Rewind to April

So here we are in December. 2014 is almost over and I am blogging April! Geez. Just a warning, these next posts will probably include a lot of pictures just so I can get them all in faster!

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The ducks came to visit us finally in the Spring! They came right up to the window like they were waiting for us to come outside. Of course we did. And we fed them bread (which you are not supposed to do I guess!).

My new bookshelf. For free!! I love it. Daniel did not want anything to do with it. In fact, I had a friend go pick it up because Daniel didn't want to. He was hoping our friend would want it and we wouldn't have to keep it. :) With a little bit of paint, it cleaned up really nice (I'll have to post a recent picture of it soon!).

Just going on a walk with my crazies!

This bench was used as the kid's shoe storage downstairs for awhile. Then it got ugly. So we moved it to Addie's room for her to use as a reading bench and gave it a makeover...

She loves it!!

Babies socializing. (They were all born within about 3 weeks of each other!)

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April was Fair time!! Oh how we love the fair. The lights, smells, yummy food. This year we decided to get a babysitter for Dia and take the older 2 (and Opal) to a demolition derby. Opal was not a fan and Daniel ended up standing in a less noisy spot with her for a lot of it but the kids liked it!

We even paid like $8 for these headphones hoping someone would use them.

Afterwards we went down to look at all the beat up cars! This black car was the winner!

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For a fun school activity I introduced the kids to the wonderful world of Shrinky Dinks! So fun!

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Always a tea party here.

Classic picture. Every kid need one of these taken with Dad. :)

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Toward the end of the school year I had the kids in ice skating lessons. They both loved it and I was really impressed with how fast they progressed. They can both skate on their own (maybe even better than I can!). Addie loved it so much we let her do another session, Johnny just watched the second time around.

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Since I'm always changing my hair, I tried some red. It was a really pretty red ombre. Unfortunately it only held for like a week! I was so bummed.

Speaking of hair, I gave this little girl her first haircut back in April! It was kind of looking like a mullet and super shaggy. She was happy to sit there and watch a show on the ipad. I think it turned out pretty cute!

(I wish I would have taken one before she was eating!)

These 2 fight like crazy and know how to push each others buttons but I think deep (deep,deep) down, they know they are going to be good buddies. :)