Easter

This year's Easter started really early. The girls came in at 6:30 AM! I told them they had to wait until at least 7. So at seven, they went into the front room and found a note from the Easter Bunny with their first clue that started a scavenger hunt to find their baskets. It took them around the house and finally into the playroom where their baskets were waiting for them. This year he brought hula hoops, Pillow Pets, shorts, a movie and a swimsuit (for Ruby). The girls had pop tarts for breakfast, then they did their usual Sunday stations before church.

I think my little camera is on its last leg--the pictures have this weird haziness about them. They are actually quite horrible! Sorry!

Party Time!

Yesterday we had a fun family party at my parent's house to celebrate Easter, my dad's birthday and my dad's retirement of 39 years with the police department. He is retiring at the end of May and he wanted a party with all the kids and grandkids. We met at their house in the early afternoon. We brought the kids in their swim suits and told them they might get to go in the sprinkler or do water balloons or something. The truth though was that my parents had rented an inflatable waterslide and a bouce house. When the kids went outside, they were surprised! Libby had accidentally seen it from the street when we pulled in, but I told her not to tell anyone. So the kids played on those for most of the entire party! They had a little inflatable pool that Luke, Hattie and Ruby had a blast in, too.















For dinner, we had pizza and wings. Yum! After dinner we went inside for the traditional fish pond. The kids got a bag of candy, a chocolate bunny and a new beach towel.



Then we went back outside for the Easter egg hunt. Once Ruby figured out what to do, she loved that part.





The kids went back to playing while I made cotton candy. What a fun mess that was as strands of cotton candy were flying around and getting all over us! The best part was when we first plugged in the machine and it tripped the breaker to the inflatables. Quick! It's going to crush the kids! Happy to report, no children were lost.







The rest of the night was filled with more playing and snacking on dessert! What a fun time everyone had.

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One night we came home from date night and found that Libby had literally read herself to sleep. So cute.

Birthday, Track

I feel like I am so far behind, but then feel like I don't have anything to update!Brian had his birthday on the 2nd. He spent it at Eliaz's track meet. We gave him presents that evening and now I can't even remember what we gave him! I think we got him some dress pants, a belt and some books. It's pretty uneventful when you turn 32.

Eliza has had a few track meets lately. She's been doing high jump at all of them and has been doing great. Her PR is 1.10m. She also got her PR on the 100 (16.86) and 200 (36.90) at the big Phoenix Invitation she had at the beginning of the month. At that meet, she medaled in high jump, getting third place. The two girls in front of her were from California and Texas. We are excited for her to compete in state next month.

Lemon Cake

A couple weeks ago for our family home evening treat, Eliza chose lemon cake. I found a recipe on Tasty Kitchen and it turned out really yummy. It's called Extreme Lemon Cake. It reminded me a lot of the super duper yummy lemon cake they have at Costco.

p.s. I am WAY behind on posting. I have been SO busy lately with young women stuff, track, life, etc. etc. I hope to get caught up soon on things like Brian's birthday, General Conference, etc.

Kite Day

A couple of weeks ago, Libby's class had kite day at school. Her class flew kites one afternoon and parents were invited to come help. Well, I gave her the option of me coming and my dad watching the three little girls or she could have Grandpa come fly kites with her. Almost immediately she said she wanted him to go fly kites with her. So that afternoon, my mom came over and hung out with me and my dad went and flew kites with Libby. Surprisingly only my dad and Chrystalyn were the only parents to show up. But Libby had a blast (I think my dad had fun, too) and they got the kite up really high!




When my dad got back to my house, Ellie, Hattie and Ruby joined in on the kite flying fun.