Hughes

We had an awesome but very busy April so I’ll try to keep things brief. (We all know that’s not very likely which is why is used the word ‘try’.)

The majority of our month we saw very little of Jared since he was scheduled to work so much at the station. This is both a good and a bad thing. Mostly good since he has a chance to gain more experience and show his Captains his dedication and work ethic but difficult for me and the kids to share so much of our precious time with him.

Luckily we had a family vacation planned for the end of the month and that got us through those long hours without him. We rented a home in St. George with some of our good friends who have two kids around the same ages as Jack and Olive. We got to visit a little with grandparents, swim, hike, swap babysitting for date nights, explore Las Vegas for a day, barbeque, shop (just me and Megan of course) and basically just enjoy the perfect weather of St. George in April. We’re planning on making our trip an annual event. It was a much needed break for all of us and it was definitely difficult to come home. Especially since Utah County has been so cold and dreary.

 Jack had a lot of fun ‘living’ with his sweet friend Vera. The morning after we got home his first question was, “Where’s Vera?” Followed by, “I’ll go find her.” He also had lots of fun at his story-time group at the library. He’s such a social butterfly so we’re going to look into different activities to get him involved in over the summer.

Olive is just as sweet and sassy as ever. She has such a funny and STRONG personality. She can be so sweet and chill and mellow and then turn on you in an instant. She always leaves us guessing and we are never short on laughs with her around. We’re really working on getting her to be nicer to her big brother. (We’re actually working on that in both directions.) She has a really terrible habit of trying to wake Jack up when he falls asleep in the car. She screams, kicks, grabs and even throws her shoes at him in an attempt to keep him awake. I assume it’s because she expects him to entertain her since she’s not very good at falling asleep in the car.

We are grateful everyday for our sweet, healthy children, our beautiful, warm home and each other. And we’re looking forward to more traveling and time with family this summer.