Going to Utah!!

This is me and Luke arriving in Salt Lake City! He actually slept the WHOLE way there since it was from 1:00 in the morning to 7:00 (Mountain Time).



Meeting my new sister-in-law!


Hangin' out with Grandpa H and Uncle Deve- they love him already :)


They're such a CUTE COUPLE!

Update 4-13-07

Happy Friday the Thirteenth Everybody!
Hey so Lukey and I are back home, safe and sound. We had a GREAT time in Utah though- I wanted to thank everyone that made the trip so wonderful. I was pretty worried about leaving Nate and the kids and it was nice to not be worried the WHOLE time.
We had such a great time at the wedding, and that was the "reason we went" but I'm so glad that we got to see so many people.
It was so great to hang out with the old ward friends. I miss everyone so much!! Thank you Claire and the Coles for the Barbeque!! That sure made me feel special- thanks everyone that came! I can't believe how much it felt like I had never been gone- UNFORTUNATELY I couldn't get a somersault out of Dan! :( But Lukey had a blast with the egg hunt- he actually got to find some of his own- that was totally new for him :)
I loved being able to spend Easter with everyone too! Thanks M family for making us feel so welcome we loved being there for the family meeting- felt like the good ol' days!
Overall it was a really great trip- I wish I could have spent more time with everyone, but 6 days just isn't enough.
Thank you all for everything though- I really appreciated the love! I love you all!

OUR Easter Bunny Visit

Since I'm going to be gone over Easter weekend, we decided to celebrate Easter THIS weekend instead. We asked the Easter Bunny to make a special trip to our house a little early (turns out he starts in Alaska anyway, so it wasn't too much of an inconvenience), he came and brought MORE than enough candy, eggs and of course stuffed bunnies. Here's Bubba with his basket. He found the four clues that lead to it with the help of his big sisters. So cute!


Here's Lukey throwing his basket around. Now I remember why mom never wanted to get the easter grass :) Actually he did spend quite a bit of time, the night before, emptying and filling the baskets with eggs- it was really the first time I have seen him sit down and fully complete a project on his own with no coaching from me. He's getting so grown up!


Here's cute little Kelz with her basket- she was so proud of herself finding it.


Cherry with her basket- she had to help everyone else find their baskets first, so it was a long awaited discovery! I love pajama pictures on Easter :)

The Easter Baskets

Cherry testing her new bubbles.


Kelz has already made a bed for her new bunny- gotta make her feel at home.


Cherry loves bubbles.


Kelly is looking hard for those eggs.


Bubba had quite the collection as well.

Hunting for Easter eggs

Kelz enjoying her basket at an away-from-Lukey level


Kelz is thorough when she looks for eggs


Bubba moving to higher ground (poor lukey, he just can't win)


"This is my basket" cute girl!


Look who's sharing! Too bad it's GUM!!

"Easter"

This is Luke's "no more candy" face :(


This is his "okay, one more piece" face :)


Sampling everything in the basket.


Bradley had a little help looking for eggs-


I had to take a picture of conference because I was so happy to be watching it on tv! We splurged and added a few channels to our cable just so that we could have conference. Our cable company doesn't charge for hook up or removal, so basically conference cost us $15.00- pretty good price for comfort I have to say :)

Coloring Easter Eggs

What fun!


The kids had a good time dropping their own eggs in and "checking on them" all by themselves with the little wire dipper- that was the latest thrill.




This is Cherry's "I'm telling you something important" face- she's so cute. Bubba's keeping an eye on his eggs.


What patience :)

Coloring Easter Eggs

"is it done?"


"Cheeeeese"- Coloring eggs is the best!


K- this is totally unrelated to Easter, but Cherry's new thing at dinner is to ask "Who likes...?...raise your hand"- so we spend half the meal raising our hands. Lukey picked up on this and learned how to raise his hand :) It's SO CUTE!!!

"I DO!"- What a cutie!


Ya know how when you are boiling eggs, they sometimes crack and the egg stuff cooks on the outside of the egg- well, this is what happened to one of our eggs- does it not look like a little chick hatching out of an egg!!! Nate and I were totally fascinated by it- we're gonna sell it on ebay.

A Day of Moose!

So, we were just standing in our kitchen, and we looked outside and saw this moose walking around the neighbor's yard. He didn't walk long- he just found a nice spot and laid down! But it was SO CLOSE to us and our yard. Since we have a fence our yard I felt a little safer being out there by them, but our fence is only like 3 feet tall, so I shouldn't have felt too safe :), but it was awesome!!

There's another one (I seriously took like 80 pictures of all the moose we saw yesterday!

I got this one to show how close they were to our yard. This is our deck- that is our fence, and there is the moose just right in the next yard over. SO COOl!!!

Here's another one :) We just kept our eyes on them ALL day while we watched conference.

After about 2 hours of sitting and watching the moose sit there- along came this other one!! They walk so fast- I didn't get a very good picture of this one, but you get the idea- this is the shed in our backyard!


In this one, the moose going through the stuff in the neighbors' yard.


This picture is just awesome! I was about 15 feet away from the moose!!


This is when he was looking right at me!! Don't tell anyone- but I was totally shaking!!! He stared at me forever- until I finally turned around to walk away. Luckily I had that huge fence there to protect me :)


And this is both of the moose together that second one just went and sat down by the other one and they sat there for another hour or so- we missed them getting up- but it sure was cool to see them!

More Moose

Not too much longer after the other moose left- this one was cited! This one was walking in the other direction, and just walked right through, he didn't sit down and rest. But that is our swingset- to give you an idea of how close he was!


There he is eating from the tree. SO COOL!!


Moose are the most fascinating animals I have ever seen!!!


I'm not sure if this is the same one, but we saw this one shortly after the other one walked away- this is across the street. That is Nate's car right in front of him- it was SO COOL!!!


And here he is again walking through another neighbor's yard- we got this picture on the way to take nate to the Priesthood session- these moose just do whatever they want!! I so wish we had some more trees that they wanted to eat! Then we could have them come in OUR yard! Course this one showed up as the kids were walking out to the car to go- that could be kinda freaky if they were any closer :) Charity sure thought it was :)

Works of Art

Charity drew this and to fully appreciate it you would need her to tell you about it, but it is a snowman next to a tree, and I believe the last time I asked- that person next to the tree was me, but it could have changed by now. Then you can also see the snow coming out of the sky. Very very cute- gotta love the flowers!


This one was drawn by kelly- she makes the cutest people! I can't remember what this one was depicting.


I love how she is doing her shoes now! not sure what the lines on the mouths are- use your imagination :)