April Nuts and Bolts

How quickly the months do fly by! Any minute now, two baby girls could wake up, so I’m going to make good use of this time. The quickest Nuts & Bolts format is to just look at the Smith Family calendar for April and highlight the highlights (which is what someone should always do with highlights):
04.01: Elizabeth attended the big Enrichment birthday celebration and it was quite the fancy affair with china, a fine dinner, and an entertaining talent show. That same night, I held my end of the semester banquet with my staff. As a fitting tribute to April Fool’s, we announced to the staff that I was taking a new position within LDS Philanthropies. Their reactions, especially the looks on their faces, was priceless!
04.02: Tayah says her first word…Dada!
04.04: Tayah had her nine-month check-up and is one healthy baby. Her shots were as fun as ever. We did a sealing session as a bishopric. We all went to an ice cream parlor called Sub Zero, where they freeze the cream with liquid nitrogen!
04.05-04.06: What a blessing General Conference was. It was memorable to sustain President Monson as the Prophet. We enjoyed all the talks, especially Elder Ballard’s and President Uchtdorf’s. I got together with Dad and the brothers for the Priesthood session in Orem.
04.07: We are making a concerted effort to try new things. Tonight, we went to FHE at the Springville Museum. It was Japanese night, with traditional music and origami.
04.08: Kadence was cute, talkative, and a bit mischievious. Wait, that happens every day!
04.09: My staff was delighted to have a visit from Coach Bronco Mendenhall. Go Cougars!
04.10: Elizabeth took her sister Kara to the airport for a surprise visit with her parents. They just recently retired and are making arrangements now to move up to Coeur D’Alene, ID as their retirement pad.
04.12: We took the girls to the Blue and White game at Edwards Stadium. Simple, but fun…especially if Cosmo is involved! Momentous event: Kadence used the “big girl potty” for the first time. There was much rejoicing in the land (side note: she hasn’t used it since…)!
04.15: We had fun watching the news stories about the tax procrastinators!
04.16: Elizabeth had the second half of her root canal procedure. Joy! We also had cleanings later in the month. To fulfill our ritual, we took the student supervisors to Tucano’s. This is truly how food will be in heaven!
04.17: Kadence and Tayah have fun at the toddler sign language class.
04.19: We had service project where we cleaned up the part of Hobble Creek that runs past our neighborhood. There was a good turn-out (could’ve used more youth!). Elizabeth was in charge of breakfast for everyone. That evening, we had a ward temple session where 40 members participated in an endowment session. Very special.
04.20: Had a family dinner celebrating Darrell’s birthday. Always good to be with family!
04.21: The Jazz went up 2-0 in their Playoff match with David’s Utah’s enemies, the Houston Rockets. No victor yet as of this writing (Go Jazz!).
04.23: Elizabeth went to Enrichment recipe group.
04.24: As a ward mission, we canvassed the mobile home park in our ward as it’s an extremely transient area. It was just like the good old days, knocking on doors and meeting fun people! The semester officially ended.
04.25: We went to a fun boutique in Mapleton, followed by dinner out. Simple times make for unforgettable memories.
04.26: Attended Spencer and Whitney’s reception in AF. Congratulations!
04.27: David went to Stake Priesthood meeting. We are blessed to have a wonderful Stake Presidency.
04.30: Let us introduce you to the newest member of the Smith Family…our new Honda Odyssey! Elizabeth has been the catalyst in doing all the research and searching and we found our vehicle. It was really fun for us take the first family drive in it.

Let’s see what the next 31 days have in store for us. We love you all!