So... this is apparently what happens when I leave my camera unattended with my siblings.

Our mouse is gone! We've had a renegade mouse in our house that we've been trying to elude for several weeks now. I have NO clue how it got in (well I have an idea, but anyway). Numerous traps later it's apparent that he didn't like peanut butter. Jared put a peep in the trap last night and guess what we heard during our morning prayers this morning? A snap, and the thrashing of a struggling mouse! HAHAHa! I made Jared go look and he found a field mouse with it's paw stuck in the trip. He took it outside and it ran off. I think the provider in him wanted to bash it's brains in, but he knew I wouldn't be very thrilled.. so gross. We are happy he's gone!

I heart Tur.botax

I don't know why when we've had MONTHS to finish the taxes we wait until the eleventh hour.

Quite literally.

We were just doing the electronic thing and then Jared found out that we had to mail in a check for our state taxes. So there I was at the post office at 1o pm last night dropping off our offering to the state of Utah. There were at least twenty other cars there so I wasn't the only one! Our taxes were crazy this year and took much more time than normal. When you finalize an adoption they let you take an adoption tax credit which greatly offsets the high costs that come with adoption. Usually it's a more straightforward process, but our experience wasn't typical and we had almost four months worth of travel expenses (flights, meals, housing, rental cars, gas etc) to figure out and itemize. My excel sheet was over five pages long when I printed out! I'm so glad they are finished.

So glad spring is here!

I'm loving this weather! It was a little windy today but nice and sunny. Kylie was all wound up last night (I'm guessing purging on a big Easter basket full of candy had something to do with it) and didn't fall asleep till way passed her bedtime. She ended up taking a long nap today so while she slept I planted about 35 bare root raspberries plants in the backyard. I'm hoping they'll get enough sun where I've put them. If not, I guess I'll find out. Hopefully we'll be munching on these lovelies in a few years!

Shrugs

We had a lot of fun this past weekend! We went down to Jared's parents in Fayette for conference weekend. I think Kylie picked up a cute trait from one of her cousins (not sure which one). Whenever we ask her a question she just shrugs her shoulders. I'll be looking right at her and say "Where's Dad?" and she'll just shrug her shoulders! Silly girl! I have to admit it's adorable.