Spring Break

We headed up to Utah for Spring Break. We left our nice beautiful weather and were welcomed with this..... Snow!?! for Spring Break it's just not right. Besides freezing we still had a good time. While we were there we enjoyed.........

plenty of trampoline time,

harrowing the horse pastures for grandpa,

endless hours of piano "playing,"

the Children's Museum and Plantarium,

countless trips through the "forest" on the way to grandma Beck Becks house,

Dyed Easter eggs with Great-Grandma Mary

participated in multiple egg hunts,

helped Grandpa at the barn,


roasted a few hot dogs and peeps,



"watched" General Conference,

and played with the baby chicks!

After all was said and done we had a great time as always!

Race Day

Our family participated in a 5K and a 1 mile fun run for the elementary school. Austin, Easton and I did the 5K and Matt helped the girls with the 1 mile fun run. The girls were so excited! Sami woke up that morning and ran into our room and shouted "It's race day!" The boys were less enthusiastic, but they did an amazing job.

Sami was a little upset that she was not doing the big race, but after she completed her mile she said that she was happy with that! She ran the entire way and met up with a preschool friend and had a blast. Ava did amazing, with a little help from Matt. She said she was a runner now! They were so excited that they recieved medals at the end. They wore them for the entire day!

The boys did a fantastic job with the 5K. The last one that they ran was last summer, so it has been a while. All they wanted to do was to beat their old time which they did by about a minute. They took off strong at the beginning and it took me a while to catch up with them. By mile 1.5 they had hit the wall. With a little encouragement and pulling they kept going.

(Holly, Amanda, Brooke, Bonnie, Danielle, Kelly and Suzanna)

(Ava, Sami, Paris, Easton, Jack and Austin)

They were excited when they saw the finish line and were able to finish strong. They decided that they need to do this more than once a year in order to get better. "Race Day" turned out great and it was exciting to see the kids so excited about their accomplishment.

Saturday Adventure

Now that Matt is finished with all of his major school stuff (YEA) he is around a lot more, including all day Saturday. We decided to head out to a little ghost town called Nelson. The boys were hoping to get some rabbit shooting in, but that didn't happen. We stopped in the town of Nelson to look around for a while. There was a lot of great old stuff to look at and explore.

After that we headed further down the road to the Colorado River. Complete with some rock throwing,

wrist rocket practice,

wading in the river,

a few minutes of swimming,

(it's amazing how far a few dollars go in childhood bribery)

and some hiking.It is strange to have the entire day together as a family again after what seems like forever in school. I think I could get used to this!

Kid Pics

It is always such a fun filled (by fun filled I mean begging, pleading and unfortunately some yelling) adventure to get pictures done....... but they did turn out pretty cute.