Our life in April

The month has passed by so quickly! It seems that April always sneaks up on me and suddenly it's gone. I figured I had better update the blog for the month before it's completely over. Today is actually Ryan and my 13th Anniversary. It amazes me how fast the time goes. I feel so very blessed to have married my best friend and he continues to still be my very best friend. We knew that our schedule (more particularly my schedule) would be crazy this month. So we took the first weekend of the month and ran off to Vegas. It was so relaxing and very warm! Then we came home to a snow storm... blah!

I was also blessed to get a promotion at work. I was promoted to a charge nurse position. I pretty much run the nursing unit and decide on which patients to admit when it's my day to charge. I'm not really sure that I wanted it but I agreed to the extra responsibility. If nothing else, I keep telling myself that it looks really good on my resume. And the bit of extra money will at least pay for my gas.

Kelsi turns 12 in 6 days! When did she get so old?!? She is pretty much as tall as me now and is relishing the fact that her next growth spurt will make her taller than me. She will be starting the youth program at church and is very excited to be going to girl's camp this summer. I'm not sure how she will do being away from us for an entire week. I do remember how much I grew up and learned confidence in myself when I went at her age. I look forward to her having these experiences and watching her continue to grow into an amazing young woman.

And of coarse, we celebrated Easter today. I was brave this year and let the girls make their own Easter dresses. They actually turned out pretty cute and the girls were so excited that they had made them- they could hardly wait to go to church today. Taylor has been very excited for the Easter bunny to come. He seems to think that he's just like Santa and just can't fathom why the Easter bunny doesn't come down the chimney. After all, that would just make sense, right?!? I had to laugh at how disappointed he was that the Easter bunny that came to his school didn't talk. He said to me, "Mom, I don't know why he didn't talk. On Hop (the movie) he talked! And I just couldn't get him to say ANYTHING to me!" I chuckled and felt really bad for that poor Easter bunny that Taylor was trying to get to talk!!!

Well that sums up our month- here's a few pics to go along with the words...

Ryan with the Treasure Island Chopper in Vegas


Kelsi sewing her Easter dress


Me with the albino alligator in Vegas at Shark Reef

Jessica sewing her Easter dress

Taylorisms

I just adore my 4 year old and they many, many , many funny things he comes up with. So here are a few to make you smile....


Tay woke up around 9:30 the other night- this was Ryan's conversation with him-
Taylor (crying): There's a monster under my bed
Ryan: Hey buddy there isn't any room for a monster under your bed because there are drawers under there. He wouldn't fit
Taylor (still crying): But he's a really little monster!

After Ryan picked him up from preschool:
"Dad can we go to Cowafornia? I really want to pet a cow!"

After hearing that Ryan and I were going to Las Vegas for the weekend
"Why are you going to Lost Vegas? You'll get lost"

Random conversation in the car with me
Taylor: Mom is Jesus in the clouds?
Me: No buddy he's in heaven
Taylor: Where's heaven?
Me: In space somewhere.
Taylor: So when someone dies they can go to heaven and see him?
Me: Yes
Taylor: What if I just pretend to be dead? Then can I see him?

Taylor: Mom am I your favoritist today?
Me: You're always my favoritist.
Taylor: But do you love me mostest today?
Me: I love you mostest everyday.
Taylor: Nooo! The other day you loved Jessica the mostest- she told me so!


"When I grow up and I'm 10, I'm going to be superman!"