So, we celebrated Easter at home a week early (on Palm Sunday) since we were traveling over Easter weekend. That means that our home-Easter ended up at the end of my March video – and our traveling-Easter ended up at the beginning of my April video!
Needless to say: we sighed a huge sigh of relief and offered up many prayers of gratitude when we arrived at Aunt Dot and Uncle Jim’s Easter weekend and everyone was feeling HEALTHY. (Last year, Leander ended up with the flu while we were at their house and ended up in the ER the day after we got home – it was awful!) All Leander kept saying to me was: “Mom, I just really want to be healthy for Easter this year so I can have fun with everyone.” And praise the Lord, we all were healthy!
The month of April was unseasonably warm, so we spent tons of time outside, soaking up the sunshine – we wrapped up our school for the year (with portfolios and tests and evaluations), and mostly just counted down the days until the last week of April when we would head down to Georgia for our “big” FAMILY vacation! (Spoiler alert: it was the BEST!)
We also visited Kennywood Park on opening day in the month of April: • Kennywood Opening Day 2026 Vlog | New Upda…
Moments of note this month:
(0:32) Easter party at church
(1:36) Happy birthday to my sister, Ellen
(2:09) Easter weekend at Aunt Dot & Uncle Jim’s
(2:52) Easter dinner with my family back home
(3:45) Welcome to the Leander-Show
(5:15) Wrapping up the school year!
(5:27) We bought a new car!
(5:49) Leander finally mastered the flip
(8:37) Happy birthday to Leo!
Just in case you’ve missed what I’m doing – I decided that I wanted to create a curated “home video” for our family every month (remember those old “home movies” our families used to create? with the giant video recorders that an entire VHS tape fit in?) Those videos were fantastic, but if you’ve ever sat down to watch one (does anyone even own a VHS player anymore?) you very quickly realize that you do a lot of “fast-forwarding”.
So, my goal, is to take all the little videos I take of our family over the course of a month & create a short (my goal is to be around 10 minutes) video of my favorite snippets. I am SO excited to finally have a dedicated place to chronicle my family videos & keep them safe & accessible.
Enjoy a little peek into what our April looked like!
