First half of April 2026 - running, Easter, skating, and signs of Spring

Isaac and I have been running together we are running the Goldy 10K in one week. Kyle also has been running, he's training for the 10 mile. Trying to cram lots of runs in because we both took too much time off around spring break. 

Coloring eggs the day before Easter

Easter morning.

Attempt at the resurrection rolls... but with really old yeast they were kinda a flop. 

 

Easter Day run

Hunting for eggs around the house and a tired pup. 

 

Muscrat spotting on a morning run

Mary had her dress rehearsal for the upcoming ice show and Thomas started a skating skills class to prepare to learn how to play hockey. 

Kids helping to clean the wallpaper glue goo off the office walls in preparation for our office remodel... I'll make a big separate post all about this. But in an effort to save $4000 we're removing the wall paper ourselves. 

Sunday April 12th the Goldy Run

Up early, parked over near our church and rode the light rail over to campus

Isaac and I finished the 10K, realized we should have trained more and practice running some hills. 

Here comes Kyle finishing up his 10 miles. 

And guess what!?! It's GOTR time (Girls on the Run) I started a team at my son's school. Fun to be back in the same community where my kids go to school and get to know my youngest's peers. 

Springtime blooming trees:

And beautiful sun rises on my drive to swim in the morning. 

April 2025

 Guess what, school's back in session. And I still have a goal to keep this blog up to date. Not getting to photo books so that's what this is :-) Here is last April, not quite six months later. 

This photo was actually from March, but Mary had a llama visit their school. 

Kyle ran the Goldy Run 10 mile on April 6th

Oakley and I were also doing lots of running preparing for a 10 mile I am doing mid-May. 

 

April 11th coloring eggs for Easter. 

I got free tickets to a twins game on April 12th, however Mary had volleyball and Emma had a birthday party to attend to so while I drove them around the boys attended the game. I was able to join them for a couple innings before needing to leave to pick up one of the girls. 

The next day we had tickets to the orchestra, we were mainly wanting to go because Mary had started getting into playing the cello... however she was home sick. So it was just the 5 of us that attended. 

More running with Oakley. 

 

Girls on the run practice: 

April 17th we took a family trip to the MiA I was teaching all the kids' art adventures and came to see some of the work I would be talking about. 

We had a batch of baby bunnies in our backyard! They were in the planter. We kept an eye on them and made sure Oakley left them alone. it was fun to watch them grow as we approached Easter. 

 

Speaking of Easter the girls did the annual egg hunt at our former neighborhood's front yard. And church photos from earlier that morning. 

Thomas did flag football and Kyle coached. Mary dove into ice skating. 

Oakley getting loved on by the kids. 

And April 24th girls girls performed with their 'orchestra' group at school before one of the lower grades' music performance. Very small group of strings.