THE EWELL FAMILY: April Recap

We had a busy month of April. Here is a quick little recap of some events - and I'll add more tomorrow (hopefully, I'll get to it.)

The big haircut!
My princess Rebecca loves her long hair. But I hate the bat
tle to comb it every morning. She has always cried at my threat to cut it, until she saw one of her best friends got a haircut. Her friend had grown her hair out to donate to "Locks of Love" Rebecca thought that was the coolest thing ever and decided she wanted to cut her hair. I wasn't ready to cut the whole 10-12 inches that they require because it was a huge step cutting it as it was. We chopped off about 6 inches. It still has length, and I love it. She is so excited about it. She thinks it was donated. Shh, don't tell, it was donated to the garbage.

Sydney wanted to be cool like her older sister, so she got a trim as well.

Bike Rodeo
Hayden had the bike rodeo at school, and we went to cheer him on.

Easter/Utah trip
My parents returned from their mission to the London, England LDS Temple the Wednesday before Easter. That was our spring break, so we figured that weekend would be a great time to go up and welcome them home. And believe it or not, I didn't get one picture of them. How horrible.
While we were there we went to temple square with the kids. It's always great to go to Temple Square.

We went to an Easter party that Joseph's neighborhood has every year. The kids had a lot of fun hunting for eggs and playing all the games. Later that day we went and visited with my parents some more, but I forgot to take the camera again:(

That night we dyed Easter eggs. HOLY COW! What a big job that is with 6 kids. Hands reaching for dye from every direction. It was a lot of fun....for them.:) I'm very glad we did it.

Here they all are right before bed. Notice the 3 oldest kids all wearing Ethan's pajamas. Yes, even Rebecca. It was the "cool" thing to do.

The kids had fun hunting for eggs Easter morning. It was a great Easter.

We went out to my parents' ward for church, then came back to Joseph and Angela's for a delicious Easter dinner. We were able to talk with the kids about why we celebrate Easter. I was happy to see that they really understood, at their own level the atonement and resurrection. I don't quite have words that can adequately express my gratitude to our Savior for the gift he's given us through the atonement. To know that we can live again and return to live with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is amazing, and wonderful. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ.

A Random Day in April
I felt like a good mom one day because I made play dough. the kids loved it. It kept them entertained for literally 2 hours. That shows you how often they get to play with play dough. I'm really not a big fan of play dough in my house because it usually ends up in the carpet. Not this time though. Towards the end they thought it was very cool to position their toys in it, in cool positions. Notice Hayden's Luke Skywalker doing a back bend over the clone. Pretty cool huh.