Life Update (for April)

Well a lot has happened since Easter weekend. :p Sorry it has taken me so long to write an update. As the weather has warmed up and the days have gotten longer we have gotten out more and enjoyed our surroundings and have been exploring our new home.

Avery is such an outgoing little girl, she makes friends so easy. We met this little girl at the park after work one day.

We've also been enjoying some "pinterest" fun. I found some glow sticks while cleaning so Avery had a glow bath one night.

 I also allowed James to have 1 more fish tank. (yes allowed, its getting a bit out of control) He decided to make this one a glow tank and let Avery pick out most of the fish and then she got to help acclimate the fish to their new home. We now have 4 tanks and NO he cant have anymore till we get into a bigger place. I guess I'm a bit of a meanie. :p

 We've been going on plenty of hikes and getting to know the area around where we live. Avery has really been enjoying all the rides and hikes we have been taking. Now whenever we get into the car she asks if we are going for a ride or a hike. :p

 We discovered this little guy on this hike just outside of Snow Canyon State Park. I snapped a few pictures of him and we watched him for awhile before we said goodbye and moved on. Later when we talked about this experience to our co-workers we found out that desert tortoises are pretty rare and illusive and it was a blessing to see one. We fell pretty blessed that we got to meet this photogenic turtle. :)

 We also got to meet this lizard who stopped to watch us watch him. :) He ran away as soon as Avery tried to pick him up though. Can you see him?
We've been on some more hikes and drives, I just don't take as many pictures as  I should...but I am getting better at it. :) The last thing that happened to close out April is Avery had been having trouble at her "school" (daycare). She has been biting, hitting and just being a little meanie to the other little kids. After some talking and other methods she started to get better, but I guess one of the little girls that Avery had previously bit wasn't going to let it go. Her and Avery got into a little fight and the teacher said Avery turned to leave and this little girl bit Avery on the back.

Avery and I had a good talk about the importance of not biting and why its we need to be nice to our friends. After she was bit; she was a little more quick to listen and learn. However the teacher did ask us to find a new school for Avery. It was just a small home operation and she didn't want to, or have the means to try and separate Avery from the littler kids. I dunno things kind of seemed fishy there anyway. Well that's my update for April, I have a lot of pictures from May that's why I didn't include that update here.

Easter and more Updates

Tomorrow starts my 4th week at work. Wow I cant believe I've already been there a month almost, talk about time going by fast.
Avery has really been enjoying "school" (daycare) and has made a couple cute little friends. I feel kinda bad though cause we really love the place where she was going and she really seems to enjoy it as well. But shes on a waiting list to get on full time and in the mean time was on an hourly bases. Being charged hourly was a lot more expensive then being full time. We calculated it out to being $1,200 a month. OUCH! James' co-worker told us about her daycare. After we checked it out, we both liked it and decided to have Avery go there for awhile. So far she is really loving it. Over all I like it as well, but I think that as soon as the other one calls and says that Avery can become full time there, I think we'll move her back to that one. Simply because of location. Its a block away from James' work and 3 blocks away from mine. The other one is across town, so a little farther away. We had a great Easter week, My Mom and Dad came for a visit. It wish I wasn't so new at work so I couldn't taken a day or so off to actually spend some time with them, but it was still nice to have them down. We got to show them a place called Diamond Valley where James and I have been thinking of buying some land to build a house on. Then Thursday night we got together with Glen and his wife Norma (my aunt and uncle) and my cousin Dianna. I haven't seen her in a long time so it was really good to catch up with her. We all went out to dinner for my parents 55th wedding anniversary. We all went to this place called Majestic View Lodge. It's right outside the entrance to Zions National Park. Its a hotel, restaurant with a gift shop and wildlife museum. It was really cool. We had a nice dinner in a hall with these big windows over looking Zions. It was very pretty. I was able to secretly snag the waitress and ask her if they do the "birthday" thing but for anniversary. She said they did and a little while after dinner brought out a brownie and ice cream dessert for mom and dad while Aunt Norma and Dianna sang Happy anniversary to them. :) it was fun. After dinner was done we all went in to see the museum and get a group picture. We had a really great time with the family. 
Mom and Dad had to leave Friday to be back in town for conference, and because my brother and his family were already at their house. :p. So we said goodbye to them as we loaded up to head to work. Saturday we took Avery to an Easter egg hunt at the park and after we went to enjoy some of the arts festival that was going on. Avery was really not liking it, But I made a deal with her that if she was a good girl and cooperated then I would take her on the Carousel. Even thought she was getting tired and hungry, she did a really good job and was a really good girl, so her and I rode the carousel and then went to the kiddie portion of the art festival where she got to make a visor and a crown and got another Easter egg. Then it was time to go home for lunch and a much needed nap while mom went grocery shopping. When I got home the wind was blowing pretty good. Avery had received a kite as a present for going pee in the potty 5 different times and we never had a good windy day to take it out. So I was pretty excited that we finally had a bit of wind. It wasn't perfect but it was enough to take her to the park and get her kite up in the air a few times. After that we went home to dye eggs before bed. Easter morning Avery was very excited to find all the eggs the bunny had hidden. She didn't even seem to care about all the candy in her basket or her new tee ball set till after she found all the eggs. :) It was a lot of fun watching her run around finding them all. After she found them all, then she became interested in the basket. We had the privilege to enjoy the 184th LDS General Conference that weekend too. It was nice to listen to all the wonderful speakers, especially our wonderful prophet. Avery enjoyed it too, because it distracted mom and dad long enough for her to eat HALF her Easter basket!. OH MY GOODNESS! She was a wild child after that. After the last session of conference got over we headed out to Glen and Norma's to enjoy Easter evening with them and their future daughter in law and her son. We did another egg hunt for Avery and then we all sat down to a yummy meal. It was nice to visit with them and have a fairly nice evening. They have this steel drum that's was made into a cow. Avery loved climbing on it and pretended that she was riding it. It was super cute. Well sorry this was so long. I hope everyone had a Wonderful Easter.