Don’t those go together? No? Okay… Too much going on in April to make just one post. Even divided into two, this will be kind of long…
Elizabeth started track at her middle school this year. She is able to sign up for four events at each track meet. So far she is sticking with shot put, discus, high jump, and the 100 meter dash. She is learning a lot and trying her best, but mostly just having a great time with friends on the team.
I may have said the same thing on the post last month, but these are new pictures. She did get a track sweatshirt and I bought her some leggings.
Elizabeth and Olivia were able to spend the second part of Spring Break visiting Grandma Mary at Grandma Quilting Camp. My mom designed the blocks and taught them how to make them. They chose fabric from her collection and arranged the blocks on the quilt in their own order. My mom’s blog about it here and here.
Olivia finished the top of her quilt and even helped Grandma start quilting it. It’s going to be at a quilt show the first week in May. Elizabeth decided to make extra blocks, so her’s isn’t quite done yet.
While the older girls were away, we had a playdate with some friends. We met them at a park and they played for a few hours. It was awesome.
Olivia helped to arrange an Easter Egg Hunt for our Primary kids to fulfill one of her Faith in God requirements. It was on the Saturday before Easter and was pretty well attended. Several Primary kids came over Tuesday afternoon to help fill the eggs and some showed up early to help hide the eggs as well. I even invited the missionaries to help with that. Olivia planned a few games too. (This is NOT all the kids who were there. We had about 40 kids.)
We were able to attend the TENTH annual Clot Trot. We have been to all of them since they started and because of that, Sam Smith (Andy’s former boss whose son started the Clot Trot as a Boy Scout Eagle project), asked us to be on the news with him the day before. Andy was gone on a trip for work and couldn’t join us, but I took the kids (SO early in the morning).
Miss Washington was at the news studio for a piece that morning too. We were able to meet her and chat for a little bit before it was our turn. She’s very nice and is busy with a lot of different things: college, work, and pageant stuff. She just competed for Miss America and got third runner up.
Just for fun I made up a little timeline of all of our Clot Trot pictures through the years.
I think Andy and Abby are the only ones who haven’t been to all of them. Some years one or the other of us aren’t pictured, but I think Andy missed two: one due to work (that Sam sent him on) and the other because the run was on a Tuesday and so was mutual. Abby hasn’t been to all of them because she wasn’t born yet when it started. Vincent was an infant the first year, but we don’t have a picture of that.
We always like seeing the fire truck Sam owns.
Andy and I drove that old truck in a county fair parade when we were first married and had a local cheer group behind us doing a M-I-C-K-E-Y cheer for hours. And it was very hot. Anytime we were too sick of them cheering, we’d pull the siren.
Our family picture for the tenth Clot Trot.
Just the kids in front of the fire truck.
What do you think?