The Bunzell Family: February-March 2013

In February 2013, I believe over President's Day, my brother Chris arranged for us as a Johnson clan to go hiking along the Second Water Trail (not too far away). I was about 14-15 weeks pregnant and grateful that the trail was not too strenuous. We harnessed Easton with his lion backpack/leash in hopes that this would keep our "runner" close to us. Unfortunately he tripped on the rocks quite a bit and got frustrated with the least. David had to carry him in the hiking backpack on our way back to the car and luckily Easton fell asleep :).

The crew that came hiking. Chris and Jessica's family, mom, Kyle, me and David.

Unleashing Easton

Stopping for lunch

All this hiking business wears me out!

David had two interviews for PA school this 2012-2013 cycle. The first interview was in Pennsylvania and David felt like it didn't go well at all. He noticed that nearly every guy interviewing had a suit and he wasn't wearing one! When Midwestern University asked him to interview, he went out and bought himself a suit! He felt like the interview was much more relaxed and we both felt really good about it. However, David did not make it into either one of the schools. Time to reapply in April!

We had a CRAZY storm in February which left our backyard COVERED in hailstones. It look like it had snowed! Easton was not dressed very warmly when we ran outside to see the amazing sight-so as you can see in this picture, he is not very happy.

In March, our family went to the Aloha Festival at Tempe Beach Park. It was raining and slightly cold most of the day. We had bought a Papa Johns Pizza (my favorite!) on our way to the festival so that we wouldn't be tempted to buy the 10$/plate food. The Festival was not very exciting this year and all of us were bored quickly. We left after about an hour.

Over Spring Break, David and I decided to do 2 things: Paint the trim on our house and re-do our backyard (install a sprinkler system, put in sod, make gardens, lay a patio for our bbq and make a sandpit for Easton). Little did we know how much WORK those two things would turn out to be! I started painting the trim on the house and ended up getting really sick towards the end of the week (it was super windy one day and I think the exposure to dust/long hours of sun did me in). We realized that neither of us knew anything about how to install sprinklers. Thankfully David's brother Ryan (the handyman expert) saved the day! Here are some "before" pictures of our yard after David and I removed all the rock.

Laying the sprinkler line.

Bringing maneur into the yard.

Did I mention that during all the craziness of renovating our backyard that our dishwasher decided that it no longer wanted to drain water? 400 unexpected dollars later, we had a new dishwasher! Easton enjoying sitting in the "Lowes" truck as they delivered our new appliance.

Over Spring Break, we found at that we were having a baby GIRL due in August. At our gender reveal party, we invited family to our neighborhood park. We sent everyone on an Easter egg hunt to collect eggs filled with blue and pink jelly beans. After all the jelly beans were collected, the family had to see which color had more in order to determine the gender. Of course pink had several more, but just to be sure (since a few eggs were missing-a little girl at the park stole some!) we cut open a cake with pink frosting in the middle. Everyone was ecstatic to have another girl join the family. Chris and Jessica found out a few weeks later that they were also having another girl!