Easter

 We had a really nice Easter

Mike asked the kids if they thought they were too old to do an Easter egg hunt - they said, "NOOOOOOOO!" Mike filled most of the eggs for the egg hunt, but I helped a little bit

Here is the beginning of the actual egg hunt - it was pretty wild! We had the hunt indoors this year since it was still pretty chilly and soggy in the backyard

Dorie watching the chaos

The kids and Dorie with the Easter baskets

Trying out the Easter filters

All the excitement wore Dorie out

After putting the house back together, we headed up to Sunday dinner. My mom had found directions on how to make these cute bunny-shaped napkins, and Kate folded them

Decorating the cake

 Monty wasn't feeling well, so Beth and her kids stayed home. We celebrated again two weeks later with Monty and V.

A delicious dinner!

A slice of the yummy strawberry cake

Two weeks later - V and Monty ready for their egg hunt!

Beth had gotten them such fun surprises for their Easter baskets!

Spring Break

 This year we stayed home for Spring Break

We went to see the Dungeons and Dragons movie in the theater

Sam had a consultation with the Orthodontist. He will probably get started with braces this summer

We played some Jackbox games, including "Talking Points" pictured here

Playing with the ratlings

It snowed quite a bit for the first few days of spring break!

Dorie is so over the snow

Ev dancing in the snow

Shenanigans

New achievement unlocked for Nora - driving through a drive-through

Nora made a lot of progress on the giant crocheted mushroom

Sweet Dorie

The kids really wanted to go to the "Dinosaur Museum" since it had been so long since we had last visited

Nora had been hanging out with friends earlier, and they wanted to straighten her hair to see what it would look like, so that is why her hair looks so different

Trying to make the weirdest dinosaurs possible

Sam found a video game

You are never too old to enjoy the sand and water table

Nora wanted Ev to re-create this old photo of her with the baby dinosaur

The shark mouth!

Driving in Utah can sure be beautiful

Ev's 15th birthday also happened the week of spring break! She had some special visitors from my past come to visit...

Kitty Cat and family

Kitty Cat, his wife Belina, and their son Owen. I sewed these when I was younger, and they were a big part of my childhood.

She picked sushi for her birthday dinner, and Fiiz for the treat

For her activities we played Rock Band

and watched some episodes of Pui Pui Molcar, a funny Japanese show about cars that are also guinea pigs