Early Easter

Happy Birthday to Cache, he turned 2 on Saturday. He is the cutest kid you will ever meet.

Abbey and Todd had a horse themed birthday for him. He loves horses and loves wearing his cowboy boots.

Harmony and Abbey made this awesome Bulls Eye cake.
Then there was a horse pinata

with so much candy.

On Friday, before Halli left to go to her dad's, we had a little early Easter hunt with the kids at my Mom's house.

Britany has made a tradition on buying Castarones, real brightly colored eggs filled with confetti. The kids find the eggs and then have an egg fight with the eggs and confetti.

Britany is in charge of her towns Easter Egg Hunt when she gets back to Princeville.

It was quite cold outside, a little too cold to stay out too long.

The adults stayed inside and watched from the windows. We are wimps.

Happy Early Easter!

Fun Park

Britany and Halli were able to come to town for a short visit for Spring Break.

We decided to go to the Fun Park and have some fun.

First we skated. Devyn did such a great job for a 3 year old.

Halli couldn't get enough skating.

Then they got to play in the huge jungle gym.

Then we all took turns on the really tall tube slide, even me and Britany.

Halli

Britany said she would kill me if I posted this, but she never reads my blog, so she won't ever know :-)

Hayden

"Wow, that was fast!"

Finally, Hayden and Halli got to do laser tag. It was their first time and they thought it was great.

Taking Time to Enjoy Life

This weekend, Jeremy's cousin Josh and his wife Michelle came and stayed with us. This was their second trip to our house, which we are thankful for.

They came Friday night and we went and ate dinner at Cafe Sabor, we loved their fried ice cream. We rented a movie and stayed up a little late.

Saturday we went snowboarding at Beaver. It was a fabulous day, sunny and the snow was soft. Jeremy and I got sunburned. Cannon and Justine met us up there too.

It was a really great day and we were happy to spend it with fun people. In the last 2 weeks Jeremy had to get a root canal and had a dislocated rib that was causing him excruciating pain, we sure needed this day to remember that life is enjoyable sometimes.

Thanks Michelle and Josh.....come again.

Valentine's

Valentine's was uneventful this year. Usually the girls in the family try to do stuff for our guys, but this year it was a little unorganized.

The week before Valentine's I had a small little procedure done to my leg. While the doctor was fixing my varicose and spider veins I had him cut off my tattoo on my ankle. No big deal, right? Well the 4 inch incision became extremely infected and I was unable to walk or go to work, I had to be put on 2 courses of antibiotics. My foot was swollen, red, oozing puss and so painful, I couldn't put any weight on it. I sat on my couch all week. My sister, Harmony, came over for 2 days and made me food, took care of Hayden and cleaned. I was so ticked that it had happened and that I was using my vacation hours at work to sit on my couch. I didn't leave my house for about 8 days. This Valentine's dinner was my first outing. (I will post some before and after pictures when it is actually all healed)

Anyway, the last couple years we have gone to the Valentine's buffet at the Bluebird Restaurant as a family. The food is so good and they have yummy desserts. Since it was a buffet, I sat in my chair and Jeremy served me all my food so I didn't have to walk.
I really enjoy doing things as a family and I know I have the best parents and siblings and husband. I am one blessed girl.

So here is me and my Valentine. He was about ready to boot me to the curb after a week of being helpless, but he never complained. He helped we do dressing changes each day (yum).

Here are the cute Valentine girls. I love these cuties!

Here is the fun group that we went with: My parents and Grandma, Harmony, Steve, Devyn, Cannon and Justine.

Here is Hayden's awesome Valentine's box, this was the first year she got to make one at home.

Thought for the Day

One day, long, long ago, there lived a beautiful woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.

But that was a long time ago and it was just that one day.

The End

Snowboarding

It finally snowed enough for us to go up to Beaver snowboarding. What a great day it was. The snow was so nice and soft. It snowed all day.

My wonderful parents brought us up some lunch. How thoughtful they are.

It was just Jeremy and me this time. We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.


Jeremy hitting a box and me carving the powder.

Lava Hot Springs New Years Day

We were so happy to have an extra day off this New Year's weekend. Thursday after work the 3 of us went down to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese's in Sandy. Our Niece turned three. After the Birthday we went to Jeremy's sister Lindy's house for a New Year Eve party. We lost the Newly Wed game :-). That night we slept at Tim and Jessica's. Friday morning we went and visited Jeremy's parents and stopped in at the new Draper Inn & Out Burger.

We then hurried to meet my family so we could all drive to Lava Hot Springs for a New Year's Day celebration.

We all went and ate at River Bend Thai Restaurant in Lava. It was yummy.

Then off to the hot pools to relax.

Devyn looked so cute in her snow hat and swimming suit "with a skirt."

It was a busy place. It was our first time there. All the pools are outside and some have canopy covers. Its right up against a mountain and 4 trains came by.

It was lightly snowing and the cold air felt nice with the hot water.

We had a fun time and excited to go back maybe in the summer and camp.

Now the holidays are over, we have cleaned up all our stuff and back real life tomorrow.