Easter

Just a few fun photos we took Easter Sunday after church.  

Obviously, everybody was more interested in playing and climbing trees than taking photos!

 Can you tell who runs our household?  I love the attitude oozing out of her...

Sweetest little boys!

I adore everything about this photo of Jessalyn.  It portrays her little personality perfectly.  She loves all things girly; the headbands, the bracelets, the shoes.  However - she is NOT about to miss out on anything that her brothers may be doing.  EVER.  She does a really good job of keeping up with them!

Easter Egg Hunt 2014

As per our annual tradition, we spent the Saturday before Easter at the Dolly Sanchez Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Peoria Stadium.  This was Jessa's first egg hunt, so everybody was especially excited for her!

Daddy and Jessa waiting for the mad dash!

 She took to it like an old pro!  

 Between egg hunts, there were plenty of activities to participate in.  We did a family scavenger hunt, the kids rode a train, bounce houses were played in and pony rides were taken.

Brychan is trying really hard to not smile.

And Jessa?  Well, it's taken her well over a year to decide she likes Biggs.  So...riding on a huge, strange animal was just about the last thing she wanted to do.  There were lots of tears at first, but Daddy managed to get her to calm down and try it.  She still wasn't convinced by the end, but at least she was tolerating it!

Well, and Kehlton is obviously too cool for any of it. ;)

Why are Easter bunnies so creepy?

All in all, is was a fun and successful morning!  Brychan's egg hunt was less than perfect; after a couple of false starts and much older children being allowed in the 6 year old age group, Brychan ended up with nothing. For a child that doesn't even really like candy, he was extremely sad and disappointed.  However, a quick trip to the store fixed the problem for everybody!

Spring Break 2014

This year for Spring Break, we decided we needed a little time away  to spend time as a family.  I cannot remember the last time our little family took a trip that was just for us; we were long overdue!  We opted for a bit of a staycation, and it was perfect!

We spent a few days exploring Prescott and Jerome and then headed to  

Out of Africa Wildlife Park.  

In Jerome, we stopped at a large museum/ghost town (read: large, organized junk yard).  There were a TON of old cars/trucks/buses and the kids LOVED it.  Plus, the nice lady at the counter let us in for free 'cause she thought my kids were cute.  

 Brychan is still Jessa's favorite person most of the time.  She begs him to hold her hand and walk with her.  Not that it takes much begging to get him to do anything for her...

 Another favorite was Pedro, the donkey.  David fed Pedro a carrot with his mouth, so he got a nice little smooch.

We also spent a day at Lynx Lake.  There was a stroller friendly hiking trail all the way around the lake, paddle boating, ducks to feed and David taught the boys to skip rocks.

Our last day of vacation we spent entirely at Out of Africa.  It was absolutely amazing and I highly recommend it to anybody who may be visiting from out of town.  Or who lives "in town" and has never been. It was a full day of fun and we can't wait to go back.  We got to get up close and personal with lots of animals and even got to feed a giraffe and a tiger.  Kehlton also had fun with hyenas - they ran up and down the fence line with him for quite awhile.

After such a fun trip, it was hard to come home!  

Hopefully our next family trip won't be so far distant!

Apache Field Day

When I was growing up, we had field day during the last week(s) of school every year.  I'm assuming most elementary schools still do.  Well, in Arizona, it is WAY too hot to even think about playing outside all day during the last week of school, so they have their field days in March.  Last month, Kehlton, Jessa and I went to watch a couple hours of Brychan's field day.

Brychan and Nate (his best friend, who lives a block away and is in our ward too)

 doing a 3 legged race.

 Mr. Fish and most of Brychan's class waiting to run the obstacle course.  

Brychan won both of his obstacle course races!

 Brychan, Nate & Quentin

 And the fan club.  Jessa had so much fun cheering and clapping for her brother!  She had a blast.

 Kehlton and his best friend, Preston 

(Preston just happens to be Nate's younger brother.  It works out great!).

 Brychan was very serious about the bean bag toss!

Unfortunately, we could only stay for a couple of hours (a certain little girl was getting irritated that we were late for her morning nap), but Brychan told us the rest of the day was a huge success!