Day at the museum

Saturday the 25th we went to the Arizona museum of natural history. The kids loved spending time with Joe!

Reagan on the ride over!

Emma and Dad (little update her eye is almost open now!)

The kids on TV

Looking at Elvis the alligator or crocodile I can't remember!

such cute kids!

Panning for gold

This is right before Emma and Reagan drenched themselves!

After that I babysat Jaxon and Troy while Joe and Tyler went to a diamondbacks game.

Troy sound asleep on the comfy blanket Of course Reagan and Jaxon woke up right when troy was ready to eat, so Emma helped me out.

If you plant it, it will grow!

I wasn't going to plant a garden this year because my garden area was so full of weeds and I knew it would take FOREVER and a sore back to get it all cleaned up. Well it did take FOREVER and a SORE back to get it ready, but it was worth it. Joe made a little sprinkler system for me so watering would be easier and fast.

My garden at two weeks old

My garden NOW!

My spinach!!!

I have already picked at least 6 gallon bags full! We have had tons of spinach salad, spinach on hamburgers on sandwiches and much much more!

My zucchini
big tomatoes

Tyler wanted to plant pumpkins so I put them in the back row so they wouldn't cover the other plants well they are getting so big they are growing into all the other rows!!!!!

One pumpkin leaf! Cherry tomatoes

Roma tomatoes

And one of the many things I have made with things from my garden. I have basil so I made pesto and the spinach was from my garden too! It tasted AWESOME. I have never made pesto before so that was fun and delicious.

Easter Sunday

Easter baskets before church

Egg hunt after church

Emma loves to get her picture taken!

Handsome Tyler

Reagan would NOT let us take pictures!

The crew! At least all their eyes are looking at the camera

This is what most of the pictures looked like

That night we had a yummy ham dinner with Nana and Uncle Kevin

Easter Saturday

On Saturday Brian, Susanna, Anna Belle, Emily and Jaxon came over for a BBQ and egg hunt.

Reagan

Emma was really good and finding eggs

Anna Belle


Jaxon

Emma

We tried to get a group shot. Tyler wouldn't even let me take a single picture and Anna Belle is just to fast now that she can walk.

That night we dyed Easter Eggs.

We babysat Jaxon so he got to join in the fun. He only wanted one egg and played with it the whole night

Oh yeah and he tried to eat it too. I think it fell about 5 times or more.

Emma with her finished product!

Reagan loved putting stickers on her eggs

washing the car

So we played in the snow on Saturday and then on Monday we washed the car in our bathing suits. I can't believe what a difference the weather was from Utah to here.

MORE snow = EVEN MORE FUN

On Saturday we decided to find a place to go tubing and see some real snow. Spencer's boss has kids about the sizes of our kids, they let us barrow tubes and snow clothing for the kids, me and Amy. It was TONS of fun. We drove to Sundance and found a hill to go down. Reagan didn't care for it at all but Emma and Tyler LOVED it. I think Emma liked sledding the most I never would have thought she would love it so much. She wanted to go over and over and every time wanted to go up higher!

Here she is after going down.

Of course Emma had to make a REAL snow angel

Spencer going down


Reagan didn't like it at all.


Joe going down



There was a cool fort like thing and the kids loved climbing on it.


Here is Tyler jumping off. I was so scared the first time he did it, but he loved it and the snow was so soft to jump into.

Tyler after going down the hill

Amy Dee

Emma didn't want to stop we had to force her off when it was time to go.

My little Emma

Can you find Emma, she is so tiny she just fit right in the tube.

Andrea with the little ones. Kaden and Reagan started to like it when it was time to go.

Everyone but Spencer

I think on the video it makes it look like the hill was small well it wasn't! This is actually my 3rd time to go down the first 2 times I fell hard but the snow was still small. $ college students came and went down it over and over so when I went this time it HURT. I got the wind knocked out of me and jammed my shoulder really bad but it was fun!

Here is Amy and daredevil Emma!

Joe and then spencer going down the big hill