April Videos

Luke figured out how to go down the fireman pole! It's a favorite for Cora and Violet too. 

Evelyn was so excited to find this 'flower'... and to make me chase it a bunch of times before I wised up.

Cora almost has her aerial! she just needs a mini 'confidence spot'. Too bad the power went out,s o the video is dark. 

Violet has been working hard on her back hand spring. She can do it herself, but is working on jumping more and keeping her legs together to have more power. 

Cora is also working on consecutive backhandsprings-- she almost made it to 4!

April Roundup

Kevin had to work late one night, so the kids and I headed to the new aquarium. It was huge! We'll have to go again sometime soon when they aren't as tired and see some more, but it was really cool. 

 We are gearing up to garden this summer! We are doing a community garden again this year, but a double plot instead of a single one. My freezer is almost empty from our produce last year, I'm excited to start again and know a bit more this time around! 

 Cute Evelyn, getting her picture taken for some of her birthday thankyou texts and cards.  

 I got some ring pops from Sam's for the egg hunt and they were a big hit. Evelyn especially loves them! You can always tell when she has had one recently.

 

 Violet's page about the rain from her school journal-- I guess she gets it from me! Look at that frowny face! And Cora's cute drawing of her and I. 

 

 Violet's Basilisk lizard she painted at school. Luke and Evelyn playing on the xylophone type installation in front of the library. Evelyn is finally big enough to make the tones ring! 

 

 Grandma and Grandpa DeGiulio came down for a doctor's appointment, and we were lucky to see them! We visited at Kissie and Pata's, ate at City Creek, and played at the dino play place. 

Unfortunately, Cora had left for tumbling class before we took this picture. But it's a good one!

 This turned out to be more of an 'action' shot-- the kids weren't cooperating much by this point in the evening!

 Luke loved that Grandma would play 'guess which hand' over and over with him. 

 

The kids all gathered around to watch Frozen while the adults visited. Pretty cute!

 

Kevin caught this darling moment. It's so nice to see the kids loving on each other!

 There is a great playground by our Herriman 'beach' reservoir. The kids played there for a bit, but I couldn't keep them from the sand. We will be going back this summer, I'm sure! Evelyn could have thrown sand in the water for hours. 

 We spent a day of spring break downtown with Kissie. It was a pretty perfect day! We took lunch to the Brigham Young memorial park and walked up to the Pratt graveyard too, then ended on Temple Square. 

 The girls call this their 'cute heads' pose. 

 

 Pata came out to visit for a bit too.

Spring is such a beautiful time of year!

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April 1 via Instagram

This was Cora's reaction to my April fools joke. Google decided she needed a little Hasslehoff photo bomb. #aprilfools

B Kevin Anderson

April 22 via Instagram

@terrahjan found this book at the library yesterday and it has not left Evelyn's hands since. Seriously...not even for bed.

Terrah Anderson

April 30

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I'm doing some hemming and Luke just asked me what the iron was. LOL! It certainly doesn't get much use at our house 

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Cora did a great job in her Grammarsaurus play! She remembered her lines, sang all the songs, and did a great job with the actions too. It was so cute to see those 50 second graders singing all about nouns, verbs, punctuation, and capitals! 

 

Happy Easter!

We hosted family dinner on Easter Sunday. It ended up being a pretty big day, with playing the piano for choir practice before church, and for two numbers during sacrament meeting, and not doing much prep work on Evelyn's birthday. But I got a short nap after church and then it all came together well and we had a great time! 

Kevin was amazing and got the kids ready for church by himself (except hair, of course) and even got these cute pictures outside before church too. We have to catch Evelyn at her 'after' smile face now, because this is what she thinks smiling for the photo means! They all are pretty adorable!

Kevin also caught this lovely picture of Cora.

For dinner we had turkey, rolls, fruit, deviled eggs, and green beans. The salad was my experiment, and I loved it! Cherry tomatoes, basil, mozzarella... but also finely cut spinach, roasted corn, and avocado, with balsamic vinegar drizzled on top. Yum! Then poundcake with a creamy limeade topping, and strawberries on top. 

We had an Easter lesson, and then a small family egg hunt in our backyard. The kids were pretty excited about this! Here they are, all ready to go!

 

 

 Evelyn got her eggs, but the dirt was pretty enticing too.  

 

Happy Birthday to Bailee and Evelyn! 

 

 It is nice to be able to celebrate holidays and birthdays with family members! Happy Easter!