Easter

One of my favorite parts of Easter is coloring Easter eggs.  It used to be such a pain with little kids but my kids are big enough now that I can actually enjoy it.  My older 2 must not think the same way I do since they did not participate in the egg coloring activity.  Jessie and Luke had a blast and got creative:)

 Easter morning, the kids have to find their baskets and the night before Luke says tell the Easter Bunny to hide my basket really hard.  So thats exactly what he did.  It took them at  least 20 min to find their baskets, we finally had to start saying warm, warmer, hot, hot, hot:) 

 Our finished product!:)

 Then off to a big wet Easter egg hunt and bbq!  Yes it was a rainy day but that didn't stop the kids from finding lots and lots of hidden eggs:) 

 Megan was the life saver for some because she took the little ones on the hunt:)

 And Taylor, well lets just say he is to old for easter egg hunts so he was being a man with the men!:)

Another Birthday!

Taylor turned 17 on April 13th!  I can't believe I have kids driving and almost ready to fly the coop.  It blows me away.  He is a very good boy:)  Poor kid got superman underwear and a little mermaid gift bag with a left over easter basket that had kids chalk and bubbles and some candy!:)  His real gift was hidden inside the basket.  a gift card for headphones he had been saving up for:)

Glen hit the BIG 40!

Glen turned 40 years old on April 5th.  I wanted to make a big deal out of it but things just were not falling into place for me.  Thankfully we had a few friends who were able to come and help us celebrate this big event!

 All he wanted was a big juicy steak!  so thats what he got.

Playing Catch Up
I have been very bad at posting anything since Glen has been home so now that I have procrastinated a few months it's time to catch up on winter.

I love to take pictures in the winter, I guess it's because we think of winter as boring and dreadfully long so I thought I would try and capture the beauty.
 

We did not have much snow this winter so trying to find something to do in a small town can be challenging.  Luke and Jessie of course love the Maine jump!
 

This is what little snow we had and it didn't last to long so I had to take the kids to the nearest hill for some skiing and snowboarding before the rains came and melted it all.
 

Luke got this snowboard for Christmas, he's a natural!
 

Taylor of course had to try the skiis and the snowboard:) That he was way to big for!
 

Megan like to stand around and watch:)
 

One of the elders serving in our area couldn't wait to do some service and teaching Taylor how to wax his snowboard was the funnest service he did while his companions shoveled my driveway.  They had some help, Luke was also pretty good at shoveling:)
 

Just enough snow for a couple of snowpeople and a little bit of sledding when the dog wasn't trying to eat the sled:)