Easter

We spent a night down in Zion with the whole Melling family. It was a blast. Swimming, a great sandbox, the river, lots of cousins, and of couse riding down the grassy hill in the Tonka dumptrucks.

Easter morning looking for eggs



Back down in Zion (I don't always get my pictures in order) The huge family Easter egg hunt. (Even the 20 year old grandkids love to participate).



A fun game - Human Foosball - you need lots of people to play so it works great for our family

Sara was the only one who wanted to go down as many times as Carter and she wanted to go as fast as possible.


Swimming with the cousins


Exhausted after a long, hard day

Hanna got hit by a confetti egg. (Ok, lets be honest - she cracked it on her own head) 8 is such a fun age.

We needed to walk home from Grandma's house and these two were cold and didn't have a coat so we made a big coat work and they laughed the whole way, until we got home and I tried to take a picture.

Carter's favorite thing is riding the tractor. It doesn't matter if he is riding with Grandpa or Dad, just so he is on the tractor.

Hanna and Sara are only 17 months apart and the second pregnancy and the first year of having two so small were really hard. But, now comes the silver lining of that cloud. They are best friends (most of the time) and they have so much fun together.

Sara was blessed with 21 baby teeth and when she was little she would tell people, "I have an extra tooth, but we don't know which one it is." It was pretty obvious which one was extra since one was all snaggly and out of place. Her extra tooth is loose now and I am sad to see it go, but anxious to see if she will have an extra adult tooth as well.

Allie is our little "Goldilocks". She has georgeous blond, curly hair. When she wakes up in the morning it is huge and unruly, but it is easy to brush out and easy to fix. The hair is fitting for the princess she is.

ST PATRICK'S DAY
We started out the day by choosing green to wear. Hanna and Allie chose green, green and more green while Carter chose his P.J.'s and Sara chose green socks.

Breakfast was Green German pancakes!


The kids made Leprechaun catchers with Grandma Karen and we set them out but didn't catch a Leprechaun only some gold coins and a note saying "better luck next year"