April

 The kids enjoying General Conference:

 Egg hunt and festivities on base:

 dance party:

 The boys in Gavin's class passed around various types of  rubik's cubes and Gavin has been enjoying solving at least 1 side of each:

 Our usual Easter dinner festivities with friends. This year I had been stressed out so I made sure to invite an extra calm bunch of people and we had our most peaceful dinner to date. The kids had a blast playing on the new swing set too.

 When we planted this peach tree 8 years ago I didn't imagine I'd have such a cute little girl sitting in it:

 Gavin is still happiest when holding a critter:

 Flashlight Easter egg hunt at school:

 It was warmer than usual this spring so we got the pool open at the end of April:

March

Rang in my 40th b-day with a party with my friend Carrie. It was just perfect for us - girlfriends came over dressed in comfy clothes, we ate lots of good food, talked and talked, and played a 90's trivia game. Great night!

 My twinkie cake:

 5 and 40:

 self-styled:

February

The kids had another joint Birthday/Superbowl party this year with lots of friends:

 Finished out the basketball season, his team made it to the semi-finals this year!

 Presents from Jessica:

 100 snacks for the 100th day of school:

 Building "houses" in the flower bed:

Won a bear at school:

 Always in her prayers and thoughts:

 New swingset!

 Day 1 of assembly:

 Robots!:

 Day 2 of assembly. Had to call in Pop pop to help when I wasn't strong enough to get the job done:

 They love it and have played on it every day. I knew Amelia would get her use out of it but Gavin spends lots of time on it too:

January

Amelia wanted to eat lunch at McDonalds on her 5th Birthday:

At her 5 year checkup Amelia weighed 39 lbs (45%) and was 42 in tall (39%).