Forever Young

Monday, April 6, 2015

A visit from my dad and Easter

My dad came to visit for a few days. We played games, made s'mores, went to the park and went fishing. It was lots of fun.

Lil' buddies.

My dad with Libby.

Morgan planned to shoot off his rockets that he put together himself but they ended up not working. The kids enjoyed watching him set everything up though.

Easter morning.

Easter Egg hunt with Chris, Kareena, Ty and Libby.

It was General Conference weekend where we were able to hear our Prophet speak as well as some of the leaders of the church. The kids did so well during conference.

Noel drew a picture for the Easter Bunny. It says "THANK YOU FOR EGGS" (She gets mixed up with the "th" and "sh" but this was the first time she's ever written something out completely on her own. I love watching her progress.) Isn't this just too cute!?

Sam diving into the blanket cupboard.

Making "Empty Tomb Rolls" with the kids. These are the coolest and so easy! You roll marshmallows in melted butter, then dip it in cinnamon sugar, and place it in crescent roll dough, sealing all edges and then dipping the top of the dough into the butter and then cinnamon sugar (pretty much creating a cinnamon roll with a marshmallow inside). The marshmallow represent Jesus, the crescent roll dough represents the tomb and after these are baked, the roll (tomb) is empty and the marshmallow is no longer there, therefore representing the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Spring is here!

A few weeks ago or so my brother, Mikey, came over for a family dinner. Before dinner we all played in the backyard. It was a blast as you can tell.

I absolutely love this picture of my guys!

Chris throwing Libby up in the air!

Here is a picture of my brother Chris chasing Samuel with his Bazooka Elbow. Chris would do this to my siblings and I all the time while growing up. Notice the next 3 pictures. The last one I think Sam tripped or something but these next three pictures are HILARIOUS to see in consecutive order:)

I'm an Activity Days Leader for the 8-11 year old girls at church and at this particular activity, the girls were learning about First Aid and such and Sam and Noel were both used to show what to do in certain situations. In this picture, Sam is "choking" and is supposed to be a baby and the teacher was showing what to do to the baby if he/she is choking. I love how he just hung is arms over her lap.

More sports camp pictures. On this particular day he did hockey.

Fun in the sun with the kiddos in the backyard.

They also had a picnic in the backyard.

We've had a couple warmer days to where Chris turned the sprinklers on for the kiddos.

Sam, for I'd say 3 weeks or so, was sick with 2-3 different sicknesses, one of them being Fifth's Disease (a.k.a Slapped Cheeks Disease). This is how his rash progressed. It was pretty terrible looking on his face.

The kids with their Daddy building rockets.

This is a picture of my arm after I clamped it in the stroller as I unfolded it to use for a walk. It hurt bad!

St. Patricks Day. Noel had a fun little party at preschool on this particular day:)

Another day of Sports Camp.

Mr. Smiley.

Noel likes to walk her "baby" (Lamb-y) in her stroller/buggy during some of our walks. She is such a good little mom.

Sam receiving his medal from finishing sports camp.

My happy Sam. He absolutely loved sports camp.

Ok, so why do I have a picture of a bunch of random car seats you ask? Well, I'm what they call a "Helicopter Mom". I hover over my children probably a little too much and I cushion them in life a little too much. Which car seat do you think is Noel's (this picture is a picture of Noel's and her preschool classmates car seats before a field trip they were going to take).