Where have we been?

I can't believe it has been so long since I posted last. The weather's been so good I haven't spent much time indoors. We've been digging in the dirt a lot! Mack is loving the time spent outside (he MUST be a Boyd boy)and wants to go out every time the boys are out. It has been nice because I can see them from the kitchen so they are all able to go out while I am making dinner. Lachlan keeps a pretty close eye on Mack so that's nice too!

I have really enjoyed getting the garden going. We've planted quite a bit. Carrots, onions, peas, romaine, spinach, flowers and more to come. I also planted my hanging baskets. Seems this time of year there is always a ton to do outside. This is always a busy time of year at school too. Cohen has his spring program on Thursday and his first piano recital the end of May. Lachlan has field trips every month but this month and next they have 2. Last week we went to CreativiTea in Fairhaven to paint mugs for Mother's day and then to Western's plantatarium. It was a very fun day. We were even able to have a picnic outside...the weather was perfect. I've been spending a lot of time getting ready for the VISIONS (Lach's school program) annual auction and rummage sale. This raises funds for all the extra activities the program gets to do. It is a busy time but next week will be the only week where I will be crazy busy. The boys are also starting another round of 4 week swimming lessons 2 times a week at the Y. They love it-this will be our last month of lessons until next fall.

It seems unbelievable for me that Mack will be 16 months in 2 days! He is doing great. Talking tons and at times running from me! He still loves "doggy" and "da da" but now has added "tacktors" (tractor) to his list of favorite things. He is almost weaned, which is wonderful in so many ways and sad too! I will miss it but he's ready and I am ready for a break and wkend away with Drew...just us.

All for now...here are some pictures from the last month:

Julianne and Brielle came to stay a couple nights
The kids had so much fun!


McKenon in April
Lachlan's class at Western
Cohen is two-wheelin it now!
planting potatoes

We had a wonderful trip to Maui (as you can see below). When we arrived it was raining and we had heard that the winter has been rainy and cool...we were a little down about this. The next day we woke up and the sun was shining and it didn't stop shining and it was very warm about 85 every day! We had so much fun snorkeling with Lachlan and playing on the beach. We were able to see a turtle up close right on the lava where the kids were playing. We watched it eating for a very long time and were so close we could have touched it! The boys found it fascinating and so did we.

Cohen really took off with his swimming this year. It was really fun to watch him diving down and trying to catch fish with their nets. Lachlan also loved the swimming and boogie boarding with Landon, Madi and Hannah. Mack loved the water too. If we were out swimming w/out him he would try to come out to us so he was never far behind! He also loved the sand and eating the sand.

Drew and I had a nice evening out with Madi and Hannah babysitting. Boy, it was sure nice to have such great sitters! We also went out with Kaaran and Mike one evening too. We were spoiled!

Some down sides to the trip were we left town with Lachlan having a fever and Cohen getting the bug. Lachlan's fever seemed to go away the next day but he was extremely congested and had a horrible cough. Cohen started getting congested and a very bad cold but he never got the fever, thankfully. On Sunday morning we were woken up by Lachlan at 1 am with an ear infection. Took him to the doctor and he had a double ear infection and started antibiotics. Cohen was doing pretty good at this point. The next day both Mack and I got it. He was really fussy, but again he didn't get it as bad as Lach. He was also getting 4 teeth! I felt better by Thursday. Unfortunately, Mackie was very fussy a lot of the time...being sick and out of his schedule. But everyone helped so that made it easier on Drew and I. We got very little sleep during the night because it seemed like Mack woke every hour or two...oh, life with kids! At one point Cohen came in and peed all over our floor...and I said to Drew "I think we have to go on a vacation (just the 2 of us) on our vacation" :).

We really missed not having my Dad with us this year too. Mom was only there 1 week which was not enough either. It just wasn't the same w/out Ma and Papa :(.

Really though, all-in-all we had a wonderful time. It was really hard to leave the beautiful weather but we are very thankful the sun has been shining since we got home! Now it is back to reality and getting the garden going, which I am very excited about!

Hope everyone is doing well.

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