Let the fun begin...

A couple of weeks ago a nice neighbor and friend called and asked if we would like to have their trampoline. What? The kids have been wanting a trampoline for a long time. We have the perfect spot for it too. So of course, we said "YES!".

The first week we had the trampoline the kids jumped on it for hours a day and by bedtime everyone was exhausted. It was great.

Then the weather warmed up so we attached a sprinkler to the tramp and the kids jumped in their swimsuits.

Here are a few highlights of all the fun the kids have been having on the trampoline.

This is Jake attempting his front flip.

I am not sure what Emma is doing here but I am sure she is having fun!

Brandon was very impressed with how high he could jump. Just look at the concentration on his face. Love it!!

YEAH FOR TRAMPOLINES!!!

Just for fun...I added this photo of a drawing Brandon made of the Easter Bunny and a carrot. I especially love the ears on the Easter Bunny. :)

Bountiful Baskets

My dad told me about this great website were you can get a laundry basket full of fresh fruits and vegetables for $15 ($25 for organic).

Bountiful Baskets are available in Utah, Nevada and Arizona. In North Las Vegas the baskets are available every other week. You recieve what ever is available and in season.

In my first basket I recieved the following:

11 snack sized apples

8 0z. mushrooms

1 pint grape tomatoes

6 oz. blackberries

1 bag of large carrotts

1 cantelope

1 pineapple

1 small bunch of broccoli

10 bananas

1 bunch swiss chard

1 bunch romaine lettuce

17 red potatos

I was pleasently surpised at all the food I recieved for only $15. You can order whenever or want, there is no commitment. The pick up place is at the Mountain Crest park of Durango and Lone Mountain. If you are interested go to bountifulbaskets.org.

Easter 2010

We spent the Easter weekend in Richfield, Utah at Matt's parents house. First thing on the agenda was egg decorating. This year the kids cousin Radisyn got to join them in the fun.Next was the egg hunt. Matt's mom hid 90 eggs for all the kids and adults to find. Each person had a certain color of egg to find. Apparently this is a family tradition from Matt's mom's side of the family. How I did not know about this for the past 12 years is odd. I can't remember the last time I hunted Easter eggs. Everyone had fun of course. Brandon showing off the first egg he found.
The kids with all their eggs. Most of them were filled with candy but one was filled with $5. Boy do we love Grandma Sue's egg hunt. The Easter baskets.

Brandon showing off his chocolate bunny that the kids get every year for Easter.

Brandon playing his new "fishing"game with Grandpa Bruce.
After all the fun of the egg hunt on Saturday and checking out what the Easter Bunny brought on Sunday morning we were able to sit down and watch general conference. After that we had a nice lunch that Matt's mom prepared. Sadly we ended up having to leave shortly after lunch to get home.

If I had one complaint it would be the weather. It was Spring Break for crying out loud and it snowed while we were there. As always it was fun to visit with family.

The fruits of our labors

On Saturday we decided to take out some bushes in our backyard and replace them with fruit bushes. We bought 2 raspberry bushes and 1 grapevine. The kids were all very excited about planting fruit until they found out how long they would have to wait to actually see any fruit grow. :)

This is the before picture. (look to the left by the wall)

Everyone helped with the planting process.

The after pictures. Can you even tell the difference from the before picture?

We look forward to our fruit harvest. Whenever that may be!!

Jake, Jake the wrestling man!

Jake's wrestling season is over. (sigh) It was a long 4 months of 2 practices a week and a tournament every Saturday. Matt was helping coach the team and I think Jake and Matt both enjoyed that. The end of the year party was last Saturday. We were not able to go because we were out of town. So yesterdayMatt and Jake picked up what he would have received at the party. Which was individual pictures and a team picture all on a really nice plaque. Jake also received an awesome trophy. He was never able to place this year at any of the tournaments so I think that the trophy he received was pretty special to him.

You can't tell how happy he is about his trophy and plaque because according Matt "wrestlers don't smile. "

I got him to smile for me though.I am very proud of Jake and all the hard work he did this wrestling season. Jake worked out and conditioned harder than most adults could do and he never complained. Even though most of his Saturdays for 4 months were busy with tournaments and early mornings he didn't complain and always did his best. My little 8 year old son is really growing up. Before I know it he will be a man. sniff sniff.

Lied Discovery Children's Museum

A couple of weeks ago the kids and I went to the Lied Discovery Children's Museum. We had never been there and a good time was had by all. The first floor has a lot of hands on things to do for little kids. There were dress up area's, an airport check in with a luggage cart and also a mini airplane. There was a grocery store, bank and car repair shop to play in. As you can see below there was also a construction zone area.

Here is Brandon flying the airplane with Emma and Jake as his passengers.

There was also this great bubble making section. We spent quite a bit of time there. It was fun.

Here is Jake showing off his giant bubble he made.

Here I am attempting to put Brandon and I in a huge bubble.

Emma was doing very well at making giant bubbles as you can see.

This bubble maker made a wall of bubbles that Brandon loved to put his hands through. I love the face he kept making everytime he stuck his hands through the bubble wall.

This huge contraption would suck balls up a tube and then the ball would roll across the top and depending which lever you pulled it could pass through 3 different areas before finally reaching the ground again. You could really stand there for hours trying all the different levers. Brandon really liked this section.

This has got to be my favorite picture of the day. The museum has a hurricane simulator that got the wind blowing in this little tube up to 78 mph. I was able to snap a picture of Emma in the wind tunnel. LOVE IT!!

We didn't even get to try everything before Brandon got to tired and needed to go home. They even had a really cool show about liquid nitrogen. It was fascinating to people like me who know very little about science.

We had such a great time we got a year pass so we could check it all out again. The best part is it is only 15 minutes from our house. I am sure we will be going back again soon. Anybody want to go?

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To all you mom's out there. Here is a quick pick me up. Motherhood is difficult at times and yet so rewarding at other times. This little message will remind of your divine role as a mother. Enjoy.

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