Our Easter Staycation

Usually for Easter we travel to hang out with family, but this year our family's were a bit busy.  At first we considered going camping, but it's still too cold around here at night, so instead we decided to have ourselves a Staycation! 

We had loads of fun.  Here are some highlights:

A picnic at the canyon park with friends (technically before our staycation actually started)...

Pizza and dying eggs...

Sam is concentrating on getting the
rubberbands on his egg just right.



We tried using crayons on the still hot eggs this year. And that
was Crazy Cool. We'll be doing that every year now.



We love using rubber cement
on our eggs. Love those swirls. 

Zoe was very proud that she didn't break
any eggs!

One of the things the kids were really looking forward to was a trip to the Aquatic Center here in town. That place is super fun. 

Then a cookout out at Three Peaks...

Our monkey hung out in her favorite place.
Well, actually I think she'd rather I'd let
her down in the sand. But then...well...
she probably would have tried eating it.
Yum. Sand-wich.



Ryan found helmets on sale so he bought one
for each of the kids. They look a bit funny, but
it's good to be safe, right? We don't want
anything happening to those precious melons of
theirs. But seeing as I could probably run faster
than he goes on that four wheeler with them, I think
they'll be okay.



We love climbing all over those boulders out
at Three Peaks. So fun.

We ate took many marshmallows, filled up on roasted hot dogs and creme soda, sat around the fire and laughed about everything.



I took Molly for a small four-wheeler
ride. You can tell from her face
how much she liked it.

Hunting for their baskets and Easter eggs...

A trip to Zion National Park...

Molly is reading the map for us.
I'm not sure she's the best choice for our navigator.

This wee girl LOVED riding the shuttle around the park! It was such a novel experience for her...no car seat, she could stand up and see what was going on and climb all over our laps. It was the best.

Those sure are some fun boys!

We checked out the Virgin River on the Riverside
hike and naturally we had to stop to throw rocks in.



Ryan ended up packing Zoe for this hike
She'd fallen on got a wee bitty
scratch on her arm and so, of course,

this made her feet completely unusable.

The hike took an hour. Ryan is a VERY
nice Daddy.





This was taken at the end of the Weeping Rock trail. What a
gorgeous view from there! (and not a bad lookin' fam if I
do say so myself :)



And the ghost town, Grafton...



Zoe was sure there were ghosts lurking in this house.

We had to keep reassuring here there

weren't actually any ghosts in the ghost town!



The church/school

My great-grandparents lived in this small town near Rockville. It's pretty cool to walk around checking out the old buildings and imagining the pioneers living and working there. 


















And finally a beautiful Easter morning and church...

Dang. Those are cute kids.

Hmmmmm, I have the best husband.
That's all there is to it.

What a great spring break and Easter!

Easter Fun

We had a really nice and lazy Easter weekend. Our original plan was to go to St. George to be with family there, but the weather did not cooperate. So, instead we declared that Saturday The National Shakespear Game Day, stayed home and had fun. We played the Rescue Hero Game, Buckaroo, Spy Alley, Restuarant(that one was Zoe's idea:) and we watched Bedtime Stories and ate caramel popcorn and dyed easter eggs. It was so nice to just have time together with nothing scheduled. Great great day.

On Sunday it was COLD in the morning, so it seems the Easter bunny did not want to brave the weather to hide our eggs. Luckily he hid the kid's Easter baskets though. They were thrilled to find them filled with treats and goodies.

Zoe loved the wee little lamb she found in her basket. There she is, hugging and squeezing it. Let's hear everyone say, "Awwwww." Yeah, that's right, she's adorable.

After church we had fuuuun trying to get some good pics of children in their Easter finery.

You can see by the pictures, Zoe cooperated really well. What a willing model she is!

Not.

Later,I asked Emmett and Sam to get the dyed eggs out of the fridge in the garage. They came back to show me the EMPTY egg cartons. The Easter bunny must have come!

So, we tromped outside to round up our hidden eggs.

Zoe loved the eggs she found. Why she loved them so much, I'm surprised any of them survived.

Emmett found 11!

Weston resisted picking up the obvious ones so his siblings could find them. Awwww, so nice, right?

And Sam had trouble spotting one egg for some reason. Can you find it?

Having kids is the best, right? I LOVE making these fun memories.