I found it, I found it.......

Easter morning pictures. The boys were wasted!!! They were so TIRED. I think, other than these pics, the rest are in order. We went down to Park City on Friday. Heather and her family were in town from N CA. We played in the snow, saw Hannah Montana (you better believe it!:) and got ready for Bunny Day (Saturday).

These are the early risers. Actually, Jared was up at five, then i made him go back to bed and he slept until almost 8. The other kids all had to wait for him. Eliza and Tommy slept sooo much longer!

Spencer and Jared SCORED!! Really, spencer just wanted the candy, and jared wanted nothing to do with candy. well, except the part of finding it and opening it- he doesn't like to eat any of it. I know, i don't know whose child he is!

After the baskets and such, we went down to the dinosaur museum. All these years i've lived here, and i have never done ANYTHING at thanksgiving point. we definitely need to go back! Jared loved it all, EXCEPT playing in the sand. which is really weird since we have a huge sandbox in our backyard that he LOVES.
And finally as we were making dinner, the kids had a GREAT egg hunt. all the big kids looked up stairs, and Jared and Tommy got their own special hunt all to themselves down stairs. They were HILARIOUS! After the boys found all the VERY obvious ones, we would start giving them hints. Tommy would almost take jared out running to where we hinted to go. but then jared would still find it first. they are BEST buddies!
Oh, and they colored eggs. all the boys did about 2 and then were dones. the girls went on and on forever! maybe next year jared will have a bit more interest.
oh, again. Shawna had to do sharing time for primary on sunday. She enlisted jason, tom and me to do a little reenactment of easter morning. it went really well with the small kids, but the older kids had our neices and nephews in it. when tom came in (he was jesus) a they all started yelling "that;s my/your dad" great way to loose the magic of it! :)

Crazy time....

Well, we had a wonderful easter. I came home (we were in park city from fri-sun) and i was all excited to post all the fun pictures- and i can't find my camera. I'm sure we must have left it there (i hope!) but they (my SIL's fam) left for spring break so i have to wait til they get back to even find out if it is there!!
Anyway- these are a few random pics from a little while ago- but they kind of describe some of the things that have been keeping us busy. First, above, this lovely maroon entertainment center. It was NOT this color when we bought it (used on KSL) We decided to sand and paint it to coordinate with our couches. It is finished now, but it stayed like this for quite a while, simply because the boys LOVED to play IN it. we really like how it has turned out. It adds a fantastic little POP of color to our front room.
NEXT- me being attacked ALL THE TIME by my hilarious boys! they are constantly hiding with either swords, pillows, guns, socks or whatever they can get in their hands. even spencer LOVES attacking his mama. and of course, really i quite love it!
and then of course, music makers. These aren't the best pictures. but we are up and dancing and singing or i'm teaching and i always forget to pull my camera out. But, for those that don't know what music makers is- it's basically a bunch of preschoolers getting together and learning songs, dancing, rythm, movement, and fingerplays. My sister did it with her kids, and I have a couple SILs that do it with theirs. I decided i wanted to do it with my boys, so i enlisted a friend and we got it started. We pick a different theme every month and learn/sing the same songs for that entire month. we have about 10-15 kids that come every week. THEY LOVE IT!! and jared sings the songs all day long every day! makes a mama proud!
what else??? yes there is lots more. I got a new calling at church a little over a month ago that is challenging me in ways that i never knew possible. it's been interesting to watch and reflect on where life is taking us as a family. it's hard to explain it all right here, i need to just write an entire post about it all. but, i will say that i am so grateful to know that i'm not the one in charge of it all! there is a GOD that is mindful of our every needs and WOW does He take care of them!

Shere Kahn

oh, i'm so behind i don't even know where to start! for valentine's day we gave the boys each a book from the dollar store. each book came with a mask in it- one was a monkey the other a tiger. The monkey one was destroyed that same day, but the tiger one has hung around for quite a while. a few weeks ago jared was wearing it, then stuck a sword in his pants as his tail and started crawling around being shere kahn. He has the best imagination.

His latest and greatest- which i really need to video and put on here- is singing the song 'Called to Serve' ALL DAY LONG at the top of his lungs. he pretty much knows both verses all the way. the other morning he woke up (he had crawled into our bed at about 4 am- another new thing that i am trying to not make a habit) and the first words out of his mouth were "onward, ever onward as we glory in his name!" a WONDERFUL way to start the morning!

a few days later, jason put the mask on spencer. he is just one adorable little tiger! i can't even believe how big he has grown in the last month. He understands sooo much, and really listens to what we say. his latest words are: MAMA (finally!!!!) ball (or BAAAAAA) and CHEESE (or eeeeeessssssssseeeeeeee) i have an old camera that i let them have in their toy box to play with. spencer holds it up to his face and yells- "EESSEEESEEEESEE" LOVE IT!