Going Home!!

Lukey made friends with everyone in the Airport on our layover in Seattle. Everyone there got to see him teaching himself how to walk.


Lukey LOVES the planes!! He does his little "WOW" everytime he sees one. It was like heaven at the airports.


the kids and Nate made me a cute sign that they held up at the airport! SO CUTE!!


And this cute sign was in the window- I LOVE my family!!


Looks like everyone was missed!

This one's for Kelz.


It was really great to see Grandma and Grandpa M!! I love you guys!!


Don't they look so cute with a baby :) HA HA just kidding!!


He's such a handsome little devil :)


Lukey warmed up to Grandpa R pretty quickly :)

It was fun to see everyone!


Meeting the long lost cousins- Lukey was a little shy


And to see our old house was SO HARD!! I miss it SO MUCH!! Too bad they let all our hard work on the lawn go to pot!!

Utah

It was really great to see the Salt Lake temple again!


We got to see some of our friends from our old ward- the group is SO BIG now, even without 3 of my kids!


Lukey LOVE Mar-mar- we found out he's somewhat of a flirt :)


I MISS YOU GUYS ALREADY!!!


It was so great to see the M family too!! Ya gotta love getting the grandkid pictures together-- I thought I was going to cry during all the chaos :) Man I miss everyone!!!

For all you Wedding Picture Lovers out there :)

(just ignore that camera bag there- I didn't notice that in the little thumbnail- I was thinking this was a really great picture until I saw that :))

She's SO PRETTY!!

This is a cuter picture if you can stand above them- unfortunately the dumb photographer kept taking all the good spots.

SO CUTE!!

This is one of their cheesy little things (didn't we all have some of those :))

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 :)