Beautiful Babies

Aunt Kathy was so kind and bought all of my kids beautiful new Easter outfits this year. 

And of course because of my mild obsession I took about a million pictures. 

Here are some favorites...

 Haha, I guess pictures exhausted her.

Better late than never..

Easter!! Easter is always a fun weekend for us. We head down to St George for some fun in the sun. The Claytons are always so good to the kids and spoil them rotten.

The weekend consisted of 2 easter egg hunts, egg coloring/spinning, breakfast at kneaders, an out and out wrestling match over the special golden egg, an annoying Easter chick that WON'T STOP chirping, some fun family park time, and LOTS AND LOTS of pictures! Here is a little proof...

Here is the first egg hunt

some egg coloring

What a cute little bug, she thought the eggs were fascinating.

The boys loved playing ball

Oh my handsome handsome hubby...

The eggs that came from the spinner

We found a perfect little hole at the park that Addison fit in nicely.

Kaden was ecstatic about the Easter bunny leaving the movie HOP in his basket. He had been begging for it all year.

Our real bunnies (take two, but that is a whole different story)

We got to see the Easter bunny at the store.

Addison LOVED this little Easter chick... but it is a motion sensor... a very very sensitive motion sensor. I am hoping the batteries die quickly because there is no off switch.

Easter egg hunt number 2.

I think Kaden was a little more eager than Taycee was.

This was the wrestle for the final golden egg. Chris and Ben went for it first then Kelsey and I joined in to help them out. It ended with a slight wrestling match. I ended up with half and Kels ended up with half. My half had the money in it. I also ended up with a jammed thumb... haha... it was worth it.

This picture cracks me up, from Ben crawling over the railing to my face to Kelsey hair from digging in the bushes... now that is a real Easter egg hunt.

She was happy with her loot.

Easter was fun as it always is, but also special too. With all the eggs and baskets aside I am always amazed at the incredible gift of the atonement. I am so grateful to know that I have a Savior who loved me enough to die for me, and even more grateful to know that He is risen, He lives again and that I will see him again someday. 

Conference weekend

The Clayton family came up to stay with us conference weekend. The boys got tickets to go to the priesthood session Saturday night.  Sunday morning before conference grandma Clayton wanted to make Easter baskets with the kids it was a craft where you blew up a balloon and then soaked string in starch then wrapped it up around the balloon and let it dry til it got hard. The only problem is that it never got hard. haha, we found out later that instead of using starch we should have used a type of craft glue. Oh well... next time :) Here are some pictures of the crafters in action.

 Kaden was extra excited about it.. haha

 We had our traditional conference breakfast of crepes filled with fruit. YUMMY.

 Then we enjoyed conference. I LOVE conference weekend. Nothing is better than two straight days of direct counsel from our prophets. I always feel such a renewed sense of determination to do a little better afterwards. 

It was a fun weekend with family good food and inspiring words.

The kids always love to have grandpa and grandma near.

The Cage

Once we had the bunnies we really needed a permanent place for them to live. I started looking up bunny hutches to get an idea of what we wanted. I found a few things that I liked and didn't like and started creating a "dream bunny hutch" in my mind. The problem was they were all SO expensive. We watched KSL for a few days hoping to find something but nothing was coming up and the vacuum box the bunnies were living in just wasn't cutting it anymore. Trixie had learned how to escape and I was having to catch her and put her back about every hour.

Then I saw this bunny hutch...

It was perfect!! Everything I wanted. It had a top and bottom part. There was no wire mesh in the top part that the bunnies would have to walk on (that is really bad for rabbits feet and almost every cage we found was made with it) The only thing it didn't have was a slide out bottom on the top for easy cleaning. I was sold.... til I looked at the price... 230 dollars. WHAT? There was no way we were paying that much.

I showed Chris. We talked. He decided he was making it. And the next 12 hours were devoted to making a bunny hutch.

Chris decided to double the size of the cage. So the dimensions were 4 feet wide 5 feet long and 4 feet tall. We are lucky to have great neighbors down the street who own lots and lots of tools. A big thanks to the Bryners who made the cage possible.

We are also lucky that Lowes is literally only a few blocks away because I believe we made 6 Lowes trips that day.

I ran the chop saw all day.

Kaden was the board weight while daddy did the cutting.

Taycee loved the measuring tape and went around measuring everything.

Kaden eventually got tired of being dads board weight and decided to embark on a project of his own.

Getting closer!! I put all that fencing on by myself. I could barely move my hands the next day.

This was Kaden's finished project. He was quite proud of it. He wasn't very happy with me when I pulled the nails out of the boards to put the away.

And this was our finished project. Perfect? Haha no. But It does the job and gives our little bunnies plenty of room to run around. We ended up saving about 120 dollars and it came out to be twice the size as the one we were looking at online. The bunnies were so happy to be out of the vacuum box and into a real bunny house.

Don't my kids do a great "Ta Da"? haha