Aaron's Back!!

Anna has been keeping busy with her sports camp which is Monday-Thursday mornings.  She really enjoys it - but always comes home tired and wanting a nap.  David goes down for a nap then too, so it works fine.  This picture was how David fell asleep on me one day for nap time and I found it hilarious (though not very comfortable.)

Tuesday was a good and normal day.  I went to institute in the evening and had a wonderful time!  

Wednesday was the big day!  The morning was the usual, then in the evening, I went to pick up my Dad and Aaron from the airport.  They both had a great trip and came home tired, but happy.  Eileen had a presidency meeting in the evening, and we all managed to get home in time for scriptures and prayers together with our whole family for the first time in a couple weeks! 

Thursday evening was our ward Relief Society activity.  It was a service auction - they asked me to be the auctioneer - I didn't really know what I was doing, but I had fun doing it! 

Friday, I told the kids that we could go to the splash park near our house if they cleaned up the play room.  They managed to get it done, and we headed over in the afternoon.  It was nice and hot - a good day for getting wet.  The kids had fun - Eileen even came though she couldn't get her cast wet.  David just LOVES the water.  He had a ton of fun just walking around and getting wet - and his siblings loved to dump water on him. 

There was also a playground near by, and I took David on the swing - it was his first time on a swing and he really liked it!  Anna wasn't there because she had headed up to Beehive camp early that morning.  Eileen was worried about dirt in her cast and bugs in her cast and rain and such, but when she heard about archery she wanted to go up on Saturday. 

Anna had a really great time at Beehive Camp and was full of energy when I got there with Eileen - but by the end of a really hot afternoon, she was tired and ready to go home.  Eileen LOVED getting to shoot a bow and arrow and wants to do LOTS more of it.  But by the end of the day, she was not feeling great and was ready to go home too - she hadn't been drinking enough water - but Dan was finally able to convince her that she would feel better if she drank more water.  After the younger kids went to bed, we played some Dominion, ate some cherry pie and watched Justice League which Dan had borrowed when he went to the library with the kids while I was gone with Eileen and Anna. 

Today was wonderful - the morning was relaxed and nice.  Dan made some banana bread muffins.  Eileen and I worked on some crochet stuff.  Anna got her temple recommend after church so that we can go to the temple with her next week!!  I got to help in primary by playing piano - it was lots of fun!  David loved trying to help too.  :)  This evening, David wasn't feeling to good.  He didn't want to eat and didn't want to sleep.  We figured out why when he puked all over me - but after he seems to be feeling better and went to sleep easily. 

Long Quiet Week

This week has been fairly slow - Evie and James spent so much time fighting on Tuesday that I told them that they couldn't go to the pool all week.  In addition to all the fighting with each other, they wrote all over the walls while on time out and made lots of bad choices....  Monday was a normal day of laundry and grocery shopping and such.  Tuesday night I got to go to institute and had a great time.  Wednesday was abnormally quiet since we didn't have cub scouts, activity days or young women's.  So we had a nice fun evening at home together.  Thursday, Eileen and Anna went down to Dan's office to help stuff envelopes - they did a great job and earned some money doing it.  Anna was very excited about having earned money and she knew what she wanted to get, so after dinner on Friday, she and i took David and had a nice walk down to Walmart so she could get a new coloring book and coloring pencils.  It was a bit hot though, so we stopped and got a bit of ice cream on our way back :)  

Aaron and grandpa seem to be having a great time - we get picture updates, but not much else.

Saturday was busy.  Cub scouts had their day camp and I felt as cub master that I should be there helping out, even though Aaron wasn't there.  The boys all seemed to have a great time.  I got to shoot a bb gun and paddle a canoe and though it was hot - it was fun.  I came home rather exhausted though!  I took a bath that night before heading to bed earlier than usual so I could get up in the morning to make Dan a father's day breakfast. 

Father's day was nice - I made biscuit breakfast for Dan and gave him his gifts (another Dominion Expansion Pack)  The primary sang for the fathers - but they hadn't had much time to learn the song, so most of the kids didn't really know the words - Evie wrote them in her notebook and took them up with her and looked at them the whole time.  It was really cute though.  There was also a beautiful musical number after - plus David fell asleep during third hour, so I actually got to listen to the whole wonderful lesson!  So all in all church was wonderful.  After, we had a family from the ward over for dinner and games - they made crepes for us and we played Dominion while the kids played "We didn't playtest this at all"  which is a fun and silly game that the West's sent us! 

I got my official letter from DMCO and I've been accepted to sing with them for the upcoming season!  I'm so excited! 

Hot Summer Fun

Monday was busy.  First we had to get Aaron packed up for his trip with Grandpa.  David helped...sorta.  :)  Then we drove down to pick up grandpa and head to the airport.  They got headed off and have been having a great time so far!  

David is so funny - James is so sweet and wants to play with his baby brother and he shares his toys.  He shared his cute little toy with him and David loves it!

Tuesday was a fun easy day - Evie had her science camp in the afternoon and loved it.  Anna went to babysit Taz and Kai while Sandi worked at home - she had a great time and did a great job.  It was really strange only having 3 kids at home...   I went to institute in the evening again - the class was wonderful, getting rear-ended on the way home was not so wonderful.

Wednesday was mutual for Eileen, but cub scouts is done for the summer.  Anna babysat again and got to go to the pool with them.  Evie had her science camp again and loved it.

On Thursday, Evie had her afternoon camp again, so I took Anna and James and David to the pool for the afternoon.  They had fun.  Then in the evening, we had some friends over for dinner.  We had dinner together and played games.  We had a fun time playing San Marco.  Dan made some yummy lemon bars for dessert - he's such a wonderful hubby!

Friday night was the Daddy Daughter Dance.  Dan took Anna and Evie (Eileen wasn't interested in going...) and they went out for dinner and a fun night at the dance and then a little treat after.  They all had a great time together. 

Saturday we kept busy.  Dan and I took the kids to the pool again - it's been really nice having the neighborhood pool open.  David popped another tooth through.  He now has 7 teeth.  4 on top and 3 on bottom.   In the evening, we did a pizza party - we ate pizza and watched a movie together - it was a Balto movie - but not the original one.  But it was fun and we had a good time together! 

Sunday was great - the talks and lessons were wonderful.  David has gotten to the point where he doesn't ever want to sit still in church, so church has become a bit of a wrestling match.  During Relief Society, he was overly chatty, so we went and paced the hallways - it tired him out good though, so he went to bed well tonight. :)

Summer Starts!

Monday was Labor day, so we all headed down to Grandma and Grandpa's house to have fun grilling burgers and hot dogs and swimming in the pool.  Dan got Eileen a brace so she enjoyed one last day of swimming.  Tuesday morning, Eileen had an appointment with an orthopedist down in Dallas.  We headed down early and she was told that she needed a cast, she was really bummed since it would mean not getting to do a lot of the fun summer stuff for a month.  After, we met up with Dan for lunch and hit up hobby lobby to give her something to do while she couldn't go swimming.  Then we headed home and dropped Eileen off before picking up the rest of the kids.   In the evening, I went to Institute and really enjoyed it - it's nice being able to go to institute again now that they have one near by!  

Wednesday was the last full day of school and the kids had a fun time since almost all they have done for the last few weeks is watch movies at school.  Thursday was a half day and then we all headed home for the afternoon.  I took most of the kids to the pool.  David loves the pool - he loves hanging out in the water and splashing and chewing on pool toys.  In the evening, we had cub scouts, but Eileen wasn't feeling up to going to mutual. 

Friday was a quiet day mostly, but on Saturday, Dan was going to be at work all day for a big work change over - so I took the kids and went to my parents house for the day since she was going to be watching Taz and Kai so Sandi and Jon could be at work too.  The kids had a long, fun busy day of swimming and eating junk food and playing with cousins.  Taz was so cute with David - he would play peek-a-boo with him by going under water and then popping up!

Sunday was wonderful, and we had a yummy dinner together and headed to bed!

Graduations....

It's been a busy week.  After Eileen's adventures of last week, she had an appointment at the doctors office on Monday - they didn't have anything after school, so I had to pull her out a bit early.  We needed to see her regular doctor before we could get her in to an orthopedist.  But then it took the whole week for the references to get sent over, so now we still have to wait until next week to see them.  

Tuesday was trying to get David back on a schedule (and failing) he hasn't been sleeping well at night (we figured out why - he's broken through 2 teeth this week - he now has 6 teeth total, but is rather lopsided - he has the four center ones, then the two that came through this week were the next one to the left on the top and bottom.  Dan was going to be working a bit late, but everything ended up going well and he was able to come home for dinner, which was nice we had the sister missionaries over for dinner!  

Wednesday was a usual day with Cub Scouts and Activity Days.  Eileen didn't go to mutual - she had a field trip that day at school and it left her exhausted, so she stayed home and rested.  The crutches and hobbling around have been rough on her body and not being able to do all the things she wants to do has been rough on her mind.  She's sick of having a fractured ankle.  

Thursday was the kids last day of school this week.  James had a kindergarten graduation celebration in the morning.  He was so cute!  Plus he was VERY excited that he got to go home with me after.  Especially since it meant meeting up with Aunt Sandi and Grandma at Chick-fil-a for lunch and then getting to go to Kai's preschool graduation in the afternoon and getting to play with Kai.  He had a blast.  

In the evening, after a quick dinner, I headed down to Plano for DMCO auditions.  I believe it went pretty well - now just waiting for official results! 

Friday, the kids were off school, they got some clean up done in the morning, they got to play some games in the afternoon.  After, my mom came up to help out babysitting so Dan and I could go to the temple.  We had a nice afternoon of doing sealings before grabbing a quick dinner on our way home. 

Saturday was rather crazy busy.  Dan took most of the kids to the library in the morning, then after, while David was napping he took some of the kids to the pool in our neighborhood - they had a blast!  Then Dan went to help a new family move into the ward and we got some help moving the couch from Grandma Penny upstairs.  Then in the evening, we went back to the pool for a bit and David got to get in the pool for the first time - he seemed to love it! 

David loves to climb the stool and loves to explore and get into things - especially the pantry! 

Today was wonderful!  The talks and lessons were wonderful.  After church, we had dinner then invited the Gustaveson's over for games and some dessert.  We had a fun time playing Dominion and finally managed a Jones family win against them! 

Broken Bones and Birthdays

This has been a fun and busy week.  The kids had STARR testing at school most of the week and watched movies when they weren't testing.  So school was a pretty slow week.  Monday at the house included laundry and grocery shopping and such.  

Tuesday was a nice easy day for David and I during the morning and was the usual craziness after school.  David and I took a little drive down to the grocery store for a couple things Walmart hadn't had.  We would have walked but it was a drizzly kind of morning.  Dan had to work late - they've got a bit change going on at work coming soon and Dan needs to get all the back end stuff done.  

Wednesday was a normal Wednesday - I went to help out with Cub Scouts, but Aaron didn't have to go since the Webelo's leaders had to cancel.  In the morning, I went to visit Sister Young, we had a fun time chatting together - She's such a fun and sweet lady!  

Thursday started out pretty slow and easy for David and I, then in the evening, I had a Relief Society activity - it was really neat - a lady came to talk to us and teach us about a bunch of ancient Jewish cultural things that help us understand the scriptures better.  It was a wonderful lesson.  I also got to spend some time chatting on the phone with Kay!  I miss her!!!!  

Friday was insane....  After getting the kids off to school, and getting David fed and changed and myself fed and changed, we went to go visit with and hang out with Sister Carpenter.  It was a lot of fun chatting with her and getting to know her a bit better!  As I was leaving and preparing to go meet Sandi for a lunch date, I got a call from the school nurse saying that my daughter had hurt her ankle and she thought I should take her to get it x-rayed.  I drove to the wrong school at first and they were confused - then I realized that I needed to go to the middle school.  The kids schools had all had a field day type thing going on that day and Eileen had been having fun and landed wrong on her ankle and hurt herself pretty bad.  So i picked her up and took her to an urgent care.  They took an x-ray and determined that she had a fracture, so we got her splinted up, and now we need to get her to her doctor, then to an orthopedist.  After we got that all done, we had to go get her crutches because the clinic was out of crutches in her size, then we finally got a late lunch, then it was time to start getting kids from school.  Dan came home to help out.  After, I took Evie to the art show at the high school because she had an art piece that she had done being displayed there.  She got a kick out of it.  Then we headed home for dinner before I went to pick up the baby sitter.  Dan and Eileen and I went to see Avengers: Infinity War.  We had a great time - but Eileen cried for the last 15 minutes of the movie.  

Saturday was Dan's birthday - I had lots of help from David and James to make Daddy's cake - David will climb up the stool whenever it is left out for him.  We mostly had a quiet day though - Dan did some running and helped Aaron mow the lawn.  In the evening, we had cake and ice cream and daddy got his presents.  

Church was wonderful as always

Happy Mother's Day

It's been a fun and busy week!  The pinewood derby was on Tuesday - so I spent most of Monday and Tuesday getting ready for that.  Everyone seemed to have a fun time and I was amazed at how fast it all went.  As usual though - I was exhausted by the time it was all over and just wanted to sit down!  

On Wednesday, The Activity Day girls were putting on a spa day for their moms.  So I got to go hang out with Anna and Evelyn and get my nails and toes done and have fun goofing off with them and having some yummy treats.  It was cute and fun!  Evie did my right hand and right foot, while Anna did the left hand and left foot.  

Evie needed to finish up her GT project and since it involved making cookies, we didn't want to start them too early and have them be old for the parent night display time.  So Wednesday before and after the Church activities, Evie had fun making cookies and picking pictures to use and putting her display together.  It came out pretty cute and the cookies came out yummy!   She did a great job making the cookies all by herself - I only supervised (and put trays in the oven)  

Thursday night, Aaron and Evelyn got to display their projects - Aaron's was a cool project about eggs in space - how they behave and talking about different experiments that have been done.  Evie's was a big hit since it included free cookie samples :)  

As you can see here - her 3 bags of cookies got eaten up pretty fast!  And she was quite proud of herself! 

David is getting into everything and trying everything out.  He loves to open the gate and climb up the stairs, and he recently discovered the stool that we keep in the kitchen and looked like he was trying to cook up some dinner...or maybe breakfast since he's still in pj's. 

Friday after school, Eileen went with her friend to a company party for her friend's dad's company.  She had a great time with her friend!  The rest of us went out to the ward camp out - We just went for the evening to socialize and enjoy the short program - then headed home for bed.  The idea of camping out with a 10 month old who hardly likes to sleep in his own bed wasn't appealing. 

Saturday was a fun day - we walked down to the grocery store to grab a couple things before Sunday and we had some fun playing games and getting some clean up done around the house. 

Sunday was Mother's Day.  Anna and Evelyn helped Dan make biscuits for my Mother's Day breakfast - it's was so yummy!!  I got a beautiful pictures from Anna and an expansion to Dominion from Dan!  Church was wonderful - the talks were wonderful and the primary singing was adorable!  Kinda crazy to think that it was Anna's last primary performance.  After church, we headed home to have dinner.  We had the Walkers over for dinner and games and had a great time with them.  Melissa chatted with Eileen most of the night about horses and we all had fun! 

Fun with Friends

David and I mostly took it pretty easy this week - he is a much happier baby when he can get a good morning nap in.  So except for a couple errands that I needed to run on Friday, we took it pretty easy in the mornings.  The kids had a good week at school mostly - Evie made honor roll with all A's on her report card!!  Monday was the usual laundry and grocery shopping day.  Tuesday we didn't have anything going on in the evening (thank goodness since dinner ended up being late when I ended up having to shop for something that we usually have lots of but had run out of it with out realizing.)  

Wednesday evening was cub scouts and Eileen had a school event for her State Project.  So after cub scouts, We went to check out Eileen's project and then Dan took her to Young Women's and I put the rest of the kids to bed.  

Thursday was a nice and normal day - Dan had a priesthood meeting in the evening, but otherwise, we had a nice fun day together!  

Friday we went over to play games with some friends.  We taught them how to play Dominion - and we got beat again....  But we had a great time and the kids had fun playing together too!  

On Saturday, Dan and Anna got up early to go running with some friends from the ward.  Dan made a Lemon Meringue pie - even though he doesn't really like Lemon Meringue pie, but he made it because I've been wanting one for awhile now.  I have the best husband in the whole world!!!  We had some friends over for dinner and after the adults had a fun time playing Scattergories.  It's funny, we both have dogs named after video games - ours is Koopa from Mario and theirs is Ganon from Zelda!  

Sunday was great - Fast and Testimony meeting was great - David refused to nap so he was a bit tired and cranky by the end of the day - but hopefully now he will sleep well.....  We had a nice time chatting with Dan's parents before scriptures and prayers and heading to bed.  

A couple cute pictures from the week - my two boys cuddling up - it's so cute watching James play with David - also kinda nerve wracking since he isn't always good at remembering to be careful, but still sweet.  

And Evie showing off her painted nails - she spent all weekend painting and re-painting her nails.... 

Friends go home :(

Monday we mostly took it easy - David hasn't been sleeping very well at night, so we were all a bit tired, but after a nap and getting the crock pot started for dinner, we headed down to Allen to meet up with Dan for lunch.  Then we got back in time to get the kids from school and get home.  We had fun in the evening, and took Kay and Reggie to go see some of the houses in the neighborhood in hopes of getting them to move here - it would be so AWESOME to have them living right near us!!!  

Tuesday was more fun and good times, Kay was determined to pack our fridge full of good food before she left, so she made more yummy food with lots of left overs and it's been so yummy!!!  We made up a birthday cake for Kay - we got the cake made up on Monday night, then we frosted it up Tuesday to eat and celebrate with her on Tuesday evening.  I told her she could pick any cake she could find a recipe for - she picked Banana cake with a cinnamon cream cheese frosting.  I was quite proud of how it came out and it tasted pretty good too!  

Wednesday morning, the kids got off to school and not long after, Kay and Reggie headed for the airport and David and I were left alone for the morning.  We mostly rested and got David a much needed nap. In the evening was young women's and cub scouts and activity day girls.   

Thursday, after school, Anna asked me to go outside with her and practice her volleyball, so we had a great afternoon of playing outside in the front yard and enjoying the weather.  Aaron's friend came over to play too.  

On Friday, the younger kids had their color run at school.  They had a blast and came home looking kinda green and zombie-like, so I told them to make zombie faces and I snapped a picture, then we listened to "Zombie" by the Cranberries on the way home from school.  Those kids crack me up! 

On Saturday, both Eileen and Anna had their solo instrument competitions - they both got 1's (highest score possible) and did a great job!!!!  In the afternoon, Evie planned a mom and dad and Evie outing to go get ice cream, so we walked down to the ice cream place and got some yummy ice cream and then walked back - Evie mostly just loved having mom and dad almost entirely to her self (David came too, but he just hung out in his stroller happily) but we all had a nice time together! 

Church was great - the talks were wonderful and lessons were wonderful.  We talked to one of Eileen's young women's leaders who was concerned about Eileen, so Dan and I spent the evening with Eileen trying to figure out what was wrong - Dan took her on a bike ride, then she and I made cookies.  We think she's having a hard time finding friends and feeling like she fits in.  I wish I had a magic mommy wand that I could wave and make it all better.... 

Friends come visit!!!!

It was a crazy busy week.  The Pack meeting was on Tuesday, which meant that most of Monday and Tuesday morning were spent getting things ready for the pack meeting, running errands and such.  But over all the meeting went well - the boys were superheros and made capes and ran obstacle courses.  

Wednesday I went down to get my hair cut with mom and after we stopped at In N Out burger for lunch.  David liked it. :)  Eileen had young women's in the evening, but no cub scouts because of the pack meeting.  

Thursday was normal. In the evening, I let Anna come play volley ball since the kids had Friday off, and I invited Grandpa to come too.  We had a good time playing together - though it had been a while since my dad played - he's still better than me at my best.  We had a fun time, though he took a bit of a fall at the beginning while chasing a ball and I think he went home a bit tired and sore.  I'm glad he came though - it was fun playing with him again. 

Friday, we met up with Grandpa at the Dallas Zoo.  The kids all had a great time and didn't want to leave - thankfully we can come back lots of times this summer. The day was perfect for being at the zoo and the kids all had a great time. 

Late Friday night/Early Saturday, Kay and Reggie arrived!!!!!  We got them settled in and then all passed out - exhausted!  Saturday morning, Eileen, Kay and I went to the Relief Society activity.  We didn't stay too long, we wanted to be home and playing and enjoying time together, but we helped out some on the service project and had a good time.  The boys and younger girls went to go fly a kite and had a great time.  It's so great to have them visiting!!!! 

Church was wonderful and the whole sabbath was great!  We finished the day with Dominion and chatting (and staying up a bit too late)

Stake Conference and Tae Kwon Do

It was a busy week as usual.  Anna has been keeping busy with volleyball and school activities.  Eileen had her performance.  The choir sang in the production of the Lion King.  She did a great job!  Anna and I had a great time watching it!  Dan was sweet and stayed with the younger kids so I could go.  

On Saturday, we all went to Taz's birthday party.  He had his party at a Tae Kwon Do place and the kids all had a great time!  The adults all had a great time watching them - it was rather funny :)  

In the evening, we had Stake Conference.  Eileen babysat, but we brought David with us.  It was wonderful!  After Dan and I grabbed a quick dinner before heading home.

Sunday was more Stake Confrence - it was wonderful getting to hear from stake leaders and a general authority.  After, we went over to the Hendrickson's house for lunch and games and had a fun time.  They were having pancakes for lunch, so we had breakfast for all 3 meals of the day :)

David loves to bang on everything - so when he found Aaron's drum and drum sticks - he was in seventh heaven.

I Love to See the Temple

This week started out normal enough.   School, grocery shopping, laundry, and such.  David is so much happier when I can keep him on a nice regular schedule - so when I can, we mostly stay at home and keep to a nice regular nap and eating schedule.  Then he is a smiley baby instead of a cranky one!  

Wednesday was cub scouts and young women's, so a busy evening.  Aaron had his well child check up (finally) so we got home a bit later than usual and he and I didn't get dinner before we had to head to the church.  Thankfully they saved us some and we ate when we got back. 

Thursday, James had his check up after school - he was so excited, after seeing Aaron get a bouncy ball, he was so excited to get one too.  Volleyball was cancelled, they couldn't get enough people.  :( 

On Saturday, we had a bit of a busy day.  Eileen and I went to get her some new yarn with her money.  Then I took Evie, Aaron and James to get new shoes since their tennis shoes were all falling apart, Dan and Anna went to go help a new family move into the ward, Then in the evening, we all got dressed up and headed down to the temple for a ward family temple trip.  It was wonderful - especially wonderful to be in the temple after a rather busy and stressful day.  Unfortunately, James wasn't feeling too good, so he mostly stayed in the car with Dan while I went in with the other kids.  Then after, we took some pictures, but it was chilly and most of the kids forgot sweaters...

Fast and Testimony meeting today was wonderful!  We've been making an effort to teach the kids the importance of fasting and it's been amazing to watch the older kids all try and do their best to fast and to do it with a purpose!  Church was wonderful - our Relief Society council was wonderful and made me truly appreciate what a great ward we are in!  After church and dinner and such, I sat down with Eileen to look at her personal progress and had her pick one out that we could work on together.  We called Grandma Jones and talked with her about it and it was wonderful! 

Happy Easter!

We've kept busy this week.  Dan had a couple really long days at work.  The company was doing a big push to get something out to clients and Dan wanted to make sure that his part was done so that he wouldn't have to be working over General Conference/Easter weekend.  Monday was the usual - laundry, grocery shopping, school stuff, etc.  Anna is playing volleyball after school.  She's really enjoying it!  

Tuesday, we had the Louvren's over to play Settlers of Catan and had a fun time eating ice cream and playing together!  

Wednesday morning, David had his 9 month check up - he weighed in at just over 20 lbs - he is growing so fast.  The doctor said the rash that has showed up recently is excema and a couple other little rash things all at once, so he gave us some ointment to help with them and his skin is looking SO much better now!!!  

Here's a cute picture of David helping me do a little grocery shopping.  We needed a couple things - when Dan was going to be home really late one night, I decided to put off the more complicated meal that we had planned and went to grab the stuff for Chipped Beef instead.  David loved driving the cart!  

This is David's new favorite game - the kids think it's great too.  The stand him up and let go of him to see how long he can stand, then catch him when he starts to fall.  He thinks it's awesome - he loves the part where they catch him - so much so that after awhile, he will intentionally start to fall just so he can get caught, and then he giggles like crazy!  

The kids had no school on Friday, so I took Anna with me to Volleyball again on Friday - she had a great time.  I'm also having a great time watching her get better.  She is better every time I play with her!  She's starting to try over hand serves!  

Friday was a fun and busy day.  We met up with Sandi and Taz and Kai at a park to play and chat and have fun.  The kids had a great time with their cousins.  Then we headed home to decorate Easter eggs.  The kids had a lot of fun decorating the eggs.  I enjoyed watching them and looking forward to making them into deviled eggs!  

Saturday morning, a family in the ward was having a breakfast potluck/Easter egg hunt, so we headed over with some coffee cake and Easter eggs.  I let the kids open their baskets first so they had something to keep the eggs in, then we headed over.  

The kids had a good time, though I think Eileen was a bit disappointed when she didn't get many eggs - but overall they had a good time, then we headed home for General Conference.  

General Conference was WONDERFUL!  It's so nice to have a prophet who is healthy enough to address us at conference - his words were so inspired and so wonderful.  It was a wonderful way to spend Easter weekend.  So much to learn and some exciting changes.  It's so neat to see the way that the Lord encourages growth in the church and in individuals through the programs of the church!