Easter egg fun

Getting Easter baskets. Tanner and Maddie are still asleep.

Max and Maddie both asked when we were going to have our Easter Egg hunt. I said, "I thought you guys were too old for that." Guess not. When we went to Grandma's for dinner Maddie put together eggs and Devon and Mary hid them.
Seth found one under the trampoline. Devon and Mary did a great job hiding them.


Tanner didn't participate but wanted some candy. Linc, Jon, Devon, and Mary.

Maddie's New Room

This post is brought to you by Maddie!!!

For my 13th birthday, I decided to re-do my room. We painted it purple in 2007, that color was getting pretty babyish! Two of my awesome grandmas gave me money to buy the paint and my other awesome grandma made my bedspread. My mom helped with moving, taping, etc. My amazing dad did most of the work though, Thanks dad!!!!

My old door...

My old bed.....

My old arrangement.....

Starting to paint.....!

All but the molding done!

Painting the molding.......

Me with my grandma and the NEW, AMAZING, bedspread she made me.

The finished product!!!!

This was one of the funnest memories I have had, and it was totally worth it! We might add cute accessories, but for now, that's all we got. Thanks for reading this, I'll be here all night! :D

~Maddie O.

Max's ipod Entertainment

Goodbye Hazell the Hamster

We're pretty sure Hazell died of natural causes. Hamsters live 1.5 to 3 years and she made it 2 years so...Maddie did a great job taking care of Hazell. We asked if she wanted another hamster and she said no, it will be nice to not have to clean the cage anymore.

Max's brown belt

On April Fools Day, Max received his brown belt. He's really looking the part of a karate boy! He's amazing to watch.

The ceremony lasted about an hour. Seth started wiggling his tooth to keep himself occupied and out it came.
Yay, Max! He's quite sweaty, he deserves that brown belt.
Max's fan club. Maddie, Uncle Lincoln, Seth, and Jon (laughing at someone in the distance.)

Cabin with the WHOLE family

Since it was conference weekend we decided to all go up to the cabin to watch it there. Tanner has learned to make "survival bracelets" out of parachute cord. I'm not sure how it can save your life...but it does. All the kids put in their orders and he made them one. Kept him busy.

Here's a cute picture of Seth.

Since Easter is almost here, well not really, we decided to dye Easter eggs. It's just a fun cousin thing to do.

Here's a cute picture of Seth.

We realized as the noise level rose that we were all here at the cabin. There's usually a dad that has to work or something but amazingly we were all together.

On Your Mark

Tanner and Maddie both decided to go out for track this year to stay in shape. Tanner wants to do cross country next year at the High School and Maddie wants to stay in shape for soccer. I haven't been to a track meet in a long time. One of the coaches asked if I would volunteer to measure the shot put. I learned that track is pretty casual, not that precise since I had students measuring with me, and takes a long time between events that everyone can just walk around watching their team mates and talking to each other. Kind of fun.

This is Maddie running the 1600. She had a big smile the first two times around the track but by the third time she didn't look so happy. She came in 4th or 5th which is great! The view from this school was beautiful of the mountains and the Mt. Timp temple.
Here we are waiting for Tanner to do the shot put.
Go, Tanner! (Grunt!)
Maddie resting with her friends between events.
My sister and her family are down from Denver for their Spring Break. It was so nice because they got to go to a track meet and a soccer game. It was a little hard for my kids to do their weekly things when they'd rather be playing with cousins. What a great support team. Seth is way thrilled to be there. It was actually really hot, which is lucky this time of year.