Spring Break Day 7

Swimming Pool!

(We have some girls very anxious for summer!)

 Marilyn and her kids joined us

 So excited to go off the high dive

(They are hoping we get a diving board put back in this summer at our pool!)

And then my camera died!

Spring Break Day 6

A lost ipod . . . we searched and searched the van and finally went in Deseret Book (my favorite store!!) and then she remembered where it was . . . in her boot for safety!

 Idaho Falls Museum -- Dinosaur exhibit

 with Grandma Morgan  (Sorry mom, that's a funny picture)

 And the kid place where they've been anxious to go again, but realized they are getting way too big for kid places.

 Visiting Grandpa & Grandma McClure (and Jo, Ava, Rach, Mason, and Carter)

and we had to make homemade ice cream (in the magic ball--can you imagine doing that for our reunions when we do 6 freezers full?)

Spring Break Day 5

Horse rides with Grandpa (#1 thing they wanted to do for spring break!)

Spring Break Day 4

Twins

FHE at the seminary while I scanned some family history papers

Throwing arrows (aka m&m's) at Samuel the Lamanite

Spring Break Day 3

I've been scanning my dad's mission slides . . . all 777 of them.  And then I'm headed over this week to teach my parents how to record on their new laptop so my dad can record all his mission stories.  Um, my mom may be sitting on the couch recording for a few years!  But for those who know my dad, we must get those stories recorded.  I found some classic pictures.  They just don't do missions like they used to!  =)  Or maybe it's that my dad had a mission unlike any other missionary.  Ya, that's probably it.

The following were labeled
Tracting  Looking for Hogans

Looks like they found one!

Spring Break Day 2

Pioneers

I finally made the mattress for the bed in the sheep camp, so I think it'll be more fun to play in it.  If we can just get rid of all the flies (Flies in March?  Really?)

 Miss Poser

 Miss Strange Child Who Just Keeps Getting Funnier

 Berry Picking Pioneer in the "Forest"

(Won't it be fun when it really does turn into a forest?!  Maybe when Mollie is old enough to pick berries.)

Spring Break Day 1

Our Shed Floor

(Step 521 on our yard!  We're getting closer!)

First hot dog roast of the year

(The wind picked up just for lunch and made for a repeatedly spilled plate and therefore lots of tears, but everyone ended up with sticky fingers and lots of dirt in their food, so it was good!)

And in between and after all that we pulled out a lot of dead stuff (I was a little occupied last fall!), pulled out lots of new weeds (already?), and smoothed out the dirt by the back patio.  Yea for warm enough to do yard work!  Our goal is to have grass by the end of the summer.  It must happen!

And then we crashed and then Allie, Kit and Mom went to the play (one of the best they've done in a long time) while Sarah went with friends to Hunger Games (she hid her head a few times but had fun with friends) while Dad, Charity, and Mollie watched basketball (I doubt Charity watched much but she fell asleep which was what was really needed).

Quite a start to a much anticipated spring break!