Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Easter

Easter was super fun this year!  The kids really got into it and it was so fun teaching them about why we celebrate Easter.  

Egg dying
ready for the hunt! 

hunting on the bushes in the river

Izzy loved hunting for eggs this year

The haul (a few jelly beans and lots of coins.  And by lots I mean they both ended up with $2.76.  :)  )

Happy girl carried around her "bunny beans" the rest of the day with an iron grip. 



Hiking, Dinner and Temple

Work has been crazy busy for Aaron, but we stole him a bit early one night and had some fun!  We went hiking in Rock Canyon, ate dinner at the picnic tables there and then did a temple swap (I went while he watched kids, then he went while I took kids home and put them to bed!).  It was so fun and definitely much needed family time! 



taking a break

strong boys

little beauty with a REAL smile

oh good!  i love the fake smile! 

my bigs and my little (soon to be littles...)

tree climbing crazies


the flowers were beautiful! 


all five of us in one picture!  it's a miracle! 

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

April

"April showers bring May flowers" was very true for us!  Lots of cloudy, rainy and even snowy days as the weather is trying to decide what season it wants to be.  We had fun anyway and took advantage of the sunny days!  

Once upon a time there was a princess....

who clearly needed more bows in her hair....

and was so beautiful! 

Sleepy morning girl.  P.S. I chopped my hair off! 

Love those clouds!  And that cute girl. 

Izzy looking at the bunnies at IFA.  We got 8 chicks.  Then one died.  So Aaron decided we needed 3 more.  Yes, folks.  We have 10 chickens over here.  That's a lot of eggs come September! 

General Conference was fun!  We set the kids up to watch in a tent, just like King Benjamin's people in the Book of Mormon.  

Aaron scrubbed the table while we listened.  He's such a good deep-cleaner. 

We had our whole Wilkinson fam over for lunch and the Sunday afternoon session.  Izzy loved baby Ellie.  Hooray.  Just in time! 

Here are Van and Ray (Goulding - he loves their boys, 6 & 4) at the park.  I LOVED spring break.  The weather was perfect.  We didn't have the time restraints of school.  We had a blast doing whatever we felt like doing.  I miss Emery when she's gone in the afternoon. 

Cute girls reading on the couch.  

Playing in the mud! 

Aaron putting together the new kiddie table!  My favorite thing ever!  
Izzy loves it.  She'd eat every meal out there if the weather would just stay warm and dry! 

Izzy would eat an entire cantelope if I'd let her.  She's a melon monster! 


I love these 3.  They really love each other.  And that makes their mom so happy. 

Cute sisters. 

Zupas with Grandma.

Van shoveling his salad.  

I adore this kid. 

Silly Izzy... in my sweater.  In Zupas.  She threw up in the car.  And then was sick throwing up for 5 days and had an ear infection.  Not our best week.  

Van trying to set MountainWorks on fire with some flint and steel.  

Rosy-cheeked, feverish and sick baby. 



Everyone got a touch of what Izzy had.  Van was having a terrible day and then he fell asleep in the car at about 12:30 on our way to Provo to see the allergist.  You know there's something off if this kid falls asleep in the middle of the day.  

She ran and grabbed these glasses during dinner one night and wouldn't take them off.  

More of the sicky.  She fell asleep here about 2 minutes after I took this.

She made a recovery and is back to her cute self though! 
We went to cute Adalee's baby blessing.  We are so excited for my bestie Lacee and her hubby Daniel! 



She loves to squish faces... hers and other peoples.  



Aaron and the kids did some fishing. 

Izzy and I did some watching.  :)

Hello... this is right out our back door.  I love where we live! 

We got dirt!!  We are set to get our grass in in about 2-3 weeks!  HOORAY!!!!