Birthdays are our Favorite!!

We love April because it's my birthday and then John's birthday, plus Easter and General Conference are usually scattered somewhere in there :)  Each year seems to get better and better!  The only problem with this year was the lack of pictures :(  I need to get better at the camera thing....

For my birthday my biggest request was Dunford Donuts for breakfast.  They were SO good.  We also celebrated by going shopping, playing at the park, eating frozen pizza, going to Leatherby's and playing some games afterwards.  For presents I got a bunch of new clothes and John surprised me with the complete season of "Full House" haha!  It was a perfect day :)

This is what 28 looks like I guess!
PS both pictures show me wearing my glasses, which I only wear in the morning or at night when my contacts aren't in.
I wish I would have taken them off for at least one of the photo's haha. 

That weekend was Conference and Easter.  We spent a lot of time at the Southwick homestead because my parents were up in Canada.  We had a fun family BBQ, Easter Egg Hunt, played games with Grandpa, Brian and Sara, and played a lot of Kubb!  The Monday after we went to the park with some friends and John made a panini lunch for us back at the house.  It was delicious.

The next weekend it was time to celebrate John's B-day.  His birthday was on a Sunday so that made things a little more difficult for me, plus he wouldn't tell me anything he wanted, except dinner plans.  So I just surprised him with Cashews, Cocoa Puffs, Baby Ruth's, and the 2nd season of Community (he's been wanting it for over a year now).  We had 9:00 church and sang for our Easter Choir Program.  (Deja went to Grandma and Grandpa DuPaix's so we didn't have to worry about her while singing.)  After church we ended up going up to Park City for the night!  Our good friends Melanie and Greg were already planning on going to the Worldmark up there and invited us to come along last minute!!  It was kind of stressful getting everything together and packing for just an overnighter, but it all worked out.  When we got up there we made Smothered Chicken with Potato Crisps for dinner.  It took forever to cook and we were starving, but it was well worth it.  We played some games-Settlers and Elder Sign, got the kids to bed and then made some Birthday Fazookies!!!  They were delicious :)  We stayed up till 1:00 a.m. playing games.  I was so tired...

The next morning we mostly cleaned/packed and hung out with the children. On our way home we hit up the outlets (mostly the Adidas store where John bought 2 pairs of shoes).  Later that day we went to the Tanger Outlets for the first time.  John spent the rest of his birthday budget while we were there, with his new favorite item being awesome Red Pants from H&M.  That evening we found out John made it into the Weber LPN-RN online nursing program!!!  Out of 85 applicants he was in the top 20 and we were super excited!!  John had been stressed out for months about it, so to find out he's on the path of finishing his RN was such a relief.  We went to Five Guys for dinner to celebrate getting into the nursing program and his B-Day :)

John's birthday spoils-He really wanted a picture of everything ;)

Last but not least we took Deja to Jungle Jim's for the first time.  They have 2 dollar Tuesdays and it was totally worth it, she had a great time.

"What seems to be the problem officer?"

Her favorite part was the bouncy house with the slide.  She would have stayed there forever if I would have let her. :)

Other updates on Deja include:

• When you ask her how old she is she'll hold up her pointer finger and say "One!"
• During meal times she likes to hold out some of her food items for me to tell her what it is she's about to partake of.  The other night was Taco Soup so during the entire meal I was repeatedly saying "Bean" "Corn" "Beef" "Tomato" etc.  I guess it's good for her to learn ;)
• She's loving nursery and it's so nice that John's in there too. I really don't have to worry about her at all!
• She's getting better at using utensils and will ask for a napkin when her hands get too dirty.

She woke up this morning looking like a starlet from the 80's with this hair!  Curls for days...

"Good Morning!"