EASTER

Our Easter celebration started off with opening up Easter baskets from PawPaw and Granny Saturday night and dying eggs with Molly & Nate Blackburn. This year I saw on Pinterest that you can use Kool-Aid to dye eggs so I wanted to try it and guess what?! IT WORKS!:) And it was so much better smelling than the packs you buy that call for vinegar. They also received some mail from Grandma and Grandpa Christensen that they were thrilled to get!

Sunday morning the kids woke up to an Easter Egg hunt. They loved it! I wasn't sure what Bryson would do but he loved walking around looking for eggs, including eggs that were empty from playing with. As they followed the eggs downstairs, they found all their gifts. And boy were they happy! And I must say, I think next year we will be opening up baskets after breakfast:) Bryson only wanted "nandy" for breakfast and everything else he threw across the room! Little stinker! We attended Church and then went to my friend, Ellesse's house for dinner. She cooked a yummy roast, potato/carrot mix, spinach strawberry salad, rolls and ice cream cake. All in all, it was a great Easter!!

(sorry some of the pictures are blurry. they are from my phone)

Basket from PawPaw and Granny

Bryson was digging for all the "nandy"

Molly, Brinley, Chloe, Nate, Kaitlyn, Reagan and Bryson. Fun night to dye eggs!

Dying easter eggs

showing off her pretty orange egg

all done:)

Easter Bunny came! and so did GG and Grandma Jo:)

Bryson's gifts

all ready for Church

kid wont sit/stand still!

cute kids ready to go to church!

Lozilu Women's Mud Run

On March 31st, I did the Lozilu Women's Mud Run! It was a 5K with many obstacles and a few mud pits.  The very last obstacle was crawling through a mud pit, it was awesome! And we all thought they would have some showers, well they did, but it just dripped out of some pipes. It took quite some time to clean us all off:).  It was a lot of fun! I joined a group of friends of about 18, some I knew and some I didn't know. But by the end of the race, I feel like I'd known all the girls for awhile and not for just a few hours! I hope we can do it again next year ladies!! :)

slip n slide baby! weeee!

oh yeah feel the grainy mud EVERY WHERE!

it was our spa day;)

getting ready for the slip n slide(a few of the girls already finished but came back with the group:))

yeah i was feeling pretty dirty...

semi-clean and changing to dry clean clothes for the ride home

Mindi, Jenny and I

Finish Line:)

Pre-Race

looking good ladies:)

and I know everyone reading this is jealous we got to play in the mud;)

STV to Sedona and Back

My Uncle Gary and Aunt Ellie came down for a week and my Aunt likes to travel and see things when she comes so this time to took a trip up to Sedona, AZ and made a few stops in between. It was a quick trip, up Tuesday and back home Wednesday. On our way up we stopped for lunch, stopped in Prescott for the Harley Davidson shop and to walk around a bit, found a little hiking trail through the rocky hills, stopped in Jerome at the Haunted Hamburger and then onto Cottonwood to rest our weary eyes. The next day we drove to Sedona and checked out the town, did some hiking before heading back towards home. We stopped at Montezuma Castle and saw some pretty neat Ruins. After that we had all had enough so we headed home for our beds! It was nice to get out and see what Northern Arizona has to offer. 

resting on the rock couch

Bryson loved all the rocks!

Haunted Hamburger dessert

Montezuma Castle

Ruins that are left after a huge fire and years of wear and tear.

haha saw this awesome truck on our way home.

PawPaw N Granny

PawPaw Les and Granny Gayle came out for a week to visit the kids and watch Kaitlyn's last HS cheer competition. It was great to have them around! We had a great time just hanging around the house, going to the park, going to the zoo and watching Katie cheer.

playing Sleeping Beauty:)

off to the park!

She's a monkey!

Ready, Set, Go!!

she may not look like it, but she was excited to see the alligator!

Endangered Species Carousel 

Bryson loved the petting zoo! I think he thought the goats were dogs:)

Kaitlyn and her squad took 1st in State!

story time before bed

School

Brian has headed off to Ohio for his Tech School for the Air National Guard. He is training for Bio Environmental Engineering(yeah don't ask what it is because I don't really know:)). His schools doesn't start until the 22nd but he had to leave a week early to get all his in processing done before school starts.His school is scheduled to go until May 26th but we keep hoping with Memorial Weekend that the instructors wont want to keep them that weekend:). Reagan and I decided to make a count down so maybe Reagan would understand the fact that he's gone for awhile. It's a lot of paper to cut but Reagan was so excited to rip her piece off this morning. Were down to 98 days:) 

Just couldn't leave out this cute picture! Bryson LOVES to wear Brian's hat!

THE BIG 3-0

Brian has hit the big 30! He claims that he now feels older and tries to use it as an excuse for getting out of things!:) We were able to celebrate his birthday after he got home from work and went to eat at Red Robin with my mom and sister. After Red Robin we headed back to our house for some cupcakes and ice cream. Brian had a request for Cherry Chip cupcakes. Makes him feel like a little kid again:)

JUST SOMETHING FUN I FOUND ON PINTEREST:)

HE WAS READY TO DIVE IN!

MAKE A WISH

So for Brian's gift this year for his birthday, he got 2 tickets to watch the Phoenix Suns play the Dallas Mavericks. Brian and I went last night(30th) and left the kids at my moms house for the night. It was awesome to watch the game in person even though Steve Nash and Jason Kidd were both injured! 

parked right in front so we didn't have to walk too far in the cold;)

we had some sweet seats!

oh you know just Channing Frye(pretty sure thats who it was:)) making some free throws:)

boys will be boys

Bryson is all boy! 

We went to play at the park and of course he finds the only mud puddle to play in!

Bryson and Noah enjoyed the puddle while Reagan looked on thinking they were crazy(all girl!)

always wants on the chairs on Mommy finally let him so he was in heaven! 

oh man does he LOVE ladders! this time we let him climb while we were around and he loved every minute!