Easter

We had a fun little Easter egg hunt with some of our cousins in Strawberry. It was a little rainy, but it didn't stop us from having fun.
Aunt Annette always decorates her cougar for the holidays!

 

Megan loved finding Easter eggs. She hid them at home and found them several times, then she'd sort her candy.

 

David was more into the sandbox and the dog than the eggs, but he found a few.

 

Tyler hid the eggs for us all to find. Guess he's too old for finding, but he did get a few small eggs that his mom hid some money in. Anna and Baylee and Megan had fun sorting out and eating all the candy. We are so blessed to have so many fun cousins!

 

Goodbye Van

Last month I said goodbye to my little minivan. It was a good little van... I really liked it, so I was pretty sad. Here's what happened:
Thursday morning, my 30th birthday, we had breakfast, got Anna off to school and David and Megan got ready. I was scheduled to voulunteer in Anna's class at 9:30, and a friend in the ward was watching David. Megan had an Easter party for preschool at the park at 9:30 also. So as always we were rushing out the door. I backed out of my driveway and asked Megan to buckle up. She tried to get buckled, but her booster seat slid out from under her. I was about half of a football feild down my road and I turned to help push the booster seat back up. The van kept going apperantly in the direction of off the road into the fence. It is a pretty steep side off the road, and my Dad has a metal pipe fence around his water trough. I had just enough time to turn back around realize what was happening and feel my heart jump out of my chest. A neighbor actually heard the crash and came running out of her house to check on us. We were all ok. Megan was in the seat next to the side door and window, and she got some cuts from the glass. I didn't even see them at first, she was to panicked to let me look at her much. She jumped out of the van and screamed "I'm going home." She ran off down the road and I got David unbuckled and followed her home. By the time I caught up she came running out of the house with blood all over her shirt yelling "I don't wanna go to the hospital!" She was so cute.. and upset. She said "I want Heavenly Father to make it all better RIGHT now!" and "I'm sorry I'll be a good girl and wear my seatbelt." Poor thing. It was traumatic for us both. I was pretty shaky, but tried to stay calm and not cry in front of her. We got in Wayne's car and headed for preschool, I called Wayne and my Dad to let them know what was going on (thats when I broke down). Meanwhile some oilfeild workers stopped at my van so I talked to them and assured them I was alright. I guess they called the police because by the time I cleaned and bandaged Megan up and got her calmed down and to her party I got a call from a Sherriff and had to go back to fill out an accident report. Silly me I thought it was only my van that was wrecked and my Dad's fence but... I guess if there is more than $1500 in damage then a report has to get filled out. I didn't realize how bad it really was until Wayne pulled it out and drove it home.... he was sure it was totaled, and guess what he was right. :(

 

It's all working out and I am really grateful that we were watched over and protected. I can't help thinking about how much worse it could have been... We bought a Ford Expedition from our friends, it was good timing and a good price. I'm getting used to it. But I do really wish I could just go back in time and take a couple extra seconds to buckle up!

Happy Bday Anna

We celebrated Anna's 7th bday last week. Wow! I can't beleive she is 7! She is really growing up. Some of her favorite things: drawing, cooking, playing make believe, watching movies, making huts, rolling in the grass at recess, reading, and playing tag with brother.
She has been dreaming about taking treats to school for her birthday for 8 months now... We made brownies with jelly beans on top.

 

David is always so happy to see her.

 

The week before we had a 'party' with her cousins at the rec center so we celebrated at home with gma and gpa.

 

The kids liked our little decorations they called it a 'big top' at the circus. It fell down pretty quick, but I managed to get a picutre before anyway.

 

 

 

 

 

Our New Toy

Wayne got some extra money at work and he said we could get an ipad. They were marked down because the new ipad 2 came out, so it was the perfect time. BUT they were really hard to find... I called about 5 stores, no one had one. The wait time from apple was 3-4 weeks. I got lucky on our little trip out to salt lake though... and scored an ipad 2(it was $100 more, but... it was like gold to find one!). Its kind of a funny story. I had been checking the inventory online, and almost every Walmart said they had 1, well I found out they have to say they have one because they have a demo one, but they can't sell it. ANyway I just thought I'd try to go into the store and ask. Of course they didn't have one, but while I was standing there asking a worker came up with a brown box. And sure enough... our new Ipad 2 just delivered! yeah for us!! It felt kind of like winning a big contest ro Christmas morning or something... Anyway its been fun. Megan LOVES it and Wayne is having lots of fun too... well me too, when I can have my turn. ;)

Spring Break getaway

It was so nice to have a week off of school for spring break. I planned a little trip out to Salt Lake to stay in the Holiday Inn express that has a little water park inside. It was really fun. It was just the kids and me but I'm always up for an adventure!
All ready to swim! They love their tubes.

 

Choo choo train. The girls are getting so comfortable in the water, its really nice.

 

We went swimming a month ago with David and he loved it, he really wanted to be on his "own". My sister in law had one of these swimmer's lifejackets for her little guy, and it worked really well. So we got one for David. It was so nice!

 

As you can see he was jumping and swimming everywhere!

 

Off on our adventure to Salt Lake city