Easter Scavenger Hunt

Madison had been wanting us to do a scavenger hunt for them, so I decided to do one for the kids to find their Easter buckets.  We were all ready to leave town to go to Orem for Easter.  We were planning to visit Jeff's parents in Riverton as well, but they were in Arizona tending Jeff's brother's kids for a bit.  The van was completely loaded and the kids were all buckled in their seats.  Jeff and I were doing the last walk thru before we left.  I went out to the van and told the kids they needed to come back inside to clean the playroom before we left  They all came in, some not so happy or willingly.  Once they got inside, Madison headed right upstairs to start cleaning.  I quickly told them I was just kidding, and that we were going to have a scavenger hunt before we left.  They were thrilled!!

Ashton's

Bailee's

Madison's

They loved finding the clues and figuring them out.  Jeff complimented me for the little rhymes I wrote for the clues.  It's so nice to be noticed especially by my husband!

Enjoying his blanket.

The girls had just read a clue and were running to find the next one.  What this photo didn't capture was right as Bailee was running past Ashton, he stuck out his fist and bopped her in the stomach!  He's a sweetheart but can be a little stinker too!  Thankfully she was having so much fun, she didn't notice.

Yay!  They found their treasures in my room.

Cute and Cuddly

I love it when they are nice to each other. 
Yes, Ashton still drinks milk out of a bottle, don't judge. ;-)
He's already a thin little boy, I'm afraid to make any changes for fear that he'll stop drinking the whole milk with it's much needed fat and calories.  Plus, he's my last little baby.

Yee Haw!

This sign is in our neighborhood.  Jeff discovered it one day while he and Ash were on a walk.  He had to take a picture of it to show me.  It makes us chuckle. :D

Ashton, Ice Cream and Lollipops

Ashton got ahold of a pink marker that Bailee had gotten from school and had left in the van.  I had a good little laugh when we got home and I saw he'd drawn a pink goatee on his chin.  Jeff didn't seem to think it was as funny as I did. :)

When we got home from doing some errands, Bailee and Ashton wanted an ice cream cone.  He's in his white undershirt in this photo because he'd stuffed a big piece of food in his mouth and thrown up on the counter and on the button down shirt in the photo above. 

 Also, around this time, Ashton, Jeff and I were at Wal Mart doing some shopping.  Ashton had a piece of gum I'd given him and it had gone down his throat a little causing him to gag.  He also had a cough and cold, so gagging came pretty easily.  He ended up throwing up all over himself, in my hands and on the floor.  We quickly booked it to the bathroom in the back of the store.  Luckily we were able to take off his jacket which removed a lot of the mess.  We cleaned up the rest as best we could and saw that a store employee was cleaning up the floor when we came out of the bathroom  We'd taken some paper towels with us to clean up the mess, but were glad to see they were already taking care of it.  It wasn't a pleasant experience, but we survived. ;-)

 

A sucker in each hand and one in his mouth!  This boy loves lollipops!

Sleepy Time

I took this picture of Bailee one morning.  I thought it was funny and cute that her head was covered and her feet weren't.  I checked to make sure she was breathing fine. 

Here's Madison in her bed with all of her stuffed animals.  It's nice not having to deal with bunk beds anymore.  They are very handy to have, but I don't know how many times we all hit our heads on them.  Madison had the top bunk which made it impossible to sit on her bed with her.  I now enjoy being able to sit on her bed and chat with her.

Bailee at dance

Jeff got a great photo of Bailee making a fantastic leap in dance class.

Hide and Go Seek

Playing Hide and Go Seek

Ashton had his head tucked under my shirts.  He and Jeff were playing together.

"I can't see you, you can't see me."

New Start

This is the first blog post I've done from our new house.  We're all moved in, we've been here for about 2 1/2 weeks now.  The house suits us really well and we are blessed to have very friendly neighbors.  Our family went on a nice walk this afternoon.  It's a great area for going on walks, I'm looking forward to going on many more! 
 Here's a photo of the kitchen and dining area, I love the open concept, it makes kitchen duty much more enjoyable!

I was the only one up the other morning, which is a common occurrence. :)  The early morning light was so pretty coming into the kitchen.  My camera was not capable of capturing the beauty, but this photo is still a reminder for me.  I just realized how much I love light, it makes such a difference.

Last night was a full moon.  I looked out our bedroom window and saw the moon behind the big tree in our neighbors backyard.  I should have gone outside to get a better shot, but I was in my unmentionables ready for bed.  Maybe I'll go out tonight...in my clothes. ;-)

Madison was helping Jeff get the yard cleaned up in preparation of putting in a yard this spring.

What a Weird Weekend!

 

This past weekend was a weird one.  The first incident to happen was our spotting of a UFO.  I can't even believe I'm saying that.  I don't believe in aliens or UFO's but I have no idea what it was my family and I saw Friday (March 1) around 8:30 pm, so I guess it would be classified as an unidentified flying object.  We got home that evening and as we were turning into our neighborhood I saw an orange thing in the sky out of my window.  We pulled into our driveway a few seconds later and I hoped out staring at the thing.  Madison came over to look at it with me.  She suggested that maybe it was Mars.  Sounded like a good explanation to me.....until it moved.  The rest of the family had headed into the house, but I stood out there, wet hair (we'd gone swimming) and all, just gazing at the object.  It was the color of fire and acted kind of like fire the way it gets dimmer and brighter.  Then it faded out completely.  When that one faded out, another one came gliding up.  It moved very easily and it could also stay completely still and hover.  There was absolutely no noise from it.  Which seems to rule out most air crafts.  I thought of a hot air balloon, but it moved nothing like a balloon and hot air balloons also make noise.  It's hard to estimate how close they were, Jeff thinks between 500-1000 feet up and maybe a few miles away.  I wish I would have had a better camera, and I wish I would have filmed it moving.  In hindsight I also wish I would have texted some of my friends to go look outside.  But anyways, I got some pictures.  After the second orb came gliding up it hovered and then moved into the northern Vernal area.  All of the color went out of it, but I could still make out the outline of it.  It looked like it was going down to land in a field or something.

 

This first photo is what it looked like not zoomed in.

This one looks so strange to me like a ufo would.

In these two photos, I must have moved to cause the spreading.



I don't know, hopefully it's not a huge mistake for me to post these on here.  I read about Skinwalker Ranch yesterday, which wasn't the best idea.  Anyhow, I'm feeling a little calmer today.  When I was a kid, I was sooo scared of aliens.  I hope there is some rational explanation for this.



The second weird incident was the explosion that happened in Jensen at the Adler Hot Oil business around 12:30am.  That scared us pretty good with the BIG boom!  We were afraid it was one of the UFO's crashing, yikes!!. :D  Anyways, that gave us a fright.  I'm so glad no one was injured.



The third incident was when one of the Elderly brothers in our ward passed out in his seat during testimony meeting yesterday (Sunday, March 3).  I saw a bit of commotion and the panicked look on his wife's face as she was trying to get him to respond.  He was slumped over a bit and she was shaking him.  I heard that she was afraid he'd died and I hate to say it, but I think most of us there were also afraid of that.  He had passed out though and has health complications.  I'd heard he'd been fasting, so I don't know if that was part of the problem as well.  Thankfully he was alright.  It shook up most of us.  It was nice to see so many members of our ward jump up to help. 
 

Rooks

The other day I was in the laundry room doing laundry of course.  Rooks was in the playroom and I had to close the door to the laundry room because there are two steps that go down into it and I didn't want Rooksie to fall down the stairs.  I came out a minute later to find that he had knocked over Ashton's empty laundry hamper and had crawled into it!  I was pretty surprised.  He's a little go-getter!  He's currently getting around by doing the army crawl but has started to transition into a typical hands and knees crawl.  He's a sweetie pie!  I love to kiss his squishy cheeks.  He smiles a lot and loves to play with Jeff.  He enjoys watching the kids play and stays occupied playing with the little kid toys we have.