Spring Break

 spring break came and went in a hurry it seems!  it came in cold and ended up very warm and dry.  pray for april showers!  gma moncur came for a march birthday visit for the kids.  she decorated spring, sugar cookies with each of them and came to church with us.  we played basketball and stayed in out of the wind on monday trying to get ellee feeling better.  bentley went on his first job assignment, picking rocks.  then she had to go...

the the weather changed and we were outdoors as much as possible!  we rode bikes and walked and the kids had a blast with the sidewalk chalk.  bentley and bridon made a monster named 'bob' and emerson made rainbows.   we had a little, 10 year old 2nd cousin over to babysit one afternoon so i could go running and work on some projects. the kids had lots of fun with her and each got to go to a friend or cousin's house or have them here during the week. and there was yard work to do as well!

bentley got his first time to drive a tractor by himself.  the old hydro spraying weeds with dad.  he was also hired by two of the neighbors to feed their animals during the week, so we would go with him sometimes...or sometimes he went on his own on his bike.  he would beg to go on the 4-wheeler too.  him and bridon have an obsession with it.  i hide the key and use it for leverage every now and then.  soon the water will be in the ditch though, and it will be gone until they're old enough to ride it for work!

 on thursday, we took the kids to a movie...wreck-it ralph.  it was actually pretty cute and fun.  everyone fared well.  we will have to do it again!  we had an unplanned dinner appointment from the missionaries that nite, so ben bought a papa murphey's pizza.  he put it right on the element and caught the cardboard pan on fire.  it ended up being pretty funny...and smokey! :)

 ellee started feeling better after she stayed in a few more days.  no more coughing and congestion and snot!  she loves to grab things now and put stuff in her mouth.  she is adorable, and i can't believe how fast time is flying by.  now, we are working on sleeping thru the nite.  she slept up to 4 a.m. the last two nites.  crossing my fingers for sure...it is about time!!

 we enjoyed celebrating easter together!  gma mcintyre hosted a dinner and egg hunt friday nite.  bridon was in love with the monster he got and cracked us up when he took a big hunk bite out of a hard boiled egg that he thought was candy.  notice in the other picture that emerson has two, big uncles' hands hovering over her basket trying to get her to give them her reeses eggs.  i'm not sure their success.  we dyed eggs here at our place too and had a hunt and baskets.  the kids got t-shirts and t-shirt paint to make thier own shirts.  they loved this!!  bentely got into the painted t-shirt thing when i found an old one from my childhood de-junking the basement a few weeks ago that i gave to him. 

we always do a special egg hunt as well that has symbols from  the resurrection and atonement.  we were able to enjoy a dinner with the collett family that day as nathan came home from his mission. 

i really enjoyed having all my kids around me for the week.  it felt like summer!  i love each one of them and want to help them become the best they can be.  a funny moment from bridon...of course.  ben asked him to do something on sunday and he said 'k' a couple of times.  ben said 'there is no k, bridon!' bridon resonds, 'there is K dad!  it's in the alphabet.  it comes before l!!'