Easter Weekend

A week after moving we decided to take a trip since we were closer to family. Luckily my parents were flying to see my brother again, yes 2 times in 2 months. We aren't even in the run for favorite child this year!!! Since we already know who is getting it!! Anyway.... we drove over to Phoenix to see my brother and his family! We had spring break that week so we got to stay a few extra days and let the kids hang out.. My brothers family was so nice to let the girls stay home from school and play with us!

The first morning we woke up the girls let the dog in the house and Tyler was sleeping on the couch and it jumped on him and licked his face and woke him up. They thought that was so funny. I woke up to 4 little girls laughing their heads off!!! They loved walking the dog and taking it to the park!!

These two were so funny. They would dance to music, play star wars, watch batman, play trains and had so much fun together. J was so sad to leave and kept asking if he could go back to see his cousin.

Last time we were in AZ it was Easter and we had an egg hunt so we had another one again this year. We went to the park across the street and had an Easter egg hunt! They were so glad uncle Colt was visiting for the weekend! They all love to tease him.

Ms. S could get Mason to laugh every time. He was sure scared of uncle Doug's laugh but S could get him to start laughing shortly after. He loved the attention!!

It wouldn't be a gathering if we didn't have some type of fight. We had a water and silly string fight. The kids loved it and attacked Doug and Colt the most!!

As always when we get together we have to have some type of photo to show our love!! Our two babies were asleep but we got most of us. It was fun to have my parents there for the weekend.

 

We got to go to the cemetary while we were there. It is such a beautiful spot. Brit brought chairs and we sat and let the kids play and we enjoyed the beauty. It finally got dark so we had to load the kids up!! and we wanted to get home to eat chocolate roll!!!



We went to this great park!! I would love one like this by my house! We feed the ducks there and played on 2 playgrounds and raced on a soccer field. It was our last day there and the kids just wanted to stay. After the park we went to McDonald's and Aunt Brit bought them an ice cream cone. Which when I asked J what the highlight of the trip was he said..... That Aunt Brit bought him Ice cream!!!

 While we were there we got to go see Ty's sister and sister in law. We got to see the new baby but... why I didn't take pictures I'm not sure. He is so cute and we didn't get to stay long enough.

Its fun having family close by at least 7-8 hours is close to us!!

Of course the highlight of the trip.......... Tyler got stung by a scorpion. we were asleep and he jumped out of bed saying something bit him. So I started looking around for something and sure enough there was one on the bed. Luckily my brother had woke up because we turned the hall light on and came to see which kid was awake... but it was just us!! So Doug killed the scorpion since it was his house!!! We iced it and made sure he was going to live. It wouldn't be a vacation if we didn't have some fun story to tell about Tyler!!

Thanks Doug n Brit for letting us stay and for taking us to fun things. We had a great time with you!! Glad we live closer!

Saying good bye

It was a sad day as we finally had to say good bye to the life we have known for almost 5 years. So many memories have been made here.

We bought a new house, had 2 babies born, had so many friends come into our house, lots of cousin parties, lots of birthday parties, fun bike riding, playing tag, jump roping, 4-square, wall ball, playing on our play ground, water fights, doing lots of crafts, neighborhood parties and many many more fun memories.

The last 4 1/2 years have been very good to our family. We have learned to love lots of people. We have the best neighborhood that will be very hard to replace. We have played outside everyday at 4 when the kids get home from school.

We have the best friends here. We loved having birthday dinners or going out to eat with friends, or having scone parties or dessert nights at our house.

During this move our friends have gone above and beyond to have lots of parties and make sure we leave with a bang!!(even though I didn't want too.. I wanted to just up and leave quietly!)

Here are few highlights to help me remember the great times!!! I had way to many to add all of them!!

Here we are in front of our house before closing it up and leaving. That was the hardest thing I've done in a long time. So many memories that I felt like I had to just leave. It was really sad. I didn't think it would be that hard to leave a house but we have really loved our house.

 As I walked through it when it was empty it really broke my heart to see everything gone.

Here are some of our cute friends that came to say goodbye to us. Oh we miss those sweet girls.

Our neighborhood tree that the kids loved playing in. Our kids loved playing with our neighbors. All of our neighbors were so good to come outside and play with us. 

My friends threw a party for me so I could say good bye to our new ward friends and our old ward friends. It was so fun to see some of the girls from the LO Ward we have missed seeing them since we split. Thanks to my sweet friends for putting that together. It was bitter sweet. So many girls that have touched my heart that I will never forget. It was really hard to say good bye to them.

Of course my girls.......

don't even know where to start.... They are the best of friends. Man I am missing them so much right now! good thing for telephone, emails, and skype!!! sorry girls but you will still keep in touch with me! That was really hard to finally say good bye to all of them. My heart broke as I knew that I wouldn't see some of them for along time. They have been so involved in my life that to not have them be apart of my everyday life is hard!

The star wars boys!! He misses his friends and just wants someone to come and play star wars with him!!!

We are missing Oregon but are excited for a change in our life. Thanks to all our LO friends... You are all wonderful and we miss you and love you all!!!