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April 2013

I'm keeping up with my tradition with being a few months behind, but I believe that my new motto is better late than never!

I guess Easter was technically March, but apparently I missed it in my last post.  Our Easter was relatively quiet.  We spend the morning at church where the kids had an Easter egg hunt.  It was a perfect morning for it, and it was more relaxed than some of the public egg hunts we've been to in the past.

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Of course, that doesn't mean that it wasn't a bit chaotic!  It was fun though.

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We also dyed eggs this year with some friends.  We haven't done this before, so it was a special treat.  I'm not sure what was more dyed - the eggs or the kids hands!

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We also did our fair share of going to parks.  One of our favorites is Ravenna Park.

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We also went to the Locks one day.  Another one of our favorite places since we also get to witness the salmon ladder.  No salmon at this time of year though.

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We'll have to come back in July!

We also did a lot of playing in our yard.

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Discovering an earthworm

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They seem insistent on making their water table a mud table.  How like boys!  =)
Buddy's preschool also had a field trip to the Imagine Children's Museum up in Everett.  We had a great time!

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One weekend we took the bus and light rail to downtown to go to the big Seattle Public Library.  Phil had taken the boys there once before, but I had never been.  Their children's section is incredible, and we enjoyed discovering all the levels and looking out the glass panes.

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More April pictures can be found HERE.
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