Happy Easter!

    We had a really nice week, a little more sunshine and finally a week without a snowstorm. We also had a simple and nice Easter. We had all the kids here and we were only missing one girlfriend, Carter's, that's why he's not smiling in the photo, I guess.

 

    We had other fun things this week, celebrating our friends birthday, an adult easter egg hunt with another friend and her family and several evenings on the porch with neighbors. We love the warmer weather so we can spend more time outside. Lets hope we see more regular sunny days!

Brock's fun time and silly girls.

    Brock had a fun opportunity to join one of his good friends on a little trip to St. George. He had such a fun time, ate lots of yummy food and went on some cool adventures. He took some of his own photos that are posted on his Instagram account but here are a few photos his friends mom sent me.

    We also are having an endless winter and had a snowstorm this week that is unprecedented for April! Will it ever be Spring?! And we had a fun visit from the grand-babies and Harley is the silliest. I think she didn't come to see Joey but to 'be' Joey. She's a character!

Fancy food!

Adventures and sunshine!

Amazing sunset!

Stupid amounts of snow!!

And what a cute “Joey”

     We sure are blessed but we’re overly blessed with the snow and now we get to look forward to flooding, at least that’s what everyone around us is worried about. Bring it!

       Happy Easter weekend!

Happy Birthday to Grandma Rosellen!

    I had such a fun time in Oregon! It was so great to be with so many of my extended family members who had such a big impact on my life and it was great to reminisce and remember fun stories of my Grandma who would have been 100 on the 27th of March. I'm glad we were able to make the trip despite the crazy weather! There was lots of great food and fun activities.

  

These kids and their selfies!

Charlie and Mackenzie are always taking silly photos together.

Saw this gem as we pulled into Burns, Oregon for lunch and fuel.

And this bad boy is my cousin Eric's.

A little quilting demonstration by my aunt Sally. My grandma was an expert quilter.

    Sadly I didn't get any photos of my mom teaching everyone how to make my Grandma's bread recipe.

Fun puzzle of my grandparents and I got to use the O.G. metal cup!
My cousin Sabrina has the fun purple hair.

The kids enjoyed the giant Chess set outside the barn. My grandma loved playing chess.

This horse loved all the love from the kids.

Charlie enjoyed petting the horses even though it was cold, muddy and snowy outside.

A little gardening demonstration by my aunt Gayla. My grandma was an avid gardner.

    And I also made sure to get photos with some of the more 'major' players from my growing up years.

Uncle Mark! The legend!

This is my Aunt Elizabeth and her kids, grandkids and great grand kids. My cousins, Eric and Sabrina were basically like my older brother and sister growing up. It was great to see all of them!

Three of my favorite cousins, Jason, Stephen (and his wife Melissa) and Eric. I loved catching up with them over the weekend.

And my dad gave us an update on his latest motorcycles. This one has a pretty amazing paint job. He only has 7 bikes, so you know, nothing too crazy about that!

And the amazing neighbors taking care of our driveway as we drove home to the 'never-ending' winter wonderland that is Alpine!

And Isaac finished fixing his car and now she's back home, registered, insured and ready for Spring/Summer weather!

    So many fun memories and now we're so excited for General Conference weekend and Spring Break for the kids! Now if only we could be guaranteed some warm weather but that might be too much to ask for.

Just kids

    We had a fun week and we're wrapping up the week and spending the weekend in Oregon. Here's just a few photos from earlier this week.

Charlie hosting several friends for lunch.

Harley watching a show in the basement.

No better way to end Sunday, in the winter, then around the burn barrel popping Jiffy pop.

And Isaac is slowly getting his little sports car put back together.

    Hopefully I'll get some good photos while we're here in Oregon celebrating, what would have been, my Grandma's 100th birthday. The weather may not cooperate but we'll still have fun.

Saturdays are fun

    We love Saturdays! Fiiz, McClane's final basketball game, where he played great, and we had a fun visit from the grand-babies.

No better way to start your weekend.

These boys improved and progressed a ton this season.

Charlie is always happy when she's with friends.

Harley was having the best time cruising the neighborhood in her sweet 'ride'.

    

    So that's last weekends highlights. The whole weeks been pretty chill and thankfully we've seen a little sun the past couple days, now how long will it last? Spring, we're impatiently waiting for your arrival!

Charlie and friends

    This week I didn't take many photos but Charlie and her friends are constantly taking photos and they happily share them with me so here's a few from this past week.

Charlie's friends came to Charlie's last basketball game and really cheered her on.

 

Kat, Madi, and Mackenzie and of course Charlie. 

 

 

    We had a pretty simple week. Today is McClane's last basketball game and then we get our Saturday's back. Now if only those Saturdays will start to be more Spring-like, maybe we can start spending more time outside. OH! And only 289 more sleeps until Christmas and don't forget to Spring-forward your clocks!

Crash!

    Nothing like a loud crash to wake you up at 4 A.M. on a Sunday morning. What's crazy is Greg heard the crash but couldn't seem to find the source but when I got up a few hours later and headed downstairs it became crystal clear what caused the noise. Why the top of the mantle broke off and came crashing down is still a bit of a mystery, but thankfully it was at an hour when no one was around and I honestly never really loved the design of the mirror/mantel above the fireplace so not a big disappointment. The wood was sure heavy though and only had two screws to anchor it to the wall so it's actually a surprise this didn't happen long ago.

 

 

 

    Thankfully this was the only accident of the week. No trips to InstaCare and no other issues and a pretty slow week over all, which is why I don't have any other photos to share. And could someone please put a stop to winter and snow, please!? I'm over winter already!