Cunningham Falls

On Memorial Day weekend we took a little trip up to Cunningham Falls to hike and enjoy the views. It was a great way to spend the morning and the weather couldn't have been more perfect. We are hoping to do some more of these Saturday morning hikes this summer!

 

May happenings

We were able to have a few fun events during the month of May. Early in the month we went to Antietam Recreation's Free Saturday event where we got to go to the petting zoo, ride a zip line, go kayaking and ride down this monster water slide!

I went to the Stake Seminary graduation with Jason and ended up running into someone who went to school in my hometown and knew my sister Tami really well. Adam McBride is now over the seminary and institute programs in this area. What a small world it is sometimes!

Hudson had his very first dentist appointment and was a perfect patient. He was pretty proud of earning this little certificate!

With two older sisters, Hudson loves dressing up in all kinds of costumes, especially princess ones. I think he makes a pretty cute Elsa!

Jason and I had a goal to do more date nights so we got a couple of "datenight subscription" boxes that come each month. As you can see from the pile of unopened boxes, we are doing really well on this goal:)

At the end of May these three were able to be vaccinated against Covid. How thankful we are for the miracles of modern medicine!!

 

Dancing in the street

Abby attends Barbara Ingram School for the Arts in downtown Hagerstown and enjoyed performing on the streets on Friday, May 14th. They closed down the block right in front of their school and we enjoyed both some inside and outside performances. 

Here she is playing the ukulele...

And then later performing a dance number with the other students in the theater program.

After such an abnormal year of school, it was nice for them to spend the last two months of it in-person and somewhat back to normal. Here's to hoping for an even better school year next year!

 

Mother's Day

The only thing I really ask for on Mother's Day is a picture with these five children who made me a mom. Fortunately I get what I want at least on this day!! Motherhood is so very hard but I am grateful that our Heavenly parents have entrusted me with these precious souls. I know I make plenty of mistakes, but I truly do love these children of mine. 

 

Handsome Hudson

Oh how I enjoy spending my days with this handsome little boy. Sure he has his exasperating moments, but I sure do love my Hudson boy!

 

Vaccination #1 is done

Vaccination #1 is in the books. I truly believe this vaccination is a miracle and a gift from our Heavenly Father. Here's to hoping there's relief from this global pandemic soon!

 

Spring Break in Texas

Well our 4th attempt to travel to Texas was finally a success. We were supposed to go for Spring Break in 2020 but then Covid hit so we postponed our trip until August. Texas had a huge surge in Covid cases in July so we decided to postpone our trip again and instead go down for Jason's sisters sealing in December. Then the snowstorm cancelled those plans too. We were finally able to make it down there for Spring Break 2021 and had a great time visiting Grandma and Grandpa Call.

We were able to visit several parks while we were down there including this fun one that included some interesting wildlife!

There was also a sandy beach area that the kids really enjoyed splashing around in.

The boy were quite entertained with the magnet tiles and achieved their goal of stacking them to the ceiling one day!

We stopped by an HEB grocery store in Kingwood, Texas that showed just how high the water line got during Hurricane Harvey.

We were also there over Easter so we spent some time on Saturday doing our Easter traditions like coloring Easter eggs and going on an Easter Egg Hunt outside.

On Easter Sunday we drove to Kline, Texas to visit the grave of our first little baby boy. The kids enjoyed gathering pine cones and flowers to decorate it.

We got a sneak peak at the Houston Temple on our way back to Grandma and Grandpa's house to watch General Conference that afternoon.

On our last day in Texas we were able to head to Galveston, Texas and enjoyed the beach for a few hours. The waves were much milder than in the Outer Banks but the water was still rather cold!

I think the highlight though was feeding the seagulls bread. They were hovering right overhead which was sometimes a bit creepy!!

We ended our trip to Galveston with a stop at the Rainforest Cafe and some family pictures at the beach. It was a fun way to spend our Spring Break and we were grateful that we were able to make this trip to Texas finally happen!