Easter Egg Hunt Gone Wrong

 Because we had originally planned to be in Spokane for Easter, we did our Easter dinner and egg hunt a week early.  Misty and Jon and girls joined us for dinner, along with Brandon's sisters, Elise and Donna.  Brig and Dev and their family joined us later in the evening. 

Jules's face is my favorite!

It started out innocent enough...

That is, until Faith decided to join in the hunt (she's just a wee bit competitive).  And then Clark and Cannon made it their mission to keep her from collecting eggs.  Not surprisingly, violence ensued.  

The initial take-down

Did it take two of them to bring her down?  

You see where this is going, right?

Poor Cannon.

And they weren't even successful.  We laughed so hard about this picture of her running away.

Good luck, Clark!

They were gracious in defeat

More than his pride was wounded

She is fierce

Then the tables turned-- she went on the attack

It was a mistake to engage

Cousin mayhem

All friends in the end

General Conference April 2023

 

Last weekend was one of the happiest of my life-- it was General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints--- AND I got to experience it with family!  It was quite heavenly.  Abe and I went on a double date with Elinor and Brandon to the Saturday evening session.  

Abe's brother Phil (on the right) works in production and he hooked us up with tickets.  

A few more from the Fox family were there as well-- Julia and Sheamus and Annie and her boy.

We had such a wonderful time that we asked Phil if he had any tickets for the next day.  I thought it would be great to come down with Faith.

And Phil came through big time!  All seven of us were able to go to the Sunday morning session.  Over the years Abe has been great about bringing newly turned eight-year-olds to General Conference.  But we've never all gone together.  So memorable.

I am so grateful to have had this experience.

Greta ran out of steam part way through.

Just Dance

 Back in February, Cannon and George were part of an awesome classical ballet and contemporary ballet show. Here are a few pictures:

March Marches On

Sometimes (a lot of times) it is really nice that Abe is the Tradition Czar.  He gets the job done when I've run out of time and steam.  

Greta was so proud to have done her violin practice all by herself in her room on this particular day.  I wondered what was taking so long.  She told me she had to stop to do art.  And she did, in fact, write "EMO" at the top right corner.  I'm telling you, little kids with much older siblings know too much. 

Peter got a big science experiment/chemistry kit for Christmas.  We hadn't really done much of it because... well, that whole running out of time and steam thing again.  Anyway, he'd been begging and I'd been putting him off and telling him to wait because I needed to do it with him.  And then one day I thought to myself, "Why do I need to do it with him?  The boy can read!  Let him have at it." 

So I did.  And he did it and everyone was happy and nothing exploded.  Well, nothing that wasn't supposed to explode.  Mom for the win!

Greta made Peter a sign for his Science Show.

Good times.

A couple weeks ago we had a fabulous time at Jon and Misty's home for Sunday dinner.  This is my stunning niece, Aliyah.  I love this girl!  And my girl next to her and my man next to my girl. 

My two favorite six-year-olds-- Jules and Greta.

As I'm looking at these pictures and writing this I am listening to Rob Garner's Lamb of God, because tomorrow is Easter.  I'm feeling so much gratitude for Christ and his blessings to all of us.  My relationships with everyone in this picture are (at the very least) richer and fuller because of him.  But I'd go further to say that these relationships are only possible because of the goodness of God and His Son, Jesus Christ.

Beautiful Sunny!

Nixon and Peter did not wish to have their pictures taken.  Did I respect their wishes?  No, I did not.  And I'm not sorry.

Is there anything more fun than making up dances with your cousins?  I don't think so.  Jules, Greta, Rosalie, and Peter put on quite the show. 

So much drama.  Click here to experience the drama for yourself.