Our Easter Gift

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday. The Easter Bunny came and brought the kids a huge chocolate bunny and some more candy. The night before we decorated eggs with the kids. We were so excited when we found out Jim and Sandy would be at our house on Easter. They just finished serving a mission in Mississippi and on their way home they stopped by our house. We let the kids stay up late and had a nice Easter dinnner with them at 9:00 at night. We are so glad to have them back home. We sure did miss them! What a wonderful gift to see them on Easter!

Andy asked if he could eat his egg, I told him yes, and he took a big crunchy bite! I thought he knew he needed to peel it first, guess not.

Our Family with Elder and Sister Wheeler....welcome home, we love you!!!

A fun, busy week

My sister in law had the same spring break as us, which never happens, so she came to Denver for the week to enjoy a break from the snow. It felt like we went non-stop all week.

Jeff was finishing his night rotation, so we tried to keep out of the house so he could sleep during the day. We went to the movie theater and watched How to Train Your Dragon (great show!) so we could escape the 82 degree weather we had that day, poor kids all ended up sun burned.
We had a little easter egg hunt for the kids early, since star valley is still covered in snow.
Nicki and her friend Coleen came over and we had a picnic too.

Ali and Miriam, hid one orange egg for Nicki so she went hunting.
We spent one night making easter cake pops. Now that was a very time consuming activity!

We spent a lot of time at the park. In this picture Ali had got herself stuck in a baby swing and couldn't get out. Instead of helping we just laughed. Ali was quite embarrassed and Miriam was saving her from being humiliated in front of the camera, kind of.

Ali's baptism

Ali was baptised on March 6th by her daddy. It was such a special day for our little princess. We were so happy to have my parents come and also Julie, Jeffrey, and Annie flew in for the weekend. We are so appreciative and grateful for the wonderful support of our families. While they were here we went skating, dinner and a movie and just hung out and played the wii. And thanks to Jeffrey, Julie and I got a seven mile run in while he watched my kids. We have been enjoying the spring time weather that has started to find it's way here. We are looking forward to a great summer!

December/New Year's 2009

The beginning of January we spent a week at my parents cabin. Jeff bought model rockets and we had a lot of fun shooting them off, it was even more fun trying to find them!

They got in a little bit of snowmachining.

looking for the rockets

The boy's playing with magnets at Grandmas cabin

For New Year's Eve we met Jeff's family in Bear Lake at a cabin. It was a lot of fun


We had a pool tournament. I think Tanner and Jesse ended up winning the whole thing!

We had a great Christmas together as a family. Jeff was home this year so it was so great. Last year he had to work all Christmas day. We are so greatful that we could all be together.

Christmas Eve Jammies from Grandma Sandy and Grandpa JimThe kids watched the Santa Tracker on the internet all night!
We made cookies on Christmas Eve

Andy hangin' with Trap

Ali Turned 8!