Conference

My mom got four tickets to attend the Sunday afternoon session of General Conference this year. It was so great to actually have her here for Easter to spend time with the kids (we missed you Dad, but only a little bit...) The speakers at Conference were wonderful--my sisters had never attended a session before, so it was a fun experience to go together. It was also fun to see our Aunts Bonnie and Betsy sing in the Tabernacle Choir. Bonnie made a point to text Stephanie just before Conference started to tell her she could see us in our seats, so we blew her kisses. Who can say that they have two Aunts in the MoTab? We would have liked to take more pictures, but we were starving and it was really, really cold. Thanks for taking us, Mom!

We Love Easter

Mom and the kiddies at the Springville High School Easter Egg Hunt

Sylvia can't resist posing for the camera

Cute moms and babies (and a hot grandma)


Sylvia thought reading Collin Peter Rabbit would be seasonally appropriate

Sylvia and Grandma dyeing Easter eggs

Daddy helping Benny with his own Easter egg

Margaret is teasing Collin. How mean!

Un-edited photo with the Easter Bunny

(note to self: get that strange girl out of the background)

Sylvia and Benny with their Easter loot

Spring Break Fun

Enjoying juice at our campsite

Dad is the master of the grill

They don't come more handsome than this guy


On our "Nature Hike" around camp


Our trip to Arches was cold, but super fun

This is what Ben did during our drive through Arches

Pretty!

What an amazing trip!

Life Gets In The Way

I'm the first to admit that I've been slacking when it comes to posting on the ol' blog. I am eyeballs deep in reading/writing assignments for school, Sylvia broke all the blood vessels in her eyes (I promise I'll post a pic of the devil child), and I had an Enrichment Meeting that had to be planned and executed. BUT--I plan on posting more, and soon. We're going to have some fun this week, since it's Spring Break, so hopefully I'll have some interesting things to talk about. I doubt any of you want to discuss whether Thomas More's Utopia is a satire or a true call to create a new social order...but if you'd like to read my essay on the topic for British Lit, let me know.

Stress, Much?

I officially have too much on my plate. I thought that I would share this little tidbit of information with all of you. And in light of the fact that I am so tired (and a little bit sick) that I slept in until 10:30 am this morning, I thought I would post a little something that was read to us in Relief Society a few weeks back:

Why LDS Women Stress

As Latter Day Saint women, we are practically obsessed with engaging ourselves in good causes. Maybe its subliminal.

Glancing through the hymnal last Sunday I noted that as Sisters in Zion, we who are called to serve, are all enlisted to go marching marching forward because the world has need of willing men, to all press on scattering sunshine. We wonder if we have done any good in the world today because we have been given much and want to do what is right, keep the commandments, press forward with the Saints, choose the right, and put our shoulders to the wheel going where he wants us to go. However, as the morning breaks high on the mountain top, truth reflects upon our senses, and while we still believe that sweet is the work, we also realize that we have work enough to do ere the sun goes down.

And thus we ask thee ere we part, where can we turn for peace?

Do Not Disturb

After a rough day of play and preschool, Ben laid down in front of the tv to watch a favorite movie, and promptly passed out. His lips totally kill me. And I'm kicking myself, because I didn't take a picture of his feet: one shoe on, and one shoe off. That's my boy!

The Artiste

Sometimes it is hard for Sylvia when Ben goes off to preschool. She waves him off each day, and has this kind of desperate, morose look in her eyes. It is easy to see that she is worried that she won't be able to fill the time until her brother comes home. Today was one such day, so I asked her if there was anywhere special she'd like to go. And of course, she asked to go to the dollar store! We picked up a little art set for her to work on while Ben is away. This girl loves to paint, draw, color-basically anything artistic. She is so much fun!