Happy Easter!!

Last week we had Grandma and Nick over for dinner (Grandpa was at meetings, of course!) After dinner she stayed and helped us color eggs. These were Kelsi's favorite ones.
Saturday we had an egg hunt at Grandma and Grandpa's house. It was tons of fun! Uncle Matt, Aunt Breanna (Dave's brother and his wife) and Dave's cousin Janessa were all visiting for the weekend, it was so fun to see all of them! Andrew scored!! The basket got too heavy for him to carry, it was kinda funny.
Kelsi posing with her stash of goodies.
My adorable children! If you make this big you can see Andrew actually smiling...something not often seen in photos!
That boy loves his mama, he can't stop looking at me :)
Hope your Easter was wonderful, we love you all!!

Hooray for Sunshine!!

Our kids got new bikes last Saturday and today was so beautiful outside, we had to play with them!! Here is Kelsi with her new "girly" bike. Think she likes it???
Andrew loves his new Diego "Motorcycle"!!
Kelsi, always the poser!! Andrew just wants to ride around!
So fun!! I can't express how happy I am that nice, warm, sunny weather is on it's way! I am sure by August I will be tired of it, but for now, I'm loving it!

Finally!

Welcome to our home...kinda!
This is our living room with our new couches that I love!! Mostly because they are ours and nobody else had them before us! :)
My lovely kitchen..this is only a corner of it. Look at those counters...so big to me!
Our fireplace with the vinyl words we put up. (You can see them better below.)
I love this...it looks so pretty on the wall. I like to sit on the couch and just look at it. We don't have a TV, so sometimes I get a little bored and you can only check people's blogs so many times in a day. :)

So, who is gonna come and visit us now??? Ryan, I know you want to!!!!

Mi casa es su casa!

This is for my sister who keeps bugging me to update my blog! Dave has finally found a job in the lovely "Palm Springs of Washington" and we have just moved into our new home, well it's a duplex really. But it's lovely, the outside does not do it justice. I am having issues uploading photos of the inside, so until my computer support gets home, this is what you get! (Sorry, Val!) If anyone wants to come and visit, they can see for themselves how nice it is. :) We have been extremely blessed in finding this place. It has a lot of things we haven't had before so we love it! We have three bedrooms, 2 full baths. I think the master bedroom is about the size of our entire downstairs in Rexburg! I have a beautiful kitchen with LOTS of counter space and a really pretty gas fireplace in the living room. We also have a two car garage which Dave is more excited about than me. Since we only have one car at the moment, he has lots and lots of room for his tools and manly stuff out there. We are in our old ward that we used to be in and Kelsi is going to the same school that Dave went to. She also already knew 3 little girls in her class, so the transition was pretty easy for her. Her teacher says that after a week, she acts like she has been there all year! Dave is enjoying his job and they are certainly keeping him busy. Me- I am just trying to get the house organized and looking decent. We loved our time at my sisters house, but it's nice to have our own place again. I am sure my neice and nephew are glad to get their seperate rooms back, too! I will post more pics when I can...it's not working right now for me.

Canada, eh!

I got to go on a kid-free trip to Victoria, Canada with my friend Mandy this past weekend!! We only had 2 days but we had tons of fun shopping and spending time with her family. The weather was beautiful and very conducive to getting lots of shopping done. This picture is by where we got on the ferry- The Empress Hotel is in the background.


Bags, bags and more bags!! We were a little worried that when we told the Border Patrol people we had only been there 2 days they wouldn't believe us. We did have a lot of baggage for a short amount of time! But just think of all the shopping you can do in two days when you have no little ones to worry about!! Look at the people behind Mandy...smooching in my photo!


Mandy and I have wanted to go on a cruise together for a long time. (If our husbands behave we would let them come along, too!) The 90 minute ferry ride may be as close as we get for awhile! We had so much fun we decided we need to do it a few times a year!! Thanks to all of my family who watched my kiddos so I could have some girl time!

My best friend, forever and always!!!

I love this man!! 9 years ago today we hiked to the top of a snowy mountain near Ririe, Idaho and he asked me to marry him while we danced looking down at the valley below us!! What an adventure our life together has been! Through it all he has been there for me and I love him more each day. He is the greatest husband and father to our children. He makes me laugh every day. He is practically perfect in every way...wait that's Mary Poppins. From Here to Eternity, I love you Davey!!

The Hinckley Challenge...join me!

President Hinckley often stressed our making the Book of Mormon part of our lives. He was 97 when he passed away, and we would like to celebrate his life and teachings by reading the Book of Mormon in 97 days.

President Gordon B. Hinckley on the Book of Mormon
"I take in my hand the Book of Mormon. I read its words. I have read Joseph Smith's explanation of how it came to be. To the unbelieving it is a story difficult to accept, and critics for generations have worn out their lives writing books intended to refute that story and to offer other explanations than the one given by Joseph the Prophet. But to the open-minded, this critical writing has only stimulated them to dig deeper; and the more deeply they dig, the greater the accumulation of evidence for the validity of Joseph Smith's story. Still, as has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the Book of Mormon will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these continue to be reassuring. The truth about the origins of the Book of Mormon will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by reading the book in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer."( "Praise to the Man," Ensign, Aug. 1983, 4)

For more information, go to: www.hinckleychallenge.com

The challenge began on February 4.
The challenge will end in 94 days (May 10th)!