April/May 2014....Easter and Bismarck!

April has been a very long month.  From finishing up with my last semester of classes (before beginning my MSW internship) and preparing to move to Las Vegas, and working...it has been one heck of a month.  Although it's been exhausting, it's been fun!

Amaya has mastered bike riding, which I think is pretty good considering she could only ride it during summer months (may-september) due to North Dakota's crazy cold winters.

Amaya will be 4 in about 30 days or so.  Woah!  I can't believe she will be yet another year older.  But just more motivation for me to be DONE with school and receiving a steady income (so she can get and be involved in any and everything she wants.  December here I come wa-hoo!

So Easter came and left.  We spent half the day with Eric's Parents, Patty and Greg.  Food was delicious.  Then we made a surprise visit to, the always lovely, Alma and Maya.  And we ate even more food.  But all delicious.

Then just a week later we drove to Bismarck so Amaya could spend some QT with her other cousins, Kendall and Jaxon.  They couldn't make it Easter weekend because Kendall was very sick, but we were glad and thankful we made the trip that way since we are moving.  As always, Amaya had so much fun with Kendall and Jaxon.  They all get along....in different ways.  They mesh perfectly.  Kendall is the girly girl, Jaxon is a true boy, and Amaya is in between.  Amaya likes to dress up, wear her lil click-clackers, and get her hair done, but she also loves superheroes, and to jump on couches, and doesn't mind if she "gets her hair messed up".  So both sides of her mesh perfectly with Kendall and Jaxon, and they're the perfect ages.

Okay, so some of these pictures are out of order, and i am too lazy to put them in order.  But most of these pictures are from Bismarck, the week after Easter, and the pictures with deja are from our last night in Grand Forks before we moved to Vegas.

They are way too funny, and too cute!  Will miss Deja so much

Love the look on Deja's face.  lmbo!

Jaxon the photo bomber! lmao.  Kendall and amaya before Kendall's dance recital

one of my absolute favorite in-the-moment pictures of Amaya to date!  I just love this picture :)

Amaya riding on Kendall's bike!  

Love the look on Jaxon's face

Jaxon hunting for eggs

Jaxon and Amaya playing on the swingset

Jaxon is such an active boy

Love this picture of Tara and Jaxon

Amaya and Kendall enjoying the nice weather in Bismarck

Kendall was serious about wearing her Hello Kitty nails for her dance recital.  Luckily, one made it through the entire recital :)

Kendall and Grandpa on our way back from the park

Our last night in Grand Forks before Amaya and I flew to Las Vegas!  Out to dinner with Jaci and Deja.  They will be missed, but a disneyland trip is in the works!