Fun, Fun, Fun

How does a normal night of watering flowers turn into this..

 Sawyer is bringin water over to me in this bucket to wash off my toes! (and I am not sure what Lauren is doing!!)

I guess it turned into a pretty good night!

Don't Shoot Your Eye Out!

For Christmas Erik just HAD to get Lauren a BB Gun, and we haven't done anything with it until just now! Erik was glowing with pride when he was telling Lauren how to shoot the gun! And dear sweet Lauren is such a girly girl, but she enjoyed it because her dad enjoyed it!!

Enjoying the weather!

We were a  little late getting our pump going, and so when the girls saw the "sprinkles" as Lauren calls them, the girls had to play in/with the water!

I didn't get a picture of how it started, but it includes Erik and the girls in the sand box making mud, or as Erik would say making the perfect consistency of sand and water to make a sand castle! So after getting sand in places I won't name we stripped the girls down.

 This is a better view! Haha! We finally got the swimsuits on :)

Nothing better than playing with the hoses, and soaking up some sun!

Trimmin' Tree's

Erik loves to work in the yard, and make improvments where ever he can. So this year was the year for trimming tree's! I didn't get any before and after shots, but he did wonders on our Lilac tree!

 When trimming tree's there has to be a clean up crew, and that job was given to Lauren and I... wait, did I say Lauren, I really just meant I - if I am putting it that way I suppose I should say me!
Lauren just played in the truck the whole time! But she had so much fun in there, and it makes my heart happy because she was having a great time, I remember those times when I should have been helping my mom and dad, but played instead! She did have a ball and entertained herself for about 3 hours you know singing, dancing, writing notes, reading stories, bossing someone around on the phone, and all sorts of fun stuff!

 She did take a little time away from playing to get a picture with her mom!

So I wasn't completely honest when I said Lauren didn't help, because apparently I have proof that she is carrying a branch. But I thought this picture was so funny because we have a book called "Sometimes I like to curl up in a ball" and this picture looks just like one of the illustrations in that book.

See for yourself! This part always makes me giggle because that little mole looks so silly!

 Sawyer gratefully slept through most of the tree trimming fun, but came out at the end just in time to catch up on her Wyoming Game and Fish Regulations!

 She just loves her Wyoming Game and Fish book!

 This is what happens when I say "say cheese".... I get nothing! Ah well, they are still cute anyways!

Lauren's Dance Recital

Lauren had her 2nd dance recital of the year on April 26! Lauren loves dance and she loves her teacher Miss Candida! The songs that Lauren danced to were Bumble Bee Boogie and Every Girl can be a Princess. I am writing this post a month late, and Lauren has still got those dances memorized! Lauren is so funny when she gets nervous, she either sticks her finger in her nose (makes me so proud) or she sticks her tounge out and moves it around! Haha, I am sure I never did anything embarrasing like that when I was younger!

It was so fun to watch Lauren up on stage and to see how much braver she has gotten since her last recital! Erik is so funny and always tells Lauren that she needs to be a basketball player and not a dancer! One night I heard Erik in the bedroom with Lauren playing with her dolls and in a girly voice to play the part of one of her dolls he said " basketball is so much better than dance, you should probably play basketball and be cool like me huh?!" Haha! Their doll conversation continued on, and who knows what else they talked about!! I think after the dance recital Erik thought that dance would be acceptable for a few more years!!

Easter

This year Easter started at Grandma Jolley's house with an early visit Saturday afternoon from the Easter Bunny! We were in the kitchen and heard a knock on the door, my niece Kynlee went to answer it and all she found was a note with some candy!  The Easter Bunny heard that Kynlee, Kaya, and Kysar were at Grandma's house for the weekend and wanted to make a special visit! So we gathered everyones baskets and jackets and started the egg hunt!

 Trying to get a picture of all of them!

 Ready, Set, Go...

 Some serious egg and candy hunting going on here!

 Sawyer could have cared less about the eggs and candy laying all over the grass, she was just happy to be outside!

 Sneaky Easter Bunny!

 Beautiful Kaya!

 Sawyer just lollygagging around :)

 Mr. Kysar

 After the Easter Bunny's visit and finding all the eggs Kynlee, Kaya, and Kysar were happy with his visit, but no exactly sure if it was the Easter Bunny or not! They were out on the tramp looking through their baskets and Kaya wispered to me "we think that Grandpa was the Easter Bunny!" They had been doing some investigation and thought that since Grandpa was in the computer room - he typed up the note and then hid all the eggs and went to the front door, knocked on the door and ran around to the back door and into the house. I assured her that he wasn't that sneaky and Kysar even recalled that Grandpa was sitting at the table when we heard the knock at the door! But the kids were still determined to investigate the situation!!

The Suspect

 The real Easter Bunnies..

 Are cover was never blown, but the kids enjoyed trying to solve the case!

Easter Morning:

Lauren was so excited for Easter morning! Erik worked that night so he got home at 7:15ish and woke Lauren up to see what the Easter Bunny left! It was so cute because she was still half asleep, but so excited about what she saw outside! So we hurried and but her in some pants and slippers and went outside!

 Lauren was so enthusiastic when she would find a little pile of candy and eggs! It is so funny how much of a girly girl she is! But her enthusiasm makes it all worth while!!

 Again, Sawyer didn't find much excitment in finding candy all over the grass she just enjoyed being outside. Little stinker anyways!

Lauren's findings :)

It was a great Easter weekend and enjoyed going to Stake Conference and listening the the uplifting speakers! Then we went to Grandma Debbie's and Grandpa Steve's for a yummy lunch and the Grandma and Grandpa Jolleys for dinner. Hope everyone had a happy Easter!