Saturday Morning Hike and Easter

On Saturday Chad woke up early with Easton and Lydia and took them on a hike before conference. They enjoyed a beautiful hike through Cienega Creek.

On Easter morning the kids received flip flops and goggles in their baskets all ready for summer.

The whole family came over to enjoy dinner and a big Easter egg hunt with over 500 eggs!

Since it was also April Fools Day, Bekah had put live crickets and worms in some of the eggs. She had everyone screaming and laughing. Easton loved it and has requested worms and crickets every Easter!

Spring Break

The kids were excited for spring break. Mostly because they wouldn't have to wake up early for school.

We went to the zoo with Aunt Sarah and enjoyed the nice weather.

Afterwards we headed to Chick-Fil-A. They were having a Fairytale Day and if the kids dressed up they received a free meal! The kids loved dressing up and free food was a great bonus!

On Saturday our ward had a Rodeo! It was so much fun! We enjoyed petting animals...

Riding horses..

Rode the mechanical bull

And riding the train!

Lydia and Easton even signed up for mutton bustin. Lydia did great and held on while the sheep ran across the entire arena! She won an award for her performance! Easton was so brave and was technically too small to ride. He did so good though his sheep took a quick turn out of the gate and flung him off. But they both said they would do it again next year!

 We took the kids camping at Chiricahua National Park.

They enjoyed playing in all of the fall leaves. They made a leaf nest and "leaf angels."

We hiked a mile and a half to Faraway Ranch.

On the way we saw some white tail deer.

On the way back we stopped and played in the creek.

We explored the campground and the kids especially liked the "tunnel." They thought it was so cool their voices would echo.

We had so much fun in the fresh air and can't wait to go back!

February

The boys have practically lived outside the last few weeks. They will play for hours in the dirt. Their all time favorite was when it rained for 2 days straight and there was so much mud. They were in heaven.

They decided they wanted to build a tree house together and managed to get one plank in place.

But when the rest were not cooperating they moved on and built a teeter totter instead.

They are best friends most of the time.

Sophie and Lydia love the Descendants movies and were so excited Grandma Clayton made them Rotten to the Core shirts. Both of their teachers made the comment that that couldn't be farther from the truth about these girls though.

 

Grandpa Miller retired this year and so we through him a "Thanks for Bringing Home the Bacon" party!

The family came over for dinner and we surprised him. It was so fun I completely forgot to take any pictures during the party! whoops.

This is the first year Sophie had to do a science fair project. My goodness is that intense but we made it through and she did a great job!

She wanted to see what drink was the worst for your teeth. So she soaked egg shells in water, milk, orange juice, soda, and coffee for a week. She concluded that orange juice was the worst for breaking down your teeth and coffee stains them the worst.

We went to Vail Pride Day this year. Sophie's choir was performing and they did a great job. The girls also had clay figurines displayed.

They had a petting zoo and William loved the pig so much he gave it a big kiss. Lydia and I agreed that the baby goat was the best. Sooooo cute!

This morning we woke up to a snow shower! The kids were so excited and Easton was making big plans for snowmen and sledding but it didn't last very long of course. Enough to catch some snowflakes on your tongue though!