Spring Break

Wow I really let this get away from me again! Lets catch up. 

The last week of March was spring break so we left Woods Cross in a snow storm and drove to warm St. George. We stayed at Carly's house and the kids had a blast with their cousins.

Here we are at the Children's Museum. We love this place!

Then we hit the pool. Emma loved the big slide and all my kids loved the lazy river. Thanks Uncle Jeff for tossing my kids around and taking Emma down the slide! Uncles are the best!!

My favorite day was spending time in Zion National Park. It was a bit chilly when we first got there (we needed to jackets). It was even snowing just a bit too, even though the sun was out. But it eventually warmed up. The only bummer was they their ice cream machine was broken and we had to postpone our promise to the kids. (Bribery to get them to finish the hike) We hike the lower and middle pools of Emerald falls and the Overlook. Zion was beautiful as always. Thank you Uncle Jeff for getting us there early, it was busy.

We wore them out!

Our last full day we went to two parks (because it was so nice) and had lunch at Red Robin.

Thanks for letting us come crash at your house Carly, Jeff, Owen and Dylan. We love you!

Happy Easter

Easter was early this year - the last Sunday in March. I had fun learning how to dye eggs the Czech way with my friend Val and her sister. Val lived in the Czech Republic for a couple of years. It involves melting crayons and wax and putting that on your egg first and coloring it. So fun and some of them even turned out cute. Then we had an Easter Egg Hunt with some friends. This was so much for more fun then going over to the school for the city egg hunt. No one cried and everyone got 10 eggs. The kids really enjoyed and I think we will expand this to more families next year. Easter Sunday was fast Sunday for us so it was great to be able to bear testimony of the Resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ. We also took the kids up to see Grandpa Lavenders headstone and to remember him and to remind the kids that we will see him again. Then we had dinner at Grandma Van Bibber's house with another egg hunt. These kids are spoiled!

The Neighborhood Egg Hunt

My Czech eggs

Coloring eggs

The Easter Bunny found these cute kids.

 

The kids were checking out all of our names on the back.

We love Grandpa!

Marvel Universe Live

 I forgot to post that in February Quinn took Emma and James to see Marvel Universe Live. It is a live show like Disney on Ice but with all the Marvel Universe comic book characters.

Ready to go!! 

Thor

Loki

Captain American helping an old woman.

Iron Man and Pepper Potts 

Quinn said there were lots of motorcycle stunts for some reason.

 Quinn said it was entertaining and the kids had fun.

What a great Dad!