Spring Break - Part 2

After our spring break outing to the coast John and I got sick - a few other people here and there too

We had our annual Easter Egg Derby

The finalists!!

Before the big match

Emma was the big winner this year and John was the runner up

We gave out some silly awards

Anna's eggs all had a Minion's theme

Emma's egg, "Flame," was the winner

We celebrated my birthday with angel food cake

Went out to eat one evening

Celebrated Grant's 13th birthday!!

Grant had a friend party after we went back to school

New Legos!

Some of the boys got haircuts - John wasn't that happy about it

Anna made a bunch of amazing crocheted animals - mostly as gifts for friends.  Later she made several for a girls camp fundraiser and they were a huge hit with the primary kids of the ward.  She raised lots of money for camp with her creations!

This fat chicken, and another she made like it, were very popular

John got mad one evening when we decided to push pizza night to the following day - this sign on his door was his form of protest.  He didn't realize no one was that invested in getting into his room.

It says: None of you can come in unless Mom / Dad says, and means it, that we are going to have pizza TONIGHT!

We made some microwave peeps smores

Evening hiking

This spring I've completed 3 classes for my program - these are all computer science classes and I liked them a lot more than some of the more specific data classes I've taken - although it felt like a really big learning curve to get up.  Reading code is like reading a foreign language and these classes are graduate level - I am usually pretty clear on the theory but when we have to code something it often involves reading through several pages of code written by the instructor and then being able to figure out what everything means and where I need to make changes.  It has been pretty hard but I've been getting faster at it.