Easter and the "Intense" Egg Hunt

This Easter was really nice! We had a wonderful dinner together about 5:30 and then Dave insisted that all the guys do the dishes for the girls. At first we protested but then they were all so sweet and insistent that we accepted their kindness and just relaxed!!! : ) After dessert we had the Easter egg hunt! This year I thought it would be a more relaxed so of "calmer" hunt because Andy and Michelle and the grand kids were up in Idaho with Michelle's parents and I figured without the "little" ones there it would just be more that way. Well was I ever wrong!!!

This year was what I would call "ultimate" egg hunt! It was each man for their own, and it was all out "war". As you can see in the last picture. Dan came out the conquerer with one of the eggs that was hidden in the front room vent, but if you asked Melissa or Lindsay they would tell you Daniel cheated. It is simply NOT fair when a guy uses his strength to win! We caught Dave taking a break to unload his pockets because they were too full at one point. But the one thing that ALL would agree on was, that it was a blast!

We had so much fun just being together, and were glad that we were able to be with people that mean so much to us, and that we love and care about so much to enjoy this special day!

The true meaning of Easter is what is REALLY important and that is that Jesus Christ did rise on the 3rd day and we will ALL be able to live again after we pass from this Earth. How grateful I am for our Savior Jesus Christ, for his atonement and for the knowledge that he died for us and most importantly that HE LIVES! That he was resurrected as we will all be because of Him!

Coloring Eggs

Every year we have so much fun coloring eggs the day before Easter!
Through the years our numbers have diminished form 6 to now the three of us, but we still have just as much fun! This year there we 12 different colors in the package!!! That was amazing to me but there really were different shades etc. We even tried "mixing" some colors to make our own. That was interesting!!! I love the vibrant bold spring colors, they make me happy just to look at them!

Special Dinner!

On March 2nd Dave's sister Kristen and her husband Jason had our WHOLE family over for a wonderful spagetti dinner! It was amazing and the homemade sauce was delicious! We all had such a great time just talking and looking at family pictures together. Lily and Kaymi had a blast playing and running through the house laughing and chasing each other! Thanks so much Kristen and Jason, we truly had a wonderful time! It was just SO nice to see their cute house and all the fun things they had done with it.

Surgery : )

Well on Friday March 7th I had surgery on my right ankle to fix the split tears in my tendons. They also found a cyst in there and a bunch of red fluid that they removed. They have now fixed both of my ankles that had the same problem so I should be back doing all the things I love this summer which is what I was hoping for! : )
I guess if I have to have SO many surgeries in my lifetime at least the Lord has blessed me to heal quickly. I was not supposed to be able to have this one done until May but the left one has healed so well and gotten strong so quickly that I was able to go ahead on Friday. I was so excited about that! I really wanted to be biking and 4 wheeling and having fun this summer! : )

Thanks to everyone for taking care of me and remembering me in their prayers!

Exciting News

We had some SUPER exciting news announced to us on Friday the 22nd of February. We were all at our son's house, Andy and Michelle's for Andy's birthday celebration and our other son Daniel said he would like to take a group picture, so right when the camera was ready to flash he says, "hey by the way, we are going to have a baby in September."

We all started screaming and yelling. I couldn't believe it. I didn't know if they were just joking or not. We immediately jumped up and ran over and gave Rachel and him hugs and we were ALL so excited. So Dave and I are going to be grandparents for the 3rd time in September. This will be Daniel and Rachel's 1st baby and they are so excited. What wonderful news this was.

All the girls together!

Here are all of us girls at Daniels Birthday party. We just decided to get a picture of all of us together!

Sweethearts Dance

This is a new experience for us, but we have enjoyed so many other people sharing their blogs with us that we thought we would try it out for ourselves. Here is Lindsay our youngest with her date Alan Fish for the sweethearts dance at Spanish Fork High School on February 9th.