Monday, April 14, 2014

Early April

Classic April weather around here has meant lots of running and not much biking—but it's been good for me to try and get better at something I am totally bad at. Seriously, I am not a runner! But I have this drive to be better and get faster, and mostly get stronger (heart/lungs/endurance/muscles included). I hit a big milestone the other day running a 5K in under 30 minutes (most of it was downhill :) Had to document the day and my neighbors beautiful blooms:


 On a sunny Saturday we cleaned out and decluttered the garage. We also sold the two strollers in the picture below which felt amazing! Love the cleared space, loved making some money on great baby investments that we no longer need. Hope someone will adore that jogging stroller as much as I did—used it for so many walks and runs with all 4 of my littles.


Luke's set-up during conference weekend:

These cuties gathered flowers for me on their walk home from school:

A good hair day :)

First try with our new set of spiral curlers for the girls. Mary was telling me about these last year and since Livs needs her hair curled just so for her recital next month we finally got some. We discovered that they work really well and we can put them in at night in the girls' wet hair, they sleep on them and wake up with gorgeous curls (and they're squishy and softer than than sponge curlers)

We planned a Provo family date night a few weeks back starting with dinner at Los Hermanos:




And then a great adventure hiking the Y with all of our crazies:


The kids were eager to use their new hiking sticks from my parents and the 3 olders did beautifully. Olivia even hiked the whole way up without ever complaining or asking to be carried—that is a steep hike too! Of course Luke was a hyper little devil and wiggled all around when he was in the backpack and then when we let him walk he veered way too close to the edge and gave us lots of grief. He's at such a tricky age for hiking because he's huge in that backpack but he's all over the place on trails! We may be leaving him with a sitter more often than not this summer :)







2 comments:

Heidi said...

That is a steep hike for littles, I am totally impressed. I keep meaning to order some of those curlers too!

Anonymous said...

I just finally caught up on your blog...love it all. We are inspired to do the provo dinner/hike to the Y activity as a family too. Sounds so fun!