Spring Break in St. George...well actually Hurricane!

It has become a little tradition that during Spring Break we go down to Hurricane and visit Corey, Jessica, and Colin. We love hanging out with them and enjoying the nice weather and fun things to do down there.

On Thursday we just kind of hung out...Kacy, Corey, and Jessica all had to work. Friday we went to St. George and hiked Red Rock, went to Old Navy went furniture shopping with Jessica, ate dinner and of course got our Neilsen's frozen custard fix! On Saturday we went to Zion National Park. It was the first time we've done that, and it was a lot of fun. Sunday was Church, yummy food, and the drive home.

Our annual hike at "red rock"...the kids love climbing all over this cool place. Of course little Colin was fearless!
Look we have a BOY...just kidding Colin just didn't want to be left out of the picture.

Here we are at Zion. We hiked to the river...just behind us is where the Narrows ends.

Brynn is so cute and so funny! She set up this cute picture of her contemplating the beauty of the river.

Lucy on the hike. Yes, she insists on wearing a dress even when we are going hiking!

And Lucy also insisted that Kelsey wear a dress as well...I know what mother accomodates her four year old like this?! This is Kelsey on the trail, but she spent most of the hike in the backpack.

Everyone had so much fun playing in the river. Here they are finding rocks to throw in the river.

Here is a cute family picture of Corey and Jessica and Colin just off the trail. Baby Boy number two will join them in July!

Here is Mary pursing her new love of rollerskating on Corey and Jessica's street.

Kelsey and Colin are being so cute here on his little powerwheel, but don't let this fool you these two were at it our whole visit! It was actually pretty funny!

Easter

We had a wonderful Easter this year with all the usual traditions...dying Easter Eggs, finding baskets on Easter Morning (this year the EB had ryhming clues!), and an Easter Egg Hunt and dinner with the Kilpatrick Family. This year we enjoyed having General Confrence over Easter. We also had our first indoor Easter Egg Hunt due to all the SNOW we woke up to!

The girls holding up their favorite eggs!
Lucy's favorite Egg

Everyone worked so hard on their eggs. Kelsey sadly (okay not too sad) was asleep, so it made for very peaceful eye dying time...we didn't spill any of the cups of dye this year!

Brynn got very into it, you should have seen her hand by the end!

Kacy gets very into dying eggs, I guess it is an artisic outlet for him. Here are his masterpieces!

All the pretty eggs!

Documenting our snowy Easter morning!

Brynn and her basket

Lucy was so excited she got Princess and the Frog

What a beautiful Easter morning!

Kelsey finding her purple eggs, and saying "cheese" for the camera.

Lucy, looking for Eggs in her bedroom.

All the cousins after the Easter Egg Hunt!

Mary's 1st Piano Recital

On March 21st Mary had her first piano recital. She has been taking piano since last June, and seems to enjoy it...although getting her to practice is like pulling teeth! She is doing really well though, and although she was very nervous for her recital she played her songs perfectly!

On March 10th, the first grade had their "Under the Sea" program. Brynn had a few lines, and did an excellent job! She sang her little heart out as well. It was a lot of fun to watch her perform. Brynn with the fish she painted.
Brynn before the program started. That is Takoda on the right, he is in Brynn's class.

Brynn and her best pal Abby after the show!

Brynn right before we left for the show...she was so excited!

I decided I need to get out all these silly pictures that have been taken over the last month or so. My girls are great at being silly and coming up with funny things to entertain themselves with! Mary and Sidney dressing up crazy after watching the "why don't we just dance" video by Josh Turner.
Kelsey LOVES her babies...she is already a great little mom to them.

How funny is Kelsey in these glasses and Lucy's jean jacket?

The human head weighs 8lbs! Kelsey wearing Brynn's "fake" glasses.

Now Lucy taking a turn in the fake glasses!

Brynn is so proud...She "curled" Lucy's hair with the striaght iron.

I'm so lucky to have such cute girls! I especially love it when they get along!!!

In February the entire 3rd Grade went on an Ice Skating field trip. I was lucky enough to get to chaperone. It was a lot of fun. Mary is was so excited
Mary and one of her best friends Sydney Johnson

Mary's Class

California Trip...Part 3

Wednesday Corey and Jessica left, and then Katie and Boo left on Thursday morning. So it just left our family and the Mayeski family to hit Sea World on Thursday. It was only about an 1 1/2 hour drive from our condo. Sea World didn't have as much to do because it was off season (all of their rides are water rides), but we had a great time seeing the animal shows...which is the whole reason we wanted to go. The kids loved all the shows, and definetly experienced things they never had before.

The girls with "Shamu"
The dog trick show was very cute and a lot of fun. It almost made me consider getting a dog. Key words: almost and consider.

They thought the Sea Lion show was great...and it was. It is amazing what they can get them to do!

Of course the Shamu show was incredible, and the girls loved it. Here is our question though, ...who ever thought to do this!?! I know I'll just get in with this Killer Whale and train him to let me ride him...crazy stuff, but fun to watch!