April through May 2018

I love Spring! The promise of warm weather and school coming to an end! It is just a great season of anticipation for things to come.

We had a very busy couple of months. Spring break brought lots of fun adventures. Mike took most of his work crew to Haiti to build a house, and the girls had some fun new adventures.

Katie painted this beautiful picture for Ava!

We spent as much time with the Halterman girls as possible, knowing they were moving to Tennessee.

 Kevin and Allison took us to an amazing steak house in Detroit for dinner. It was so fancy and so delicious!

We did a lot of things over spring break. I realized pretty quickly that we might as well have gone on a trip, with all the money we spent on entertainment!

We had fun at Zap Zone.

We shopped!

We met friends at the Rolladium!

The Westerman's hosted a kids' bunko party. The kids had a blast!

We took the girls to an American Ninja Warrior course. They had so much fun!!

 The Commerce Jump Rope team performed before a Piston's game at Little Caesar's Arena! That was a really cool experience!

Hannah was excited to make it on the jumbotron!

Easter 2018

We love Easter! Not only is it such an important holiday, celebrating the resurrection of our Savior, but it's also the holiday where we host both sides of our families. 

This year, my parents and Jeff and Tara's whole family, went to Florida for spring break. So it was a little bit smaller! But we still had a great time. We did our usual Easter Egg hunt, and the girls loved their baskets. They even got Mike and me a basket of goodies this year!

Here's a little snippet of the Easter Egg hunt. Sorry about the quick back and forth motion!

January - March 2018

The start of 2018 was great in a lot of ways, the girls birthdays and some beautiful snowy days. But it was also awful because it happened to be the worst flu season probably since I was born! Ava got it first, then me, then Allie. Hannah had a very minor version of it, we think. Literally one day of fevers. Ava and Allie had it for about four days. And I had it for 11 days! It was horrible. So we spent a lot of time in the house, and we did a lot of puzzles!

After the flu season, we got back to normalcy. Had some beautiful sunrises!

We had a small break for winter break and went to Kalahari! It was so much fun. My mom came with me and the girls. Ava happened to be invited by her friend Zoey and her family, so we decided to go as well, and get a separate room. It was very crowded but we still had a great two days in the water park!

Shortly after that, we got dumped on with a ton of snow! It was very nice to have some extra days off though, and everything looked very beautiful!

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I told the girls that one time during the semester they could take a day off school and they could pick what we do! Hannah's day was a lot of fun. She chose Hobby Lobby to shop at and Leo's to eat at. We even stopped at the credit union to see her artwork on display!

Ava had another orchestra concert at Walled Lake Northern. I'm gonna try to upload some video of it.

For Allie's day of fun, she chose Meijer as her store to shop at, and McDonald's to eat at! Love having these one on one dates with my girls!