The Coppin Crew

It was our turn to watch our friends' kids while they escaped on their couple's trip. We enjoyed having their kids for the weekend. We don't see them nearly as often as we use to now that our kids are going to different schools. Last year when we watched them we had a whopper snow storm. This year, it wasn't as much of a blizzard, but it still dumped quite a bit of snow for late April! We were prepared this time with lots of snow gear. Props to Bryan who handled the kids on his own for a few hours until I made it home from my business trip.

Everyone had a buddy to play with.

Luke and Parker are within 2 months of each other. 

Emma and Kennedy: 4 months. 

Oakley and Myles: 1 month. 

Whitney is due in June and needless to say, we will not be continuing this trend of having our babies close together. Cute kiddos.

American Gladiators

Bryan is one of the leaders at our church for the Young Men's program. He genuinely enjoys working with the youth. He saw one of his friends orchestrate and pull off an American Gladiator night for their youth (thank you Devin) and pulled off a similar night here. I think the adults and youth enjoyed it...with the adults possibly enjoying it the most. The Bishop visibly enjoyed landing a few of his shots on his sons.

Sharing a Room

Out of desperation, we moved Myles into Luke's room to see if it would help Myles to sleep any better. Even as I type this I realize, what were we thinking?!? Again, we were desperate. While no one is magically sleeping in every morning, these two boys of ours are sure enjoying sharing a room. Myles can definitely drive Luke a little crazy. One night, Bryan went to check on them and Myles had crawled into Luke's bed and was driving his train all over Luke's face. Luke was dead-fast asleep. Another night, Bryan found Myles snuggled up to Luke and Luke was wide awake. He gave Bryan a thumbs up and softly explained, "He sleeps better this way." The newness has since died down and Myles stays in his own bed for most nights. I wonder how long they will think it's fun to share a room.

Kindergarten Registration

Emma had her Kindergarten registration and did so well. I felt like someone needed to shake my shoulders and explain to me how my baby girl is old enough to be in kindergarten in the Fall! She is confident, adventurous, kind and ready for this next step. Now, if I could just get my heart to understand that!

Easter

Our Easter Bunny usually visits on Saturday and we enjoy a more peaceful Sabbath Day. However, this year, someone slipped the Easter Bunny a note that the boys were gone on a trip so it held out until Sunday. I think we learned we prefer the Easter bunny visit on Saturday when possible. Nonetheless, we enjoyed a beautiful Easter Sunday.

Chesler Park

Bryan is making an annual tradition of going to Chesler park on a boys' trip with his dad and any friends that would like to come along. It sounds like they had a good group and the hiking with the kids went even better this year than last. Myles is still uninvited, but maybe in the next few years he'll make the cut...maybe.

Zoo Day

I took Emma and Myles to the zoo (poor Luke was at school) and we enjoyed the perfect Spring day. All of the animals were out and we even saw the polar bear swimming laps. Myles loved seeing the baby giraffe and Emma always like to stop at the cheetahs and ask me, "Is a cheetah or a  ______ faster?" Insert 10-15 different animals or objects and you'll be right there with me in this moment. :)
Love these kids that are growing older and changing so quickly that it sometimes catches me by surprise when I look at pictures.

Oh this Mister Myles is so much trouble right now...but the number one problem is he shoots me this smile and knows that he can get away with murder.

We all had some belly laughs watching the sea lions chase each other.