April 2021

 

This last month felt pretty full! Colton finished up his Spring Break, then Cooper got his. There was Easter, and the second dose of Pfizer for G&J. There was a BUNCH of basketball, and a couple of getaways for Gray. Here's a recap of all our activities for April ...

• Easter: Pretty low-key Easter. We got "ears" pictures. Just a few treats in the Easter baskets (buckets) and Corn Hole for the family. I made many meringue "nests" and ate many also. I tried making Aunt Lorrie's scones, but they didn't turn out like my memory of hers. We also had cinnamon pull-aparts for our Easter breakfast. 
• Vaccinated: Gray and I got our second dose of vaccine, and neither of us had any side-effects at all. 
• Learner's Permits: As Colton is 15 years old, and looking toward taking Driver's Ed and getting his license as soon as possible after his 16th birthday, we needed to get him in for his permit. As I made an appointment (available pre-Covid, but required now) ... I actually made TWO appointments, one for Cooper too. We did some studying, and they both passed on their first try! We've done some driving practice with Colton.
• Basketball: SO many games! I guess that happens when you're on three teams, and each team is playing in two different tournaments. There was also the end of season award banquet for the boys. Some sad news ... Coach Sawyer has accepted a coaching job in St. George, so we don't know who will be coaching Colton the next few years. I'm sure Colton will be fine with whomever comes, but he was a favorite with Coach Sawyer and got some extra attention.
• Baking: We had a few yummy desserts this month ... Skookie, chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles. I also got some sourdough starter from a neighbor and have been experimenting with that and made my first loaf.
• Spring: With the warmer weather, it's time to mow the lawn and prep the flower beds. No lilacs blooming yet, but the tulips and daffodils have come and gone. Cal and Kate have a little birdy building a next on the wreath on their front door. We have the usual starlings building a nest in the broken brick on our garage (and in our back fence, and in the big birdhouse ... which is actually meant for a nest!)
• School: Colton's Spring Break was the end of March and first days of April. That school break impacted Cooper too, giving him the week off work (as he works at the elementary school). The next week, Colton was back to school and Coop was back to work, but Cooper had his Spring Break for school. Colton had end-of-year testing, which shifted up his half-day schedule a bit. Keaton wrapped up his semester at SLCC too. 
• Gray's Getaways: Grayson went to Moab with some work friends for some rock-crawling with the RZR. Then he and Keaton joined Kolby and Jami's family going to Hawaii (I'll do a post with more pictures and a write up from Keaton ... it's coming!)

I think that's pretty much what went on in and around the Blackham house. I am still teaching Zumba Mondays and Wednesdays, and I hit a Thurs/Fri with another class at the end of the month. Coop and I are scheduling and sharing the gym (Gray has been working out at work), and Coop and I have been getting ping pong in almost every day. 

A funny ... with the six different basketball schedules, I got mixed up and didn't have a game on my radar for the evening when Colton brought it up. Luckily, I didn't have anything going on for that night and could get him to his game and I said as much. Coop looked playfully offended and said "NO plans? What about our ping pong?" and admittedly, we didn't get our ping pong in that day.