Spring Break

Hope you all have a good Spring Break!

We are headed to Seattle, so I won't be posting anything until at least Thursday.

Ta Ta for Now.

uhhhh...what month is it?

Can you believe this?

It's Spring and this morning we woke up to 3 inches of snow and a temperature in the 20's. I had to pull out our winter coats, hats and gloves. Spring break just started and everyone is headed up to the ski resorts. Some of resorts have 18 inches of new powder.

I think I will crawl into bed and come out when Summer arrives...that may not be until November.

photo favorites

This is a tag from my sister, I loved this idea...i might just use it again, with different favorites, besides things change over time, I might just find a new color that I like.

creative tag about favorites....
the rules are to answer the question using only pictures.

my favorite color:

holiday:

animal:

food:

vacation place:

worst habit:

job:

dessert/treat:

hobby:

me:

I tag: Lori, Cindy, Janet, Karen Megan Call, and Juli

A life in 29 days...

I came across this on MSNBC this morning. It is hard to watch, but I feel exactly the same way these parents do.

Eggs and Baskets

We celebrate the Easter Bunny on Saturday. I always did growing up and didn't realize, until I was older, that Easter is on Sunday. My most memorable Easter was about 5 years ago...Brinley was born. She is my most favorite Easter gift!

Here is what it looked liked saturday morning... The Easter Bunny had left a train of M&M's leading to Brinley's basket in the front room.
It was almost as exciting as Christmas day. Her favorite thing in her basket was...She is obsessed with Littlest Pet Shop. The first thing we heard when she got to her basket and lifted these out... "These are what I wanted! Woohoo. See Mom, I told you the Easter Bunny would bring them."

The Bunny puts gifts and activities in the baskets and not so much candy. We get enough from the Easter Egg Hunt, she did get a chocolate bunny and a PEZ dispenser though.

Chocolate for breakfast...then I made eggs and pancakes.
Cody and Julie came over for the Easter Egg Hunt. These kids were so egg-cited, get it? I know, I'm a dork!

We had hid so many eggs, cody and Brinley kept dropping them out of their baskets. I don't know what we were thinking, there are only two of them!

We had to even things up, so we dumped out the eggs and made sure that each of them got an even amount of junk food...for their parents to eat, I mean, for the kids to munch on over the next few months.

Brinley found the big egg. There was nothing extra in it, but I think it was the highlight of the hunt. Cody and Brinley both wanted the egg more than anything, I think it may end up at Cody's house anyway.

Oh, and the best part...we woke up to sun, and there wasn't a snowflake in sight.

where is Spring?

This is what we woke up to this morning...surprise to me! We have had rainy weather, which is normal for this time of year, but snow!!! So depressing...

Today I woke up feeling great about the day. I had things planned, etc. There were some bills to pay, one, in particular, was way past due (like 6 months) and i needed to call them. I apologized and explained to them why i had forgotten to pay this bill...Olivia. I burst into tears! I have not done this on the phone before, i could hardly talk! I felt so dumb. They were very kind, but i couldn't believe it. I just broke down. It was really weird to me.
I imagine this type of thing is normal under my cirumstance. I just didn't expect it. For hours after, I would just sob in spurts and then be fine. In my support group, we have talked about how odd grieving can be. How you can talk to one person and be completely fine with it, and then some people you just can't control emotions. I guess i have been a bit emotional lately. I hate that!

Eggs

My SIL, Becca, is in town with the girls. Since they aren't staying through the weekend, we decided to decorate eggs early. Julie boiled 6 dozen eggs, not that we will actually eat them, but so that the kids had plenty of eggs to dye. It was quite a mess, but we had fun!I had quite a house full of guests, my sisters, Julie and Kami, Becca, Isabel, Makaela, Cody, my mom and Becca's mom.

i really am not concerned that I have dye all over my table. It just adds to the paint, glitter and glue that is already there.
Eggs weren't enough, we frosted cookies too. We don't get to see Becca and the girls that often, so we packed in as much as we could in the time we had with them. Julie took the kids to spend the night at her house, but left me with all the cookies. Thanks!

more cloggity stuff

This was at a ward talent show. My sister, Julie, and i made up the dance. I was 14, i think, and obviously a dork back then too. I know that Julie is going to appreciate me having this on my blog.

Clogging Video

Okay, i recall saying that if my sister sent me the video, i would post it. I will just say, I do not belong in front of a camera. I am a total dork. I believe that we were making a home movie to send to my grandparents for Christmas. Remember that this is about 1986-87, so the clothing choice will reflect that, along with the hairstyle, that happened to be my favorite at the time. Enjoy...
the worst clogging video ever!