Easter & Spring Break 2013

The day before Easter we colored Easter eggs!

Then Easter morning we woke up and found our Easter baskets that the Easter Bunny had hidden.

We got ready, and travelled down to spend Easter with my family.  Easter afternoon, we went to Sand Creek and had a picnic with dutch oven food that Dason and Mom made and side dishes that we all contributed.  It was such a pretty spot!

Cammie and Briley:

Quinn, Bryce, and cousin Sydney posing on the cool rocks:

Cammie and Sydney:

Josh:

Mom and Isaac:

Quinn!  

Parker under the little rock tunnel by our picnic spot:

Sydney, Bryce, Josh, and Quinn:

There's little Briley!

Quinn climbing through a hole in the rock:

Briley and Quinn.  Cute cousins.

Marcie and little Bentlee:

The kids had lots of fun playing in the sand

After dinner we had a little Easter egg hunt.  Quinn got into finding those eggs:

Bryce had fun too

After dinner, everyone headed home and we headed to Green River to begin our Spring Break trip.  On the way through Capitol Reef, we made a stop to see the Goosenecks.  We need to come back and spend some time in Captiol Reef.  I grew up down there and went a lot, but it's been a long time!

We arrived in Green River and spent the night.  The next morning we were up in the morning to go to Goblin Valley.  The kids had been begging to come back ever since our trip a couple of years ago.  We had lots of fun hiking around and playing.

The boys found an Easter egg that someone had left behind.

Back at the hotel playing Blokus.

On our way home the next morning we explored around Green River a bit and found this cool river bank where the kids had fun throwing sticks and rocks in the river and playing with the sand and rocks.  We ate lunch at a little picnic ground there and then went home!

Bryce and Quinn in their Easter Bunny sunglasses! ha ha

March

Josh has been trying out snowboarding a little with one of his friends from our last neighborhood.  He went a couple of times last year, and a couple of more this year.  In March, he took Parker with him to give snowboarding a try.  (Isaac didn't want to - not his thing at all)  Parker went to the snowboarding class for a little while, then went out to practice with Josh and his friend Billy.  He did a great job!

One Sunday morning, Josh got a phone call from a lady in our church asking him if he would dress up like King Benjamin from the Book of Mormon and visit her class.  This was our quickly thrown together version of King Benjamin with a couple of sheets, a belt and some batting. Haha!  He was a hit, and he even came into our Sunday School class wearing the costume afterward.  It was funny to see the teachers' reactions to seeing King Benjamin walk into their class.  :)

Quinn went shopping with us one day and we got some of the coconut popsicles that Josh and I used to buy when we were dating.  Quinn got a strawberry one.  Yum!

For St. Patrick's day we had green pasta carbonara with salad.  I usually use the already-green spinach noodles, but forgot to buy them, so I just used a little food coloring this time. :)

Quinn really wanted to help Dad take out the garbage and recycling. :)  So cute!

One day I was watching my friend's daughter.  I found her and Quinn sitting on the steps looking at books.

I made little Mickey Mouse biscuits for dinner one night!  They were fun and yummy!

Isaac's fourth grade put on a play called "Going West".  Not a great picture.  Isaac stepped behind another boy right as I snapped it, then I had to quickly switch to video.