Hail to the Easter Hunt

We threw our annual Easter Hunt Tradition (started by my Grandma Crump) today. We invited over several families. The Paynes, the Andersons, and the Seedalls were able to make it! {Fifes got sick and had to cancel last minute. But we set them up with some hunting gear for later. And at least Mikal was able to come so our Bday girl had a friend}
Our family spent the morning finishing our rock bed, cleaning the house, making food and hiding all the Easter Loot around our 2 acre yard.
Then just as everyone was arriving, the clouds rolled in and it started to SNOW! What the....!?!!
We decided we better be quick before it really started coming down so we hurried everyone out with their bucket, their list and their crayon. No sooner than the last of the kids made it outside- it started to HAIL! What the....!!!!!!?! Like real hail--- the kind that hurts when it pelts you in the face! We weren't sure if we should laugh or cry. LOL We also just did some excavating this past week so everyone's shoes were covered in MUD! Our driveway, back deck and garage floor are covered in muddy footprints. It was quite the adventure to say the least! Brett, Brian and I did a final sweep to collect all the remaining treasure since most of the crew gave up when they were soaked threw and bruised in the faces from the lovely Easter weather! So funny! That means we should be able to keep those eggs for ourselves, right? LOL

Here's what our backyard looked like as we searched for our Easter Treats. (You can see people trying to protect their faces from the frozen chunks of ice!) :

Back inside- all shoeless, and trying to decide if it was appropriate for us to have an underwear party so we could all throw our pants in the dryer-we enjoyed a yummy dinner together!I love it when everyone brings something and you have this amazing meal! Thanks everyone!

What fun memories! So glad our friends could join us for our special tradition. Love you guys!

Battle of the Eggs

Let the Egg Battles commence!!! 

Seamons' Family Egg fights are always one of the highlights of our Easter season. We decorate and name our eggs and then "battle" for the title of this year's Egg Winner. Our facial expressions crack me up! LOL Get it.... "CRACK" me up! Man- We are so funny!

Easter Bunny & her Eggs

The Easter Bunny delivered some eggs for our family to decorate!

We made many gorgeous, colorful eggs.

P.S. EGGstremely hilarious sidenote:

I bought some "fake" eggs this year to dye. I thought it'd be fun to have some we could keep. Justice picked one up and examined it. He wouldn't believe us that they were fake. He said- "It looks so real". Liberty explained that they were in fact, fake and even showed him how they bounce when you throw them on the ground. She threw hers hard and it sprang back at her. Justice decided to try his out. He lifted his arm high and threw his egg with quite a bit of force towards the ground. But instead of springing back- it splat & cracked on the floor. WHAT??? Instead of grabbing one of the "fake" eggs from the carton, he had grabbed one of the leftover eggs that no one had yet decorated. He felt badly but oh man was it funny to the rest of us!

Front Rock Garden

We've been trying to decide what to do in the front in regards to a flower bed. We finally decided to use all the rocks we've found around the yard and make a Rock Garden with a couple plants. Brett helped add a bit of dirt to raise it up. We covered it with weed control paper. Then the kids helped bring up the largest rock we could find to make a border.

Love how it's coming together:

Brett & the girls helped collect loads of little rocks to fill it in.

TaDa! All finished. Hopefully our plants come back at the end of the Summer. They are gorgeous reds, yellows and whites.

Now onto planting grass?

Easter Decorating

We pulled out our Easter decorations right after St. Patrick's Day. Normally I wait for the first of the month but with Easter being early- Brett wanted to have them up longer. I do love decorating for the Holidays!

Back to Scones

It's been a long time but we are back to Scone Night. We had the Strattons, the Paynes and the Stranges over. I love having people over!!  It's so fun to make scone dough and have everyone help make them. It's a perfect activity while people visit. Then you get to have a treat to end the night. Love it!

Pep Talk & Frozen Moose

I got to spend time with Liberty & Victoria (and some cute friends) tonight as we attended the Women's Broadcast at the Stake Center. The speakers were so uplifting- just like a Mother/Woman Pep Talk. ;) Loved the messages, loved the womanhood and loved that my girls love cold dessert. {I can't stand to eat ice cream/yogurt when it's super cold outside so I just enjoyed the company} At the Frozen Moose, they had a Wii Kinect game up on the TV. The girls were so silly jumping all over the place in that corner. I adore them!

Merit Badge University

Justice got to participate in the MBU at Carroll College today. He was there ALL day. He got to almost pass off 2 Merit Badges. He did GeoCaching in the morning & Citizenship in the Nation in the afternoon with his buddy, Bryson Allen. Way to go, boys!

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In preparation for a Scouting event coming up tomorrow- Justice & I have been doing some research on GEOCACHING! One last step was to actually go find a cache. Victoria & Glory tagged along. We found our 1st one but it was empty. Bummer! So we left a few things in it and logged it on the website- www.geocaching.com. We C.I.T.O-ed and started our search for another one. That one was way cool! Although we were spotted by some muggles. Oops! The girls swapped out some treasure. We signed the logbook and logged it online. We did a little more C.I.T.O- ing and headed home. The kids wanted to keep going but we're gonna save that adventure for this Summer. It should be fun! 

Catching up on Blog Books

Building a home and then getting all set up, I fell way behind on making my latest Blog Books. I couldn't believe that I was TWO of them behind! Slacker! But I worked really hard and finished them. With a stealer deal I got them both published. They arrived this week. So excited!!!

Laughing Gas

My baby had to have a tooth extracted today. So sad! But she was super brave. Way to go, Sis! She was a tiny bit silly with her Laughing Mask on. Gotta love the memories!
{She asked me to take these pictures. When I showed them to her- she said, "What? I still have the glasses on?" Then she proceeded to tap on the lenses and told me that if she didn't have the glasses on- she'd be poking her eyes out. LOL}
Her Smile:

 Her Frown:

 Here's her teeth:

After we were all done, she got a treasure box with her little rotten tooth. Yah???

My Wife's the Primary President

O my Gosh! Brett and I almost died laughing with this Cartoon that was in the New Era this month! It's only truly funny if you've had a wife that served as a Primary President. Oh, the things Hubbys do to help their wives. Love it!

P.S. Brett has basically spent every single Sunday downstairs serving in the Primary (in some way or another) since I got called. What a Hunk!

Vegas Bowling

We had a Date Night to go do some Vegas Bowling tonight. Oh my Heavens! It was a blast! We had no idea what it was until we got there. Basically there are colored pins and if they come up in a special order, the lady calls it out for your lane AND you get a strike-- you win some money! OR if you leave only colored pins up- you get a quarter. We were rolling in the quarters, Baby! Jason even won $7. Way to go, Man! What a fun night! 

I loved our code names! The girls were ZBra, Booty, SxKtn, BtyJr. The guys were Cap, BooYa, Gimo, Hoyt and Footy. We are SOOOOO funny!

Let my Egg Stand

With the Earth on it's certain Spring tilt, magical things can happen!

Happy Spring! 

Except it seems that only Brett is magical in our family! How does he do that?

Canadian Mountie in the House

At Montana City School, the 6th Graders participate in a Drama Class for one semester. This semester they put on a production of "It's BigFoot!" Justice is in that class so he invited us to come see it today. It was ironic because he told us last night that it didn't matter if we came. "It's no big deal." But it turns out that he had one of the main roles. Silly kid! He did a fabulous job! He was super funny. He had all his lines memorized (or made it work for him if he messed up). And was way into the role! Who is this kid? Amazing! So proud of him!
He played Renfrew, the goofy sheriff for the Big Moose Lodge & Canoe Rental who thought more of himself as a Canadian Mountie. He spent his time trying to protect the guests from Bigfoot but ends up making the Lady Bigfoot fall for him. Too funny!

Two-Step Swing Dance Lessons

I saw this sign at Crossroad (my gym) last month and told Brett about it. We invited several couples but no one was able to come with us. But we had a blast!! We can do a little Swing dancing together anyways. But it was fun to learn a few new moves. We learned the double cuddle, the table top, a different pretzel, the snake and a spinout between the legs. We got to practice all our old moves as well.
It was also super fun to learn some Two-Step. We've never done that before. We were naturals! LOL
Now only if we could find a place and some people to go out dancing with.

Here's us on our last night in our Prom pose with the instructor, Kelly & our gym lady that put it all together. They were so fun!

On the last night, Kelly brought a video for us of a flip he taught some high school students. We practiced several times and then had them video us so we could see what we looked like. Here's some stills of the flip. It was pretty awesome!

I'll try and load the video up. I never have much luck getting them to work.