Mothers Day Present

This was our present this year for all the Grandmas! We had a lot of fun going around the Temple and taking pictures. It has the best scenery for pictures.

Easter in the Mountains

We went up north for Easter this year and were surprised to still see patches of snow.

We were really lucky to go to Grand Canyon too. It happened to be free this weekend. I love when stuff is free.

 It still is hard for me to stand by the edge of The Grand Canyon. It is so deep it makes your heart race a bit faster.

Tyler and I aren't one for heights so we stayed back most of the time, but we did get a few pictures by the edge.

 Lucy was reading to everyone this weekend. Gracie fell asleep to her reading. I love how she is holding her hair away from her face while asleep.

 Tyler always making customs out of everything.

 Easter egg hunt time!!

 The kids had so much fun searching that the really BIG kids wanted to do it too. So we loaded eggs with cadbury eggs and money and let Tyler and Hunter hide these eggs with the Moms help.

 Fernando really wanted these eggs!

It was so funny to watch them search for the eggs. They really wanted to caramel cadbury eggs!

Odds and Ends of Last Month

This picture cracks me up. Gracie somehow fell asleep under her bed. I don't know how she can stand to sleep with so little room. She even has all her blankets with her too.

 The girls wanted pictures taken! I love Gracie's Kissy lips.

 Lucy is good at giving me this look.

 I can't wait for school to be over. I won't have to deal with making kids do their homework for a couple of months anyways. Don't let the smile deceive you he is not happy to do his homework most days anyway.

 Hunter and Mason earned their Wolf badge last month for cubs. We had them "wolf" down a mini pie to get their badges.

Here is Hunter receiving his badge. I can't believe in a couple of months he will be a Bear. Where does the time go...

Tyler is getting some of his activity badges.

Lucy's Favorite Things

My sweet Lucy is in love with strawberry freezer jam! Everyday for lunch at school she has bread with strawberry jam. She also prefers homemade bread. What can I say she is spoiled! We have been making jam together every time strawberries go on sale. She loves being able to cut with a knife and be Mommy's big helper. I think it taste better when you have a hand in making something too.

Lucy has done so well at school this year! She loves going and has made lots of friends. Every Sunday she makes books about Princesses now that she can write. Every day she get two books to read for homework one of the books are the paper ones. So she takes them and adds to them. This is one were she added sentences to the page. 

Here Lucy wrote That is a van.

 On the next blank page she drew a picture of two princess and wrote "I have a prioss" which is how she spells princess. I love it!

"You have a barre." "Barbie" I just love how they spell when they first learn to write. It is precious.

Day 4 Last One

The last day is always bitter sweet. You are glad to go home, but sad to have to stop playing. We headed back to the Tucson for Saturday. We stopped at two different places before heading home. We went to Collasol Cave. It was really neat inside. In the 1920 during the great Depression the government gave jobs to single man to make the cave have walk ways and lights throughout. They were paid $1 a day and they had to send $.75 back to their families. So they worked for $.25 a day. It was hard work too. It was really nice easy cave for the kids because of all the walk ways. Gracie was even able to go through it. It is a dry cave now. There are very few of them out there. It was interesting because all year long it is always around 70 degrees in there. I guess that is the average temp.

Tyler wore his hat and vest almost the whole trip. I love this kid. He has to dress the part. 

Here are the boys in the cave.

 I can't remember his name, but the man who owed this for a number years use to give tours of it. They say that if you went on one of his tours you wouldn't know until you started if it was a couple hour tour or couple of days. He always ruin lots of parts of this cave by having people touch the formations. They stop growing once they get oil on them. He would also have them break of parts to take home. There were parts that you could really see the damage they did.

Gracie giving me kissy lips. She had fun going through the cave.

My kids loved to follow right behind the tour guide. They would always hurry ahead of the rest of the group.

After the cave we had a picnic at the same place.

Next we headed to San Xavier Del Bac Mission. Tyler is learning all about AZ History this year so he wanted pictures to take to his class.

These pictures were taken by Tyler. He was having a blast taking them.

My brothers were so excited to be here. You can see it all over their faces.

We hiked the little hill by there church and it has this on the back part of it. Don't know what it is for, but still cool.