Spring has Sprung

Spring is here and we are loving it! As is typical in Utah, the weather is warm one day and cold and rainy the next. We are sure taking advantage of those beautiful warm days and go to the park nearly every day that the sun is shining! We had a fun family date night one rainy Wednesday (that we all just needed to get out of the house) to see Kung Fu Panda 3- which is now at the Kaysville theater! I'm not sure if the boys were more excited to see the movie or to eat popcorn, but they had a great time. We all did- Ben and I loved being there with our excited kids. This was only Hudson's 2nd movie (and the first movie I've been to with either boy!) and he did great- except one mid-movie meltdown (that definitely involved him giving me the "heisman") that was fairly quickly resolved. It was nice that we were at a dollar theater on a weeknight, so the theater was fairly empty! 

I'm loving this time of year that trees have beautiful blossoms and tulips are popping up everywhere, the weather is just amazingly pleasant and we can play outside again! One Thursday night we packed up the kids and a yummy picnic and headed to Layton Park for a few hours. The kids played and played and had a great time. We went and fed the ducks, including the most darling baby ducklings! Hudson started out by yelling across the creek "Mama Duck! Are your babies hungry?! Are you going to feed your babies dinner? We have dinner!" 

Then we found a shady spot to dig into our picnic. I don't think we've ever had such a successful picnic with the boys, who are usually too busy to focus on eating. They sat and ate and we all talked and laughed and had the most pleasant dinner! It was one of those nights that is just perfect and we all left the park happy and thankful.

Museums and Farming

 We started out April with a trip to the Natural History Museum in Salt Lake. Chase loved it when I took him a few years ago, but I knew he'd love it even more now. He is way in to dinosaurs. The boys loved seeing the dinosaurs, although Hudson wanted to move quickly through them and Chase wanted to stop and read all the displays- thank goodness I had my mom there with me, so I mostly stayed back with Chase and she moved ahead with Huds and Nora. They also had a gecko exhibit there which was way cool and both boys loved- although just the opposite of before- Hudson wanted to admire each gecko, while Chase just wanted to identify them and move on to the next thing!

 We had a really great General Conference weekend. We had a good balance of getting stuff done and watching conference and relaxing. My parents watched Sunday morning session at our house after we all enjoyed Ben's amazing biscuits and gravy for breakfast. I snapped this picture of Hudson watching conference, because how comfortable does that look?

 Among other funny things Hudson does on a daily basis, I came home from the gym one morning to this! Ben had an early conference call for work, so he stuck the boys in front of a show and I laughed out loud when I walked in and saw Hudson watching with his sunglasses on and his little feet tucked into the couch like that!

My sweet friend Katie is on the board of directors for the Treehouse Children's museum in Ogden and she got us all in to play with her! The boys loved it! We hadn't been in over a year, so it was mostly new for them. There were so many fun things to do and explore. The train tables were a big hit, as was the little diner where Hudson cooked up quite a storm. 

I took the boys out to a farm on Saturday morning where my dad was helping a friend plant kale- which I even admit, was really interesting to watch. The boys helped plant some kale by hand, and then rode in the tractor with Papa for awhile. I love this picture of Hudson helping carry the trays back to the truck. I wish I had audio of his little voice saying "I'm helping. But this is really heavy!"