Brett and Jaron

This is a layout I did of Brett and Jaron with some pictures that Andrea sent me that she took on Easter. Isn't it adorable? I love this kit! Wish I could claim as my own. One of these days I'll get our Easter pictures scrapped and then I will finish telling you about Easter. It was actually quite fun even though it snowed. Stay tuned for more info later.

Mother's Day

Part of my Mother's Day gift from the boys this year was them re-planting my whiskey barrell planter. It looks much better as you can see from the before and after pictures on the left. Tyrel also had the wonderful thought to get me solar lights for my flower beds. I love them! The back yard is looking so nice this year with all the ground cover filling in. I'll write more later when I scrap the rest of the pictures.

More from Spring Break

I think I finally finished my photos from Spring Break. I just did this layout today with our shopping pictures from the mall. Travis and Tyrel love shopping for cool clothes. Maybe it will motivate them to get a job this summer so they can afford more clothes. They found a great deal on hoodies and both just "Had to have one or two"!

Spring Break

K, I am such a slacker at blog posting lately and I really don't have an excuse because with the new help at the office, things have slowed down for me and I have been done with work by 6 or 6:30 every night for the last week and a half and it is so nice to not have to work until 11 or even 1:00 in the morning like I had been doing. All of that in addition to the regular life of a mother of 3 boys.

For Spring Break a couple of weeks ago, my boys really wanted to go to Cedar City to spend time with their cousins. Heidi and I came up with all kinds of grandiose plans, but they just wanted to hang out, play Guitar Hero, go to the pool, a movie, and the mall. So, that is what we did. I don't have all of the photos I took scrapped yet, but here are a few.

Trevin spent almost the entire time at the pool trying to get across the lily pads. He was determined and did make it all the way across quite a few times. I think it was his favorite part of the pool.

This is a 2 page spread of Travis diving from the edge of the pool. They were having a triathalon at the pool so the one side was closed off most of the time so they only got in about 10 minutes of diving from the edge and from the diving boards. I guess we picked a bad day to go to the pool.

Here are a couple more of Travis basically just being a dork, but I love him anyway! At least I got photos of something other than "the hand" which is what I usually get from him lateley when I try to take a picture.

We went to the mall where Travis and Tyrel totally spent their last paychecks on clothes. We went and saw the movie "Taken" which was really good. Most of the time we just hung out and visited and it was fun! Thanks for being hostess Heidi, I was glad to be able to leave work for a couple days and relax and visit with you.

Easter Morning treasure hunt

For Easter this year, the boys were sure they were going to get the new Guitar Hero World Tour set. Unfortunately, Sean and I waited too long to shop and coudn't find one in the stores anywhere. So, being creative like we are (LOL) we got them each a gift card to Wal Mart so they could get it when they had some more in. So, back to Easter morning. The boys searched the house for eggs. The Easter bunny usually hides them all in just one room but since they are older now, I decided to tell the Easter bunny to hide them outside, but since it rained, the Easter bunny setttled for hiding them all over upstairs in all the rooms. This really threw them off because they weren't used to searching so hard. Back to the gift, they knew it came in a big box and couldn't find a big box anywhere. We told them that it was in the living room so they were searching behind and under couches and anywhere that they could think of with no luck. (We had put the gift cards under the grass in their baskets). We played the hot and cold game and they couldn't figure it out still, so they asked for clues, so I found a scripture that had to do with a basket and gave them the reference to all look up. They had a scripture chase, read the scripture and STILL couldn't figure it out. Finally one of them dumped out their eggs and grass and found the card. It was hilarious. I decided that next year I'm going to do a treasure hunt with scriptures for their gifts again. It made Easter Sunday at least a little more spiritual since that is what it should be anyway.

Daddy Daughter Date

The MiaMaids were in charge of the April combined YW activity. We had decided we wanted to do a daddy daughter date back in January when we knew it was our turn. Problem was, my president turned 16 in March and moved into th Laurel class and they didn't get my new presidency put in during March and not during April either. So that left me and the advisors in charge of the activity. I thought it would be fun for the dad's if we went golfing. So, I called Tracy Zobell at Gladstan and asked if it would be ok for a bunch of giggling girls and their dads to come hit some buckets of balls and play on the putting green.

I made the invitations and got them out to the girls. We had them make a picnic meal for their dad's (I think Subway was glad we had a party that night). We met at the church and ate our meals on the lawn and then headed up to the golf course to play around.

I took pictures of the girls with their dads in our golf cart and they just goofed off and had fun. It was fun to listen to the dads teach their girls how to golf. They were all giving different and varied advice.

Here are some of the girls with their great golf form!

These are some of the shots with the girls and their dads on the golf cart.

Here are just some random shots of the girls and their fathers.

This was one of my favorite talks from conference last weekend and it was from one of my favorite speakers. Hope you had a happy Easter!