Easter Egg Hunt

Every year out here there is an Easter egg hunt the Saturday morning before Easter. It is held at the park and fair grounds. There are different age groups in different areas. It works out pretty well that way.
Ryker was so funny while we were waiting for the hunt to begin. I thought he looked so cute with his turtle basket upside down on his head.

Nope, he's not reaching down for an egg here. He pretty much lost interest in the egg hunt when he realized that there was sand to be played with.

Kyler was in the oldest kids group this year for the first time!

Wow! I can't believe he's getting so big.

You'd never know that Corden made a haul on the egg hunt seeing this sour look on his face. He even got a prize egg and won this book and cassette tape (the crummy look is because there was also a toy gun on the table for a prize for someone else and he wanted it!) What a stinker!

This miniature horse and buggy was what the Easter Bunny came to the park in! After the hunt was over, the kids got to go for a ride too! They had so much fun!

I WON!

So I totally won this fabulous key fob!!
I found this awesome blog one night while blog hopping. The woman that does this blog is amazing! She is so crafty. I love checking her blog to see what new things she will do. I was on her blog one day and she had made a bunch of these cute key fobs and she was doing a giveaway. So I left her a comment because I totally wanted to try to win one! I never thought I actually would, but I did! I was so excited. I just got it in the mail a few days ago and I love it. I can't wait to use it the next time I go to town.

Traci, Thank You So Much for my new and totally adorable key fob!

ps: I have started on a project and will be having a giveaway of my own soon! Keep checking in for more information!!!

Spring Break Road Trip

We wanted to go on a road trip for spring break this year.
We weren't exactly sure where we were going to go when we started out.
We just flew by the seats of our pants and decided along the way!

This is Delicate Arch at Arches National Park in Southern Utah.

This is what Stan did on our trip:

Drive - Drive - and then drive some more!

This is what I did on the trip:

Read the Map - Read the Map - and then read the map some more!

This is what the kids did on the trip:

(Picture kinda speaks for itself!)

We found three lizards on our trip. The first two were the same color as the dirt and are kind of hard to see in the pictures.

So I chose to put this guy on our blog for your viewing pleasure. I think he enjoyed getting his photo taken. He just sat there and let us take as many pictures as we wanted. What a nice little lizard.

Stan, Kyler and Corden climbed up into the hole in this rock.

This was their silly picture. I think it's really cute!

Ryker walked and walked and walked until he got to this beautiful site!

It was quite a hike and he did it all by himself.

He's such an independent little bugger!

Kyler, Corden and Ryker at the back of Balancing Rock.







This is the view from the front of Balancing Rock.
And these are my boys balancing on rocks at Balancing Rock!

I am so glad for people who offer to take pictures for you so that you can have at least one picture with your whole family while on vacation.

Stan was taking a picture of me with the boys and this nice girl asked if he wanted to be in the picture with the family. I love it!

What a fun trip! We stayed in motels along the way and the boys loved playing in the swimming pools and soaking in the hot tubs at each one. We stopped just outside of Moab and let Kyler and Corden put some red dirt in baggies to show their classes for show and tell. They were excited about that. You just don't see red dirt where we come from!

We're home now and I guess it's back to normal life again, you know, where you sleep in your own bed, you cook your own meals, and you walk places instead of driving to each place!

Now that I think about it.... I hope our next vacation comes soon!

Brownies - YUM!

I needed to make brownies to take to mutual tonight for brownie sundaes.

Kyler was at school and Ryker was taking his nap so Corden and I got to make them together, just the two of us. Corden loves to help out in the kitchen.

I think he's going to be a wonderful cook someday.

The girls will love that!

He cracked four eggs in the bowl and we didn't have to retrieve any egg shells.

He was really excited about that!

Such a cute little mixer man!


Now he's just making sure he got everything off of the sides of the bowl mixed in.



And the finished product...
Two perfect pans of brownies!

Who doesn't love chewy, chocolatey, brownie goodness?!

And yes, I did promise to leave some home for Stan and the boys to eat!

I think he was the most excited about that!

This is what Ryker and I do every Monday morning from 10:00 - 11:00 at our library. It's called Little Listeners. They start off singing the name song. It goes like this:
We'll have a happy day today no matter what the weather
We like to sing our names this way because we are together
This is __________, and this is ___________, and this is ____________.
Each child fills in their name as the teacher goes around the circle, filling in the blanks. Then they sing some more songs followed by some stories. Each Monday there is a different theme. Today's theme was Spring. After stories the kids go over to the tables to do crafts.

The first craft was a paper to color and then put cotton balls on the cloud.

These are all of the kids in the group. (That's right, three tables pretty much full!) And a bunch of mommies too!

The second craft they did was make a wind sock. The kids colored them and put stickers on them, and the moms helped staple the crepe paper on. Ryker thought he could just put his inside, but they didn't stay when he lifted it up.

Then when crafts are done everyone picks out some books to check out and read at home. Ryker really likes checking out the toot-toot books. ("Train" for those who might not know what a toot-toot is.) I love having this opportunity for Ryker to enjoy. What a wonderful community we live in!

Crayon Rolls

These little bundles of awesomeness are called crayon rolls. I found them one night while blog hopping and just had to have some.
The tutorial told how to make the smaller one for the crayons. I made a couple of them and they turned out so cute! I like the kids to use crayola twistables at church so I wanted to have a couple crayon rolls to put them in as well. So I added one inch in height to each of the pieces and they fit perfectly!

How amazingly cool are these things?!

I picked out three different fabrics that I liked and a bunch of ribbon and ric rac to match.

If you would like to make one of these just let me know and I can let you know what you need to do or where you can find the tutorial for them. This was a very easy sewing project. Exactly how I like my sewing projects to be! Anyone can make these, I promise.

Our Elders Quorum Pinewood Derby The Woody El Camino
The Boys and Stan worked together to build this fabulous specimine. Now those are some serious car building skills!

The track

The Big Race

Even though they didn't win, it was still a blast! Congrats to the fam on the big race!