Easter Sunday

The kids had a good Easter. Kate loved it and Tagg got the hang of things by the end of the day. We started off with a Easter egg hunt with out play group. The kids loved it!! There were so many kids at the egg hunt it was fun to see them all get so excited. Then on the following Saturday my family had a party. We went over to my cousins house to enjoy yummy food with alot of people we love.
After dinner all the kids got to color eggs. They loved that part. kate was very particular about what color what egg was. She put stickers all over her eggs and then wrote on them for everybody. Tagg was only interested in throwing them!! He had fun but after about three broken eggs all over Tagg got to enjoy the rest of the egg coloring with daddy in the house playing ball. He loved that tough.!!! Then after egg coloring and food the kids had a massive egg hunt upstairs. My dad filled about 200 eggs (there may have been more) and my cousins brought some other eggs and fun things and we hid them. There were only about 8 kids finding all those eggs. Kate and Tagg got so many eggs that the Easter bunny did not have to bring more he just hid the ones they already had!! It was a lot of fun spending the day with family.

On Easter Sunday the kids woke up to fun surprises. They both got some underwear and socks and one toy. Kate got a new Easter dress to wear to church. We sat down and told them the meaning of Easter and what it represents. Kate got little tidbits here and there but Tagg was to distracted from the candy he knew was on top of the fridge. It is such a big responsibility we have of teaching our children about the church. The example we have to set for them just blows my mind. Heavenly Father must have complete trust in us that we will teach his children to come home to him!!! I just feel blessed that he has entrusted me and Jake with the two wonderful children that we have.


Kate and Tagg in their cute church clothes.

Tagg finding eggs at home

Kate coloring her eggs

Kate and Tagg at playgroup finding eggs

BBQ with the Cotters

A few days ago we were ready to have a BBQ. It was still a little cold but we had alot of fun!!! The Cotters came over to enjoy the hot dogs and Marshmallows with us. They have been such good friends to us. We are really going to miss them. Kate and Kellen have become quite the little pair! By the end of the night pretty much everything was covered in marshmallow and everybody was tired. Thanks Cotters for coming over to enjoy the night with us.

Jake, Tagg, Kellen, and Kate


Kellen and Tagg

Aaron cami and Kellen

Trying the impossible!!!

We are tying the impossible with kate. We are trying to get her to stop sucking her thumb! It is hard and really heart breaking. We got thumb on, its a nail polish sort of thing that burns your mouth when you suck your thumb. Jake tried it and said that it does burn. She would just keep it in her mouth and you could tell it was burning her but she was not giving up. She kept sucking and sucking, but now she is doing pretty good during the day. At first is was a real struggle trying to put that on her thumb. Now she is sad but lets us put it on. She tries really hard to not suck it. She is doing great!!!! If we can get it down to just at night then we are headed in the right direction. If anybody has any success stories let us know!!!

Priceless!!

(Mine almost looked this good)

I have never been much of a prankster. I just am not creative enough or patient enough. Yesterday Jake surprised me and came home. (Can you believe it I finally got to see my husband on a Wednesday!!!!!) I decided that sense we are all home I would do something fun for April Fools. I decided to make a green bean hamburger sorta like thing and then put it in a cupcake pan with dyed mashed potatoes on top...(I remembered that Amy did it last year, thanks Amy). Kate was so excited that we were having cupcakes!! Jake knew something was up but did not know what. I put one cupcake on Kates plate and we said a prayer. After the prayer Kate went to open her cupcake and when the casserole spilled out she had a surprised look on her face and then immediately got angry and stormed out of the kitchen. She would not talk to us for a good 10 min. Then of course she would not eat it!!! It was so funny that she got so mad. I loved it. Next year I know I am going to do something....I just need to figure out what that is.

Sinks Canyon and Lander

Last weekend we went to Lander to find a place to live. We found a cute house with 2 acres. It is Jakes dream to own horses one day and he can now. We like it there. While we were there we visited sinks canyon. It is so beautiful up there. The river sinks down into the ground and about a half a mile down the road it comes back up and continues down the mountain. The kids were pretty good. It was a quick trip up and back and a lot of time in the car looking at houses. I think the kids were ready to come home. Our house here in Utah is still in the process of getting sold. We were going to close on the 1st of April but then they needed an extension. It still looks like we can close on it but it will take a little longer than we thought.

Sinks Canyon in Lander

Jake and Kate hiking where the river sinks into the ground.

The House we are going to live in

The kids liked watching the big windmills on the way home.

Kate in the Car...She was very good in the car

Tagg looks happy but it was a long ride home for him.

Logan and Smithfield

A week or so ago me and the kids decided to go visit great grandpa and grandma Stephens, and Aunt Chris and Uncle Rick. We had so much fun up there. G and G let us stay with them. The kids loved it when Grandpa and Grandma would read to them. We stoped by Rick and Chris's for a few min it was alot of fun. My cousins baby was there and the kids loved playing with her. Then we went up to Stay with G and G. It was so much fun. The next day we went to visit Jason and NiCole. It was fun to see Kate and Tagg play with Cayden and Lexi. Kate still asks about him. Kate got to show G and G how good she is at riding her bike. Then Grandpa and Grandma took us to the little zoo they have in Logan. It was really cold but Kate liked seeing the animals.

Great Grandpa reading to the kids

Kate and Uncle Rick

Chris and Trinity

Kate on her bike
The wolves at the zoo

BBQ, Fires, and Family

A couple of weeks ago we had a BBQ down in the backyard of Jakes Parents house. It was a little cold but alot of fun. We roasted hot dogs and had marshmallows but after 3 hot dogs nobody felt like marshmallows. Harvey and kate loved playing out side and running around and Tagg just played with uncle Creeds soccer ball. Jenine and Brandon and left there Christmas tree in the back yard so Kate decided that we should put that on the fire. (She had decided earlier that she was the person that put twigs on the fire to keep it going). We got everything and everybody back so that nobody got hurt. Then Jake threw it on the fire. It went up fast and big. I looked around to find Kate and she was running around the corner of the yard with her hands on her ears!! She did not like that, and when it was done burning she told dad to move the trunk out so it would not do that again. It was fun!!

Kate and Tagg

Grandpa Stephens

Uncle Creed and Tagg

The chirstmas tree

Kate and Harvey

Baby Bears!!!

Kate and Tagg got to hold a baby bear at the Sportsman Expo on Saturday!!! They loved it....you can't tell by this pictures but they had fun. That is a real live baby bear Kate is holding. It was so cute and Kate says it was such a nice bear and that is was pretty.
The sportsman expo was busy but fun. Jake got to see his idol Cameron Hanes. He is a hunting running fool jut like Jake. Joe and Jake listened to the seminar that Cameron gave. Then we walked through the million and two people to look at all the crap people had. It was fun. Then we came home and relaxed. We all ways love the weekends that daddy is home.