Easter Fun!

Okay these pictures are way out of order and I am not importing them again! I'm having technical difficulties lately. Easter weekend was very busy with THREE EASTER EGG HUNTS!!! Yes three. The kids enjoyed every minute of it and I don't want to think of all the cavities we are going to get as a result. Fun was inevitable, and excitement was contagious. These pictures are all out of order so bear with me as the pictures don't match the timeline.
Saturday was the Leadore Easter Egg Hunt where the Easter Bunny made an appearance. Surprisingly my two oldest girls were okay with a picture this year. Notice the snow all over the ground in the picture, like everyone else, we woke up to four inches of snow on the ground that morning. We dressed Haylee up in her bunny costume and took some cute pictures at home that day, I posted my favs. I couldn't post the pictures in their dresses, again with the technical difficulties. They are in their Easter dresses for the sidebar pictures. It was nice to listen to our general authorities on Saturday with my kids. I don't have them sit and listen intently on Saturday, one day of that nearly breaks them. But I listen to it through the day as I prepare for Sunday.
Sunday morning the Easter Bunny left some nice gifts this year, and an EGG HUNT for the kids in the house. They had a BLAST with that, the Easter Bunny hid them kind of hard this time so it took some time to find them! But the big surprise was that Mr. Easter Bunny surprised us all! He left bikes for all three of us girls (Haylee got jipped there). So we are looking forward to the nice sunny days where we can go outside and ride. We went to Grandma and Grandpa Bird's house after the first session of conference to find another EGG HUNT for the kids. It was nicer outside (by nicer I mean the snow was melted, the wind was still blowing us away) and the kids had a race to the finish one more time. I'm hoping we don't keep increasing the number of hunts each year, it seems to be a pattern here. I'm good with one, but what do I know I'm just the mom!

The Easter Bunny made these three girls happy!!!

Haylee was content as can be to play with the empty easter eggs:

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandama's House:

Cory said he needed a picture of his four girls:

My cute chubby bunny!

The not so scary Easter Bunny with Sadie, Lexi and cousin Abbie

Yea, I'm that bad-

I really have gotten in a bad habit of not getting my pictures on the computer and posting them. You all know that since the last post I had was two months ago or more. But I'm on track and I will be doing some back dating so bear with me as new posts from May and June appear as well as the current ones. I'm sorry for the lack of communication and ask forgiveness to all those I have not kept updated.
Today was a typical Sunday. We all get up and I work on breakfast/kid occupying while Cory gets ready for church and leaves the house by 8:30 a.m. Then I get the kids ready and put them in front of the TV watching a Living Scriptures movie while I fast and furiously get ready for church. We leave to get to church a little early so I can set up the Nursery for my class and be ready for kids at 10 a.m. I have eight kids in my Nursery and usually have a helper there but not always. Then I wrestle two girls who try to get candy out of Grandpa, Grandma and two uncles during sacrament meeting while Cory sits up in his appointed chair for his calling as Ward Clerk. By the time church is over I am beat, being 36 weeks pregnant does not help either. However today I had to be so grateful for my Sadie and her take on life. She is so smart and has such a sense of humor that gets me through these long days.
We were all outside this afternoon playing in the rock pile out by our house. Cory and I have resorted to spelling words we don't want Sadie to hear (I'm sure you have all done that). We were trying to decide what to do the rest of the afternoon and Cory said "Let's go for a D-R-I-V-E" Sadie pipes up casually "Yea, let's go for a ride." So then Cory said to me "Should we go to K-U-R-T and J-A-N?" Thinking he was outsmarting his daughter who had probably heard grandma and grandpa spelled out numerous times, little did he know that he was outsmarted anyway when Sadie replied "That spells Grandma and Grandpa's right daddy?" I couldn't keep from laughing when the shock registered on Cory's face of how he didn't fool Sadie at all. Little girls know more than we think!!

End of May Picnic Day

My girls just love to play in the water no matter where we go! We seem to always find it even if we go up in the mountains a bit!

I so can't get enough of our Sunday drives that usually take us up Timber Creek which is practically in our back yard. There are so many places to go that we never go to the same place twice! We loaded up the truck with everything for a hot dog/smore roast and headed for the hills! The girls hadn't been out for a while and they had a great time chasing squirrels, playing with sticks in the water, and of course eating! I can't get enough of being outside with my family just enjoying the nature. I love being so close to the mountains for our little getaways

Below: Our faithful boy scout getting water to put out the fire much to the girls' dismay

Below: Lexi trying to sneak into the chips, she was tired of waiting for her hot dog

Below: Sadie showing us her skills at floating things down the creek

Below: Cory said he needed a picture of his three favorite girls, even if one needed

a log to hide her belly!