Where is Luke?

After school I was putting the babies down for a nap. When I came out I couldn't find Luke anywhere. I called all around the house for him but got no answer. I texted all of his friend's moms and no one knew where he was. I was starting to get worried and was about to go walk around the neighborhood looking for him. I walked back to his room to check one more time and looked down and see this message on his whiteboard right outside of his room. I hadn't noticed it before. 

"I am taking a nap. Do not disterv" (disturb). 

So then I opened his door up and looked at his bed closer and sure enough, there he was laying under his covers. The last place I would have thought to look! Luke always comes home from school with boundless energy, never would I have thought he'd go lay in his bed! 

Poor guy, when he woke up he wasn't feeling good. No wonder he was so tired. 

Before bedtime I read to Luke and Halle and last week we finished the book The Boxcar Children, which they both loved. Tonight we watched the movie together which was a lot of fun. 

I love my kids so much and their sweet, fun, individual personalities. I still have to take a step back every now and then and say to myself, wow, I'm a mom of four beautiful kids, and that's pretty awesome! There's nothing more important to me, and nothing I'd rather be doing! 

Easter weekend

Easter weekend in St George was a lot of fun! It was the first time we have gone on a trip with the twins and it went good! 

On our way there 

Swimming 

Easter morning 

Spring snow

We had a big spring snowfall a couple days ago. Luke and Halle had lots of fun playing in it and built a snowman. The next day it warmed up fast. The cute snowman started melting quickly. So we took a picture with Halle and him about an hour before Luke got home from school. 

By the time he got home the snowman looked like this. 

Once the outside snowman melted Luke was so excited to show me what he came up with...an indoor snowman! Made of diaper boxes. Of course we have plenty of those laying around here! The kids were excited because this snowman will never melt. Such a creative kids :).  

Cute brothers

I have such a hard time getting Luke to keep a straight face for pictures...finally got one! He's trying to help Asher feel better..poor guy has an ear infection. This sickness has been neverending! Such cute brothers. 

Sweet boy

Luke bought a white board with his own money and has loved writing on it and playing with it over the last couple days. The other night I went in his room to read and tuck him in and he had written me a special message on his board:

So sweet. Love my boy!

Bowling!

These two finally filled up their warm fuzzy jar (aka good behavior jar) and earned their goal of going bowling. It was a fun Saturday morning activity with our oldest two. Love these little sillies!

Loyal pooch

I've been a little frustrated with this pooch lately...barking and waking up the babies after I spend a half hour getting them down, running out the front door so I have to chase her down the street in my pjs, jumping on the table eating food off uncleared dishes, the list goes on! But then something like this happens and I think...aw, I guess she is pretty cute. Halle's been sick so I let her sleep in and Milly has been beside herself pacing and standing outside Halle's door all morning waiting for her to come out! She loves Luke and Halle. Then at Luke's parent teacher conference last week the teachers showed me some writing assignments he had done and more than half of them were about Milly and how your dog always loves you no matter what. And a couple days ago Asher was inside sleeping in his bouncer chair and Cory was outside holding Avery and Millu was out there and he heard Asher start to cry inside and Milly looked up at Cory and then raced in the house. When Cory got in Milly was standing next to Asher like she was there to comfort him and then leaned over and licked his face (kind of gross but cute at the same time!) And then I remember..oh yeah, this is why we have a dog! I guess we'll have to keep her. Don't ask me tomorrow though...that could be a different story! ;)