Dragons with Uncle Greg (wherein he earned "Coolest Uncle" status).

See you July!!!

Spring breakers in Utah County Part 1.

Some people go to Pismo (yuck), we go to Provo. This year's spring break coincided with both Easter and General Conference. As soon as I made this connection last fall, I begged Allan to make it happen. He did. It's never a stress-free experience for him to leave work behind for even a few days, but he's good about it, and we all appreciate it immensely. Provo just isn't the same without him.

Previous to the trip we made all sorts of grand plans that involved seeing many people and doing much shopping and going to many fun places. Then we arrived and realized what little time we had. With Allan's parents serving as full-time missionaries with very busy office assignments, we decided to spend days with my side of the family and evenings with his side. Then we had wonderful Conference weekend to split between the two.

I'm struggling to remember everything we did, in the correct order, etc. So, thank heavens I brought my camera and had other people's camera photos to rely on. Prepare for many, many pictures with some pretty weak captioning.

Love these boys of mine. Prepping for dyeing eggs.

 

Backyard antics with Micah and Natey