May 2016

May is bustin' out all over!

May--at least, the beginning of May--is generally beautiful in Utah. It's the time of year you generally aren't freezing or roasting. So here's this throwback picture to April, just because it's funny.

In May, we spent time outside, too.

The area around Utah Lake is still kind of waking up, but that's ok because the mosquitoes aren't bad!

We celebrated May the Fourth with theme pizzas! Can you tell what they are meant to be?

We celebrated a little extra time with Tyler. He started working with Mighty Penguin doing some consulting and non-profit work. It was such a blessing that he had some contract work right after RSO finished. It was absolutely an adjustment, and I didn't think I could handle it for long. Tyler worked a lot from home and the income was not predictable. Who knew it would be his job for over 1.5 years! The flexible schedule did end up opening up some different opportunities for Tyler, including teaching a non-profit management class at BYU in the Winter Semester, which has become one of his favorite jobs.

This contracting job also led to quite a bit of work up in Salt Lake City, which allowed for some fun lunches with his siblings!

At home, Sheridan had some play dates that led to putting on plays for me! She and her buddy were great about including the younger kids.

In May, Jack got to participate in the Hope of America program with his class. They performed songs and a whole program at BYU's Marriott Center. He's in the yellow wedge in the section by the stars. See if you can find him, lol!

Tyler captured a rare image of reading Vigues in their natural habitat. Folding clothes is definitely less important than a good book!

Mother's Day, the family spoiled me and we got a great shot of some really happy kids. You can see in this image that some are already channeling their inner fuddy duddiness.

Surprise! Still plenty of time with just us 3. Cole loved taking selfies and loved the baby, so winning!

We made time for a family trip to visit the temple.

And those cute girlies performed a lovely number for us all. Dance, girls, dance!

This year in school, Henry got the opportunity to participate in a writing workshop and he was able to publish a book he wrote himself! It was a fantastic family dystopian work.

Jack tool part in a percussion group this year (ugh, early mornings!) and has his final performance in May.

He also took part in a 5th grade readers theater of A Midsummer's Night Dream as Oberon. I performed in that play in 9th grade, so it was great fun to see my kiddo perform in it this way.

On a sadder note, our family got to support our buddy William on his 3rd round of leukemia. We chipped in for awesome shirts

and inspired by our girls' lemonade stand last month, a few families came together and did a huge bake/craft sale for William. It's so hard to know how to support a friend going through such a hard, nasty health challenge. At least this was something, and the kids could participate and see that they could make a difference.