What?! I know, I’m updating our blog. So much for my “new post every week” promise! 
Oh well, I’ll keep trying. Well, I’ll start off with the best news of all, we sold our Springville house! Yes, we are now the proud owners of only one home instead to 2! While it was a little stressful with a few months of 2 house payments, we learned a lot about budgeting and what we can “really” live without. I became a coupon fanatic and am now kicking myself at how much money I could have saved on groceries over the years. I worked a few extra shifts at work, it just so happened that there were a lot of needs right when we needed them (I work as a secretary on-call in Labor and Delivery for those who don’t know) and that was really helpful. The hardest thing of all was not buying anything for the new house. We told ourselves, even if we had a little extra money at the end of the month, no buying anything that wasn’t necessary. It worked out that we lived in our Springville house just long enough to quailfy for the the upgrading house tax credit so with the house sold and that check finally arriving we are happily spending away! We bought some much needed new couches, a water softener (never have I seen such harder water than what we have here) some organizers from Ikea for the kids millions of toys, and a few other things. We have been working on trying to bring our yard back to life, the house sat empty for over a year so the lawn is struggling, but I think by the end of the summer, it will be all green again.
Ok, so Jeremy turned 31 on April 8! We had a fun day just hanging out, we were still waiting on the sale to go through so we didn’t do much except spend the day together as a family which is always wonderful! I did make sure and at least get him a cake and a little gift from the kids (a strawberry plant and we planted and it promptly got several inches of snow on it and died quickly lol)
We went to Kanab for Easter and had a wonderful time. The weather was perfect and the kids had a great time playing outside all the time. Aunt Denise came up and it’s always great to visit with her and Grandma! We, of course, decorated eggs (after McKinley went to bed of course, that would have been HUGE mess).
Went up in the mountains and dutch ovened (best food EVER!!) and had a little Easter egg hunt.
And got some super cute pictures!
Then the Easter Bunny visited! He found LOTS of good deals this year and went a little overboard but oh well!
Then we went on another egg hunt to find all the eggs the Easter bunny had left!
Isn’t he such a good big brother, helping his sister?
Then we flew a kit Great Grandma had given Mason for Easter!
It was a great time, although we really missed the rest of our family that couldn’t be there!
Mason started T-Ball this year! It is so fun to watch him and rather interesting to see 3-4 year old kids play T-Ball. He does a pretty good job hitting and throwing the ball.
One of the parents are usually out on the field with them all the time cause they just run off if not, LOL! I designed a scrapbooking kit to go with his colors cause they were so bright! Here’s a page I made with it. We have a lot of pictures so many more to come.
And finally, we just got back from a great little vacation to Snowbird! Jeremy’s parents have a time share up there every year around Memorial Day and we got to go spend a few days up there relaxing and swimming. But before we went, we had to attract some illnesses. The day before we were supposed to go, Mason got pink eye (fun stuff). I took him to the Dr. at the first sign on an infection and we started drops right away and luckily it never got bad at all. We only had to delay our trip for 1 day before he was doing good enough to go. McKinley never really got it, but we started her on drops anyway, just in case. But besides that and the fact that the cold they both had traveled to their lungs and me and Jer got LOTS of sleep with them both coughing all night (lol) we all had a great time. Mason wanted to go swimming so bad so the first night we got there, we went right to the pool. It’s outdoors, but the water is sooo warm, it’s like sitting in a hot bath. Here’s the kids getting ready to go down. We couldn’t get them looking at us at the same time and McKinley just kept playing peek a boo so Mason was looking at her lol.
And then we woke up to this
Apparently, while we were sleeping, Snowbird got about 8 inches of snow! But by the afternoon the snow was moved off the sides of the pool so we went swimming again! Because school was still in, there was nobody there and we had the pool to ourselves for over an hour before some other kids came in. Usually we are there after school is out and it’s pretty packed but we were lucky this year. We thought maybe the snow scared people away, but the next day it was pretty warm and no one was still there.
Boys being silly
I love how you can see the steam pouring off the water. It looks cold but it was really so nice. The sun was shining and it was only cold if you were standing in the snow…or if you’re walking back to your room, walk under a tree and a huge pile of snow falls from the tree at that moment and lands on top of you. (McKinley and I can tell you that that is cold!)
On our way home we stopped at the Living Planet Aquarium in Sandy. It was pretty fun, but the kids were kinda worn out so we’ll have to go back another time when they are feeling better. But we got there in time to see the penguins being fed and they LOVED that!
Mason didn’t want to touch the sting rays, but me and McKinley did!
They loved looking at all the fish
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And jelly fish!
Alright, now you’re pretty caught up! I hate doing these long posts, I really should just post more!
