Niagra Springs

Last Saturday we took off with some friends to a fun area in the canyon and had a fabulous day.  We bbq'ed, fished, lounged in the sun, played in the water, and had so much fun.

Workin' Outside

You know how you start one little project and then it snowballs into tons, well that's what we did on Friday.  It all started with removing one section of the fence so a guy could deliver some compost for my garden and then...no more fence, new garden area and an open backyard.  What were we thinking?  We had planned to move the fence in several years to incorporate the side yard and make the whole fenced area much bigger but I didn't plan on having no fence at all this soon, hopefully we get it fixed soon!

Digging the posts out was difficult and the kids discovered that they were super fun to play in after the post came out (the extra kids are our neighbors).

Luke and Seth mostly just hung out in the truck "supervising" and I had to take a picture of this because I amde it all by myself for the girls to have their own garden space.  They are quite excited and are going to plan strawberries and sunflowers!

Kathryns 6!!!

We had several parties last week for Kathryn, a family one and a friend.  She has been counting down for weeks and was so excited to see it finally here.

For the family one we made one of her favorite desserts, peanut butter cookies, which is why the candles are sticking out of them.  Then on Saturday we had the friend party.  She had a great time with her friends!

They payed pin the "pot-of-gold" on the rainbow, hide-n-go seek and hit the pinata.  We made a rainbow cake and it turned out awesome.

(sorry I can't figure out how to rotate the frame)

Easter: Beesleys

For part of our festivities we had Sam's sister's family come stay with us for a few days.  The kids absolutely loved having their cousins here.  They slid down the stairs for hours,

we went on walks,

hiked through the canyon and some waterfalls, 

had a movie night and slumber party downstairs,

found Easter baskets,

hunted Easter Eggs, 

watched (or in the adults cases slept) conference,

and ate a yummy Easter dinner.

Thanks for coming guys, we loved having you here!

Easter: Hunting & Dying Eggs

 

We started the week off by having an Easter Egg hunt with our ward.  There were tons of kids and it was so windy and cold, but the show must go on (at least that's what the kids said!).

Then on Friday our neighbors came over and we painted eggs.  We have never tried the painting kind and I thought it worked much better than dying the eggs, much more hands on.