Easter

We had a great Easter!

We colored Easter eggs on Easter Eve.

We hunted for eggs and baskets on Easter morning.

Jack thought his basket might be in the crawl space.

Kenzie had to remove some giant legos to find her hidden basket.

The kids quietly played with toys while we watched conference.

In between conference sessions we went to my parents' house. We colored Easter Eggs. Then we ate a delicious dinner. The Crabtrees, Noels, and Holly and Ed were all there too. After getting dinner mostly cleaned up the kids hunted money eggs outside. This year most of the big girls (everyone older than Alli I think) didn't hunt. Ashlee and I thought they were crazy. We'd both still hunt if we were allowed too :)

I love how most of the pictures include the kids running. You have to be quick to find the most eggs, unless of course you're too fast and run past them all:)

He didn't even want to stop looking for eggs to look at me for the picture.

First egg count.

We didn't end up finding them all. Ashlee thought there were 10 less than there actually were (and she keeps track of how many have been found) and Mckaye hid some extra eggs with fruit and vegetables hidden inside. 

Easter was the day before my mom's birthday an 2 days before Doug's so we sang happy birthday to them. 

My dad got out the fire extinguisher even though we didn't put all the candles on that we needed to.

My mom didn't want to to blow out any candles so Doug did it all himself.

Home Again

I came home to a husband with a goatee :)

Here's my broken car.

and the missing light.

12 Year Old Trip

We spent the rest of the weekend at the beach, playing games and watching movies at the house, and a little shopping.

We were able to walk to this beach from the house.

The temperature was only in the low-mid 60s and the water was much colder than that. Jackson touched it with his toes and decided it was too cold for him. The rest of the kids and Lolly all swam though. 

Jack, Leah, Kenna, Allie Alexa, and Ashlee

Jackson loved making card towers. He got pretty good at it!

Ashlee was a fun aunt and played paddle ball with Jackson.

This is how he felt about shopping :) We went Venice Beach and shopped along the beach. 

They have walls set up for people to do graffiti. The artwork was pretty amazing.

Jack and Kenna wrestled a lot!

Kenna, Alli, Jackson

Everyone playing spoons.

I loved having more time with the sister who lives to far away!

It was such a fun trip! I loved spending the weekend with Jackson. Doug and the kids survived okay without me. Doug said it's hard to get much done with the kids around. They had soccer games that weekend, and the ground was snowy when Kenzie's games started.  Doug also took the kids to play in the snow with Konrad and they broke one of the lights in the car and dented it. Luckily Doug was able to fix it!