Crazy Utah Trip

So we just went on a very long trip to Utah. We left Wed. the 6th about 5:30pm. (That is another story in itself. We were going to leave right when Tanner got home from school at 3:30, but about 3:15 as I was loading the last thing into the car, I told Kirt to make sure he had his temple recommend. He checked and said he had it, but then he noticed that it expired last month. So we had to wait around for 2 hours while he got it renewed. Thankfully we were able to get it done so he could attend the weddings.) We drove about 4 hours and stayed the night in Deer Lodge.
Thursday we got up and drove the rest of the way to SLC. We got there about 3:30 and quickly took the kids to the pool. We thought we had enough time to do that before Lacey's 6pm session. We did not have as much time as we thought, so we didn't get the kids to Kirt's parents hotel for Lindsey to watch. I just dropped Kirt off and he went by himself. I'm glad he was able to be with his sister, but I was sad because I haven't been to a live session in a long time and was looking forward to going.
Friday was Lacey and Mark's wedding and pictures and luncheon. Always so much fun with whinny kids. We went to the children's museum with the Hatches afterwards. Then the 3 hour drive to Vernal.
Saturday we helped set up for the reception and visited with Kirt's grandparents. As we were setting up for the reception, Lindsey and Kyle announced that they were getting married in August. Congrats.
Sunday we went to church in Vernal and then drove out to Alpine to see my friend Candice and her family. It was so great to see them. The kids had so much fun in her back yard swinging from the tree and hypnitizing chickens. We went to visit Kirt's cousin Ben in his enourmous house in Cedar Hills.
Monday we went to the zoo with the Hatch family and Aaron and Kim. Afterwards we got to see our friends the Hilbigs and Travis. It is great to catch up with everyone.
Tuesday we got up and drove to a cabin at Bear Lake. Everyone came. There were 20 adults and 15 kids crammed into one house. It didn't matter that it was a pretty big house. That is alot of people. It was tons of fun. We stayed there Wed. and Thurs. too.
Friday we got up, cleaned the cabin and went to Logan.
Saturday was Brett and Kristie's wedding and luncheon. We were going to go up to Pocotello for the reception that night and stay there, but we had had it. So we left after the luncheon and drove all the way home. It was a long drive, but it is so nice to be home. It was great to see everyone!

Garret and I Go To NY

Garret and I got to go see Jessy, Josh and Will in NY the end of April. We had so much fun just hanging out. We played outside, went to the park, went for walks, and just enjoyed each others company. I really wish that I lived closer to my sister. Thanks to Kirt for watching Katie and Tanner so that I could go and play with her.

The airforce museum. Josh took Garret and Will while Jessy and I went to a baby shower. When we got back, all Garret kept saying was copter. So Jessy and I took him back. It happened to be free this day so we let him go back and play in the helicopter.

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Playing at the park. This was a really cool park.

Will and Garret in the bathtub,

Easter 2009

 Katie got a dress

 Tanner got a DS

 Garret got batteries for his Bob the Builder trucks

Geocaching Easter Egg Hunt

Grammy and uncle Jon put together an Easter Egg hunt for the kids using geocaching. (She is really into geocaching in case you didn't know this.) She wrote a rhyming clue for the kids and they had to find and easter egg. Then inside each easter egg there were latitude and longitude cooridinates to find the next clue. The kids put the cooridinates in the GPS machine and then we had to drive somewhere. When we got to the next place, Grammy read another rhyming clue that lead to another egg with coordinates and so on and so forth. I think Grammy had more fun than anyone, but the kids thought it was pretty cool.
The 1st clue was in Grammy and Pompa's front yard. The egg was buried in Grammy's flower bed.

This clue lead us to the stake center where the egg was hiding in a tree.

Then from there we were lead to the kids school. They found a clue buried in the rocks by the play ground toys.

Reading the cooridinates found in the egg at the school and programing them in the GPS machine.

The next clue was found in the woods up by an old Christmas tree. Katie found the x that marked the spot to find the easter egg.

The final clue was found here. It lead us back to Grammy and Pompa's house. There was an Easter egg hunt with candy and money instead of geocaching clues once we got there.

Checking out their spoils. Thanks Grammy and Jon. This was lots of fun.

Coloring Easter Eggs

Katie Learns to Ride a Bike!

A couple of weeks ago I took Katie out to try and teach her to ride her bike without her training wheels. I thought it would take forever, but I ran behind her a few times and then she just took off by herself. She needed help starting for a few days, but she kept practicing and soon had that too. I guess sometimes her stubbornness and persistence are good qualities.

Happy Birthday Grandma Buffalow

Hope you have a wonderful birthday Grandma. We love you.