April 27th, 2014

• This week was crazy busy. We had things going on every night but were also preparing to leave Friday for vacation. Any mom knows that taking a family on vacation is a major undertaking, especially since I like the house perfectly clean when I leave. It is so much better to come home to a clean house.
• Monday night Addy had her spring piano recital. The spring recital is always a classical piece. Sister Hafen (her piano teacher) had her play Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II. She had it memorized and played so well. I am proud of how hard she has worked at piano this year and how far she has come.

• Tuesday night was swimming and soccer games. Wednesday was the Girls Camp Stake Certification night. Thursday night was Brynn's Kindergarten Performance. SO ADORABLE! (She had to go right from swim team to the performance so that's why her hair is not super fancy:) They sang some of the cutest songs like Tony Chestnut, 50 Nifty States, A You're Adorable (with Principal Beckstrand), I've Been Working on My Costume. Grandma Bassett came to watch and Brynn had a really special night. 

• Brynn's teacher Mrs. Cowley with both of her kindergarten classes.

• Love this girl:)

• Wednesday night Bodee woke up with a fever. After some medicine he woke up for the day seeming okay. Later that afternoon he started feeling sick again and said his throat hurt. Immediately I thought of strep throat because of the fever although none of my kiddos have ever had strep before. So after swim team we stopped by Kate's house and used her at-home strep test and it came back positive! Of course this was the day before we left for vacation so right after Brynn's program  Bodee and I ran over to instacare while Todd took the girls and his dad out to dinner to celebrate Brynn. The doctor was nice enough to write an extra prescription in case one of the girls got sick on vacation. After instacare and waiting for the prescription Bodee was just asking me if he could go to bed! Sweet little sick boy! Days where Bodee is down are few and far between so it's always weird when he just wants to lay on the couch and snooze. Luckily Bodee felt better by Saturday morning and none of the kids got sick on vacation.