Little Sahara

We love to travel for Conference. With Thunder being Bishop, it's hard to get away during the weekend. This time, we decided to check out Little Sahara. It's only an hour away and has awesome sand dunes to ride and play on. We went with the Hilds again and the very first night Thunder and R had work together to get both rhinos home after one had engine trouble.  The kids played, played and played some more digging holes, sliding down the hill on sleds and climbing up the few trees.  Since we went in April it wasn't too hot yet.  Definitely a place to visit again!

An Eggcellent April Fool's Day

This year April Fool's Day was on a Sunday during General Conference.  We always have Monkey Bread for breakfast, but this year it was green! It was not totally appetizing, but still tasted good.

Then for dinner, we had donuts (meatloaf with mashed potatoes on top), ice cream (mashed potatoes with caramel colored gravy).  For dessert we had a giant ostrich egg (yogurt with a sliced peach in the middle). I scream, you scream, we all scream for.... mashed potatoes!

March Randomness

Unfortunately our van got in a little accident.  That was totally my fault :-(  It was the sun, the sun was in my eyes, I tell you!

Cloudburst and Sunshine had a great time on their basketball teams. Here is little Sunrise showing some mad skilz during half time!

Our school had a skate night at the indoor rink.  Thunder was out of town so I took the 4 kids myself.  That was hard!  None of them can really skate and so it was a long night of getting kicked in the shins by heavy skates.  But of course they loved it and want to go back.

After re-decorating Cloudburst's room for her birthday, we decided to takle Sunshine's room.  He and Sunrise had switched rooms and now he had his own room.  He really wanted a loft bed (where the bed is raised) so he could have a little cave underneath.  Thunder was still out of town so the kids and I did it ourselves!

And of course... here is a leprechaun trap for St. Patrick's Day.  We still missed the elusive little guys.

I have been attending some great music workshops called Soundcheck.  Here is Tyrone Wells singing "Seabreeze."

Sometimes the morning is just too short!

... and sometimes the night comes too soon.

Here is Sunshine's 1st grade sing-along

We disassembled our crib once and for all! No more babies in this house!

Some lady friends and I had a fun party.  From the decorations below, can you tell what movie we went to see? 

Yes, Hunger Games.

Photo shoot

We had an impromptu photo shoot in the back yard when the sun was giving some especially yummy light. Hence the jammies. But they are so cute! Sunshine took the last photo... not bad for a 7 year old :-)