Easter Day!

Peyton woke up really excited on Easter morning. She got up before everybody else and found all of our Easter baskets that the Easter Bunny hid. The Easter Bunny even pooped by our back door before he left and dropped a half eatin carrot. She was a little grossed out but thought is was funny. Houston wasn't sure what was going on but did enjoy all the fun stuff the Easter Bunny left for him. After we checked out our baskets I made french toast, sausage patties and hard boiled eggs for breakfast.

In the afternoon we went up to Brent and ReNaes for a really yummy early dinner. It was a fairly nice day so the kids all played outside, we had an easter egg for the 3 younger girls and the kids all opened presents from Grandpa Brent and Grandma ReNae.

Later on we met Bradyn's Uncle Ralph, Aunt Rhonda, and cousins Trenton & Wendy and their kids, Jake & Tana and their kids, Kendall & Kallie and their kids and Dallas at the Centennial Park in Riverton. Brent and ReNae met us over there later on. The adults all played softball while the kids played around on the playground and practiced T-ball. I wasn't thinking and forgot to pack tennis shoes so only played softball a little because it was hard to run in flip flops.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Last night the kids and I colored eggs for Easter. Well actually Houston just watched while Peyton and I did all the work but he did like holding and sucking on the eggs. Bradyn isn't a big fan of the plain hard boiled eggs so I boiled some eggs for him and then he put them in beat juice to soak for a couple days (yuck!). Peyton saw that commercial with the mom and the daughter making the egg shaped rice crispy treats with one end dipped in chocolate and sprinkles and now thats what she wants to make next so I guess I'll be heading to the store to get the supplies and we'll be making them either tonight or tomorrow.




We don't really have big plans for Easter this year. We thought about going camping but since the kids and I have all been sick we decided not to go because it's supposed to storm tomorrow and be on the cooler side all weekend. Last year we didn't go anywhere for Easter either and it was nice to just stay home for once on a holiday so it will be nice to just be hanging close again this year. We hope you all have a Happy Easter!

Peyton's 1st T-Ball Game

This last Monday was Peyton's 1st T-ball game. She will have 1 or 2 games a week through the first week of June and then the closing ceremonies will be on June 13th. I wasn't able to get too many pictures because I was coaching 1st base but here is one I got of Peyton hitting the ball and ReNae sent me a few others that she was able to get.


Peyton hitting the ball


Raylee, Preslie and Peyton


Colter and Houston chillin' in the wagon


Bradyn coaching Peyton

Peyton All Fancy for Dance

A couple weeks ago Peyton had her dance pictures taken. She was so excited because she got to wear make-up and had her hair done all fancy. Peyton has been attending dance lessons once a week since August. Her class will compete at Lagoon on May 9th, the Riverton Arts Festival on June 5th and then the Summer Showcase on June 13th. Here are a couple pictures of her after she got all fixed up.

Twilight DVD Party!

Last night me and my friends Tana and Nicole along with Nicole's sister in-law Jen, friend Jana and niece Quincee all went out to Chili's for a late dinner and then off to the Riverton Walmart for a Twilight DVD Release Party. It was crazy!!! The party started at 10:00 p.m. and was gonna go until 1:00 a.m. Luckily we were out of there about 12:05 a.m. and home by 12:30 a.m.

We are all really into Twilight and thought it would be fun to go out but wasn't sure where to go. Earlier that day I was in the Riverton Walmart and they were decorating for the party. It made me so excited cause they told me a star from the movie would be there and they were giving away a 37" flat screen TV. Well we were all sad when Edward didn't show up. It was Victoria instead signing autographs, there was tons of food, prize drawings (which I didn't hear any of them cause it was so crazy so I wasn't able to win the TV), people were dressed up in baseball uniforms, prom dresses, some painted there faces white and wore red contacts and on and on.

We had heard that this Walmart ordered 4,000 copies of the movie anticipating a big crowd as the theater at the District brought in more money from the movie than any other theater througout the Nation. This was also the reason for such a big party at that Walmart location. I really don't mind crowds, I guess thats why I do the day after Thanksgiving shopping, but this was so much more crazy. Even though there was supposed to be 4,000 copies, we were still really nervous we weren't going to get one because the line wrapped through pretty much the entire store. But luckily we got an inside tip from a Walmart employee to wait by the doors in the shoe department. He was right, they came out with a shopping cart full of DVD's and we were one of the first to get the movie.

Thanks girls for all going. I had a blast and can't wait for New Moon to come out in theaters on November 20th. We will have to plan another late night to attend the midnight premier.


All of us after arriving at the Party


This is looking up at the gazebo when Victoria arrived. You obviously can't see her though.


All of us with a Walmart employee dressed up like Rosalie


All of us with our movies waiting for midnight so we could check out


This was taken by a Walmart employee standing on a ladder near the produce section looking down the backsides of the registers

Dinosaur Museum

This last Wednesday my sister in-law Haylee invited me and the kids to attend the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point with her, Preslie and Colter and her friend Leslie and her kids, Jayda and new baby Jackson. The kids all had a blast and after the museum they all went and ate dino nuggets at the cafe. Thanks Haylee for inviting us to tag along. We all had a lot of fun.

Houston is 9 Months Old!

Yesterday Houston turned 9 months old and today when I took him to his well check up he weighed 24 pounds 9 ounces and was 30.8 inches tall. He is in the 95% for weight and above the 97% for height for his age. He is getting so big and so much fun. He is such a happy little man and just so mellow. He is finally getting so close to crawling. He gets up on his knees and takes a couple steps but still gets around real quick army crawling and rolling and has started to get into things he's not supposed to. He loves to walk with my hands and likes to stand up against things. He is still the best little sleeper. He sleeps for 12 hours straight through at night and then still looks forward to his 2 or so hour nap in the morning and another in the afternoon.