April

Once again time has gotten away from me with updating our blog!

Here are some pictures from the month of April.

Miss Kinley turned 9 months on April 20th! She is such a happy little girl! She is no longer content to sit still, pulls herself up to stand, can move to a sitting postion from laying down and just started to crawl yesterday! She has also started picking up food to feed herself and especially enjoys eating puffs! Papa Curt has given her the nickname of Smiley due to the bright smile that is always on her face!
One of Kinley's favorite things to do right now is swing!

We recently had new carpet put in our living room and Kinley is fascinated by it!
She spends a lot of time examining it with her fingers!

The kids have been so happy to be spending more time outside. We laughed one night when Kinsie fell asleep at 7:00 pm on the steps! She was very worn out from playing outside!

In preparation for Easter we colored eggs. The dye kit came with a "magic" wax crayon that the kids could use to write on the eggs. After dipping the eggs into the dye they could see the words and drawings that they had made on the eggs.

Our sweet little bunny kicked back in her seat and watched

as Caden and Kinsie colored the eggs!

Often when I am working in the kitchen I will set Kinley down in front of our toy refrigerator manets. She loves playing with them, but has also become very fascinated with the refrigerator door. She likes to reach her hand out and stop it from closing when I am taking things in and out. She is especially curious of the items that are in the door. One night after dinner she was able to get ahold of this bottle of chocolate syrup. She thought the lid was very yummy!

Yummy!

This past Friday we traveled to the farm for the holiday weekend. We were very blessed to spend time with all of our family, including our cousins Brian and Jeff and their families. Their children are the same ages as Brandi's and ours and they always have so much fun together! With ten children ages 9 down to 9 months and four dogs running round it was a bit chaotic, but a lot of fun! Friday evening we had pizza at Brandi and Tory's house and the kids played. On Saturday we attended the annual Tingley Easter egg hunt and then had dinner with the family that evening.

All of the cousins enjoying tacos at Uncle Mel and Aunt Doris' house.

As we were setting out Easter baskets Saturday night Caden thought the Easter bunny might need some help identifying which basket belonged to each child, so he left this note for the Easter Bunny to let him know what color each of their baskets were!

The kids were all very excited when they woke up Sunday morning to find that the Easter bunny had filled their baskets with a lot of goodies!

Kinsie's favorite gift was her pair of Sketchers light up shoes!

It was so fun to watch Kinley with her Easter basket!

Uncle Mel and Aunt Doris hosted Easter lunch at their house. Before lunch the kids participated in our annual Easter egg hunt...the Easter bunny is always very generous! (Ironicly he gets a lot of help from our family pediatric dentist...I think he is trying to add some more business!!) Each year we take this same picture of the kids at the starting line...it is fun to see look back and see how they have all grown and how our line has grown with each new addition to the family!

Caden and Kinsie searching for some candy.

Kinsie and Laurel

Kinley taking in all of the excitement!

Enjoying some candy!

Kinsie has been very afraid of dogs, but this past weekend she overcame her fear and now she loves to play with them! She loved spending time with the four labs that were running around and now asks daily if she can have a dog!

All of the kids took turns taking four wheeler rides with Brian!

The kids enjoying a yummy Easter lunch!

With all of the fun and excitement it was difficult to get them all to sit down for very long!