So, when we were at the park, Jordyn tripped and cut her hand up pretty good. She cried for a little while and then was okay. Not to long after, she slid in some mud and had to catch herself with her cut hand, after this all was not okay. Jordyn kept holding her hand palm (and cut) up, and wouldn't move it. She kept crying as well, so we decided it was time to go. When we got in the car, she started to scream, and say, "Jordy bo bo hurt, Jordy bo bo hurt" I tried to look at it and that made her scream louder. It made us (well, me) think that something was wrong other than her little cut. So, Erik drove us to the near by fire station to have them look at it. When we got there, we had 6 firemen tending to our little girl (a couple of them tried to scrub off her birthmark, it was quite funny). She kept crying while they looked at it, especially when they tried to clean out her cut, when she fell in the mud she got dirt stuck deep in the cut. The firemen gave her a little teddy bear to try to calm her down (it didn't work). Fortunately nothing was seriously wrong, Jordyn was just being dramatic, and soon after we left the fire station she feel asleep, so I'd say she was probably very tired as well.
She had a blast running across the grass and watching the birds scatter. 
When that job was done, it was time to get to business, and feed the ducks. 
So she climbed to the waters edge and would throw the bread as hard as she could (with it usually landing behind her). Daddy decided she might need a bit of help so he sat down beside her and together they feed the ducks. 
This took a lot of serious concentration. So she was easily upset when I wanted her to look so I could get a picture. 
We were able to meet some other wild friends as well. The turtles swam up from the bottom of the pond to eat our bread,
and a blue jay graced us with a song. 
Jordyn was also able to get up close and personal with none other than a LARGE nutria 
(Caitlin actually got a picture of Jordyn's shoe on the nutria's nose, my camera was acting funny so I wasn't able to get that picture, but I'm expecting a copy soon). For those of you who don't know, a nutria, is pretty much a giant rat with large yellow beaver-like teeth. They live in the ponds and waterways of the south, and are very disgusting. 
After the bread was gone, we headed to the park to play, Jordyn soon forgot about the swings and the slides when she saw the water park. So we stripped her down as much as we dare to do in public (we weren't prepared to get wet), and we let her have fun. It was the perfect ending to a hot day at the park.
Jordyn loved having a friend to play with and a baby to hold. 
Jordyn and Elizabeth played on the "park" and ran from one end of the yard to the other, they also tried to play in the pool, so we ended up having to go inside to play.
Inside, they played babies, and Care Bears, and read books, and caused all sorts of mischief. 
Precious little Aiden just laid their and grinned, he's the smiliest baby I've ever seen. He's obviously used to his energetic sister because he was able to fall asleep amidst the wildness in the playroom. Thank you Michelle for letting us play, and I'm happy to hold this little one anytime you need an extra hand!
We walked around the temple grounds and found a nice bench to sit on and talk to Jordyn about the temple. Mainly, we told her that Mommy & Daddy were married in the temple and sang her the song "I love to see the temple". 
It amazes me how these simple things sink in and strengthen her tiny testimony and how she connects them with things she's previously learned. 
Her favorite bedtime song is now "I love to see the temple" and as we were driving downtown the other day, she saw the steeple of Catholic church and started saying "temple, temple". We told her it was kind of like a temple, it was a church. As soon as she heard the word church, she yelled out, "NURSERY!!" Yes, she LOVES nursery. Every Sunday we struggle through sacrament meeting because she wants the prayer to be said so she can go to nursery.
Don't worry, we didn't catch her off guard, the lack of clothing is a normal thing around here. We've actually caught her on a good day, she's got a diaper on (a very unusual thing these days). To start off, we want to refresh your memory, of previous previews of our 
Now for the part that you've all been waiting for. . . to the left, you see our. . . CLOTHES LINE!! 
a bright blue swimming pool,
and our newest edition. . . Jordyn's own personal park.
Yes, after weighing the pros and cons, we decided on the play set, and Jordyn LOVES it. Erik didn't even get it completely put together before she was playing on it.
made sugar cookies, had an Easter egg hunt,
and had our Easter dinner, with the missionaries as company. Friday Erik had a BBQ with some of his classmates from the academy. He smoked a brisket on his new smoker, and got to show off his new deck. We all had a great time. Saturday, Erik's parents had us over for an Easter lunch, and then Sunday after enjoying a wonderful morning at church, Jordyn and I went to another Easter dinner with Erik's mom (where Jordyn let her terrible two's come out in full force). 
To add to her enjoyment, Mimi (Erik's mom) gave her some more money for Easter. We hope you all had as enjoyable of an Easter as we did!
some summer squash and zucchini that are growing nicely,
a few cherry tomatoes on the vine,
and our first strawberry flower is in bloom.
Unfortunately, we've had a few losses in our garden. Apparently we don't have the right type of soil for cucumbers; we've lost all three of our plants, and presently it looks like something is killing our yellow tomato plants, they're all but dead (after searching online, it sounds like we may have some sort of fungus in the soil that is attacking the roots). Now that the 
