La felicidad que se encuentra: Kyle, Jenny, Alexa, Tyler, Tad, Liam, Nathan, and Audrey

We’re loving the warmer weather and had a great spring break. Alexa earned a free pizza at Brick Oven from school, we went to the Nickelcade, played at new playgrounds, saw Beauty and the Beast, went to the Curiosity Museum with cousins, and celebrated Granny’s 101st birthday at Texas Roadhouse. Tad has finally decided to try out this walking thing in order to get to balls and cell phones that he couldn't reach while crawling. We had a wonderful Easter Sunday at Peggy’s house. The kids sang in church and Kyle sang in the ward choir. Tad and I benefited from listening to both. Alexa competed in a 1-mile race through her school that they held at the BYU track.  She ran with her friend, Kate, and they were so cute to help each other and wait for each other if one slowed down.  I was proud that they ran the whole way without stopping.  Also, she's an adorable morning workout buddy. Fun stories: Tad was beating Alexa and Tyler up with a toy sword so T...

Our baby boy is somehow already 1! Sweet Tad races to me when I come home from work regardless of where he is in the house, and he demands to be picked up immediately or else he throws a fit (regardless of how many things I might be carrying as I walk in the door). I can hear him frantically crawl to me the minute I walk in. And he always has a huge goofy smile. Man, I love that kid. Marmie taught him to give kisses and now he always does it on command with his big drooly mouth wide open. He loves to wrestle with Daddy and has started to repeat some sounds like mama, dada, and nomnom. He signs more, all done, and hi/bye. Tad has crazy good balance and will crawl to the middle of the room and stand up without holding onto anything for minutes at a time, but he has no interest in walking. He’s an insane climber and is always pushing chairs to climb on the table, his hair chair, using the toilet to get on top of the bathroom counter, etc. We had to buy a new high chair becau...

Tyler and I had a lunch date at the Carl's Jr play place and I realized that it is really painful for adults to crawl around in those things.  My knees and back were killing me!  He requested that we play Hungry Hippos after dinner and I was again reminded how much I love birthdays when kids are so little and easy to please.  He was sooo happy to play a silly game and get two presents--a Spiderman mask and some ninja turtle action figures. He requested a dragon birthday party and the weather was amazing for the first week of February.  We were going to have a big obstacle course in our living room, but happily moved it all outside.  The kids started out making their own shields out of cardboard cake circles, adhesive jewels, and markers; then we did washable dragon warrior paint; and headed out to the obstacle course.  They had to crawl through a cave on their bellies, jump over fire, walk the plank across a river, and roll down a grassy hill, all wh...