Easter & General Conference Weekend

Easter weekend fell on general conference weekend this year which was kind of nice. Danny was supposed to fly out for an in person interview at Penn State but because of all the snow that has been falling lately his interview was postponed until later this month. I'm a bit relieved because I didn't want him to miss out on our easter basket hunt Saturday morning. Which I didn't get any pictures at all of that because we happened to have a rough night the night before and felt so exhausted that morning that the kids all searched and found theirs while we were still trying to wake up for the day. We did eventually give clues to Addie and Hudson because we hid their baskets very very well. 

We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and turned on the first session of general conference while heavy snow was falling down outside. By the time the afternoon session was on the snow had stopped and both Danny and I felt like we just needed to get outside to help clear our heads from some stress that life is throwing our way.

It started by Danny going out and shoveling the driveway.

Four of the kids were next to join him.

I told Danny he should help build a bunny snowman for Easter and this was their creation.

Crazy boys.

We ended out Saturday evening dying eggs.

We started our Sunday morning with our traditional empty tomb rolls and started the first session of general conference.

The kids all agreed that this cuddle moment needed to be captured.

We had invited the Aldrich family to join us for the evening session and for dinner so before they came over we snuck in our own little Easter egg hunt since we hadn't done that yet. I didn't get any pictures of dinner with them but we made our sausage dip and had it over rice and chips which was great because even picky kids like this meal.

The only picture I got of our evening with them were these blurry dance party that we did with the glow sticks the kids got from watching general conference. All in all it was a great weekend. I'm glad Danny was able to be here for it all.

April Fools

I didn't get a picture or a video of the April Fool's joke I pulled on the kids and I wish I had. I tried it out on Grant first by screaming for his help. I was in my room with my hands over a box and I told him that there was a mouse inside it and I needed his help. I told him that I needed him to wack the mouse with a shoe when I released the box. He was so worried but also so willing to help me even though he was terrified. I was quite proud of how brave he was. I counted to three and when I picked up the box he threw his shoe at the mouse . . . and then laughed so hard because it wasn't the mouse he was expecting. It was a computer mouse. He laughed even harder when I told him it was April Fool's day and immediately wanted me to do it to the others. We both tried it on Hudson and the twins next. I was surprised that Hudson also was willing to use his shoe to help us. The twins kind of stood back and watched. Addie happened to walk up because she was hearing our screaming so she saw the trick as it was being done with the others or she would've been our next victim. The kids all thought it was so funny and couldn't wait until Danny came home from work. Hudson was too eager to try it so he did it to his friend who came to our house but it was right when Danny walked in so we weren't able to carry out our joke on him since he saw Hudson doing it right before.

About an hour later I called Grant up and asked him what he had done to the bathroom since he was the last to use it. He came up with all the kids plus the neighbor kid as I asked why the toilet was smoking. They were so confused until they looked in the bathroom. I think I'm a fan of these silly and harmless pranks and apparently so are they.

The weather thought it would be a great day to participate with April Fool's by bringing back winter after we've had several days of warm Spring weather lately. I guess second winter is now here.

Quinnie

Bismarck Temple

I was able to join Addie and the youth on their temple trip to Bismarck, and so grateful that I did.

Addie & Sevel

Me and Addie.