Easter Festivities

There was a Rice Krispy commercial during Easter where they made egg shaped R.K. Treats and dipped them in chocolate. It always looked so good! So we tried it. We didn't do it like them, we kind of had fun making up our own designs and the kids had a blast!

The finished treats

Below are the pics of the Easter egg hunt that Dallas coordinated. He did a good job!

Dallas the Photographer!

The Saturday before Easter, Dallas quietly got all of the kids dressed in coordinating outfits of Greens and Oranges and one by one, took their pictures :) ...(except Brin, she didn't want her pic taken) He is such a big helper! He did really good! After they had all been photographed, he had hidden eggs outside in the yard and took them all out for an Easter egg hunt and took pictures of that too! Thanks Pal! You are awesome!

I can't believe how big they are all getting!

Family Night before Easter

The kids beg to have BBQ's outside, so for family night it was good weather so we agreed :) I love having good weather! I love all of the fresh fruit and veggies that come into season! YUM!

Towards the end of our BBQ, the wind started to pick up so we decided to decorate the eggs inside. The kids were sad, they were excited to do it outside this year. I have to apologize for my camera for the rest of the pictures! If you take pics inside, they always turn out grainy :( It has ruined many holiday photos! Some day I will actually get an awesome camera~

Very concentrated! ;)

CHEESE!

The finished products!

Everyone got to showcase their favorite egg!

Dallas was so proud of this one :)

Miss Smiley!

We had so much fun! You never know when you start out on an adventure like this how it will turn out! Will it end with every one happy or mad, clean or a messy disaster.... But it was a success! They all colored their eggs and did a great job! Now... what do you do with 6 dozen eggs when only 3 of you eat deviled eggs or potato salad? hmmm....

Happy St Patricks Day

Better late than never I guess! Sorry it has taken a while to do posts lately!

We enjoyed wearing our green and eating our green and gold food! Dad was out of town so it was rather simple this year! We had rice and broccoli casserole, green jello salad, green grapes, and sprite. The kids loved it!

Mackenzie had a birthday! Shout HURRAY!

Mackenzie turned 7!!! in February! I can't believe my kiddos are getting so big! She spent the week before her birthday at Disneyland, so her party was the next weekend. She had a lot of fun! We love you Mackenzie! I can't believe that in one year you will get to be baptized!

This is her "little" cake for the family since her party wasn't on her actual birthday.

Her party!!!

So many fun girls! She wanted to have a pajama party and watch Tinkerbell, so we did! It was fun for the girls and easy for me :) what more can you ask for!

Her Tinkerbell cake

She wanted to do the candles HERSELF! Go for it!

All the girls!

Thank you every body for coming! Mackenzie, I hope you had a great 7th birthday and know that we love you!

Our day of LOVE!

We started Valentines day off with the always delicious, pink heart shaped pancakes!

And for dinner ....

Red Enchiladas, Sweetened Beets, Raspberry Jello Salad, and of course, Red Punch! (because we apparently don't learn from our mistakes around here) It was YUMMY!

Happy Valentine's Day!

"Where a kid can be a kid!"

While the big kids and Dad were at Disney for a week, I decided that we didn't have to stay home all day! So we invited our sister in law, Aubrey and her boy to come to Chuck E Cheese with us. The kids had fun running from game to game! I like how they stamp your hand and don't let anyone leave without checking your stamps, it helped me to feel less out of control and let them play.

My cute nephew, Cort

Jordan and Chuck, he is the only one that would go near him!

Every one on the trolley

my kiddos on the fun off road jeep. Now that is what I call, getting your moneys worth! ;)

Our trip to Idaho

At the beginning of February, the little kids and I, and 2 sisters and a nephew, went up to Idaho for the weekend to have a girls weekend and work on some goal setting that we had been wanting to do. One of my sisters lives there and is an amazing gymnastics/cheer leading teacher that she has been able to build a gym right in to her home! The kids LOVE to go there! These are a few pic's of the kids from that weekend. This was another highlight for Jordan! Todd got his snow machine out and was giving kids rides. All of mine, except Jordan, were too scared. He loved it! You could here him clear in the back of their property yelling... "go faster, go faster!" and laughing! How fun is that!!!!

You can barely see Jordan but he's there :)

So cute!

Macie trying out the trampoline in the gym

the kids loved riding this all over in there too!

Laughing so hard they couldn't drive!

Jumping in to the foam pit!

and trying it head first :)

So much fun! Terri's house is always a fun place to go! Brinley even chose to come here instead of going to DISNEYLAND FOR A WEEK!!!! Now that says something! Thanks Terri & Todd, for housing us crazy monkey's all the time! :) We had FUN!