Easter

We had a nice Easter. On Saturday we went to the city's Easter Egg hunt. Later that day we dyed eggs (while Thomas and Grandpa Z. were wiring the basement). We then went to a family party (and another egg hunt). I took a ton of pictures, and they all turned out really cute. I decided to only post the Easter Sunday dress pictures. We had a lot of fun and egg hunts, parties, dying eggs, but we tried really hard to teach the kids the real reason we celebrate Easter. Hailey, Kinley and Kaden ready for Church

Had to have a silly picture

Kinley

Hailey

Kaden

Happy Birthday Christine (late)

Happy Birthday Christine!

We are going to Aaron and Amy's to Celebrate Christine, Callan and Amy's birthday on Sunday. I was going to wait until then to do a group post, but I decided not to. Christine is 12 now. She was given a life expectancy of 2-3 years old. She is so sweet and such a fighter. Happy Birthday Christine! Hope your day was great! (your mom said you had a GREAT day!)

I love this picture with you and your dad. He really loves you, you are a lucky girl to have the family you have!

Yes, another pet....

Introducing....LIZZIE. Lizzie is Hailey's bearded dragon. Kaden has one, his name is Spike. Awhile back we noticed that in the lizard cages at pet stores, the bearded dragons actually lay on each other. We decided that Spike needed a little friend. Hailey has been begging for a blue and black frog, so we decided to see if she would go for a lizard instead, since we were going to be getting one anyway. She did! yea! Lizzie is pretty cool. She has orange marking on her, I haven't seen another with that much color. Anyway, Lizzie has joined the ranks with us. Hailey with Lizzie
Spike and Lizzie. Spike is growing so dang fast! The lady at the pet store said they reach 18 inches or so by 1 year old. He has been shedding 2 times a month!

Hailey and Kaden with their lizards in front of the new lizard cage.

Up close and personal with Spike and Kaden.

On a somewhat sad note, our fish tank is on KSL classifieds. We will miss it, but Thomas just doesn't have time for it. We have had a fish tank now for 6 years.

We're going to catch a Leprechaun!!

When Hailey was in first grade, her teacher had an assignment to make a Leprechaun trap. Kaden LOVED the idea. Now, a year later, he has come up with HIS Leprechaun trap. It is a garbage sack box covered in red tape (because if the Leprechaun saw that it was a garbage sack, there is no way he would go in...ya know.) The top has 3 sides of a square cut out, so that if he steps on that part of the box, he falls in. He has put grass all on the top, and a pot of gold made out of play-doh and the fake gold coins...you know, the bait...to lure him in. (LOL) Well, that wasn't good enough. Once he is caught, he has to have stuff inside! So, he lined the bottom with the red tape for carpet, made a couch and a bed with a pillow. He still has plans to make a TV and some shelves. Don't worry, he has already figured out we don't have books small enough, so he will be making some. I am hoping Easter will distract him!

Paper Bag scrapbooks

My friend Kim is very talented. I asked her to make Hailey a paper bag scrapbook for her baptism. She did a fabulous job! You can check out her scrapbook ordering site here. Here are some pictures of it for all of you to see. I only took pictures of the pages that I had put a picture on. I need to print off pictures to finish it up. Thanks Kim!!

Holy Birthdays!

I have realized that I have a HUGE family. I think starting in April, I am going to have to do a flock shot birthday shout-out!

I haven't blogged much but birthdays because not much but birthdays have been going on. Thomas just got back from San Fransisco on a business trip. Hailey and Kaden are just busy with homework and tumbling. Kinley is on a 2 month long annoying spell...and I am contemplating taking a weightlifting class at the high school. (It's a women's weight lifting class, continuing ed class that runs from April 14 for 9 weeks..mon and wed night..830-930...im telling you all that info in case you want to join us...yeah, I got Tiffany to go...she already said a yes ;) I spent a few hours outside this weekend cleaning out a tiny part of my flower garden. I am trying to get all the junk that winter brings cleaned up and the beds ready for flowers as soon as they can get in! (I hate having to clean it up when I could be planting!)

So, there ya have it...a boring update :)

Happy Birthday Jessica!

Happy Birthday Jessica! Jess is one of my sister-in-laws. Her most horrifying memory of me was when Brandon brought her over to our house for the first time. It was during a time in my life that I was trying to train my face to have a dimple. (yeah, don't ask!) I saw hers, came running down the stairs...yelled OH MY GOSH, SHE HAS DIMPLES!! Then, I touched them. Yeah, I invaded her personal space...and have been ever since :)