April

Wow, its been awhile! I have so much to blog about that I have been putting it off and putting it off. Obviously only to create more to blog about, but the task has just been too daunting and I honestly haven't had time to sit down and just do it. We have been busy, busy, busy! Two of Tyrel's families that he home teaches (who aren't active) had some children get baptized over the course of the last couple months. So we have had one of them in our home 1-2 times a week for the lessons before baptism and now for the new convert lessons. The other family does it in their home, so Tyrel goes to those also about once a week. Plus he has mutual every Wednesday and campouts or hikes 1-2 times a month. Between all of that and the normal every day things, it has just been crazy around here. And we were finally able to get our back yard all cleared out and ready to plant, which we did. So besides my normal every day tasks I get to rotate sprinklers all day between the back yard, front yard and my 2 different garden spots. And then there are temple days, visiting teaching and our callings. If you're going to be busy with things though, it sure feels good to be busy with church duties. I'll go ahead and post some pictures of the month of April, it will help remind me of some of the things that we did.

My Mom came to visit the 2nd week in April, right after conference. Somehow she didn't make it in any of the pictures. She gave Tytyn some early Birthday presents, which he was thrilled about.  We really didn't do much of anything, but we had some nice visits and it was fun to just have her here. Thanks for making the effort to visit so often Mom, we really like when family comes!

We got a couple last snowfalls in April, this one was a surprise to wake up to.

Tyrel turned 27 on April 17th. He'd had a long day at work in the snow and then had to come home and eat his Birthday dinner super fast, blow out candles real quick and then leave for mutual. So we didn't see him much on his Birthday. We really appreciate him and how hard he works for us.

It's a long story why there are chocolate chips sticking in the german chocolate frosting and I am not going to tell it because its kind of embarrassing ha ha!

Last time we saw Flaming Gorge it was last July with my parents, so it was kind of fun to see it with snow and still very pretty.

We finally got Tyrel's parents to come and see us and we took them up to see Flaming Gorge and then went to the restaurant up there afterwards for lunch.

Tyrel had not had an opportunity to go to the temple yet this month and I had already gone several times so he decided to go and do some initiatory and we went with him and just waited for him outside. I had been wanting to take Tytyn for awhile to walk around the temple ground because he always asks about the temple and says he wants to go there. So I took the opportunity to walk around with him and try to explain to him who's house it is. I always enjoy my little conversations with him, he is so smart and I think he understands more than I think I will. 

My silly boy, Tytyn.

When we bought our house and moved into it last summer, we didn't get to see what everything would look like in the Spring. So it's been fun to see all the pretty blossoms and different flowers come up that I didn't know I had. I planted a bunch of bulbs last fall, that's what you can see through the blossoms. 

This is Tyrel and Tytyn smoothing out the dirt where we planted our lawn in the back. I'll get some pictures here soon of what it looks like now. I wish I would have remembered to get before and after pics of the whole process because this back yard was an absolute mess. We have put lots and lots of hours into it.