Happy Easter

Happy Easter!!! This year for Easter we went up to the Davis county fairgrounds for the kids first easter egg hunt. Then that afternoon we went to the city park for there egg hunt. Then we colored Easter eggs. The kids had a great time. Sunday we went up to Grandma Nita's had a yummy dinner and then grandma had a little easter egg hunt. It was a fun fun weekend and seemed to go on and on. To top it off, we did one last easter egg hunt Monday night with our little family and did a family home evening lesson with some of the eggs. I think the kids had a good time and hopefully learned in there, somewhere, the true meaning of Easter.

Happy St. Patricks Day!!!

Louie the Leprechaun stopped by our house today and changed things up a bit. This morning he turned the pancakes and the milk green. Then when the kids got home from school Louie had left the kids a few clues and took them on a little scavenger hunt.




Clue #1 Lead the kids to look under Paiges bed where they each got a pair of shoes for there scavenger trip.

Clue #2 Lead the kids outside in the back of the truck and the kids found a little ring toss game, to try and guess more leprechaun names.

Clue #3 Brought the kids into the playroom where Louie had lost his hat and his friends necklaces.

Clue #4 Took them to Coles room and there they found the Pot O' Gold, but not all of Louie's gold just a little bit.

The kids had a blast and thought it was so fun. Cole wore his Leprechaun hat the rest of the day. He would go and make little messes, or move things out of there places and say that Louie did it. It was a fun day for them. We went up to Grandma Nita's for some corn beef and cabbage and on the car ride home the kids were saying, I hope that Louie didn't mess up our house while we were gone. It is so fun to see how much they love, and get into little things like this.

The Sickness Continues...

Well, this past week I thought was going to be wonderful, it is starting to warm up and I was really looking forward to getting out of the house, but unfortunately that wasn't the plan. I started potty training Paige two weeks ago now, so I have been pretty house bound trying to get that going. She is doing pretty well. Hopefully this week she will get things mastered! Even with that I decided that it was time to just get out, do something anything... I was planning to get out on Thursday, so of course, Wednesday night Halley came down with a high fever. She had been complaining of her stomach hurting of and on on Wednesday, but still acted fine, but then the fever came. I took her to the Dr. (of course my Dr. was not in the office for the rest of the week so I had to see a different Dr.) on Thursday morning, I really thought that she had appendicitis, but the Dr. said it seemed to him that it must just be the flu. He took a urine sample and felt and tapped all around her body, but that was his conclusion, he said he would have the urine cultured just to make sure but was pretty sure it wasn't a bladder or kidney infection. Thursday her fever got as high as 105, she was so sick with the chills and shaking and the pain in her stomach and side. Friday about the same, sometimes her fever would get to 101 and she would actually get off the couch, but she just did not feel well. Saturday her fever was only about 101 and she was still complaining about her side hurting, but at least she was up and around. Sunday her fever was about 99.8 and Dr. Reese finally called and said she had a kidney infection and put her on a strong antibiotic. Poor girl finally got some help and I think she will feel much better in a few days today she is still saying that her stomach (side) still hurts but is acting much better. That was my week last week, I thought we were all better finally, but at least this isn't contagious.

Planting Peas!

Finally we are ready to plant peas! I got the dirt all hoed up and the rows dug with lots of help!!! Now we are ready to plant the peas in our little garden spot (the small dirt area between the driveway and the neighbors fence)! We had some friends over and everyone wanted to help plant, so I had them all line up and then I would give them a handful of peas for them to plant. I explained to them how to line them up in a row and make sure none of the seeds were touching each other. The kids did pretty good. There were a few piles of peas that had to be fixed, some were pretty far apart, and a few spilled on the driveway, but all went well. We ended up running out of peas and were only able to plant one row but the row we planted was planted quickly. To cover the peas I had all the kids line up in a line and we pretended that we were a train and they stepped on the row after I covered it up!!! I think that all had a good time!

Kids Train

Cole and Halley!!!


Now that the weather is finally getting warm (kind of) and the snow is melting, we decided that we needed to get outside and get some fresh air. Cole was full of great ideas of the things that could be done outside. He went inside got a scarff and brought it out to me and asked if I would tie it to the wagon and then tie it around his waste. He was on his scooter and decided he was going to be the train leader! The train kept getting bigger and bigger, more and more friends started showing up. Sometimes Cole was pulling the wagon, and other times Cole and Halley were both pulling the wagon. We found all the ropes and scarffs that we could and tied everything together. The kids played this game for quite a while, while I was trying to get the garden ready to plant some peas, while Paige was taking a nap!




Cole and Halley pulling Lydia and Lexi!

Here are some video's of the kids playing train!