Fargo Climb

Danny's work friends were able to get our whole family into Fargo Climb for free. The kids had so much fun and Danny was reminded how much he loves bouldering. He's already looking up places he can possibly get a membership to once we're in PA.

Muddy Memories

Making memories and living their dream.

Their dream just happens to be my literal nightmare. So much mud . . . 😳

Grant's Before & After

Grant's hair got so long, I was a little curious how long it would get before he would finally get it cut. Turns out this is around his limit. 💚

Cinco De Mayo Fiesta

We joined the Aldrich's and the Leeser family for a good ol' belated Cinco De Mayo Fiesta.

Celebrating with friends where all the kids get along with each other is just the best.

Quinnie

Ryles

Addie and the older kids didn't get a chance to hit the pinata because it broke by that point.

Birding Festival

We all joined Danny this morning by going to the Fargo Birding Festival. While walking on the trail we saw that some researchers had a wild bird in their hands and were giving a presentation on how they gather bird data. They were really nice to let the kids then pet the bird. The highlight was them letting Addie hold the bird in her hand and release it back to the wild. That was pretty cool.

Easter & General Conference Weekend

Easter weekend fell on general conference weekend this year which was kind of nice. Danny was supposed to fly out for an in person interview at Penn State but because of all the snow that has been falling lately his interview was postponed until later this month. I'm a bit relieved because I didn't want him to miss out on our easter basket hunt Saturday morning. Which I didn't get any pictures at all of that because we happened to have a rough night the night before and felt so exhausted that morning that the kids all searched and found theirs while we were still trying to wake up for the day. We did eventually give clues to Addie and Hudson because we hid their baskets very very well. 

We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and turned on the first session of general conference while heavy snow was falling down outside. By the time the afternoon session was on the snow had stopped and both Danny and I felt like we just needed to get outside to help clear our heads from some stress that life is throwing our way.

It started by Danny going out and shoveling the driveway.

Four of the kids were next to join him.

I told Danny he should help build a bunny snowman for Easter and this was their creation.

Crazy boys.

We ended out Saturday evening dying eggs.

We started our Sunday morning with our traditional empty tomb rolls and started the first session of general conference.

The kids all agreed that this cuddle moment needed to be captured.

We had invited the Aldrich family to join us for the evening session and for dinner so before they came over we snuck in our own little Easter egg hunt since we hadn't done that yet. I didn't get any pictures of dinner with them but we made our sausage dip and had it over rice and chips which was great because even picky kids like this meal.

The only picture I got of our evening with them were these blurry dance party that we did with the glow sticks the kids got from watching general conference. All in all it was a great weekend. I'm glad Danny was able to be here for it all.