Warming up

Spring is upon us.  Look at all those neighborhood kids playing in our backyard.  Look at all those weeds!

Homies

Most of the time, they get along fabulously.  The other times, are crazy, but I am so glad I have kids who love each other and play together.  I hope it will keep them together as they grow.

Fishing the afternoon away

Just a few pictures of us fishing the afternoon away with a few good friends. 

Sandhallow day 3

 Day 3, took us back to the pointy rocks.

 Tyson found a geo cash and then later in the day the kids came back and changed out some goodies for the prizes within.

 Gosh, she is cute!

 The girlies!

 I was on top of the rock taking these.  I love the red sand.

 Looks like they are stranded in the sahara.

 That afternoon, Andrea and I took the kids back to the dock to swim and for the boys to fish.

 We stayed there for like 3 hours and had to drag them away. I don't know how they handled the water.  It was so cold!

Tyson was bugging the heck out of Sam.  She was so cute about it!

Sandhallow day 2

 Day 2 brough us some fun fishing. 

 It was short lived though.  Most of the kids don't have the patience for fishing.

 Pretty soon they all ended up on the beach.

 After lunch, Josh, Andrea, Neil and I took the kids up to the "pointy rocks".  That is Piper and Josh headed into the bowl.

 And there they are on the side of it.  Piper was screaming for Mommy the whole time!
But the day before, according to Josh, she loved it.

 Taking a break and waiting on Mom to come and get her.

 We hiked up to the top of the rocks and played for awhile. We watched some crazy teenagers ride their motorcyles down a rock face.  Crazy times!

 Taking a break from it all. Watching The Rise of the Guardians.

Look how big those holes are getting!

Sandhollow Day 1

We had a chance to spend the entire of Spring Break out at Sand Hollow with our two of our favorite families.  The Schwendimans and the Connors.  We did this a few years ago and had a blast.  So we thought it was time to do it again.

One of the highlights for the kids were the massive holes that they dug in the dirt.  It was like the movie Holes, but with better working conditions.

They worked constantly on them. These are just the beginning pictures. I will post some of the finished product in another post.

This is perhaps one of my most favorite pictures, that I have ever taken.  I love the contrast of the sand and the sky, but I love the guy on the bike ast well. 

We spent the first afternoon riding.  Tyson has taken to driving like a champ and loves to be on the 4-wheeler.

Another one of my sweetie!  He loves to go riding with the kids and encourage them to do crazy things.

Taking a break from riding to hang with mom!

The girls love driving around in the Ranger. A few hours after this, Sam was driving and had Brooke and Alyssa and the little girls and they tipped it up on it's side.  Luckily no one got hurt.  Piper laughs about it all the time still.

Spent the afternoon hanging out on the beach, looking for shells and playing in the sand.

Some of them even got brave enough to dive in that freezing cold water!

Hmm!  I love this picture too!

 

Every night the sunsets were beautiful.  I love this one, because of the silhoutte of the flags against the sky.  So beautiful!

PTO Troublemakers

We might be in big trouble when he gets back after Spring Break. But it sure was fun!

He is my child

I wrote JD a love note tonight.  He's a pretty awesome kid and I need to remind him of that sometimes.  Anyway, I was sneaking it into his backpack so he will find it tomorrow at school, when I noticed how heavy his backpack was.  I opened it up and started to pull out books.  Book after book of wonderful, literature goodness!  There were 12 books to be exact.  Oh yes, he is my child!  Couldn't be prouder!

Superhero's

For the month of February, JD and Piper both won superhero of the month for their class!  So proud of my awesome kids!