April is a crazy packed month for us in general. It was taken up a few notches with Easter coming so soon in the month and then with Rick's dad going into the hospital, followed by the funeral. But April wasn't all sad. It was a roller coaster of highs and lows, with many things I do not want to forget. Such as:
Having fun with Sophia on April Fools Day. It landed on a Sunday this year, which is usually the day I get to linger in bed while Sophia and Rick pal around in the early morning. I ran out with Sophia's clothes and told her to hurry up, she'll be late for school. They both looked at me like I was crazy. Then for breakfast I made her pancakes with a little surprise dirt and worms coming out of it (chocolate graham cracker and marshmallow). She loved that.
The Easter egg hunt, with Ava actually being able to participate in this year. Aunt Dione made special plastic eggs just for her, and she must have eaten 2 packages full of yogurt melts. She was a pro at opening the eggs up to get what was inside.
That you are never too old to feel like a kid. Rick put this really cool tree swing up for the kids, but all the other big kids took turns as well.
Sophia pointing out that her Candy Land birthday cake was missing the colored marshmallow edging. The ONLY candy out of the ton of candy that I forgot to put on the cake, and she would not let up on me about those marshmallows for weeks after.
Vegas. The whole trip was awesome. One particular event wasn't so awesome, but laughable. We arrived at the airport with much time to wait for our flight home, because the hotel internet services and kiosk wasn't letting me confirm our flight check-in. We go through the screening process, and the security wants to hand search our one carry-on bag. I joked that we had so much time to kill, no problem! Well after a good minute, it appeared that the guy was actually looking for something specific. When he found it, he said to Rick, "Sir, did you know you had a knife in your bag?" And this wasn't just any knife. It was a hunting knife for skinning deer. Pretty intimidating. How it got through the security checkpoint coming to Vegas is frightening in itself. The security guy was very cool about the whole thing. We checked our carry-on and that was that.
My Mom's birthday celebration was put on hold due to the timing of the funeral, so not only did we skip her birthday altogether, she came down to help with Ava, who was being a very testy little girl the entire service. That's what moms are for!
I was so proud of Rick, who is not a public speaker, to get up and say such a heartfelt and eloquent tribute to his Dad. Speaking of pride, our nephew Chris composed music for and wrote the lyrics to a song that he performed at the funeral service. There was not a dry eye in the place. And he nailed it.
That sometimes the best moments are spontaneous. Our wedding anniversary celebration was so last minute, and we had a really nice date night.
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