Tuesday, April 21, 2009

easter 2009


The much-anticipated day has finally arrived....dying easter eggs!  The kids found the kit for coloring the eggs several weeks before and the "is-it-almost-time" questions began!  Although it was a bit of a gloomy day outside, it was sure bright and cheery inside--just look at those faces! Maren did make an appearance and colored her eggs, but no documentation.

Natalie did a beautiful job coloring her eggs-


Now our easter bunny got smart this year and delivered the baskets and goodies on Saturday morning--way to go easter bunny! 

The kids had to find and figure out clues left by the easter bunny to locate their baskets.  The clues lead them from the grill outside to the game closet downstairs to the laundry room (dryer) to the mailbox-

and finally ended here!

In fact, they searched the bathroom and were all leaving when Millie looked up and found their baskets hanging in the shower!  That bunny is super sneaky!

Eli enjoyed his cherrio-filled eggs.  But he was just as happy with the empty ones!

Eli found his gold dollar, which is put up for safe keeping!


It was so nice to have the candy and all the hype over on Saturday so that the focus on Sunday morning was that which is of greater importance. Our Savior.  It was a wonderfully simple Easter!

Thursday, April 2, 2009

this is the place!

A few weeks ago Uncle Tony came for a short, but wonderful visit! We decided rather than making him do our Saturday chores with us, we would do something new!  So we went to This is the Place Heritage Park in Salt Lake for the day.  It was a gorgeous, sunny day--a bit nippy, but it beats today's horizontal snow/wind!  

The park has monuments dedicated to the first settlers of the Salt Lake Valley and a village that is a replication of homes and buildings of the early Pioneer days.  However , we will have to make it another outing later this spring when all of the buildings are open--they usually have people dressed in period clothing and activities and crafts throughout the village. Fortunately, our train engineer/tour guide had keys to the schoolhouse and let us take a peek! 


The mini-village:



This was such a fun day!  Why does it always take someone visiting to make us take advantage of all there is to do and see around here?  But we are always so happy when they do come--we LOVE visitors!  We enjoyed having you spend some time with us, Uncle Tony!