Battle Creek Falls Hike

Hooray for weekends!! After letting me go running with my friend, and then doing a bunch of yard sale-ing, Darrell was excited for us to go as a family to go hiking over in Pleasant Grove.  It started raining as soon as we got off the freeway, so we stopped at my grandparents and had a lovely visit for a while until the weather cleared up.  Then we headed up the mountain!  It was a nice hike up to Battle Creek Falls, and we think the kids had fun (despite a lot of whining and tiredness and such from the two of them).

 

First sighting of water up the trail…

 

Steven was a little trooper and hiked the whole way up to the falls… ..while Lillie joyfully got to be strapped to me the whole time.  She actually did enjoy it, just didn’t enjoy me trying to take pictures of her.

 

 

Steven had  a lot of fun playing with sticks and throwing rocks into the water along the way.

 

We even found this cool cave.

 

 

And finally the falls!  They were very pretty and it was fun to take the day to be together and have fun!

(See the sad, tragic cuteness of Lillie having full out pigtails?  *sniff* My baby is growing up).

 

A fun little crafty project…

A while back I bought a piece of remnant fabric that I thought was darling.  It sat in the bag for quite a while, until I stumbled across this.  It was something that looked easy enough, so i had to try it.  I thought it turned out pretty cute, even if Lillie didn’t want me to take her picture in it. :)

 

Mothers Day Weekend

My family was awesome to wake up early with me on Saturday May 7 to head up to Salt Lake for Race for the Cure.  I was the only one from my family who was able to do it this year in celebration of my awesome survivor mommy (our 9-11-01 survivor).  The race was a lot of fun, and I’m glad I did it.  I finished in 33:30, which is really good for me, and I ran the whole thing. No walky.  :)  yay!  As you can see, my family was thrilled to be waiting for me. Haha.

After the race, we went to the store so I could pick out my Mothers Day present, which was a rose bush for my flower bed. Hooray! It was exciting.  Then, because my legs were tired, I sat on the couch the rest of the Saturday while my boys planted the new rose bush. I’m excited for her to bloom.

On Sunday my kids slept in, and my husband didn’t have bishopric meeting until 10.  It was fabulous.  Then after church we headed to Kaysville for dinner with the Cropper’s.  It was a fabulous, relaxing and enjoyable Mothers Day. Thanks to my fabulous husband and kids for making it such!

Tulip Fest

The first week of May finally brought amazing weather, and my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were able to join Steven, Lillie, and myself for a joyful day of Tulip Fest.  I have always loved going, so it’s nice to see my kids enjoy it.  Even if they did pester Casey and Rachel all day.  (I can joke that they’re just prepping them for their little lady to come join them. :))

  We’re so glad they could come with us and that we could enjoy the time together!

Girlies Day :)

At the end of April I was able to get together with a few of my friends from high school for a temple session, lunch, and a stroll at Tulip Fest.  It was a great day, and it was fun to see old friends.  Now if Kate could just get me all of her pictures, we’d be set :)

 

Happy Easter!

Last Monday we had an FHE about Jesus being Resurrected.  We watched the Living Scriptures “He Is Risen” video and read from The Friend magazine.  It was the best idea I could come up with this year to get a 3-year old to understand the real reason we have Easter as opposed to just getting candy and stuff about the Easter Bunny.  This year I think it worked pretty good, and Steven has wanted to watch that video daily and we get to talk about it.   I absolutely love celebrating the Resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ and am so grateful for all He did for us that we might live again one day.

Here are some attempts as getting the kids pictures in their Easter Clothes…. :)