CATCH UP TIME!

WARNING: Long post ahead (but lots of pics)!

So April was a busy month for us. For easter we attempted to go to an easter egg hunt at This is the Place Monument Park. We got there a little late, no where to park, tons of people, cold, no easter eggs left from over 12,000 they had, and long lines so wasn't able to see the easter bunny makes this attempt not so fun. We had asked some friends of ours to come along with there little girl and we felt bad it wasn't such a great experience. We ended up just walking around and seeing what there was and looking at the animals. To add to this day we got back to our car and saw we got a parking ticket. Wonderful! What was supposed to be a free day ended up being more than this adventure was worth. We had to take at least one picture showing we were there!

Over Easter weekend we made a surprise visit to St. George to see Lance's family. We got there late friday night and had to come home sunday. We did a little easter egg hunt for alyssa and gave her an easter basket with a cute outfit and a pail with a shovel and rake, etc in it to play with outside. She didn't know what to think about finding eggs outside in the grass. Once she realized there was something in them she didn't care about any of the other ones she just wanted to eat what was inside. We had a lot of fun while we were there though. alyssa geting a nap in with Uncle Tyson

Finding eggs in the grass she knew to keep them and put them in her bucket

Keri, Alyssa and Landon on Easter (at this point all the grandkids)

The following weekend I had to take my NPTE which is nataional Physical Therapy Examination, it was way hard and way expensive, over $400. I had been studying with a friend every thursday night since last august and we decided to brave it and go take it or we would keep procrastinating. Well thankfully after much studying and prayers---I PASSED! Yea no more studying and I will never have to take that horrible test again. That pretty much took up my whole saturday since it was a 4 1/2 hour test.

The next weekend we went to St. George again. I was giving Sarah a baby shower. It turned out fantastic, or at least I thought so and she had a great turn out. She got lots of cute things for Gracie.

Alyssa chillin in the back seat with her feet crossed on our ride down to St. George

Diesel all comfy riding in the back seat, he travels very well.

We got to go down on Thursday night so we had a little more time. On friday I had to shop for the food for the shower and we went swimming at the rec center in washington. Unfortunately Alyssa wasn't able to go she had been sick with diaherrea and didn't want to chance it.

Saturday was the baby shower so I was up early getting everything ready. A friend of hers made a cake with fondant icing. It looked fabulous, I never had any but heard it was pretty tasty. While all the girls were at the shower the guys went shooting, hit a bucket of balls, and to get a smoothie. They seemed to enjoy it having guy time!

Cake her friend made with fondant icing ( so cute did a great job)

Diaper cake I made for part of Sarah's shower/present
Alyssa and Landon looking out the window at the dogs they loved it and had fun playing together.

That evening we had a BBQ and it was FANTASTIC, they made shish-ka-bobs and they were divine! We had a good time hanging out with everyone and playing games that night.

YUMMY shish-ka-bobs

Sunday we had to get up and pack to leave. We had a little lunch then hit the road. We had a great time visiting and can't wait to go back down (especially since it is warm there and it has been cold and yucky here)

This past weekend we were finally able to work in our yard since we had a day of sun. We got a lot done, yard mowed, garage cleaned out, shed cleaned and organized, and got rid of some junk. We had a little helper throughout the whole thing and she loved every minute of it.

Hard at work! I think she found her new toy today! Broom and dustpan she loved sweeping the ground.

Alyssa loves to show off her outfits and she knows when she is looking cute! Which is always but here she is in her cute dress that Cindy gave to her for Easter! It was adorable on her.