McKay had her 5th grade play.  She tried out for a solo and got it.  She rocked it. 

This is the week of Easter.  I am trying really hard to incorporate more of Christ into our traditions.  sO this year we Egged friends but included our testimonies with the candy.  It was such a sweet night to hear what our kids know about Christ.

We also made sure to find ways to make the thorns in Christ crowns to flowers.  Anytime the kids did something kind, or Christlike we would take a thorn out and replace it with a flower.  I love watching it grow throughout the week and how such painful thing can turn into something so beautiful.

Sadly I forgot to take a picture of the final crown.

the kids had Friday off.  They helped me coach Pee Wee and then we headed to Super Mario Bros new movie.

Fun day together.

Saturday all soccer games were off this week for Ester weekend so we had the whole day to play.  We went to the neighborhood Easter egg hunt.

Enjoyed being with friends/neighbors.

Then we invite a few families over for our annual Egg Drop.

Great day!

The Easter!  Got all dressed in our Easter best and enjoyed a great service.

Then we finally got around to decorating our eggs.

I love this egg decorate machine.  Best thing ever and they always turn out looking great.

Egg Roulette time.  And finally I didn't choose the raw egg.

Then another egg hunt...

Hazen was cracking us up opening his eggs.  He was so excited every time.

Then we ended the Easter  day with dinner and reading the Easter story one last time.

Wonderful Easter with our cute little family.

 Alex headed out of town this week for work.  I wanted to stay busy with he kids and continue to focus my time on them.  So I decided it was time to buy the basketball hoop my kids have been asking for.  May have taken me all afternoon to put together but its up and the kids are thrilled about it.  Perfect time before it gets too hot to be outside.  Hoping we make lots of fun memories with it.

We stayed pretty busy with school, teaching my classes, and soccer practice. When we had time we made sure to enjoy our time together.  I also needed some nature in my life, so the botanical gardens was a great trip with my Hazen man.

We missed the tulips ( I wear I miss them every year), but got to see the Orchid display.  It was a beautiful and well spent day!

We had a night off from anything so we decided to go out for dinner.  I can't believe how old everyone is getting and how going out is getting easier and even fun.

SO excited to say I have an official Body Pump class!!!!

Started this week and it wet well.  I have a lot of growing to do and hoping I get more and more comfortable as I teach more.

Proud of Miss McKay!  She was chosen to be the Legendary leader for her classroom.  She is a hard worker and a joyful student.

Alex got home and we had a ton of fun planned for the weekend.  Which was needed after Clifton found out he didn't make the middle school soccer team.  He really is a good soccer player but the coaches that are incahrge of the soccer team are football coaches (that's how they do things her in Texas) and I am not sure they know what is good and what is not.  But its a hard life lesson to learn.  I was frustrated a little that I had planned sure a jammed packed weekend but it turned out to be exactly what Clifton needed to help get his mind off of the hurt.

First plan was Friday night we took Clifton and his friend to an XFL game, for  his birthday present.  Sea Dragons were playing and we love cheering for anything Seattle.

It was a fun game, the boys seemed to really like it.

Next morning we woke up early to run the Muddy Dash.  

it was SOOOO much fun.  Although it started rough.  We went with friends.  But took seperate cars.  They left before us so we hurried to the start line to look for them.  Left all electronics in the car.  We ran around for 30 minutes and never saw them so we decided they must of gone without us.  Turns out they went a different way and got stuck in traffic so didn't get there till another 30 minutes after us.  We decided to do the early run time so we could be back in time to watch general conference so felt like we should just go.  I should have ran back to the car and called them.  So sad I couldn't do a redo and we didn't run together.  But glad to know  they didn't just leave us.

Got back just in time to get clean and listen to conference.  Conference shop is open!

Sunday morning cinnamon conference rolls

Tornado alarms went off during conference, but luckily nothing came out way.

Conference was exactly what I needed to help lift my spirits and keep moving forward with faith.