Spring Break recap...

Well, we arrived back at our apartment here at NTBI late last night, and we have spent today unpacking, cleaning and trying to potty train Layla:

Let me just say, it has been interesting. 

Anyway, as I have already posted, our Spring break started out really good.  We spent the first few days at Nathan's parents' house and had a great time.  Then we had the birthday party for Halle and Daisy, which I also posted about and that was so fun!  The rest of the week was also great.  Nathan spent the week working with Aaron on Klint and Sarah's "new" house (click here and here to see their awesome work!)... He really loved doing carpentry work again.  So that really made his week:)

We also...

had playgroup at Amy's house:

 Let me just say, Amy is so awesome.  She is so hospitable and always makes us such good food when we come over for playgroup.  She is also very calm and laid back...between all of us, I think we counted 18 kids!!  (minus Daisy, so I guess it was 17).  But that is a lot of kids.  Thanks, Amy!  And Kaine also thanks you...he loves to be with his good friends Hudson and Carter:

We had fun coloring Easter eggs:

And it was so great to visit Gateway and hang out with Paul and Nichole.  Hopefully we can visit again this summer when the weather is a little warmer.  Thanks so much, guys--it was wonderful to catch up with you!!

Our kids enjoyed their cousins...

Daisy started giving us the cheesiest smiles this week...(and eating almost exclusively solid foods--good job, Daisy!)

Kaine and my dad went fishing, and Kaine caught this fish!

Our family always fills out a NCAA bracket each year, and my dad gives winner a gift card.  So this year, we decided Kaine would be old enough to join in.  He won!!  And he legitimately filled out his own bracket!  My parents gave him a Walmart gift card and they also had a little trophy engraved for him!  It was so cute--Kaine thinks trophies are so cool:)

Our kiddos had a blast on my parents' gator:

And we just had fun hanging out outside...

What a good break!  We are back and ready to start classes again.  It is crazy that we are almost done with our first year of training.  Our classes end on May 17!  These next couple of years before we head overseas are just going to fly.  For now, we are trying to enjoy family and friends as much as we can, and trying to soak it all in:)  Have a great week!!