New Apartment!

Here are a few pictures of our new apartment. We'll have to take some more for a little tour in the future.

The mess of moving in:

Max sitting near the sandbox in the backyard. The backyard is probably my favorite part! We share it with our landlord and lady who live above us with their three little boys. It's been a very nice transition from life in the village with friends so close and available.

Our oven is built into the cabinets, and I was quite pleased to find that it could still fit a full baking sheet inside.

Luke built some shelves so we could have some more storage. He did a precise and excellent job, of course. That's the Perkins way.

Silas' 2nd Birthday

Cousin Silas turned two years old on May 1! We went to Uncle Keri's house to see his new baby horse and ride one of his others. It was so cool! It always makes me wonder whether there's any chance of us owning horses in the future...Ha ha ha!

Kneaders and Dinosaurs

Luke's parents got him a gift card to go to Kneaders after he missed their free french toast for Father's Day last year. We finally got around to using it near the end of April. Of this year. We are such procrastinators! But we do always get around to using our gift cards, and we always LOVE them. This trip was no different. The french toast had caramel syrup, fresh strawberries and whipped cream. Quite delicious indeed!

Afterward we went to the dinosaur playground at City Creek. This is such a fun playground, and it's free! (After parking. :)

Easter

We went up to my parents' house for Easter. It was fun to watch the kids search for and find the eggs.

But first, a picture of Max sleeping. They're just so angelic while they're sleeping that I'm always trying to catch it on camera.

On to the egg hunt!

We also got a headstand show from Heidi. She has gotten so good at yoga!

The whole fam.

Here's Heidi in another yoga pose.

And Samantha testing out her flexibility in the same pose. Very impressive!

Trip to the Leonardo with the Williamsons

In mid-April we went to the Leonardo museum in Salt Lake City. It has some great stuff for kids! I think elementary-aged kids would enjoy it the most, but Peter and Max still enjoyed it, and the time with their cousins, very much!

Here they are sitting in a box with tree blocks. The blocks were rough cuts from actual tree branches so they were shaped irregularly and it was difficult to actually build something, but a fun idea!

An area to learn about pixels.

The kids were seeing themselves on a screen which switched to different backgrounds.

Aunt Sarah helping Peter and Blaze make their own wind-up cars out of cardboard and rubberbands. So cool! They really worked!