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):