Easter 2016

We sent the kids on a scavenger hunt this Easter, to find their baskets in the morning.  So they'd end up right at our bed so we wouldn't miss any action. 

 So much joy in opening Easter baskets...

 The day before, we colored eggs.  They are getting so independent on this kind of thing!  We only had a few eggs break, instead of almost all of them.  And I don't think we had any spills this year.  Wow.

 Oh this handsome man.  He was laying in my lap, letting me rub his head and neck.

 And my beautiful baby girl.  She loves getting dressed up for special occasions.

 We all went to church and lot's of the family joined us.  Here's Zack introducing the lesson on stage at Paramount.

 I loved having Grandma and Pappy there...

 Family pic at Paramount.

 Then, we ate lunch with Jord and Ben and Molly and Gabby after church.  I'm so thankful to get to do everyday life with family.

 We woke up Easter morning to find eggs all over our front yard (for I think the fourth year in a row). A mystery family always surprises the kids!!

Pjs and jackets: all set.

 Checking out all the candy they got...

 Some shots of Easter outfits: this first picture cracks me up.  Out of the blue, Emmy just decided she wasn't really in the mood.  She made it tricky.  They boys were inviting her in, but she didn't want them to put their arms around her.  Silly girl.

 So then she was grumpy for a bit.

 Finally forced a smile out of her.

 We let Smith take some shots of us - and he just kept clicking away on the camera.  We were laughing so hard.

 My boys!!!!!

Easter night we headed up to Greeley to have dinner and Nell and Anthony's house.  All the pictures from that are on Jord's camera, so will add later...

Most of March

Zane did a biography project at school - he wrote 5 pages about Ben Franklin, and then got to present with a speech while dressed up like him. Our sweet friend lent us an awesome costume, and we added glasses and a kite and he was transformed. He stayed in character - pretty serious face. What a cutie.  I'm so proud of all his work on it too - he was so passionate about checking out books, researching, writing, working on the computer at home, etc.  We all learned a lot of Benjamin Franklin!

 Little Ben.  (Smith had to try on the costume too)

 We had friends over for dinner and last minute decided to keep two of the kids for a sleepover. Clare and Gray are such sweet friends to Emmy and Smith (and Zane too). We decided on a girls' room and a boys' room.  They were so excited and actually did really well!

This spring break was a weird one.  We had plans to go to Glenwood Springs for a few days at the end of the week, so we just took it easy at the beginning of the week.  Hung out at home, went to the park, went on walks, etc. What we didn't know is that instead of going on our trip, we would end up snowed in at home for the end of the week.  BUMMER!!
Here are before and after pictures of our blizzard we had over spring break. This is the day before it snowed - we were wearing shorts and short sleeves that evening, playing outside for hours.

 THEN, we woke up to this, on the morning we were going to leave for Glenwood.  We knew it was going to snow, but figured we could make our way there slowly but surely.  Nope!  We ended up with about 2 feet of snow and roads were closed in the mountains, etc.  We were snowed in big time.

 We played inside.

 We played outside.

 We finally dug our car out and got out the next day to go sledding.

 The next day, we went to the Museum of Nature and Science to see the new Robots exhibit and the Chocolate exhibit...

 The kids got to play tic-tac-toe against a robot.  Smith beat him once - it made his whole day!