Easter - Better late then never

This Easter weekend we got the joy of having mom and Randy come and visit. The Saturday before Easter Randy and mom were going to leave. We of course packed it in. Randy took Abby to her soccer game while Alyson and I took Braydon and Cailah to the primary activity day. Al and I were in charge of a 15 minute station for the groups of kids. We came up, with help from the internet to egg the bishops door. So we cut out paper shaped like eggs and had each of the kids draw a picture or write a note to the bishop...he was a brand new bishop so it was even more fun. We took each group and snuck to the bishops office and quietly taped the eggs to his door. The best part was the bishop was there and he thought someone was knocking the first time we showed up and started to open up the door so we all ran and hid. The kids LOVED it. The bishop got the idea but a couple of times still started to open the door which was WAY fun. He loved it and talked about it at the pulpit on Sunday and then again thanked the kids during primary. He left them up that Sunday. It was really fun and SOOOO easy. I love easy things.

Anyhow because of all of this we were a little late getting eggs died and mom and Randy were going to leave Saturday afternoon. Mom and I ran to the store to get the eggs, we called Alyson to ask how many she wanted and she said well there are four kids so if we have 1/2 dozen for each kid that should be good. It was a good thing Randy was listening because he proceeded to speak up and say that wasn't going to work and that he WOULD be dyeing easter eggs. The kids, yes this includes Randy had a great time. When they were dry we wanted to get a picture of them on display with the kids. So Randy started picking out the eggs "he thought" were the best to put on display.....can you guess which ones he picked out. :O) LOL Yes your right...they were all his...the kids of course got a kick out of it. It was very much fun.

The BEST Easter eggs made. :O)

Cailah is there...she is just hiding behind the eggs next to Alyssa and in front of me.

Grease Lighting

Alyssa had a choir festival this past Friday and the high school . A lot of the songs they sung were from Grease. So they were suppose to dress up in poodle skirts or 50-60's garb. We of course didn't have a poodle skirt so we improvised with rolled up jeans, white t-shirt, head band, high heel shoes, and of course obnoxious makeup. :O) I did not get to see her before left since I was working but Alyson took some pictures for me. She still looked cute when I got home from work and her lips were still stained red. :O) More to come when I get some pictures and video from her concert coming up.

Home Depot

Al and I took the kids to Home Depot this Saturday for the kids workshop...of course we mixed up the times and they were too late to do it however we did find a nice piece of wood to finish up our project. (Making Burt's old piece of furniture into a new and improved piece to put in Al's front hall to store backpacks, shoes, etc.. in an effort to keep it clean...yes we are still trying :O) You can look at a picture of it on Al's blog). Anyhow while we were in Home Depot Alyssa found these cord clip things. They are very cool and the new and improved way to keep the kids in line at the store....look closely at their hands. Oh and in case your wondering the kids actually were having fun...they posed for this picture....looking distressed.

We decided to leave the little one (Delayna) alone and as you can see she LOVED IT!!

Talent Show

Alyssa and 4 of her friends performed Jordan Sparks, One Step at a Time for the talent show at school. They each took turn singing solo and then singing together. This is the section where Alyssa sang with Jordan (her friend, not to be confused with Jordan Sparks). She is currently practicing to try out for a solo for the last choir concert of the year. She loves to sing....if she could only get a little confidence she would ROCK!!! :O) I'm trying to get her to believe in herself....so far she doesn't believe me when I tell her she sound good....shocking I know for a teenager not to believe her mom. :O). The girls were very cute. They each had their own color of shirt on with a matching color bow and eyeshadow the same color. They may not be professional singers but they were sure cute. The pictures didn't come out very good but you can still see their cuteness.

Spring Break and Birthday

This past week was Spring Break. Mom, Dad, and Ryan came to Nampa Friday night. We got up played some tennis and then headed out for Utah. Mike and Al came to Twin Falls with us and we stopped at Shoshone Falls. They had already opened up the irrigation canals so there wasn't as much water flowing but it was still very pretty.

Our cute little hatchling.

Mike and Al played in Twin while Alyssa, Mom, Dad, Ryan, and I headed to Grandma's in Utah. We had a fun weekend. Monday we all went skiing. We had great snow but it wasn't the best learning weather for Alyssa. She was a trooper, we ended up going up too far on one lift the first time. It was mogels and 2-3 ft powder all the way down. It took Alyssa about two hours to make it down the first time.....lots of frustration and lots of snow. But after a nap and lunch with mom I went up with her one more time. She ended up saying it was fun. I think she just had fun when Ryan and Trev were helping her....not so much with me :O)

Tuesday we bowled and played miniature golf before Alyssa and I had to come back Tuesday night because I had to work Wednesday morning. Mom and dad came back to Nampa Thursday night. Ryan and dad took Alyssa to play tennis and I met them at the courts after work. It was fun. Alyssa is so excited about tennis and is really trying to improve. She wants to go play any time we can....LOVE IT!!! She said she was going to show the coaches that they made a mistake putting her on the B team. Although there is only like 1 7th grader on the A team...still I LOVE her attitude....THAT'S MY GIRL!!!

We celebrated my birthday on Saturday with laser tag, video games, Chinese dinner, and fruit pizza (YUMMY!!) It was a very nice break and good fun with the family.





Mom mentioned the other day that as she was going through old pictures she noticed how many of them consisted of me being picked up, thrown, or tackled by the boys. I wondered why this was and Alyson said it was because they could lift me and that she was too heavy for them to pick her up...Ryan of course took that as a challenge and proved her wrong. Then proceeded to pick me up and flip me around.