Egg Hunt

After we colored our eggs my sister and I went and hide eggs in my parents yard! The kids were so excited! It turned out to be such a nice day! The kids were in heaven!

Coloring Eggs

The day before Easter my family had our family Easter party. My mom made us a yummy lunch and then we got to work coloring eggs! The kids loved it! Ella is getting so much more independent when it comes to things like this which is soooo nice! Addie was napping while we started which was nice to be able to help the other two! 

Addie finally woke up and I helped her do a few eggs!

Easton's new thing is to look like this in at least one picture a day!

Brian Regan

For Christmas I surprised Andrew with Brian Regan tickets! He was so excited! Finally the day came on March 19th to go! We were a little late leaving because Andrew's last patient was late (grrrrrr) so we ate really quick downtown at the Lion House. We then headed over. I had gotten us the cheapest seats, which weren't really cheap but they hadn't sold much of the bottom half so we all ended up in the bottom half with much better seats! I felt bad for the people who had actually paid to sit there! We shared some kettle corn and really enjoyed our night! It was a good show! He is hilarious! At the end he even did some old stuff!! 

Caucuses

The middle of March our state held it's caucuses. Andrew has become quite interested in people running so he wanted to attend as many town hall meetings as he could. He attended a John Kasich one this night and it was packed. He was interested in what he had to say. He was a little later than he was supposed to getting there so Andrew wasn't able to attend the others he wanted to. 

This was the night of the Caucus. He was gone for a long time! There were so many people! 

St Patrick's Day

This year for St Patrick's Day we were at my parents house. Ella has dance on Thursday nights so that is usually when we visit my parents. St Patrick's ended up on a Thursday. My mom made some cute favors with skittles. We had a mostly green dinner. My mom made minestrone soup and bought some rolls that were green! We had some fun hats and head pieces to wear. It is all so silly but it is fun to celebrate silly things with the kids!

Beauty and the Beast

Last weekend Ella and I got to go to the High School to see Beauty and the Beast together. She constantly talks about how much fun she had last year when we went to Cinderella and wanted to know when we could do something like that again. I was excited for this to come up! We had 6 or 7 youth in our ward in it so it was really fun to go see! Also the girl who played Belle, her older sister was my tent mate and in young women's with me but she just moved out of our ward!  She knew all the kids in our ward that were in it and would see them and tell me who she would see! She was on cloud nine!! I love doing fun stuff with her like this!

Afterwards we went to Pace's and got rainbow ices. They are slushies with frozen yogurt in the middle. She got her favorite tiger's blood and I got peach! If you have ever had a Pace juice bar popsicle thing this is their little restaurant they have burgers and fries and all sorts of yummy treats! It was a fun night with my cute girl that is growing up way to fast!!!

Apples

One morning while I was picking up the kitchen and vacuuming Addie made her way to the counter and found the apple Andrew had left on the counter before he left for work! She was so excited she has wanted to get her hands on a whole apple for a long time! I thought she had a problem with apples but I think we are good so I am less cautious now! She sat and ate that thing while I worked around her! She ate most of it but was mad when I took it from her so we could go get Ella from school! I love this little girl!!

Cheese!! With a mouth full of apple!

Field Trip

Two weeks ago I had the chance to go with Ella and her class on a field trip. Andrew has Thursday mornings off so it worked out perfectly. We had to be to school 20 minutes early. Her school is just a block away from the front runner commuter train and the Treehouse Museum where we went is just two blocks from it so we rode the train and walked. It was a lot of walking for Kindergartners! They have some fun programs to chose from for field trips and the teachers chose the once upon a time fairy tale theme. It was a pretty fun theme! I had Ella, her friend Jade, and a girl named Addie in my group. I knew about Addie from helping in the class room and knew she was going to be a challenge. She is a really sweet girl but very busy and nosy and kind of annoying. She kept touching me and patting me and wanted to play with my earrings and putting her feet on me. It was really annoying! I really just hope my kids have more boundaries than that when it comes to other adults helping in the class! I really did have a good time! Her friend Jade also told me on our walk there that she has a fever just like her little sister, awesome Jade just awesome! Seriously was annoyed at that! 

The kids loved riding the train they were so amazed!

Kinzie, Trinity, Bella, Jade, Ella, and Addie

They did a cute little play with the kids!

After the little classes were done we got about 30-45 minutes of free play. This was a struggle cause there was places each kid wanted to go and enough places for a few hours! After that they finished up our tour and we headed outside to eat our lunches! It turned out to be a really nice day for March so we lucked out!!

On the way back I told Addie that I am sitting by Ella not her, I just wanted to sit by my own child! We made it back and then had to go get Easton and Addie at my neighbor Jenny's house. We had an overlap of about 15 minutes from when I was going to be back and when Andrew had to go to work so she took them for me! She is always helping me out!

St George Hike and Lunch

Saturday we got up and had a big french toast breakfast! We all got ready and then headed out for the day. We drove around the scenic way and found a hike to go on. It was a really pretty hike and pretty easy for the kids. It was the perfect temperature that day too! 

We walked and found the arch and kept going a little bit. 

We passed a park ranger on our way back out and she told us some pretty cool stuff about the area we were in. I took a picture of it but it is hard to see. There are names on the side of the mountain which are early pioneer settlers of the St George area. She also told us about some of the animals and plants that are currently out. Pretty neat stuff. 

After our hike we were so tired and thirsty and it was after 3 so we headed to the Pizza Factory to get some lunch. It was really good and we were all so hungry! After we ate the girls and Spencer drove to do some more shopping and the guys took all the kids home. We shopped and then headed back to get the kids down for the night. My mom was really good at getting the kids to go to sleep by reading to them and telling them the first one to sleep got a quarter. The kids all slept together in the big loft area. The owner had made the loft into a huge kids area with a train set and kitchen and a princess bed, a princess carriage bed, a boat bed, and a pirate ship bed and a couple trundles. It was an awesome area for them and where they spent 90 percent of the time! The next morning we loaded up and headed to Sacrament meeting with my Grandma and my aunt Marjorie. Marjorie lives down there so we went to her ward which is a senior citizen only ward! We stuck out with our zoo of kids! After Sacrament we went back to her house and changed and then headed home. We made it home but it took us a lot longer because we drove through 60 mile an hour winds and rain. It was crazy! It was a perfect birthday weekend away! It was just what we needed, Andrew has been working so much lately so it was nice to get him to ourselves for a couple days!