Easter 2014

To start, just a cute thing about Quinn.  For some reason he decided that he loves green apples!

Every time we go to the grocery store, he asked to get green apples. 

The night before Easter, we colored our Easter eggs. :)

Excited Bryce:

And excited Quinn:

We tried a marble dye kit along with the regular kind.

Quinn showing off his eggs:

Bryce with his eggs:

I think these were mine:

Easter morning, we got up before church and found

our Easter baskets.

Isaac with his basket

Quinn with his basket:

Bryce with his basket:

Josh with his:

And Parker with his:

After church we had an Easter egg hunt in the yard:

Wow, our chickens are getting festive. ;)

Oh, and we picked some of our fresh asparagus!

For our Easter dinner we had crab legs and artichokes.

There's Isaac with one of his eggs! 

And not Easter related, but here is Quinn with one of his cute 

drawings of a car.

Spring Break 2014: Part Three - Temple Square

For our next Spring Break activity, we rode the train up to Temple Square with Josh's parents who were visiting.

Waiting for the train:

Quinn loves riding the train!

 April is my favorite favorite time to visit Temple Square because

the flowers are so beautiful.  We walked around the temple grounds

and also went to see the Joseph Smith movie.

Afterward we went and got an ice cream cone treat. 

They had an old childhood favorite: black licorice flavor!

Sounds weird, but it is SO good!

And a pretty sunset back at home. :)

Spring Break 2014: Part Two - Topaz Mountain

After our trip to search for obsidian last year, we had been wanting to make another rock hounding trip.  So for our next Spring Break activity, we met my parents at Topaz Mountain down by Delta 

to see if we could find any topaz.

We knew the general area to go and had a few directions via the internet, but we really had

no idea what we were doing. :)  We looked around one area for awhile.  We found a few small

pieces in the sand.  It was cool because if you looked a certain way at the loose sand, you could see

the topaz pieces twinkling.  We tried looking for cracks in the rocks where they were supposed 

to be hidden, but we didn't find any that way.  

Eventually we spoke with some other rock hounders that were there and they pointed us in the direction of this shale type rock and told us a little bit about how to find them.  We still

didn't have much luck, but it was fun to hunt for them.  Next time we will try to do even

more research and come better prepared!

The kids had lots of fun playing in the rocks and looking for topaz.

Here are some of the pieces we got:

Grandma and Grandpa gave Quinn his birthday present while we were there.
He could not wait to get home and wait straight to the sand box to play with his

new tractors.