Category: Holiday

Easter

We had a good Easter this year. We started with a Easter egg hunt at Taylor park. There was a decent amount of people but nothing as crazy as the city hunts, so that’s good. They had it separated into various age groups as well, which made it nicer. It was sunny but really cold, but the kids loved it.

Then we spent the day at the Gregory’s, having lunch, dyeing Easter eggs and doing another Easter egg hunt. The kids got pretty spoiled with all the candy they got.

It was sunny but pretty cold

Sam wasn’t very interested in finding eggs

Dyeing Easter eggs

Ready to find eggs
Checking out what they got
Two babies wanting to go play with the big kids
Sunday best
Finally getting to check out their Easter baskets
McKinley got a new Princess Black book
William got a PJ Masks toy
Lucas got a new game and a frisbee

Pictures from February

McKinley’s snow man

Lucas getting a book signed by Gary Hogg, who did a presentation at his school
Lucas by the cake he decorated for pack meeting
Handsome boy
Handsome boys
The cake Kryssi made me for my birthday

Crazy hair in the morning
He wanted his picture taken at Target with this display
After watching The Lego Batman movie on Presidents Day
Playing with cousins
Samuel got in on the action at his cousin’s birthday party. Warm up for his party I guess

Static hair
Came upstairs after putting the kids to bed one night to see this raccoon eating the cat food. Our cat just sat there and watched him.

McKinley ready for Dr. Seuss day at school, with the hat her mom made her
Samuel likes to get up early but it’s always nice to snuggle up under a warm blanket

Pre-Christmas fun

Watching the primary kids sing at our ward Christmas party

Frosting and decorating our Christmas Trees
Painting some new Christmas ornaments
Finished ornaments
Samuel isn’t crawling yet but he rolls and scoots around. He ended up making his way over to the tree and started messing with the presents and ornaments
He actually ended up grabbing his own present and started trying to rip it. I guess being curious about your Christmas presents starts young!
We got our cat Grey a pet bed for Christmas and the kids couldn’t wait to give it to her. She instantly curled up in it and has loved it ever since. And she normally isn’t in the house but since we went through that cold spell where temperatures were in the negatives most of the day, she stayed in the mud room for those few days (but she is outside again now, though she’s not happy about it)

Recent Pictures

We got a little snow when we were in Utah for Thanksgiving and the kids were super excited, since we hadn't gotten any snow yet in Idaho
We got a little snow when we were in Utah for Thanksgiving and the kids were super excited, since we hadn’t gotten any snow yet in Idaho. We didn’t bring any of their snow items but they still wanted to go out and play.
Over Thanksgiving we went and saw Moana
Over Thanksgiving we went and saw Moana

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Tried to get a picture our Christmas lights but my phone doesn't take pictures in the dark very well
Tried to get a picture of our Christmas lights but my phone doesn’t take pictures in the dark very well
Decorating the tree
Decorating the tree

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Watching AFV Sunday night
Watching AFV like we normally do on Sunday night. The kids all wanted to snuggle together.
Seeing Santa Clause.
Seeing Santa Clause.
William was really excited to see Santa (until after, when Santa didn't give him a present and he had a meltdown)
William was really excited to see Santa (until after, when Santa didn’t give him a present and he had a meltdown)

Halloween fun

It was a fun Halloween this year. We carved pumpkins, decorated sugar cookies, went to a Halloween carnival at Lucas’ school and went to a couple trunk-or-treats.

Cleaning out the pumpkins. William wanted nothing to do with this part of it.
Cleaning out the pumpkins. William wanted nothing to do with this part of it.
Samuel didn't get to carve his own pumpkin but we watched and ate some puffs
Samuel didn’t get to carve his own pumpkin but he watched and ate some puffs

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Finished pumpkins
Finished pumpkins

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Playing a football game
Playing a football game
Trying to win some prizes on Plinko
Trying to win some prizes on Plinko

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Decorating Halloween cookies
Decorating Halloween cookies
Ready to go trick-or-treating
Ready to go trick-or-treating

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