The new pad

We found a rental in gilbert az, 3 1/2 bdr, 2 ba, 3 car garage, fenced yard. The community has 2 pools, one of which is a sandy beach pool, and also hot tub! It also has a work out facility! We are super excited to have access to all these fun things, but I'm so sad to be leaving. I have loved being close to my sister and Gma, and sad to be leaving our fabulous culdesac family. We love our neighbors, beautiful backyard, and house. We've met so many awesome families here and it is really tough to say goodbye. The kids have made a few really close friends and it's hard to see those end. Change is hard! Trying to embrace it and love it, but I'm still so melancholy! Excited to be closer to more family though and be back in the west.

April

 Kai and Rich worked on their first pinewood derby together and Kai was so excited that he took first place! The kids were all thrilled, he had a great time,

 Loved catching these two reading together, This was just before we got rid of her binkies :(

 Seriously such a trouble maker!

Kai wrote this in the shower and I thought it was hilarious!

Meili and I worked on a project together, I bought some bratz dolls and took all their fake gaudy eye makeup and lipstick off and repainted their faces to look normal like us. The I taught her how to sew a bit and she loves it! She has a new little passion of sewing and even learned a little something about inner beauty. It was a fun project together :)

 Easter is always such a blur! Life is so fast but we still found time to decorate together!

 We took a trip to Kansas city and met up with my sister while she ran in a race. We loved the kc temple, it was beautiful! We did the zoo, lots of swimming, and also saw some church sites. It was a really fun weekend

 We went to far west missouri where joseph smith dedicated 4 corner stones for the temple, adam on diamon where joseph, adam and the saints will congregate, liberty jail where joseph was held, and independence mo vistors center, where we learned about how the saints were driven out. It was a really beautiful day full of lots of emotions. Families are forever. It was beautiful.
far west

adam-ondi-ahman

 Liberty jail, exact replica

 independence mo christus statue

 Then uncle dennis and gma and gpa came through on their way across the country! We loved having them and it was so good to see him again!

 We did some fishing, sleeping, eating, baseball, parkin it, did the tons of trucks event, and even found some morells! It was a fabulous week! Then we headed to grams

 my favorite picture ever...

Loved spending a bit more time with gram, shes just so happy and funny, we had so much fun staying up late and playing euchre, hangin with jerry and becky, playing skib bo with the kids, playing baseball and shroom hunting! Rich even got in a little golf :) Den and I helped gram plant her flower bed and the kids loved it too!

Bre even met us there!

these two were having a real deep convo :)

 So good to see everyone and spend time with Gram. We are trying to soak up our time with her before the big move!