April

My mom/Rebekah scored us some conference tickets, so the first weekend in April we ditched the kids with the grandparents (thank so much for watching them), and drove down to Salt Lake City to attend the afternoon session of General conference.

It was so nice to get away from the kids and responsibilities for a day. It felt like we were newlyweds again which I loved.

It was my first time attending general conference in the conference center, and I absolutely loved it.

I don't think I have any pictures, but my birthday was April 4th. We ate dinner at Cafe Rio which has kind of become a tradition, and then invited the Bushes over for çake because we didn't need to eat an entire cake ourselves.

I happened to see a news article on Facebook that the Angel Moroni would be put back on the temple the next morning. Rebekah was staying with us over her spring break, so I convinced her to come with us. We loaded up the kids and went and sat in the gorgeous weather to watch. It really was pretty cool to see it happen.

Hudson had the time of his life climbing all over the van and pretending to drive while Ella preferred to be an angel in her car seat and play with some toys.

I can't believe how much smaller she already looks in this picture and it wasn't even taken 2 months ago..

Our 4th wedding anniversary was April 13th and we celebrated with dinner at Jakers (which didn't cost us a dime because we used a gift card Taylor had gotten for Christmas from his boss) and a stay at the Destination's Inn.

Dinner was super good, but we decided we don't really have fancy enough tastebuds for Jakers haha.

The hotel was fantastic and definitely something I want to do every year we possibly can.

We stayed in the Congo room which we really liked.

If we ever build a house I will be putting a shower in just like this one no matter how much it costs.

We came back from the hotel Friday morning, grabbed the kids, and headed to battle zone so Hudson could go play in the bounce houses while I had Taylor there for extra help.

Last time I tokk him to battle zone it was just me and I can assure you it isn't fun to help a 2 year old through the bounce house while carrying a 15+ pound baby the whole time.

The Friday before Easter we got together with the Bushes, ate some pizza (as if that's a surprise), and let the boys go crazy dying Easter eggs. I think just about all eggs were dyed twice and some even went in for a third round because they were so sad when they ran out of eggs to dye.

The Saturday before Easter we took the kids to an Easter egg hunt at a local park. It was windy and cold, but Hudson still loved it. We were super awesome parents and woke Ella up later than we should have, so in our rush to leave the house we forgot Hudson's egg hunting bucket. We had no grocery bags in the car or literally anything else in the car for Hudson to put eggs in. (That's one disadvantage of almost always having a spotless car haha) As we were walking to the park from the car Taylor grabbed a bag that was meant for dog poop for Hudson to use. I mean it even said "dogpoopbag.com" on it. Proud parenting moment for sure. Before the Egg hunt officially began Hudson was picking up eggs that had blown out of the egg hunting area. He got WAY more geggs than last year which made him pretty happy.

Later that afternoon we did a barbecue and an egg hunt with some families in our neighborhood.

Each family filled tons of eggs which made it so the kids got tons of eggs.

I think all children walked away happy with their full baskets and buckets.

The kids woke up to plenty of goodies from the Easter bunny.

Well Hudson did at least.

Ella didn't get much because she has all of Hudson's old baby toys to play with haha.

We went to church, and then fed all of our poor college student siblings (and a sibling's friend) a delicious dinner before Rebekah had to go to work.