Early Easter Egg Hunt

Oops! I guess I was in too big of a hurry yesterday! I forgot to include photos of the Granny Paula Easter Egg Hunt the day we left St. George. We timed the kids, from youngest to oldest, letting them out into the yard 30 seconds apart. It was hysterical watching Spencer and Noah eagerly awaiting their turn to hunt for eggs. Everyone got tons of loot, but Ethan beat them all and had twice as much as anyone else. Luckily, everyone shared and we had treats for the drive home. Thanks, Easter bunny (bok, bok)!

Boy's Day Out (or Girls Day Out)

Spring Break Day Five and Six and Seven (Day Four was not documented so well...we went swimming twice at the Washington City Recreation Center, which is awesome!): Jeremy was able to get Friday off of work and decided to fly up and join us for a few days. Hooray! So, the moms got the day off to go shopping and to lunch while Dad and Grandpa Tom took all the boys bowling and to McDonalds. Yay for them! Isaac and I had started getting sick and by Saturday I was miserable. We decided to drive home by way of Flagstaff and got a room at a hotel with a nice pool and complimentary yummy waffle breakfast. I went right to bed and my wonderful husband took the boys swimming and put them to bed, too. We arrived home in Mesa barely in time for church, exhausted but grateful to be home. There's no place like home!

Happy Birthday Ethan!

Sweet Ethan turned four today! He had a Star Wars birthday party at Granny and Grandpa's house, complete with balloon lightsabers and a hot-dog roast in the backyard firepit. (By the way, Emily, I put him up to the Cheeto-chewing picture above. Sorry.)

Anasazi Valley Trail

Spring Break Day Three: I take full responsibility for the miserable-ness of this family hike. We left too late in the day and I was following directions on a letterbox posted in 2003. So, the original directions took us down a road that was no longer available due to housing being built, and the new trail built last year wound way out around the hills, through the desert, and finally down to the Santa Clara River. Yeah, my mom was so not happy with me. And Isaac fell asleep so I got to carry him UP the hill back to the cars. Did I mention it was hot? Really, though, the boys enjoyed themselves chasing lizards and watching fire ants and finding the petroglyphs that adorn the walls of rock along the river. And, don't you know, the letterbox wasn't even there!

St. Paddy's Day

Second Day of Spring Break: The leprechauns visited during the night and scattered their gold (chocolate coins and butterscotch discs) all over the house! Some of us got lots of pinches because we forgot to pack green clothes, but we still enjoyed the magic green milk and Lucky Charms cereal the leprechauns left. Later that afternoon we went to a new rock-climbing park and met Aunt Barbara and cousins Patti, Riley and Ron there. The kids climbed, explored, pretended, waded in the creek, and had a great time over all! (Isaac commandeered the camera; that explains the "up the nose" photos of me and my mom above!)