College Roommate Reunion-Kind of

Well, it didn't go quite as planned, but at least I was able to get together with one of my old roommates who lives in Vegas. We had planned to get 4 of us together, but none of the days ended up working out despite several months of planning. It is funny that 3 of us live within an hour of each other and I haven't seen either of them in years. The one that lives in Vegas (Jill) I have seen 2 years in a row. Last year when Casey and I went to Vegas for our Anniversary, we met up with her for a few hours, and this year when she came to Logan for a family reunion, I drove up to see her.


Jill's family was nice enough to let me and my girls invade their family party. They fed us, let my girls play on the slip and slide, let them borrow a towel, and even put their clothes in the dryer since their mother didn't bring a change of clothes and they were soaking wet. I didn't take many pictures, but it was so good to get together with her and reminisce of the good 'ol days at Weber State.

Thank you Jill and family...hope to see you again soon!

Zoey with no Training Wheels

Zoey is not quite 4 years old and just got her training wheels off. We are so proud of her for being brave. She is doing awesome. She wants to be outside riding all the time and go on 2 walks a day to practice. She still needs help starting off on her bigger bike, but I can't complain!

Coach Pitch

This year, Maizy decided to play baseball again. She is no longer in t-ball, but they do coach pitch. She was so excited and has been doing pretty good.

After being married for over 10 years, we were finally able to take a vacation with Casey's dad and Curtis and his family. We headed to St. George to a time share that Ben was able to get. It was a beautiful place, but still being developed so there wasn't much around it except dirt. Jill is always good to bring along fun things for the kids to do. They painted ceramic bear banks, made wooden butterflies and cars, and put together hot pads. They loved it!

We went to a place called Anti-Gravity. They had several trampolines put together as well as up on the wall. They also had blow up slides for the little kids. You could play dodge ball on one set of the tramps and just jump around on the other set. I couldn't believe how many tramps were in the place.

We ended up having beautiful weather while we were there. Not only did we swim every day (which somehow I ended up not taking any pictures), but one hot day, we took the kids to a splash pad/stream in the middle of town. The kids loved getting wet.

Thanks for a great time Ben, Jill, Curtis, Kari, Brayden, Jake and Madison!

Preschool end of year

Zoey finished her first year of Preschool, so her class celebrated my going to the Treehouse Museum in Ogden. Poor Casey had to suffer and take all 3...hehehehe! The kids had fun, but I don't think Casey enjoyed himself quite as much!

My yard

I have been working like crazy to finish our backyard, somewhat re-do the front yard with more flower areas, and put in my garden. I must admit that it isn't perfect, but I am happy for now.

My garden is actually sprouting up, and most of my flowers are surviving in the front for living in the garage for over a month!
Garden...most of my sprouts you can't see in this picture, but all the rows have things popping up.

We also finished laying sod in the backyard.

The front has been a project since the area next to the house is where we cut out grass, planted plants, put down weed prevention fabric and covered in rocks. We also finally got our flag pole put in...we got it for Christmas about 5 years ago! :)

Easter 2011 with my kids is always entertaining, especially dying eggs. They all want to do everything quickly and without help. Needless to say, we survived the process without too much drama.
Here is Maizy with one of her eggs. We don't do the fancy eggs yet...dye and stickers are plenty for my young kids. We will get more technical as they get older!

Zoey was extremely proud of her green egg.

Zander really didn't care about any stickers, he just wanted to keep putting them in the dye.

here is our finished product. Since good 'ol mom (me) is the only one who eats boiled eggs, we try not to do too many and be wasteful.

The kids got new Easter clothes for church. They looked so cute, but they all take after their father and squint like crazy in the sun.

The Easter celebration at the Jones' is always entertaining. We were missing a few family members this year, so hopefully we can get them all next year.

The Wilde Easter party came a little late, but we were able to get a few shots of the kids together...what a cute little bunch!

I love traditions...for the most part. My Grandma always did an Easter egg hunt with our names on the eggs. It is fun for the kids to have to find their own eggs and try to keep the ones they do find that aren't theirs a secret.