Eggs, eggs, and more eggs!

So I think I went a tad overboard on the eggs this year! You may or may not have read on Facebook about my stellar egg boiling skills.... :)
Let me back up. My mother usually goes to visit my brother Kevin and his beautiful family around this time of year in Connecticut. But most of the time it is before Easter, or right after Easter. We have always, always gone to her house to decorate eggs with all the cousins. She even boils all the eggs for each family and lets us take them all home too. I KNOW!! My mother! Aye yi yi!! She is incredible!! IT IS TRUE! This year she went over Easter and I thought what a great thing for us to do our own eggs at our house. SO, went to Walmart, and found the box that says 5 dozen eggs! Oh wow. . . I think I will get that! I hope this is enough! (says me!) Then down the aisle to the egg dye! OH MY GOODNESS!!! Look at all the pretty colors (says me again!) Oh let's buy this sports one for Isaac, and Olivia... she will love the GLITTER EGGS!... Kenzie I think will enjoy the all - in - one decorating!! So YUP I walked out of the store, 5 dozen eggs and 3 packages of dye in hand. (of course after paying for them... I am crazy - not criminal!) Get home and start the big ol pan full of water and stock it full of eggs! Then - - Dum dum dummmmmmm!! I forget about them!! Isaac comes running into the bedroom and says MOM! THE EGGS ARE POPPING! ! ! I said, Oh yeah eggs!! They are boiling!! It is okay Isaac! SO slowly, I get up off my "duff" and walk to the kitchen to hear actual POPPING!!! Let's just say, All the water had evaporated, and the eggs were actually burning. Literally black and brown burn marks on the shells!!! My pan... RUINED!!! YIKES!!! Seriously, I need some lessons on either boiling eggs, or even just water, or a lesson on, just leave well enough alone and let my mom do the domestic loving to my children! :)
Oh did I mention the part about all the different egg dye I purchased? Yup, DISASTER! The glitter eggs -- bad idea! Open up the box and what fall out all over the floor, me, table, but a TON of glitter!!! I am still finding it everywhere! DON"T GET GLITTER!!!


Trying to get all the children in one pose,
smiling at the camera,
by my favorite tree on a beautiful day???? PRICELESS!!!!

As you can tell from this picture,
Olivia is in her prime form by being very
obstinate and grumpy because she wasn't the
first to get her picture taken!!!
Whew she is a handful at times! Don't let that adorable face fool you!!!!

Isaac being has charming and handsome as he possibly can be,
knowing that he can come home from church and eat MORE CANDY!!!

Kenzie - Always the happy child! (when she gets her way and gets to be first with the pictures!) She LOVES her Easter dress, as do I! It was a miracle that we made a choice we both agreed on. If she had it her way, she would have had the puffy pink sleeveless prom dress she swears is an Easter dress!!!

You can't hide forever SPRING!!!!

Just a glimpse of spring was all we got so far! Look my yellow tulips are even blooming!!! Gosh darn you -- Utah weather!! I am still hopeful that it will stay!
Happy Easter to us all!!!

Pediatrician say what?

My poor little ley ley! She is such a trooper! She has had this rash under her arms and stomach now for a few months. First we took her to urgent care and they said it is a viral thing and not to worry about it. Then we get home from our trip and she is COVERED in this Rash all over her poor little body! SO I take her to the doctors office on Monday morning, and our pediatrician says that the rash under her arms and on her stomach IS a viral rash called Molluscum Contagiousum! (HUH?) and he is "thinking" not sure, but thinking that the rash all over her body that are these itchy red bumps that resemble chicken pox, but aren't must be her body rebelling against the virus!! ?? WHAT? He ended up giving us some antibiotics just incase the under arm wart thingys are infected, and that has seemed to help a bit, but she still is covered in this horrible rash! Has this dampened her spirits? Not in the least!! In fact, I think she has become more arrogant ! Little terd! :)

Vegas - Baby!!!

Wow, I hadn't realized it had been so long since I had posted on my blog! I do apologize to all my devoted fans out there! LOL!!

So as luck would have it, Aaron and I were fortunate enough to have one of our loving sister and newphew to come and stay with our kids while we traveled out of town for an "extended weekend" with Lynn and Megan Dannenberg! We were able to find nice hotel in Mesquite, NV and travel down to Vegas for one day to watch the National Monster Truck Jams! I know what you are thinking.... HUH? She can't be serious right? Well too bad ! I am totally serious. And since we are being serious, I will tell you right off the bat, that I was not too thrilled about it. I mean hey, we got a screaming good deal on the tickets last minute from a friend from High School, that I have recently connected with on Facebook, and they were unable to use them. AND how we were already planning on going to Mesquite for that weekend anyway, why not have a little fun in Vegas too right? I loved every bit of that show. It was so FUN!!! These monster trucks, jacked up HIGH with these HUGE wheels, racing and jumping, and climbing, and smashing.... Totally AWESOME! I know I sound like such a hillbilly, but dang cussin good times!!! LOL !

Here are some pics I took of the show! They are only from my phone cuz, I forgot my camera! Sorry for the quality!!



This was one of the coolest cars! I had to take a picture cause it is so cool!!! Who doesn't love BATMAN!

Here is Megan standing next to the wheels... GINORMOUS RIGHT? see- Told ya :)

This was the beginning of the show... all the trucks came out running around making their engines roar, fireworks, pyrotechnics, etc. A THRILL!!!

This is an example of what they did, two trucks would come out from either side of the stadium, race to the other end, round a corner, and then jump this big dirt mound and whichever truck made it over the line first went to the next round! One truck was coming so fast around the corner, he ended up in the bottom rows of the stands! (they don't seat people on the first 15 or so rows because of that!)

The rest of these pics are of the "FREESTYLE" round where one car would come out for 2 minutes and do all sorts of jumps, tricks, crashes etc to get points. Totally awesome. And they were all so gung-ho about it. The final freestyle of the season so they didn't seem to care to much about what damage it did to their trucks!! SO AWESOME!!!


Who's coming with me next year?????