I am a Child of God

Hyrum came over while I was playing the piano and asked to sing church songs with me. I wish you could hear his sweet voice better. Singing with my children is always a special treat for me-reminds me of how I use to love singing with my own mother-still love singing with her:)

Easter Sunday: Installment 3

Well because Seth monkey was running a low fever and had a snotty nose I kept him home from church. While we waited for everyone to get home I decided to plan a scavenger hunt for the boys to find their Easter baskets. I drew pictures for the clues and with a parent to help each boy, the boys were able to find their baskets fairly quickly. We watched a movie we had bought for Hyrum put out by the church about teaching your little ones. It was made in the 80's and was a little funny, but was sweet to watch. Afterwords we ate a delicious dinner Michaels mom and sister had prepared and then our family had to hit the road. It was a wonderful trip to Logan and we all enjoyed our visit there. As shown by both my boys: MD asked if he could stay behind with Grandma, and as soon as we got home Hyrum asked if we could go right back up and visit Grandma.

I also took the opportunity to have my Father-in-Law take some family pictures.

And the boys on the trip home: Full of Sugar and watching a movie. Smooth Sailing.

Easter Weekend #2

After we arrived in Logan my allergies flared up so bad that I was pretty miserable. My sweet husband ran to the store at 2 in the morning to pick up alleygy medicine and lucky Seth got to enjoy formula for the first time since the hospital. Seth, by the way, is teething. One tooth has popped through and another is tearing up his gums on it's way out. Seth has been my only child to get a mild fever and runny nose with teething and so he has been pretty miserable- and he will bite anything he comes in contact with.
So after I was finally able to get the medicine in me I was able to enjoy the Easter weekend a lot more. Michaels parents had big plans for the kids wich included dying eggs, an Easter egg hunt, an Easter themed Lunch with pictures you can find on my sister-in-law Marie's Blog and a treat for the parents as well. Michael and I were able to go out on date and then home to an Adult Easter Egg hunt-which was a lot of fun. I have always been secretly sad that I am to old to participate in the hunts now. I really am terrible about taking pictures these days but luckily my husband isn't and got some pictures of the kids Easter hunt.





And I got Seth for Easter :)

Our Easter Weekend! Installment #1

This weekend was pretty jam packed so to not leaving anything out I have broken this up into 3 installments.

#1-Friday installment:

We decided to spend Easter in Logan since our Texas trip got postponed a month. Every time we go up to Logan we pass the Hill Air Force Museum and the boys get excited about the airplanes. This trip we decided we would stop and do the tour.
The boys were REALLY excited-Almost couldn't handle it excited and we had a hard time keeping them close. They were running to each Airplane and yelling and screaming. I am pretty sure people thought we were out of town tourists who were taking their hyper children out of the car for the first time in 8 hours.
Here we are starting out. MD was trying to pull Michael to make him hurry up.
Starting out-And they took off :)
The times we were best able to keep up with them was when they were pointing at something that excited them. Luckily they were pointing quite a bit.
Or when they found things to hug...
Seth watches me all the time so I decided to catch him watching me on camera. Who can resist this chunky monkey?
Michael was posing like the boys.
You could get a lot closer to the airplanes that were outside so the boys did. They ran all around them and tried to grab onto their wings.


Time to head home.

MD was wiped out from this exciting adventure and slept the rest of the way to Grandmas. Hyrum held on though and kept us company.

You asked so you got them :)

Well my mom asked so I am trying to please. Here are some pics of the kids taken today :)




Mostly of Seth because my camera died after a couple of minutes.

Michael Dunn turns FOUR!

Happy Birthday to my AMAZING four year old!!! This wonderful big boy is such a fun kid to be around and such a wonderful friend and helper. I am constantly amazed by this boys willingness to help others, his kindness to his brothers and his generous nature. He has been such a blessing with Seth. He loves to help me and constantly asks to hold him. He will run and get me diapers for Seth and is always trying to make Seth smile. He is best friends with his brother Hyrum and while they fight quite a bit they play together even more. He is my sweetheart and daddy's buddy and we have always been grateful he is our son. Happy Birthday MD!

MD wanted a Willy Wonka party. We sent out golden tickets with a bar of chocolate for invites, had a candy store for them to go through at the end, golden "eggs" (yellow balloons with candy) they had to pop, pictures to take in a TV and other games. It was a lot of work but I am glad MD was able to experience a real party thrown just for him. He watched me bake candy all week, helped me a little with his own cake and picked out his present, so when his party finally came he was pretty excited :) However He will have to have happy memories of this party because I won't be doing this again for a bit-Except maybe for Hyrum in two months who has been asking non-stop for a party just like Michaels :)

Some pics of the "Candy Store"
My wonderful mother-in-law came down and helped. She made some yummy peanut brittle, brought the fun dip, made the cookies on the cake and helped SO much with the party. Thanks mom for all your help!



Michaels "Chocolate river" cake
Michael got distracted with his presents and wanted to stop his birthday so he could play with them
Popping the golden eggs for the candy inside



Taking pictures in the T.V.



Happy Birthday my wonderful Michael Dunn!!!!

I love to see the temple...

Last night it Hyrums turn to give a lesson at Family Home Evening and he chose to talk about Temples. I love to watch the boys participate, but what I loved about Hyrums lesson is that he did it almost all by himself.

He stood up on a chair and proclaimed:
"The Temple is the house of the Lord. The Temple is a house of God. The Temple is the house of the Lord and God! We go to the temple and look at the water-and then we go home. I go inside someday."
Then he sat down and I stared at him in shock.
Yes we have talked about Temples but I was floored by how much he remembered.

The Temple really is one of my boys favorite places to go. "Suffer the little children to come unto me."

Another day at the Park-And the bad mom award goes to....

Spring has finally started to show up here and in my excitement to get the kids out of the house I forgot all about skin protection for my Kiddos :( A fun 2 hour trip to the park means some nicely roasted little kids over here. It doesn't seem to bother the lobsters at all, so today I let the kids play outside as well-But this time I slathered them with sunscreen.

MD just figured out how to climb trees-for real, and spent about half the time at the park doing just that.
So Hyrum decided to go see what all the fuss was about
He liked it :)
But when they are not in trees..:)




Seth spent the two hours chillin in his stroller-Barely a peep!

A good way to end the afternoonGotta love this kids enthusiasm
Funny thing is everyone kept swapping Popsicles-And I wonder why we keep getting sick over here :)