I have been blessed from heaven to have the weather nice a couple times this month...only thing better, playing in it with long lost best friends!!!! 

We finally got together with Ivy and her sweets at the park. It was glorious!!!!

I love her to DEATH and we miss seeing them often!

Fin had a blast in the swings, and we got the twinners in for a little spider sesh

 Ivy and twin---i'm the worst at telling who's who

 cutie bug Soy having a blast

 Sawyer and Henli were the best of friends right off the bat!

 Me and my Ivykins!

 Enjoying the slide a bit. Kinda nervioso

 Many walks are had in our culdesac of fun.  I couldn't resist the ruffly buns and bulging chubby leggies!

 Another fine night we invited some friendlies over for dinner and hangings.  It is SOOOO awesome to have a huge yard for people to come over and chill in, and a house where we can actually fit multiple family's over to play!!! We love it so much!!!!! So, Gunn's and Chatty's came over for din din.

 Ben, Sky and Phoenix

 Jaynee and Con

 Jaynee and Soy

 Wend, me, Steph. love these ladies

 and I was trying to get a pic of the kids when Wendy went all ninja vanish behind them- it looks soooo crazy!

 So we tried again with her actually knowing she was in the back ground- good form friend!

 then we got one of just the cute kiddos. Sawyer, Emmee, Jaynee, Conli, Easton, Max

 Have you seen a cuter tooshie??? cottage cottage everywhere.

 Another night we met up with Knight's at the park....well, after I went to the wrong park, they joined up with us...whoopsidaisies...but it was fun still!

 Fin loved those chips

 and Blake loved the EL Fudge!

I cannot believe it, my little Soybug is 5!!!!!

She was super excited for her balloons, but for some reason, the balloons couldn't handle the pressure and kept popping. It was scaring her to death, and I had to get a picture of her with them before they were all gone. I found sticky balloon goop all over the kitchen that day....so weird...poor girly

Luckily we got things under control and got our muffin on.

I had to work the night of her actual birthday, so we didn't do anything extra that night, but JD did bring over he and Chris's present to her because they were going to miss the parties at Mana's.

 Max and Conli wer quite excited, can you see it?

 this is her excited-slash-embarrassed face. She's quite both these days.

 love this guy!

For birthday celebrations at Mana's the following Sunday, Soy got the privilege of decorating her VERY.OWN. cake.

She was also sweet enough to let Conli join in on some decorating goodness

 they super concentrated

 and made sure it tasted just right

 After what seemed like an eternity, it was FINALLY time to open presents.

 She puts on a very calm face

 but she couldn't hardly handle it.

 same with the baby squishy

 Mana opened her gifts next

 then, dun dun dunnnn, it was cake time!

 She watched it all go down VERRRRRY carefully

 then she sang to Mana...I love her face in this'n

and Karri did quite the fine decorating job on this'n

 Birthday girls! Patti Lynn & Sawyer Lynn!

 And the ladies with bdays in the month of April

Conli gettin in on the present action

 She'd been talking about going bowling or something of the sort for her bday party, but when Heather called to invite her to Arctic Circle for a bday luncheon, that turned into the perfect sitch! So, I wrassled up her lovelies and we had ourselves a party! Free ice cream for all!!!

 Fin was loving on her burger

 Hayleigh, Em, & Ella...her besties. These girls are all so cute. We love them so much!

 David was able to join us also. 

 oh what fun!!!!

AH Sawyer, what would we do without you? Have a lil peace and quite in our lives??? How I love you, your infectious laugh, your "surprise" cleanings of your room, how great you are with your baby sister, how tender hearted you are, how loud you ALWAYS are. You are so independent and willing to do so much more than your siblings, and it's incredible to see you conquer things that you put your mind to. I love you!