April was a fun-filled month (who says medical school has to be grueling?). First, Jacob won first place (of the K-3rd grade age group) at his school science fair. He wrote up the entire report by himself and performed nearly all of the experiment by himself. He swabbed various surfaces and then swabbed some prepared nutrient agar (I prepared the medium) in order to grow colonies of bacteria to see which surface would produce the highest concentration of "germs". He was so proud of his accomplishment.
Later in the month, I took the kids up North (about 45 minutes from Lebanon) to attend the
Woodburn Tulip Festival. The Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm (where the festival is held) has over 40 acres of tulips and daffodils.
Jonathan's brother Ben and his wife, Kristi, came from Utah for an open house in Medford to celebrate their union. Nikita also flew out to Medford from Idaho. It was so good to see them and get to know Kristi better. How grateful we are that Jonathan's brothers have married such amazing women.
On April 29th, Jonathan and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary! This was our first time celebrating with our kids. Jonathan had a tough Neurology exam soon after, so we didn't go out on the actual day. We did go out on a date last night while some wonderful friends of ours took our kids.
Here are some pictures from the month:
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| Jacob won first place at his school science fair! He did nearly all of it by himself. His experiment was titled "Germ Test". |
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| Olivia is sporting some cute pigtails for the science fair. |
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| Love my cute scientists! |
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| A marble experiment involving physics. |
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| Claire won a door prize at the science fair. This is a typical look we see on Claire. She really loves her new mirror. |
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| Jacob tackles a tree at the tulip festival. |
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| Claire enjoys riding Betsy. |
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| The kids enjoy playing with Ben and their new Aunt Kristi. |
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| I would like you to notice the look on Ben's face...we are watching "Tinkerbell". |
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| The kids were so excited to see their Tia Nikita! |
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| Happy 7 years as a family!!!!!! |
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