Surviving April

Guys. The month of May scares me. It always has. It's a big month for our family, every year. But this year we've made it even more chaotic with the addition of a few more events. Here is the line up:

5th - Boys Day (keeping it simple this year, given that so much else is going on)

17th - Ryan's birthday (a 2-part affair with a friend party, and family party)

18th - Joey's birthday (he'll be here around then)

22nd - Riki's HS graduation and party (which we're hosting at our house)

23rd - We leave on a two-week trip

31st - 25th year anniversary  

But to even get there, we have to finish out April...which is captured below...

We had some company for four days...Baxter & Pacho! Forgot how difficult it is to have young pets!

Ryan went fishing while his cousins were camping...

I think I previously bragged about this, but can't remember...but we inherited three more giant planters from some generous friends (the three on the far right, that are all aqua colored)... These planters are close to $100 each at Lowes/Home Depot, so just wouldn't have ANY otherwise...but my dad gave us all the planters to the left...and now we have three more beauties to add to the mini succulent garden! So lucky!

This lucky guy was asked to help a Coach at school make a floral arrangement (she got the flowers, the lemons, vases and told him exactly what to do) for the school principal...and another teacher took the photo of the finished product...

After two years of nearly no practice and zero performances, the kids got to perform for the first time on the last day of April at a ceremony at the temple. There were also 2,000 hand-folded paper cranes adorning the temple for the occasion...

This is the face of someone who had three dental appointments in the month of April. However, on the plus side, I no longer have any silver fillings from my youth- they've all been removed and replaced with the far sexier composite fillings, which will hopefully last as long as my silver fillings did (I haven't had a silver filling since my younger childhood), and look better. Took the plunge and took care of business, since I have a great dentist, double dental coverage (still cost $800+) and the flexibility to go to the appointments.

The ongoing piano lessons are going well...Ryan seems to like his choice and continues on, with somewhat diminished enthusiasm, but definite still interest...

We haven't been out to Lava Lava Waikoloa as a family in awhile, so we caravanned out with the parents, and my brother and his family for some fun in the shade and sun! The nieces were over the moon to play with the puppies again! Ry chose to sit this one out because he wanted to get some math and health homework done (wink wink, I think this is code for 'I want to stay home.'). 

So April has passed with much activity, but will pale in comparison to a pretty exciting May...stay tuned for the madness. :-)