Easter {Spring Break Day3}

It was a beautiful Easter Day. The weather was wonderful and sunny. The kids enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in the backyard. Joseph was the first to find an egg, although we were holding the others back, so does it still count? 

There was a lot of running, a little bit of crying, and always plenty of candy. In the end, everyone walks away happy, and full of sugar. Just what we need, right?!

Here are our observers... and this is what I am typically doing 

(the reason I am often not in any of the pictures)

Here's Joseph playing with Papa Call

After the exciting morning, we settled in to watch the morning session of conference (morning for everyone, except us east coasters - noon for us) We enjoyed the delicious cinnamon rolls that I convinced my mother-in-law to make. [she makes the BEST cinnamon rolls!] 

 

mmm... I can almost taste them now!

Then, between sessions, we went towards downtown to one of the riverwalks. There's a boardwalk next to one of the many rivers that twist their way through this area.

We saw a lot of this along the walk... what a character that boy. Loves to pose for the camera.

 Joseph by far has the most hair of all my babies. I just love it. I'm not ready to cut it yet though...

 Along our walk we found this... now what does it remind you of?

It reminded us of the stone in front of Jesus' tomb. Fitting to find this on Easter!

After our walk, we returned home to watch the final session of conference. We finished the evening with a nice Easter meal. It was delicious! It was a wonderful Easter and sabbath day. It was nice to spend it with family.

A busy Saturday in April (aka) Spring Break Day2

The next day of spring break brought my parents into town. Yippee! All the grandparents are here!

The kids were so excited. In addition to all the excitement of the weekend, it was also General Conference weekend. Being on the east coast, conference doesn’t start until later in the day. 

So, before we watched conference, we did a little playing.

Riding bikes around the neighborhood and golf course

Now if you think she’s redneck because of her new mullet... how about when she pulls off her shirt and heads straight for the pool. Nothing like swimmin' in nothin but jean shorts?? After showing everyone how much she wanted to go swimming, dad decided to get the kids into their suits and go swimming before coming in for conference.

After the 1st session, we all ate and got ready to go to the church for the 2nd session, and....

TANNER’S BAPTISM!

I can hardly believe that he is 8 and baptized. I am so proud of the decision he made to get baptized.
Tanner is such a wonderful, responsible, delightful boy that is a joy to have in our home. He was so excited to turn 8 and get baptized. We are so glad that all the grandparents could come ALL THE WAY here to the SOUTH for this special day.

You are a lucky boy Tanner, we all love you VERY much!