Catch Up

Life has been extremely busy the past month! I know life always seems to be busy, but on top of normal activities I’ve been working every day in the shop while Lori took some much needed time with her sweet new baby. She did the same thing for me when Genevieve was born and when I had my knee surgery, and wow it really made me grateful to have such a dependable business partner! Even though I’m tired I’m grateful to repay the favor.

On top of our normal shop busy-ness, we’ve been working over the past two months on a new logo, design, and website for Plum Street Prints. We launched our new site on Monday and are thrilled with the new look of the site as well as the awesome logo work done by QA Design. It’s funny to be a design company and pay someone else to do your logo, but really we just didn’t have time to work on it!

I’ve still been playing volleyball on Weds. nights. On Tuesdays Mitch goes mountain biking with some friends and on Thursdays the guys in our ward play softball. So much to do here!

The thing that I’ve noticed over the past month with the kids is they’re becoming friends and love to play together. It’s so sweet!

We also found out last month Emerson has a moderate peanut allergy. Because it’s not too bad he can still go to baseball games and be around peanut-y things, but peanut butter seems to be the worst at triggering his reaction. Mitch had allergies as a kid (grass, cats) that he grew out of so I’m hoping E does too! He still just as fun as ever, though now I am one of those annoying lunatic moms that carries an Epi-Pen around and has to be worried about his food all the time. So frustrating.

Here are some random photos from the past month. Now that spring is upon us and we’re making some good friends, we’re really liking Minnesota.

Baseball season is here! Mitch got champion club seats with a friend a couple weeks ago. He was in heaven!

I stayed at home with the kiddos and had movie night in our jammies. So fun.

Kiddos playing together… at lunchtime

And on the floor… Emerson is pretending to crawl like a baby. So funny.

Laundry day!

We went to a birthday party for one of Emerson’s friends from preschool. They had a Rapunzel balloon artist and a face painter there. Uhh people go all out for parties here. Crazy!

E plays outside almost every day with our neighbor McKenna from church.

Mitch carpools every day with a friend from BYU who he works with now. His wife Alisa is wonderful and has become a good friend. I babysat her son last week and the kids had a blast. We went to library storytime and the park. Afterwards I was sweating.

But the kids had fun.

Mitch sent me flowers when he went out of town… to Texas… and got to see my sister and her family! I was dying at home being away from them and I think he knew it, hence the gorgeous flowers.

(I also ate a lot of ice cream while he was gone.)

New bike trailer! There are hundreds of miles of trails running between every town in MN. You can get anywhere by trail… We get on the trail just behind our neighborhood.

Scored this desk for $5 at the YW garage sale—E loves it.

Still loving my calling as an activity day leader! Last week we did a lesson on health, a workout outside, with smoothies and watermelon. Amazing calling. Do I really get to do this?

Sorry for the overload. My blog is my journal so I like to try and remember as much as possible. Can’t believe it’s already May!