ITS APRIL!!

April started off with Tami's birthday on the 4th.  How can my baby be 33?? I didn't do much for her. I made her a yummy salad and her favorite Oreo dessert. Later in the week we went to lunch together at a new, fun, vintage place in Eagar called 'Bluebird Cafe'.

I took Adlee to the store to help me buy things her Mommy would like. It was so cute and funny to see the different things she put into my cart. She got socks, a hand held mirror, tiny colored hair rubber bands, cotton candy in a bag and a bunch of other things I can't remember! (I think some were things she liked!)

Adlee loves to get in my attic and find dress up clothes.

LaVerl went fishing up to Big Lake and caught 6 really big trout from the shore!

EASTER!

How wonderful it is that this is a day of celebration throughout the             Christian world. Of all the events of human history none is so               significant as the resurrection of the Son of God. 

 Gordon B. Hinckley, prophet 

 

Adlee took this picture!  So funny!

Sometimes I take her to 'story time' at the library and they get to make a craft.

While Tami's kids were coloring eggs, Blake comes up with

"An egg self portrait".  (He only wears his hair like this when he's home and he wants it out of his eyes!)

Chad and Luann came over and spent Easter day with us.

Chad and Charlie  helped with the Easter egg hunt for the kids.

I had to include some pictures Lisa sent of her kiddos all dressed cute for Easter.

And also her wonderful Easter message she texted to all her family. She said this--

"I hope everyone enjoyed celebrating Easter wherever you were! I missed you all a lot this year. The day felt a little lonely without family around. Even Lilly was wondering why we were celebrating by ourselves. I guess it's because I love Easter so much and just want to share that with those I love. It means so much to me. The Atonement and Resurrection are everything. My life would have no true or eternal meaning with out these all encompassing and eternal events. I'm so grateful for these profound truths. May we all live each day with a remembrance of our Savior's victory over sin, every infirmity, and death and be a little better.  Love you all."

 

 APRIL is also Reed's Birthday on the 19th!

Reed's beautiful little family on Easter!

 

I got a few more Easter pictures!

Kari's family like to make a typical 'passover' meal on Friday night.

Here's all Bret's kids.

Kingston looks thrilled, right?

Mark's kids coloring eggs. (no Kaemon, he's way past this!)

March always means SPRING BREAK!

Spring Break is when we get to spend time with our grandkids! The only ones that came this time were Bret's kids. He and Suzy went to Puerto Vallarta for their #2 anniversary. Tami's kids don't really count because they are living in Eagar and I get to see them all the time. I thought Lisa was coming with her 3, but it didn't work out for her.

The boys loved playing games on the 'switch' thing. Basically, video games.

London played too.

Dempsey and all the kids love my tread mill. If only I loved it as much!

Ivory and Adlee played so cute together all week.

Tami took the kids to Dollar Tree and Colter insisted that he would buy everyone something with his own money. That's pretty sweet!

Blake brought over a 500 piece puzzle and all the kids had fun putting that together.

Dempsey and Adlee playing together.

Aunt Tami gave Kingston a really nice haircut.

We got a tiny bit of snow, but the kids played in it and made 3 tiny snowmen.

On Tues. we headed to Roosevelt. We had new tile for our bathroom we needed to install. Wed. I took the kids to the cliff dwellings near by.

It's a short hike, only about a mile up with lots of resting places. They have a cute 'junior ranger' book to fill out which made it fun for the kids.

The kids ran up ahead so I could get a picture, but its hard to see them, the sun was shining right at me.

There was a nice ranger lady there that told us the history of the dwellings.

They estimate about 60 people lived here in about 20 rooms.

Back down the kids got 'sworn in' as Junior Rangers and got a cute little badge.

While we were playing, LaVerl was working. He had to take all the old plastic paneling off around the tub. Take off all the sheet rock! Then he put hardy backer up.

Then he had to tape and glue the spots where he put screws in.

Sheetrock is so messy. It made the whole house dusty.

Randell loaned us his nice tile cutting saw.

Randel came to help us, but we had it about done. He helped finish up with the grout. then he and LaVerl went fising on Friday.

The finished bathtub tile!!  We like it a lot!

 

Our good friends, Glen and Rachel Finch came over and we went to the Friday night fish fry at "Ma's" then they took us riding in their RZR on Saturday.

We have been setting traps and we got a huge RAT!! We think there is more because Randell heard lots of scratching while he was trying to sleep!!   Ugg!!  Not good!!