Lots of changes in the Wade household

Ryan will be changing jobs again and at the end of the week, he will no longer be at Dyson (almost 2 years to the day).  He is excited to return to the hi-tech field and we are hoping he will be able to manage the work/life balance this time.  He will be managing a team in Northern California, Portland and Seattle, so it will be great that he can work over our summer and Christmas trips :o).  It was a hard decision for him, but I think he will be happy and he'll have opportunity within this company to move up.
We also had another hard decision with Ainsley.  She has been complaining of her heel for several weeks and I finally took her to the doctor and they said she has Sever's disease.  Sounds like a nagging, chronic injury that with rest will heal, but typically comes back (sounds like my mom had it as a child).  We tried ice and ibuprofen with little success and we are tired of hearing about it.  Just when it seems to get better, it gets worse.  We are going to take a break from gymnastics for a bit and try swimming.  We have been having issues with one of her coaches anyway, so it was the straw that broke the camels back.  Hopefully, this isn't the end of gymnastics for her since she is very talented and super strong!  She will continue in a more recreational capacity just to keep her skills.  It will allow her to try some new things and maybe that will be good for her.  She started piano a couple weeks ago and is picking it up very quickly and loving it!
Speaking of piano....Reggie had his recital today and he has really come a long way.  Here's the video:

Here's a few pictures of our Easter.  What a beautiful day it was to celebrate Jesus!  We went to the Williams and swam in their pool, ate a wonderful dinner and the kids enjoyed an egg hunt:

 Reggie and Noah

Reggie just finished his first typed report on the Missions in California.  We all learned a lot, but it was quite entertaining to use the computer for a project.  Ainsley was very interested and a good helper and can't wait to have her own report someday.  The typing was painful to watch....I think it took him 3-4 hours with Ainsley reading and spelling things for him.  It was fun to watch them work together.  We are definitely going to download a program that will teach them to type!  When he finally finished, we changed the font (size and color) and moved things around and Reggie got so excited every time we did something new.  He was truly amazed and I couldn't keep myself from chuckling.

Ryan and Reggie at a Giants game:

We had good intentions of planting our garden weeks ago, but I just couldn't get out there.  My mom guilted wonderful Ryan into throwing a few seeds in the planters, so we will see what happens.  We started very late, but it has been 2 weeks and things are really growing (peas, green beans, carrots and watermelon).  The yard has also been alive with bees and the orange tree and lemon tree smell lovely and we can see lots of fruit starting to grow on them!  Our young trees have also produced a few apricots, peaches and plums :o).  I'm not sure why it is so exciting to watch things grow, but we love it!
We finally solved the cat poop problem with these metal grids (actually supposed to be for stucco):

Spring Break

Well, amazingly we had just about everybody getting sick before our trip to Universal Studios. Reggie had a fever and sore throat Monday night and Ainsley had a terrible stomachache Tuesday evening so we thought she was getting the stomach flu that K had. He threw up again on Sunday night and that was an amazing mess but at least this time he made it into the bathroom. 
Ryan took Reggie to the doctor on the way to get grandma Peggy on Tuesday to see if he had strep so we could get him on antibiotics and feeling better, but no such luck. In the past when he has had fevers it's been several days but he was feeling much better on Tuesday afternoon. 
We had plans to go to the movies but since Ainsley was out of commission, just Reggie, grandma and I went to see God's Not Dead. It was more of an adult movie so probably a good thing the little ones didn't go. It was fabulous!!! 
The next morning we made the drive down to Glendale where we stayed in a fancy Hilton property, courtesy of Ryan's Hilton points. The kids were so amazed at the glass elevator that overlooked the pond with fish and turtles. That was an activity in itself! We could also look out our window and spy on who was in the elevator :o). 
The pool was well over 90° so right when we got there we headed down to the pool for awhile which was good since we were stuck in the car all day. The weather was kind of chilly so it was really good the pool was so warm. Grandma Peggy found a Shakey's pizza and was so excited to go there for dinner. Unfortunately they had changed the pizza crust and it was not like she remembered :(. Even more unfortunate was the look on K's face during dinner and him motioning that he was going to throw up. He didn't give us much warning but luckily there were a couple empty plates which he filled to the rim. Grandma about tossed her cookies too! He was fine after that and starving the rest of the trip and the next several days we could not feed him enough. 

The next morning we were treated to a fabulous breakfast at the hotel including omelets, hash browns and bacon :). We left bright and early to head to the park and thankfully we got there early because it was very quiet and the kids were able to go on the despicable me ride a few times. I had to close my eyes on that one....it was a motion ride and I did not want to be the next throw up victim. K barely made it on the ride because of his height. He had to be 40 inches tall and the first measurement you have to slide underneath and he fit underneath which meant he was not quite tall enough. I gave the guy a hard time and made him feel bad and he said well you can take your chances and see if he passes inside, so that's what we did. Thankfully, I left his hair long on top and he passed with flying colors at all three different measurement stations!!! The kids were too chicken to go on Jurassic Park or transformers, but we got K to go on the transformer ride (it's was his favorite!). We got lots of pictures with characters and saw most of the shows and pretty much did everything in the park and never really had to wait in line!!!! Ryan's work buddy hooked us up with front of the line passes so we were really spoiled :). It was a really long day but the kids did great and we had a lot of fun. 

(Isn't Reggie getting tall???  He blocked grandma!)

 Ainsley thought this guy was so cool.  We were watching him for a long time-you would never guess it is a real person!

The next morning we went in the pool again for a couple of hours and K made some progress going underwater and going back-and-forth between Ryan and I with no life jacket. It was a big step for him!
Then we packed up and made the long trip back. It always feels so much further on the way home. We were all happy to be back and sleeping in our own beds.  In the small amount of time we were home, the kids taught grandma how to play UNO....not sure she's such a fan.  They played one game that was an hour long and we had to leave for dinner before they finished!  They also played some BINGO :).
Saturday was packed with Reggie's track meet, Ainsley's gymnastics and K's brothers birthday party. It wouldn't have been a proper visit without a trip to Sweet tomatoes so before grandma Peggy got on the plane we had dinner there :). And that was spring break!!!