Spring

You wouldn't know it was spring from looking outside right now, but we did actually have a few weeks of nice weather. We took advantage and spent tons of time outside in the neighborhood, at parks, riding bikes...the kids were even running around on grass in bare feet and Ian was cruising around outside with his walker. Now we're back under 6 inches of snow, but I'm hoping it won't last long. Here are some pics of the last few weeks.


The kids love Ryan's Place park. It really wasn't warm enough for shorts this day but Seth insisted. He would wear "ba-et-ball" shorts everyday if he could...and he usually does even if he starts out in something else.


You may see a lot of this hat in our summer pics. He won't keep it on without the strap. Ian has white skin and white hair, so it's a necessity.


Ian was totally amazed by the ducks at First Dam.

It doesn't take much to entertain boys. These soon became swords to fight each other.

The Sunday before Easter. Seth was nice enough to share his candy from nursery.

This vest caused major issues before church. Seth did not want to wear it at all. In fact, he refused and threw a huge fit (I'm talking sobbing) and then ripped it off. I did convince him to put it on for one picture after church.

The boys spend lots of time roughhousing with Jer. We have nightly wrestling, basketball, or football games at our house.

Easter was great. We had such a fun day eating, playing, and watching General Conference. Practically every talk was about parental responsibilities and teaching our children. Yikes! They were great talks and definitely gave me a lot to think about and try to implement. It's Spring Break so the boys got to stay over at grandma's house which they love!

A break in the weather and an Easter egg hunt at grandma's house. My mom had a cute treasure hunt that went along with the Easter egg hunt. Luke could read all the clues himself this year!

They were quite a bit more successful this time than at our neighborhood hunt. My backyard neighbor puts on this really elaborate Easter egg hunt. She had like 800 eggs, huge prizes, pinatas, eggs to dye, cotton candy, you name it. (We also dyed eggs at home but Seth + cups of colored dye = chaos, so I was too busy to take any pics. Luke became a fan of the hard boiled egg but Seth not so much.) Anyway, the hunt was practically in our backyard so we left Ian napping and walked over. I went back to check on him and in the meantime the hunt started. When I got back Luke and Seth were both kind of wandering around looking lost. When they came over Luke had three eggs and Seth had one, and they were pretty much gone! There were kids with baskets overflowing. I felt bad looking at their pitiful little baskets, but they didn't take it too hard. In fact, Luke gave Seth one of his and they seemed content. On the way out Alisha gave Luke a huge wrapped Easter basket which he was also nice enough to share with Seth. Luke told Jer, "we sure didn't find very many eggs." That was an understatement.

Good times. We're headed off on a little adventure here in a few days, so I figured I better post before I get too behind.