Easter Time

We had a good Easter weekend. I've never taken my kids to an Easter egg hunt before where other kids were out hunting eggs, we always just do one in our backyard, but this year I decided I'd take them to the one sponsered by Kaysville City. The hunt started at 10 a.m. sharp, and it said don't be late! So I made a special effort to get there on time (or so I thought). I thought by leaving at 9:45 we'd be alright, it was only at the park downtown, so we get to the stoplight right before the park, and traffic is backed up for a block or two. There were a ton of cars and as we get closer we see the huge amount of people out on the fields. Okay, so we weren't the only ones with this idea! Well I dropped Dave and the kids off at the front of the park and I went to find a parking spot. Luckily I saw one close by on the road. When I got to the field, I looked hard to spot Dave and the kids. They just barely made it there before the countdown, but unfortunately they were in the wrong age group. There were 3 age groups on 3 fields, and Dave picked the oldest age group (8 and up I think). They had two other groups (0-3) and (4-6) either of them would've been better. But they tried to race against the big kids, and ended up with no eggs! Dave actually lost Kera in the commotion, and she was by herself with big kids running all around her. I can just imagine her there screaming and crying. A couple kids were nice enough to help her and one actually gave her their big chocolate bunny. So the time was up and Dave and the kids came out. I couldn't even get in there to help them with all the people. So they came out and the kids were very upset. This didn't go as well as we hoped. But they gave everyone a stuffed animal on the way out, so Kera got a little stuffed lamb that she was happy about. While we were walking out a boy even gave Kera quite a few of his eggs out of his basket. So they had some candy by the end. And with our own hunt and the easter baskets the easter bunny brought them, they aren't hurting for candy by any means. We learned our lesson about getting there EARLY if we decide to go to this egg hunt again. (If the kids aren't scarred from it already).

So later on Saturday Dave's sister Carrie and her husband Travis came over. We had our yearly backyard egg hunt and we dyed some eggs, then had a BBQ. So most of our easter stuff was done on Saturday. on Sunday we just stayed home and relaxed from the day before.

Here are a few pictures from our backyard hunt and some on Easter Sunday. Hope you all had a great Easter this year!

Swimming fun

Here are some pictures of Kera, Maya, and aunt Cheri swimming at the South Jordan rec center. It was our niece Cora's 2nd birthday party and they had it at the rec center. The kids had a blast swimming in the large pool, but they didn't get a chance to swim for very long because after we had dinner and birthday cake, they went out to swim, and about 15 minutes later the employees made everyone get out of the pool. They were closing the pool down because one of the lights fell into the pool and it was a safety hazard. Or maybe they just wanted to close early and get out of there early on a Saturday night! They had fun for those few minutes though! Aunt Cheri was nice enough to take Kera down the hippo slide because she was afraid to go by herself.

Flashback Friday!!

So I really think this is a fun idea, and the past few fridays have come and gone and I've forgotten to post a picture. Here's a couple pictures of my family growing up. One is a basic Olan Mills portrait, and the other one is from a ward Halloween party one year. You can tell that the family portrait was taken back in the 80's (I believe 1986 cuz I was about 8) because of my dad's moustache and the feathered hairdos.

In the halloween one we have Staci (the clown), Chris (the cowboy), Jeff (Charlie Chaplin), Mom (train conductor), Cheri (the witch), Dad (the hillbilly?) and baby Tommy (Casper the Friendly Ghost)

Good times!!

BTW-(The pictures are really small, so if you click on them it will enlarge them for you)

I don't know why the layout ends up like this with the white background when I upload scanned pictures, but oh well, I'm no computer whiz!

Kera puts on a show

Sorry for the lapse in blog posts. I could blame it on the fact that I'm pregnant and therefore have been unable to get on the computer quite so frequently, but really it's because I've been lazy. I decided to get the camera out the other day and do some videos of Kera so everyone can see how this little girl entertains me on a daily basis. She is getting much more outgoing and loves to have the spotlight on her, as long as she's not in front of a big group. I guess I should say she loves to have my attention on her at all times. I can see myself enrolling her in a dance class very soon. Here is a day in the life of Kera Noelle. Reminder: To stop the music that's playing in the background, just scroll down to the music list at the bottom of the blog and click on the stop button.

Flashback Friday
I've seen this done on other people's blog, and thought it would be fun to start doing it as well. Every Friday you post a picture from the past. I thought one of Jacob when he was a baby would be fun because he was so chubby when he was little, and a lot of people didn't get to see him when he was a baby because we lived in Texas. My cousin Emily posted a picture of her youngest boy Jack, on her blog. She titled it "Jack the Tank" and he's a solid little boy right now at almost a year. Here are some shots of Jacob as a baby accentuating his chubbiness.

The layouts on these pictures is all messed up because the pictures are taken before I had a digital camera and I had to scan these into the computer. The one of Jacob in the swing was at Chris and Jen's in Las Vegas and he was 6 months old. The one of him in the crib is when he was only two months old, and the last one of him sitting up he's 7 months old.

Dave and I on our iceskating date
When I was pulling up the classic skating pictures with the kids I realized that I never posted pictures of our double date with our friends Jeremy and Heidi Kjar to the Gallivan Center, an outdoor ice rink in Salt Lake. We went back in December and we had a great time getting out on the ice and skating around. It had been quite awhile since Dave and I had been ice skating together. We went back in Provo when we were first married. Here are some photos from our ice skating adventure.

This is me being a dork and attempting a turn on the ice. There's a cute picture of my friend Heidi and I on her blog, but my battery died and I didn't get a shot on my camera.

Trip to Classic Fun Center

My sister, Cheri,and I made plans to take our kids to Classic Fun Center in Sandy on Monday for the President's Day holiday. She didn't have to work, and both of our husbands did, so we thought it would be fun to get together with the kids and take them to Classic. It was my first time going, and I was impressed with all they had to do for the kids there. They have a big bounce zone area, and there's a new Jungle play area that seemed fun. Jacob and Maya had a good time going through it. Kera probably wouldn't have enjoyed it, and she probably would have tried to get me to go through it with her. Not a good idea for a pregnant woman who still gets a bit queazy to crawl around on my hands and knees and try to squeeze in tight spaces. They also had a laser tag that Zane and Zach had fun with. But the part that Kera enjoyed the most was the skating! It was her first experience with roller skates. She got Barbie rollerskates, which I'm sure made all the difference. They were the Fisher Price kind that slip on over your shoes. So they were really easy to skate around on. She didn't want to take them off! She was such a big girl and wanted to skake all by herself. She wouldn't even let me hold her hand most of the time. Yes, Cheri and I sported some rollerskates, and yes it's been quite awhile for both of us. I have to say I much prefer rollerblades, or even iceskates over those four wheeled ancient skates. I guess I could've rented rollerblades if I really wanted to, I just didn't think it would be that big of a difference. Anyway, the kids all skated and had a great time, except poor Jacob. It was his first experience with rollerskates as well, and we didn't get him the Fisher Price kind, it was the real deal for him. He could not stay up for the life of him, poor kid. It's probably my fault for not exposing him to rollerskates at an earlier age. We've just never bought our kids skates.
Jacob and Kera had a great time playing with their cousins and aunt Cheri. Thanks for the invite Cheri. And thank you also for buying the pizza. I don't think I ever thanked you for that. And I didn't intend on you buying it either, but thanks! Here are some pictures of the day on the rink.