Thursday, April 25, 2013

El Paso

These are all out of order and I don't care. On Easter we left and drove to Moab, we being my mom, sisters Emily and Katy and my kids and Jack. The next morning we got up and left Moab and headed towards El Paso. It was a long drive but we finally made it to my brother Jared's house at about 7 that night. We enjoyed a whole week with them and we were all sad when we had to leave, hopefully someday we will all live closer! The kids had so much fun together and enjoyed each other! Tuesday we went and met my brother for lunch with his boss, she wanted to meet us all. We then went to a mall and then drove home, driving on the freeway there is like nothing I have ever experienced! It is insane and I thought after driving in Memphis I was fine but driving there on the freeways is crazy and I see why my sister in law never goes to meet up with my brother for lunch! Wednesday we spent the day at a farm, another post about that. Thursday was our craft day. Celyn cut out wood projects for us to paint and mod podge while we were there so we spent all day Thursday doing those. Friday we went to the Outlets near their house. It was also about 95 degrees that day and it was hot but it was nice! We then went and got some Mexican food for dinner that night and it was really good! Saturday we watched the first session of conference and then we loaded my van and we were on our way home! It was a good drive home and we were happy to see our husbands again!
 
Leaving Moab
Grandma spoiled all the kids and paid for them to ride in the cool toys! They loved them and it was hard to get them down!
I shared a king size bed with Easton and he still managed to roll all the way to the other side and off the edge!
 
This was Easton still awake at midnight after he had been laying there for 3 hrs!
Monday was Emily's birthday and Celyn had orange chicken and had made a cake for her when we got there, and Blue Bell ice cream! They really need to sell that ice cream in Utah!
Watching a show!
My van hit 55,555 while in the middle of the crazy freeway!
One afternoon we spent at my sister in law's parents house while she cut our wood for our projects! Jack loved their little dog! He wanted to hold it himself! My kids are no where to be seen because they are terrified, someday hopefully we will get over that!
 Katy had all the kids on her bed and laughing one night! They all love her to pieces!
 Nothing better than Christmas Jammies in April!
 One afternoon the kids played in the water table!
 Easton watering their plants!
 He was done after a few minutes!
 These two were up to no good and were taking cups of water and dumping them on the girls, it is funny how teasing girls comes so naturally and at such a young age!

 Something happened I think he was dumping water in the sand box and so he got in trouble and wasn't happy!
 The first night! They were so excited to have a sleepover!








This was as we drove off and left the 4 husbands in the dust! They all looked a little rejected and like what do we do now!

Monday, April 22, 2013

Easter

We had such a great Easter. It was nice to be around to enjoy it with our families! We started off the day with Easter baskets! The kids had fun finding them! We then had a yummy breakfast and ate it while watching the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast, it was perfect and brought such a sweet spirit into our home for the day. We enjoyed church and ditched out early! We spent a couple hours with Andrew's family and had a yummy dinner. We then went to my uncles house and had some more food! It was such a great day. After dinner my mom, sisters, and our kids piled in my van and headed toward Texas to see my brother and his family. We stopped in Moab that night! It was definitely a busy day!


Our breakfast looked to good to not get a picture!
I really wanted a picture of them but they really didn't want to cooperate at all!

Easton was being so goofy and making us laugh!




 and then Eaotsn was trying to take down Jack.....




Sunday, April 21, 2013

Easter Party

The day before Easter my sister put together a little Easter party for all of us at my parents house. We had a yummy breakfast, dyed eggs, and the kids had a little egg hunt. Sadly Andrew was at work for the morning and so he missed breakfast and egg dying but he made it just in time for the egg hunt! Sadly two pictures in my camera died so I stole from my sister and the rest are from my phone so not the greatest!
 
Easton loved this! He was really careful and loved seeing the outcome!

He wasn't having any of it!

The hunt!

 

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Easter Egg Hunt

Friday some neighborhood friends got together at our clubhouse and had a little Easter egg hunt. The kids enjoyed it and got just the right amount of treats! It was such a nice day so after we went and played at the park.





This is Ella with our neighbor Lincoln. I took this to send to my little brother on his mission, his companions brother and family our our neighbors and this is his companions nephew! It's fun to get to know some of his companions family!


Kids

Last week after I got out of the shower I came out to find this scene. They had brought all their pillows blankets and stuff off their beds and were laying in the family room playing on the floor. It was so nice that they were playing together and no one was fighting!