April Tidbits

We were very sad this month to say good-bye to our good friends, the Jensens. Corbin is between Chase and Hudson in ages, but both boys (Chase especially) loved playing with him! And Marissa and I have been walking together (pushing our strollers) since last fall and have totally loved it. We will miss them so much! Ever since they left Chase asks every single day if we can go see Corbin and prays for Corbin and Marissa every night! Hopefully Chase's prayers are working and they are settling in to their new home easily!

On April 1st we added a new member to our family- Ben bought me an iPhone! I know, I'm several years late to join this party, but loving it nonetheless. All the rest of these pictures are courtesy of the phone.

 Chase made this Easter craft during General Conference

 I realized that many of the pictures I take are in this same spot- apparently its our picture spot. I took this picture on a day that Chase was being particularly endearing and sweet and fun. 

Hudson had his 15 month well-baby check-up. Basically, he's perfect. He's now 25.7 pounds and 32 inches- right around the 80th percentile in both. He's got a molar coming in that hasn't broken through yet, but has compressed and popped some blood vessels- so there is a nice, swollen purple mass around the tooth! Our doctor was certain this was the cause of his crankiness lately. We also decided to start treating him for asthma. It runs in both our families and Hudson has never shown any extreme symptoms, but just sounds junky when he breathes (and has since he was just tiny) and takes forever to recover from a cold or anything like that. The only way to really diagnose it in a baby this young is to treat for asthma and see if they get better. After months of talking to our doctor about and waiting to see what he did we decided to try treatment after being reassured it was very low risk. After just 3 days of using his inhaler we can already see a big improvement in his breathing so we are grateful we did.

 We went to a fun little party celebrating new baby Tate's blessing! Andrea is Ben's cousin and we got close to her during the time we were all at BYU together. Andrea's whole family was out for the blessing and we enjoyed catching up with them! Since Ben has basically no family in Utah (besides Andrea) we loved having a chance to hang out with some of them for an afternoon! Andrea is the best little mom and Tate could not be any more adorable! Chase and Hudson were both (obviously) so excited about baby Tate. Chase talks about him all the time. I love that they couldn't even take their eyes off him long enough for the picture!

 Hudson loves hats. He doesn't keep them on, he just really enjoys putting them on and taking them off again.

One afternoon my dad borrowed a friend's tractor to do some yardwork for another ward member. Chase got to ride on the tractor with Papa, and then sit and watch the action as they moved dirt around. That's basically the most exciting thing you could ever do in Chase's mind.

We had a fun dinner with some of our friends from our newly-wed days in Provo! We loved having the Nittas and Bennetts over. Bennetts brought their brand new baby Drew and we all loved holding him! (Including Chase, who really loves babies! He held him so sweetly and immediately started singing "You are my sunshine" to him in the highest little voice!) I wish I got a picture of everyone, but this was the best we could do by this point in the night. We had such an amazing group of friends down in Provo, it is so fun to still be in touch and get together- it's almost like no time has passed, except that there are now hoards of tiny people running around.