Happy Easter

We had a great week - great weather and good times.

We spent some time outside playing and catching up on some yard work. We got all of our sandbox toys out and uncovered the slides and climbing sets. Except for Sam's fight with a brittle old plastic bucket (he lost the fight by the way), we love that our sandbox is up and running again for the season.

We had our first sleepover without dad or mom this weekend. We spent the night at Uncle Noley's and Aunt Christy's and had so much fun! (Mom and dad say they missed us something fierce!) Dad picked us up early the next morning and we headed to our monthly Home Depot Kid's Workshop. This time we built a birdhouse.Look at the concentration on these cute faces!After the workshop, we headed to our cousin's birthday party - he turned two. Actually he is our cousin's son (our cousins have kids that are our ages and even older . . . crazy, huh?) It was a basketball themed party and we had a great time throwing all the balls at each other (they were soft squishy balls). Cousin Christian was a great sport!The basketball hoops were soooo high up - daddy had to help us slam dunk. One day we'll be tall!Then it was home to color Easter eggs. This is one of our all time favorite activities. It proved to be as fun as it always is every year.Then somehow, it was Easter morning (wasn't it just Christmas yesterday?). The Easter bunny was wonderful to us as always. Our baskets were full of art supplies and fun little toys.The Easter bunny hid a whole bunch of eggs around the house so we went on a hunt - so much fun!.

This is part way through the hunts.

The eggs held candy and some little toys.Happy Easter to everyone!Sam Alert: Howdy everybody - I'm alive after my latest "incident". No stitches were necessary but I have a fun little scar on my cheek. It's healing up pretty quick (good thing I'm young).

I love being outside so our spring weather has been great for me! And have I mentioned that I love balls? Throwing, rolling, playing . . . . ah, so much fun! Have a great week!

Fun, Fun, Fun in the St. George Sun!

Sorry for the 2 week break in our blog - we were busy having some fun. Mom had to go to St. George for some meetings so we all took a few days off from school and work and made a trip of it. We started it off with a visit to the Dinosaur Discovery Center where they have all kinds of dinosaur and fossil prints. It was fun, but not super interactive - there wasn't much we could touch or feel.

There were all kinds of fun things to look at and a few things we could get up close to.We're definitely not as big as a dinosaur.Of course, we had a swimming pool at our hotel - - - and we made some good use of it. We swam every single day. And we're getting pretty brave - I spent a lot of my time under water.And Sam could hang on to his noodle and kick all the way to the deep end by himself. Here he is flying through the air with dad.We also took a big liking to palm trees - those are some really cool trees! Here's one that is Sam's size.And two for me.We spent a whole afternoon at a local fun/play place. We went mini golfing. And we drove the kid cars.And we did the bumper boats - let's just leave our comments about the bumper boats to say that mom and Sam got pretty darn wet!We played in the arcade and in the bouncy place.We were pooped out - a good time for all!Then we got to spend a whole day up in Zion National Park. Our big event for the day was a 3.0 mile hike (no carrying allowed or requested) up to Emerald Pools. It was a great hike with some beautiful weather.Check out these holes in the rocks that I climbed in to.Here we are with dad at the lower pools.A short stop at the middle pools - on our way up.And a family picture (and some lunch) at the upper pools. We stopped for fun pictures on the way back down.And we found this cool cave - we decided to be bears.We saw beautiful scenery.And we drove through a 1.1 mile long tunnel right through the mountains. When you come out on the other side, the rocks and mountains look totally different - it is so weird! More scenery.On our last day, before we headed home - we went back to a fun park that we found (Slick Rock Park) and got some energy out on their climbing walls.It was a great trip! We needed the get-away!

Sam Alert: Hey everyone - oh how I love the sun. I keep telling dad and mom that I want to live in St. George, but they're not listening. Enjoy a few cute pics of me from the trip.

First - I hiked the full 3 miles all by myself. My legs may be little, but they are strong!And you know that one of my favorite monkeys is Curious George. I like to pretend I'm a monkey sometimes, just like him. Well I can scurry right up these climbing rocks just like a monkey. Have a great week!