April Showers & Snow

Abbey is not really understanding that it has to be warm to be outside. One day its nice so we spend the day outside and the next day we have a snowstorm. Regardless of the weather she would rather be outside playing.

We got her a new Dora big wheel and we also broke down and bought her a giant wood swing set with a playhouse. Jeff has been working on putting it together for the past 10 days. It should be done within the next few days!! We had to dig out 16 x 27 feet of our sod (which we gave to our neighbor's Dean & Lily, we figured it was the only way to help them attempt to do anything with thier yard). Abbey is quite the social butterfly of the neighborhood. She has a few new found friends, Chance, Josh & McKenna which she spends every minute outside playing with them.

We got our new wood floors installed in our dining room, new moldings, painted 2 accent walls chocolate brown and put up crown molding. I went this past week with Kelly to buy some new drapes so that should pretty much finish up the project once we get them altered and hung. I will post some pictures soon.

We are still going to Little Gym every week and Abbey looks forward to it every time. She loves to be with all the kids her age and have an hour to play, jump & tumble every week. I have enrolled her in 'Terrific Tots' for the summer semester. This is a class which prepares her for preschool.

This past week we went swimming with Zach & Tiffany(neighbor's across the street) at the Lehi Pool. Abbey is a little water bug. She will go down all the slides by herself and loves to jump off the side of the pool.

Abbey spent Friday night at Grandma Eliason's. She loves going there to spend the night and get spoiled by her grandparents. On Saturday she went with them to McKinley's soccer game and she was screaming and cheering when McKinley made a goal!!!! We picked her up that night and we went bowling in Sandy with Uncle Ryan & Aunt Abby. Abbey bowls with me so needless to say we pull some pretty good scores with the metal rack and Abbey thinks she is 'The Bomb' when she bowls a strike.

To end this post my Uncle, Cliff Laycock, passed away yesterday evening from bone cancer. I will miss him alot. He was such a great guy and so good to me and my family. I am so grateful that my dad lives just 3 doors away from my aunt so she won't feel so alone. I have so many good memories of being around him. He was always smiling and joking with everyone he came in contact with. I know he is in a better place and not suffering anymore and hope his family will receive many blessings of comfort. In my house I have a shadow box that he made for me that I keep my violin in and every time I look at I will think of him.