As I noted at the end of March, I flew home from our spring break / North Carolina trip two days early in order to go on a girls trip which I’d planned awhile back. Jaime, Amy, and I drove to Indianapolis for a quick girls getaway. We walked around Indy, went to a show, walked around Newfields, indulged in sweet treats, enjoyed several nice meals and just hung out and caught up on life. It was nice!

How does it go – when Mom is away the boys will play? Once Kevin and the boys returned from NC they had a fun boys weekend that started with the Early Bird Soccer Tournament at Spindler in Hilliard. Kevin picked up Dad and they watched Griffin’s team have a good weekend of games, finishing as Champions! I was able to get dropped off at the field for the end of the final game so that was fun to see. Go OUFC Boys U09 Blue!

In between games on this particular day the boys played the Dads in a pickup game of soccer. Now this was fun to watch! The boys had so much fun and the dads did too.  Here are a few more pics of this month’s soccer games. Luckily I was able to make it to each of them despite my work schedule 🙂

Griffin is having fun at the Learn to Play hockey lessons. Each week he literally says he “can’t wait to get on the ice”.  He’s on the left.

For his 100th day of school Reid counted and packed up 100 cotton balls!

It’s nice to be able to go to Tyler Run again for different activities. This time, it was for the art show where students are work is displayed throughout the hallways. I love to see Griffin’s creativity! He also wrote the poem that he is holding up. This was shortly after we returned from North Carolina and both Kevin and I were so impressed with his poem!

Feel the warm on your feet.
The blue water on your body.
Find the shards of sea shells and feel the blaze of the sun.
What a treasure of a vacation.

Grandpa came over one afternoon to hang out with Griffin and open and sort some of the many packages of sports cards Grandma and Grandpa gave him for his birthday. So Many Cards! Griffin is literally such a sports fanatic. He knows a ridiculous number of players, their number, position, team. It is pretty remarkable. Anytime Kevin or I want to know something we just ask him!

Our annual daffodils with food coloring :).

Dad is using the former shipping hut at Millcreek as growing space for his hostas. Dad (with periodic help from me and Mom) has gradually been updating and customizing the space, including weed mat, benches, closing in the ends with shade cloth and irrigation.

On this cold and misty day I took the boys to the Powell Egg Hunt. It was cold and had been raining so it wasn’t nearly as busy as prior years. The boys teamed up together in the 7-10 year zone and hauled in a lovely number of eggs.  A couple of days later we had our annual Easter Egg Hunt in Bartholomew Lakes with our neighbors and friends. So much fun and candy!

And the following day the Maxwells hosted another small egg hunt for the Bolans, Duncans, and Armstrongs as they had the day confused and weren’t ready on the day of the neighborhood hunt. This kind and fun couple put together eggs full of coins, $2 in each egg, and every kid got 7 eggs. Woah! They just love all of these kiddos and their fun and energy. They often remark how they love to see them outside playing all of the time.

We also enjoyed a fun egg hunt at the Bethune’s with the cousins and then a nice dinner to celebrate Greta’s 9th birthday!

Handsome Brutes and some other photos from the month. We definitely enjoy being outside on our new patio and walk as much as possible.

Reid has a lot of fun at pre-school in his Monkey pre-K class. He did a fun questionnaire for both Mom and Dad and as typical the answers are funny.  Carrots? We’re both 80. Lots of answers about working so much. That makes me sad to be honest. But I try to remind myself that once spring is over I get to have a very flexible schedule the remainder of the year.

In 3rd grade with Miss Robinson this year, Griffin’s class had pen pals with Miss Robinson’s Orange High School softball team where she is the varsity coach. Griffin’s pen pal was Reagan, and throughout the year they wrote each other notes back and forth. Toward the end of the school year Miss Robinson organized a night where the kids could come to the games (JV and Varsity) and meet their pen pals and watch them play. It was a lot of fun and Griffin got some ball time in with Reagan and her teammates too.

 

 

Reid enjoyed a fun birthday party for a class mate at Graeter’s! It’s so nice for him to be making friends and connections this year in school, having not gone to school last year due to Covid. He is a social butterfly and loves to make friends.

Here are a few work snaps of what is to come. Spring is nearly here!