“I’ve got pieces of April. I keep them in a memory bouquet.” ~Dave Loggins, Pieces of April

April 1

April 7

April 10

Easter Bunny hugs at the church egg hunt

April 14

Checking out her Easter egg goodies from her class party at school

We told her that was a Hershey’s kiss.

She said It’s not a kiss. It’s chocolate.

April 14

Elementary schools participated in the Festival of Movement at TTU

Knox is in the middle jumping with his team

Wish I could post a video of the parachute routine. It’s pretty cool.

April 15

Sunny Good Friday

No school = happy Knox

Ella loves the bubble machine 

Best outdoor toy ever!

An Ella bouquet

April 16

Ready to hide

Coloring eggs for Easter = smiles

For eating, not hiding

EASTER 2022

Easter greetings from our family to yours

Myers Family

Elijah, Shelby, Holly, Jerry

Kimbrough Family

Kerry, Knox, Ella, Kelly

Grand Peeps Shelby and E

Grand Peeps Knox and Ella

Just act natural

They make life grand

ANNUAL BACKYARD EASTER EGG HUNT 2022

Always look up

Heavy lifting

Lookin’ for all the eggs and takin’ all the pictures

Jane is here for the chocolate

It’s a valid reason

We were all freezing

Holly was wrapped in a blanket

Julia found the first prize egg

Usually they have to find the egg with their name on it

This year they could take whatever prize egg they found first

E is here for the candy and also a prize egg

All valid reasons

Basket overload

It’s an Easter tradition that Sarah is the last to find her prize egg

Ella just realized her prize egg is a live grenade

Found it

Knox found a prize egg, but I have no photographic proof

Have some candy

Or better yet, a hug

An Easter tradition portrait

Cousins

Another Easter tradition portrait

Cousins

Just act natural

Easter Peeps

Kelly snapped this

Closest thing to a group shot we’ve got

We really need to do a group shot each year

Sarah, Neil, and Elijah

An Easter selfie portrait

Bunny eggs

Buddies

We enjoyed the delicious Jell-O bundt cake Holly made

Another egg hunt for the memory book

Always fun. Hope we get to do it all over again next year.

And one last picture plucked from the Easter memories book

Kelly and Holly, 1979

April 22

Look who popped out of the playground tunnel slide

April 23

Cotton candy sunset

April 28

Neil and I had the most fun morning ever

Fact checker declares this statement False

We both had doctor appointments at about the same time

Then the doc sent us both to have X-rays--his foot, my back

First time I’ve worn a mask in over a year

In between all the medical fun, we stopped to vote on the last day of early voting

The most fun part of the day

Bubbles!

Lots of bubbles!

Jousting at bubbles

April 30

Waving bye bye to April

“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.”
— Hal Borland

April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go. ~Christopher Morley

April 3

Ella's trampoline hair

Her brother Knox will gladly 'pop' her

She'd rather run around in circles

April 4

You'd think it wouldn't be all that hard to grow grass

But it is. Here's hoping third time's the charm

April 4

Kelly and Ella just a swingin'

April 5

Grandpa, Knox, and Ella soaking up some rays

And then back to their game on the phone

She loves to color but mostly she loves playing with the crayons

Markers are fun too

April 7

This boy loves to read

Knox, Ella, and dad Kerry out for a stroll

Snapchats borrowed from Kelly

April 8

Shoving crayons into her sock

Good times

April 8

Knox zooms by on his go-kart

April 8

We've enjoyed our first real Spring in a long time

In recent years past, we've jumped from Winter right into Summer it seems

April 10

7:01 AM at Wally World when physical distancing is easy

A rare sighting of this hot commodity

April 10

8 AM donut run

Gotta get 'em while they're still available and fresh

X marks the spot until it's your turn to order the goodies

April 11

We had our annual Easter egg hunt on Saturday this year because ... sunshine

Easter Sunday was forecast to be a washout

Easter Bunny brought Knox a Red Ryder BB gun/rifle

Easter Peeps

Easter lunch

Easter Bunny brought Ella her favorite Bubble Guppies characters

Shelby and Elijah

Kelly took this pic with her new iPhone 11

The camera is amazing

Ready to hunt

This was Ella's second Easter but first to hunt eggs

This year we numbered the eggs in grand peep birth order

Why carry a bag or basket when you can stuff the eggs in your pants pockets

Grandpa and Ella

She had a great time picking up her eggs and putting them in her basket

And then dumping them all out and doing it all over again

Holly and Shelby watching Ella as she picked up one egg at a time and took it to her basket

instead of lugging that basket around the yard with her

Prize egg found

Knox found his

Shelby did too

Target practice

Kelly and Ella Easter selfie

A lot of these Easter pics were taken by Kelly

April 11

Saturday sunset

April 12

Kelly ordered giant coloring pages to help keep Knox busy during the 'stay home' days

This one took quite a while with help from his mom and dad but they finally got it finished

April 17
Swing time

Monkey

April 18
Look, Ma, no hands!
Ella does her own stunts

April 19
Frozen treats at Sonic

April 21
Sign o' the times

April 22
That look on your face when you hate online school/homework
And you just woke up

Sometimes you need a crash helmet when you're making art

Robin takes a break from nest weaving

Shelby needed to get out of her house and came for a visit
She's enduring online college classes but no choice but to get through it

And hope for a normal semester later this year

High flyin'
Ella's always happy to see daddy

April 23
We've had not only a wet month but a very wet year so far

April 25
Reading in their fort under Knox's bunk bed

April 25

April 25
Ella's tower with a little help from Grandpa

April 25
Rediscovered an old photo editing app
Photo Funia
Enjoyed playing with the pencil sketch
Check 'em out

April 28
We hadn't seen Holly and Elijah since our Easter egg hunt
The Kimbroughs popped by too
Elijah registered for his freshman year in high school and that just blows me away
Time is flying by even though these past few weeks have sometimes seemed like years crawling by

Ella got to (slowly) ride the go-kart with her dad

I'll be looking at the moon, but I'll be seeing you ~a line from one of my mom's favorite songs
Ella was sitting on Knox's go-kart, looking up at the moon

April 28
Cinnamon roll from Ralph's Donut Shop
It was a whopper

April 30
Is anyone else tired of being told what to do and where we can go?

I sure am

Not fun for someone who's claustrophobic
It is what it is
y'all stay safe
this too shall pass

it's all good