April April April

My this month has just flown by. I can't believe it's been a month since I posted. Ok, so I found my camera. Yeah!! It has a broken screen, but it still snaps pictures. Phew! I just have to point and shoot and hope I'm getting a good shot. :)

Little Keegan thought that his new little cousin Evie was something pretty neat. He had to come over and see what everyone was looking at.

This past Thursday my sister-in-law Emily had a Dove Chocolate party. It was tons of fun and oh so yummy. Here is a picture of Chase, Trey and Grandma admiring cousin Evie.


This past week the water was turned on. Over the a Winter months we got a new pipeline up to our house. When the water came on, it became a muddy mess behind our house. The boys just loved it and had a blast. The next day that wagon was pretty stuck and dried into the ground, and was pretty hard to get out.

Chase had mud from head to toe. He was quite a muddy mess. Trey was pretty muddy too.

So, if you've ever seen Herby Fully Loaded, there is a scene where Herby lands in the back of a monster truck. My kids totally love anything Herby. They sing the little Herby song, as we call it, while they race their little Volkswagon bugs around the house. When they saw this Truck in Nampa, they just loved it. Trey couldn't stop stareing. Chase and Keegan were asleep at first and little Trey was doing anything he could to wake them up.

So, I decided to make my garden bigger this year. I used to have two small garden boxes, but I talked Sterling into finding me a couple more railroad ties and I threw it together. My two boxes share a side but thats ok. I can grow a ton more stuff now. Sterling brought me some dirt, so the boxes are all full and look great. I just need to plant now.

I wanted to take a family picture of us on Easter Sunday, but everyone was home and changed before I could get a picture of us all. So, we tried to take one the week after. As you can see we had some difficulty. Out of all the pictures we snapped this is the only one you can see everyone's faces. Oh well. At least we tried. They still look pretty cute.

Sterling came in and picked us up a couuple weeks ago and asked us to come help him. He needed some little hands to stickdown a pipe and clean out a birds nest. I ended up cleaning most of it out because I have long arms as well as smaller hands than the guys. Sterling told us not too worry there were no birds in there,but I was sure worried about grabbing something scary.

After lunch on Easter Sunday the kids had an Easter egg hunt at Grandma Johnston's house. This year we thought we were pretty genious. We were kind of sick of all the candy that we get for every holiday that comes around. I don't want to kids to turn into sugar. So instead of candy in their eggs we put gold fish crackers and these little chocolate bunny cookie things. I also cut up some stickers and stuck in a couple of them too.

Treyton and his Easter Eggs at Grandmas house.

Chase and his bag of Eggs. Chase was really a speedy egg finder. We had to slow him down so the other little men could get some.

Here is the only picture of anyone in their nice clothes on Easter Sunday. Cute little Keegan in his cute new tie. All the boys and Sterling got new ties from the Easter Bunny.

Here are the big boys finding eggs Easter Morning. The each got a bucket with a shovel for their Easter basket. Our tradition for Easter morning is that the boys wake up and find the real eggs we colored along with 12 other eggs. In each of these other 12 eggs are pieces of paper that tell the story off Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection. There are also little things in each egg to go along with the story, such as a nail or a stone etc. It is a fun way to talk about what Easter is about. Later on they get eggs filled with edible stuff.

Here is Keegan Easter morning, he wasn't too excited to find eggs. He mostly just stood around and tried to Eat everyones Cadbury eggs and Reeses eggs.

After the Easter egg hunt the Saturday before Easter Tricia and Dana helped us color eggs. It was pretty fun.

Me and the boys after the Easter egg hunt in Homedale. We almost didn't make it. I thought it was at a different park. We drove to three different parks trying to find it. I finally asked someone and we made it just in time.

Chase kept saying that he wanted Trisha's sister Dana to help him, but when we came to the park he decided he wanted me to take him. Trisha took Trey and Dana took Keegan, who suprisingly didn't cry. Neither one of them picked up any eggs though. Oh well.

Chase was pretty speedy at picking up the eggs. after we got to the other side of the field we noticed a little boy who got there just a bit too late and didn't pick up any eggs. He was crying and very sad. Chase gave the little boy one of his eggs. That was so nice of him.

Here is Chase with his Easter bunny basket waiting patiently for the hunt to start.

The boys all made their very own Easter basket out of a milk carton. The put cotton balls for the little tail.

Trey is a cookie man. He loves to frost cookies.

We made some Easter Sugar cookies. They were yummy and fun. We left out a couple for the Easter bunny to nibble.

The Friday before Easter we went to school with Dad aka Sterling ;) After dropping dad off we went to D&B and looked at the baby chicks. We stayed there forever, they loved them.

Here is Chases pre-school class at their little Easter Program.

The first week or so of April we went ove to Tadd and Megan Baker's house for Pancakes and coloring eggs. We all had fun over there with them.

The whole crew at Grandma and Grandpa Johnston's for General Conference. I made a bingo game for the kids to play while they watched. Chase really enjoyed it and I think he learned a bit too.

The Sunday morning of General Conference the Johnston family has a very fun tradition. They eat waffles with ice cream. I had never heard of anyone doing this before. It is a very fun treat and quite a fun tradition.

The boys love it outside and that is where they always need to be. I'm so excited that it is now getting warmer.

My sis Laura and I decided to take Chase skiing at the end of March. I only cost us $10 a piece for night skiing, so that was great. I was so excited for the little man, and he was too. When we first got there it was really pretty cold. Chase was not too happy to be there because it was so cold. I was pretty cold too. I thought we were going to call it an early night.

Laura and Chase were quite the snow buddies. We decided to eat and get some hot cocoa. Afterwards. I went did two runs by myself. Then as Laura was taking a couple runs I took Chase back out. He loved it.

When it finally came time to leave I could not get Chase to leave. We finally told him they were going to close. He thought they were going to lock us in up there, I didn't tell him other wise because I wanted him to leave with us. It was great fun, I hope we can take Trey with us next year.

Here was our game night over at Aden and Tricia's house. It was fun. We should have done it more often. I sure enjoyed visiting them or having them over while they were living over here.

Camera, Suit, Cat & Pink

So, a couple weeks ago I went to take a picture. I turned on my camera and the screen was black with what looked like a spiders web across it. The screen was broken. I was so sad. My camera is not even a year old. The camera still worked, you just had to guess where to snap your shot. Anyway, last week I took the camera to Ontario with me and at the end of the day, it was gone. I'm so sad. Mostly because I had tons of pictures on my SD card that I can never get back. I've just been borrowing camera's so I'm not going to have many pictures until I can actually get a new camera, or borrow one for a while.

Little Trey wore a suit for the first time to Church today. He looked so cute, but my little monkey wouldn't smile for me. This is Trey standing outside of the stake house in Nyssa.

This past week I let Keegan play outside a lot. It has been so nice this week. I believe it even got up to 70 or more. So very nice. Anyway this was the first of the nice days that the boys played at Grandma's house and Keegan was so infatuated with this cat. He followed it all over for awhile, and tried to get it under the swing.

This morning I was helping Chase get ready for Church. About a month ago Rochelle gave us some ties of the ties her kids don't wear anymore. One of the ties was pink. I asked Chase to help me pick out a tied for him. I asked if he wanted to wear the pink one and he said, no, I'm not a mommy, you wear it. It was pretty funny.

Baptism

The end of February we went to Rochelle and Dustin's house for Max's baptism. The baptism was very nice. Rochelle gave a nice talk. Max was pretty cute. Just after he was baptised and Dustin was bringing him out of the water he gave a relieving ahhhh. It was so funny and cute! Just like Max. We had lunch at the church and then the Johnston family went back to the house and played all afternoon. We chatted inside and made egg rolls that night. Sooo yummy!! Later we also got in the hot tub.

Here these guys are watching and waiting for their turn on the snowmobiles.

We piled our family on for a ride. It was pretty fun!

We did have one little mishap though. We fell over. The kids didn't really like the ride after this. Hope we can get them on one again. It was a fun afternoon.

The boys loved playing cars. Rochelle's kids have an awesome collection of cars. My boys so did not want to leave. Trey still asks me if we can go to Rochelle's house. It of course comes out shells house.

Reception in Adrian and February

A week after the wedding in Georgia there was the reception here in Oregon. Here's a picture of us and Trey.

The girls just love the bashful Chase. Maryn and Hayley are trying to get Chase to play with them. I think they finally succeded after Chasing him around for a bit.

This is a nice picture of Grandma Beus, she was looking so pretty this night.

The newly weds just before they left the church.

This is how they left the church all decked out in the tractor, I was just hoping it was very clean inside for her dresses sake. It was really a cute way to leave. Everyone thought it was super fun.

There were some really nice days of playing outside in February and I just had to take some pictures of the cute little men out there. Keegan found this little toy at Grandma's house and just had to climb onto it.

My three little men in the wagon. I like to take them for walks this way, but I don't think they're all going to fit in this wagon together for very much longer. :)

Chase just loves to dig in the dirt. He's making a big ditch.

Keegan just loves it outside. Whenever his brothers leave to play outside he stands at the door and just cries because he wants to go too. When it was finally nice enough to let him out too he had sooo much fun. It was really had to get him back inside. I think he'd live out there if I'd let him. You wouldn't think a one year old would be like that, but he sure is.

Keegan found Trey's boots and tried them on. It was so cute we just had to snap a picture.

On Valentines day we made sugar cookies and frosted them. It was pretty fun and yummy too.

Keegan didn't frost his cookie, he pretty much just ate it.

Cute little Trey with his masterpiece of a cookie that didn't last very long because it was soon in his tummy.

I saw Trey just looking out the window one night and I thought it was so cute. Him and his little relfection.

Cute picture of Trey!

This is video of Chase and his new form of hair gel. He used mud!! Funny kid, they just love the dirt and mud and there is plenty of it out here, so they are pretty much in heaven, whenever I let them outside that is. :)