Conference, Birthday, Ketchup...ahem Catch Up

Wow, I have to go clear back to General Conference weekend. April has flown by so far. General Conference was great. I'm looking forward to the Ensign so I can re-read them since it's a little tough to hear all the talks when you're entertaining the kids too. They did pretty good though. We got to listen/watch a session with Morgan's parents on Sunday morning, and the weather was good enough Saturday that we actually listened on the radio outside on the porch while the kids played.I made my first batch of salsa ever. My dad makes the most amazing salsa, I love it. My salsa, really different from his, but still so good I ate it all. I didn't know that I liked cilantro until we got a bunch of it in Bountiful Baskets. I made a mango salsa with it that was awful I put WAY too much cilantro and basically killed it for Morgan, but this salsa had just the right proportion and was delicious. I'm looking forward to growing onions and tomatoes in my garden now so I can make some salsa.

We finally made some progress on the community garden boxes, YAY! The boxes are in and almost ready to plant and use, we're still working out all the details, but I'm really excited that I get to try my hand at gardening this year, even if all I end up with is zucchini. :)

On Saturday the 9th I ran a 5k with my neighbor...it was snowing! I hate running when it's cold, in fact I haven't been running (or working out for that matter) for the past 5-6 months because it's too cold, but on a warm "spring" day I felt like running so I signed up for the 5K in AF. We almost got lost, but eventually found our way there. After we past the 1 mile marker at 13 minutes I knew it was going to be a rotten race, my face was frozen and numb along with my toes, but in the end I finished at 28:38. My goal was to come in under 30 minutes. I'm convinced though that the first mile was really longer than a mile because I really don't think I ran two 7 1/2 minute miles for the last two-ish miles, especially when 1 mile was uphill. Regardless though I beat my goal and I'm looking forward to another run in May, probably the Thanksgiving Point Running with Angels run, it's close, not too expensive and should be much warmer.

That night we had a ward activity and "American Idol" sort of thing, only most of the acts were lip syncs. I participated in one and did a rocking guitar solo on a broom. It was really fun. I think you can find it on You Tube, I might post the link later, it's kind of hard to find.
On to the fun stuff. Tragon loves crackers! Actually right now he pretty much likes any food that he can feed himself.
Like Cheerios. The boys spilled a bowl of Cheerios...thank goodness there was no milk all over my sparkling clean floor (yeah, right) and I told them to clean up, and they did.
By eating every Cheerio there, Tragon was really excited to help.
My poor Damon has been getting beat up pretty bad the last few days. Last Sunday he tripped getting out of the car and hit his head on the car door. He got a pretty nice scratch and bruise and his eye started going a little black, but then...
He was climbing in his closet that afternoon and fell and hit the same spot. A huge goose egg about the size of a quarter stuck out of his head about 1/2 inch, it was so sad. The swelling finally went down and then he hit the same spot on a drawer in the kitchen...popped out again. And finally the next day just before bed they were playing cars and Logan crashed a big car into Damon's car, which his face happened to be right next to and it split his lip open. No stitches necessary and no pictures, but there was a lot of blood. Poor Damon, poor poor Damon.
Logan is officially 4 years old! I can't believe it. We had some family over on Sunday for cake and ice cream, and dinner too. Logan was loving it.
We had cupcakes and ice cream and then some neighbors stopped by and joined in for a little dessert. It was quite the household, but Logan sure enjoyed it. He is such a good big brother and so sweet with Tragon and playful with Damon. For the most part he gets along really well with kids one on one, but we're still working on the whole group play. :) He loves to play and be outside and loves to tell you all he knows. I sure love my Buddy!

And for the grandparents viewing pleasure, a little video of Tragon laughing it up. I can't believe how big he's getting either. Time is going by way too fast for me right now, I feel like I'm just hanging on to the coat tails. Until next time...