Friday, May 15, 2015

First fire of the year...

A few Saturdays ago we went up to one of our favorite spots up Blacksmith Fork Canyon and had a bbq and our first campfire of the year with the Villas.
It is always so much fun...we laughed so much that night. So grateful for good friends :)
 I am reminded once again that I need to not just use my phone to take pictures when I have other nice cameras that take way better ones!
Blurry picture in the dark...

Spring Soccer...

Ashton and Gunnar have both been playing spring soccer and it has been so much fun to watch their games...I love it!
Grandma came down one Saturday and got to watch both of them too...
The few pictures I've taken...
They both only have a couple games left, I need to be better about taking pictures like I used to!

St. Baldrick's fundraiser...

A few weeks ago, my good friend Starlee called me and asked me if I would be willing to come shave heads at a fundraiser at the middle school where her sister teaches. They were having a big St. Baldrick's foundation Cancer research fundraiser and a lady who was going to be one of the head shavers dropped out last minute. I was so excited and glad that I was available!
So I went that Friday morning and participated in it and shaved 4 heads...2 teenage boys, a teacher and a teenage girl. It was so much fun, they did it in a big assembly with all of the students and teachers with loud music. It was such a fun event and so neat to see all of these kids raising money for a great cause!They raised over $6000!
Fun pictures from that day...
 Article in the paper a couple days later!


Date night...

 One night a few weeks ago, Lars was taking Ashton to a fantasy football camp up at Utah State, so Gunnar and I had a date night too. He of course chose to go to the fun park and I got him some tokens and he had so much fun doing the arcades. He put 4 tokens into this game trying to win the 1000 and almost did the first time, but just won 40 tickets. Then went and used the rest of his tokens on other things.
Then he begged me to let him get 4 more tokens so he could try this one again and it actually landed on the 1000! He was beyond excited and I loved the look on his face when he realized he won...so cute.
And it took forever for 1000 tickets to come out of that machine!
After he got them all he finally chose a little stuffed fox in exchange for his tickets.
Then we decided to go bowling...
It was fun for a few minutes until he got super frustrated with his ball going into the gutter every time, but he would not let me have them put the bumpers up!!Oh well...
After that he was starving and chose pizza pie café.
We had a fun date :)
And Ashton and Lars had a great time at the football camp. They got to go down on the field with a bunch of the players and run drills and got to tour the locker room and listen to the head coach etc...
 In front of Chucky Keeton's locker!

Spring storm...

After this very mild winter, about a month ago we got the biggest storm I think we'd had since Christmas! I think it put down about 8 inches.
I told Gunnar after school to hurry and play in it before it was all gone,
and this is what he did...
It was weird how he could just roll it up like this!
I told friends that this was what I told them to do for their chore after school, "Go roll up the snow off of the grass!"
haha.
I think it was all melted the next day.

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Easter...2015

Easter was the Sunday after we got back from Texas and it was a beautiful day. The boys woke up and found their Easter buckets and searched for eggs all over the house, then we got ready for church and went at 10:00.
 I love Easter mass and am so grateful for our faith and for the sacrifice Jesus made for us!
Pictures from the morning...
Pictures after church...
One of the only days of the year we are all ever dressed up.
I asked the boys to stand back to back, and this is what I got :)
I love them....
Mom and Harry came down for the day and for dinner and it was a really fun day just relaxing at home.
We played a fun game of Apples to Apples and laughed a lot before it was time for them to go. Then we of course took a few pictures!
Oh and a few pictures from the neighborhood egg hunt the day before...