Rewind...Easter

We celebrated Easter a little different this year.  Logan had to work on the actual holiday so we did the Easter bunny celebrating a couple days early.  The kids loved finding their baskets and all that was in them!  Then on Saturday, the kids and I spent the afternoon at my parents house eating a yummy dinner and hunting for eggs.  The kids love a good egg hunt.  Sophie and Collin are pros and found a ton of eggs.  Ruby was quite a bit slower and very carefully set each egg in her bucket so that they wouldn't break open and spill their precious contents!  Toward the end the big kids were bringing her eggs because they couldn't fit any more eggs in their own bucket!!!  Lyla enjoyed herself as well and LOVED the big kids buckets full of eggs.  She was constantly trying to get her hands on those eggs!!

someone got a haircut!

I almost shed a tear or two when they started cutting off all of his curls.  But he looks so handsome...and he loves it!  It's a fun change for now.

peep houses

I pinned these on pinterest and just had to make them.  The kids love decorating gingerbread houses and I thought they would like these as well.  I was right.  They decorated to their hearts content and then enjoyed munching on their houses the rest of the day!

dying eggs

Easter is right around the corner.  It sort of snuck up on me...so we have been doing our best to get some Easter fun in.  On Sunday during a session of General Conference, we dyed eggs.  The kids love it and go through a couple dozen eggs in only a matter of minutes.  This year I showed them how they could draw or write on their egg with the white crayon and that was a hit.  After the dying all the kids got cracking and ate several eggs each! 

a month in photos...March

March 2012

It has started feeling like Spring and we have spent several afternoons at the park

Ruby started ballet class and LOVES it

Lyla started sitting on her own

The Spring flowers in our front yard have bloomed

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day with some fun crafts

We took a trip to St. George and visited Zion National Park

Sophie sang in the choir at her schools talent show

The kids took dad to school one morning for Dad n' Donuts

St. George

A couple of weeks ago we took a road trip down to St. George.  It was such a great family vacation.  We all loved it!  Seriously one of our best vacations yet.  We didn't do anything too special...just spent time together as a family.  It was cold and wet most of the time but that didn't stop us!

Some highlight from the trip include:

• An air show...with super winds and extreme dust.  
• Sleeping in!!!
• Swimming
• Shopping at the outlets
• Visiting the Brigham Young Winter Home

• Visiting Zion National Park where we hiked ...

 and froze...it was so cold.  We definitely should have had our winter coats.

Also at Zions the kids completed a Jr. Ranger Handbook and earned a badge making them a Zion Junior Ranger.  They are pretty proud of their badges.

• Watched Movies together
• Played at the park
• Ate at the Pizza Factory...the kids LOVE their breadsticks!

When our time was up, the kids and I drove home (Logan had to stay for work) sad to be leaving "the best vacation ever!!!" as stated by Sophie.

the simple things

Kite Flying!

Dad stopped by the store and picked up a big red kite on his way home from work to surprise the kids with.  They were stoked.  We spent the afternoon in the wind trying to get this big red airplane to take flight.  It proved harder than we thought it would be but the kids still had a blast!