Easter Egg Hunt

This year's big neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt did not happen.

Since Easter Sunday fell on Conference weekend and the weekend before did not work Kathy and I decided to just do our own grandkid hunts but to continue with the adult hunt that evening after conference was over.  It worked out great. We made a nice ham dinner for everyone with cheese potatoes and all the fixings'.  The girls added to the dinner with deviled eggs, a salad, pumpkin pie and chips.  Kendra almost did not make it because of a huge backup on I-80.  She had been at Rafe's baseball tournament in Ogden and she had to miss the championship game (which by the way they won!)  She finally arrived in time to get some grub and then we had the hunt.

We hid eggs in the front yard for the littler kids and hid eggs in the backyard for the bigger kids. They all found plenty!

Our adult hunt was well attended.  Skylar and Kaitlyn found the prize eggs and I believe pretty much everyone was happy with what they found.  Even Gary found a nice twenty dollar bill so he was thrilled.  It's a fun (albeit expensive) tradition with these grown ups.  They area ll good kiddos!

 

Eric turns FOUR

Eric turned FOUR YEARS OLD today!  

Skylar and Sarah hosted a small family get together for him.

He opened presents and ice cream was served.  It was a beautiful spring day and the kids had a blast playing with cousins. We love our little Eric man!  He is super intelligent and loves to play card games wth grandma!  Grandma loves it, too!

Happy Birthday, little buddy!

 

Merik's Baptism

Yesterday, February 28th Merik was baptized by his grandpa Rick.  It was a nice meeting wherein Aunt Kendra played the piano, Scout led the music, Uncle Brach gave the baptism talk, Rafe and Henry were witnesses, I gave the confirmation talk, Grandpa Rick did the confirmation, Bishop Harrington gave some comments at the end  and that was that.  We had a number of people come to support Merik and it was a nice baptism.  

I feel bad that we did not get any better pictures than these.  I snapped this just shortly before they went down into the font.  Aunt Sarah captured the kids picture.  I am so thankful for that!  Aren;t they all so cute?

 

Parade of Homes

The third week of February we took a few days to drive down to the St. George Parade of Homes.

I was super excited to go since it's been a couple of years.  It was just a quick trip but I really enjoyed getting away from home after my surgery.  We were able to use Kathy's disabled sticker to park close to different places.  That was such a help for my knee!

We may be in the market for a new home if we can sell ours.  I have been feeling strongly that we need to downsize and have a home all on one level.  Since my surgery I have learned the difficulty of getting up and down the stairs when I am not in good health.  It would be nice to have a home where our bedroom and laundry are all on one level.  It would be nice to have a home where it would be easier to grow old in.

We walked through site a few homes and decided that this floor plan could work for us with a few minor changes.  We would need to add more storage and an exercise room.  The home was decorated so cute with a lot of color which I also loved. 

I am not in love with the elevation of the front but maybe an architect could change it up for us.

Anyway, it is all just a pipe dream unless we could find someone to purchase our home.  Hopefully family.