Our Easter Weekend! Saturday Kanien, Marcella and Kristen came over and we had an Easter egg hunt with some of the neighbor children. Then we colored Easter eggs. Nathan and Amy were here for that also. Sunday we had a nice day at church. After church Dann fixed a ham for dinner - I refuse to cook a ham anymore - mine are always dry but Dann knows how to cook them and they are so moist and good. Everyone came over for dinner - except Jason chose to spend the day with Ashley and her family. We had another Easter Egg hunt and ate dinner. After dinner we went outside and tore apart a pinata. We did an Easter egg hunt also where we learned about Christ and his death and resurrection. It was a nice day.

So they say it comes in threes! Well, it started with the washer breaking down and it wouldn't spin unless I started the spin by hand - so Dann bought me a new washer and it's wonderful! I really like it.

Then the second thing: One day we happened to notice this in the wall above the downstairs bathroom - we touched it and it caved in like it is now - It was wet and soggy - the upstairs bathroom was leaking down the wall. I thought it was from Nathan and Jason - when they shower they get water all over the bathroom floor - but no - Dann fixed the faucets and discovered the leak was on the inside of the shower/tub wall - needless to say he had to take the tile off to fix it so he decided he would get me the new tub that I asked for and just take all the old out and fix it not realizing the problems that this would create. We went to Home Depot and picked out a new tub and tile for the floor.

Dann tore all the tile off of the wall and his brother Terry came over to help get the tub out - well this tub was not going to come out easily and it was very heavy - so they put on some protective glasses and Nathan, Dann, Terry and David took turns hitting it until it broke in two. Actually I left for the store so I don't know who took a turn at breaking it, but the above were here along with Debbie who took the pictures to document the breaking of the tub.

I'll post more pictures tomorrow. . .

I'M ANNOYED BUT REALLY HAVE NO RIGHT TO BE!!!!!
Jon set up a sage reader for me so I can click it and check to see who has updated their blogs. It has most everyone's blog on it but not all of the ones that I read. I get so annoyed everytime I check it and NO ONE has updated their blog! Then I think "well, I haven't updated mine in so long how can I be annoyed" but I am. Really, don't you all have anything better to do than update your blog so I will have something new to read and look at everyday? Not many of you leave comments on mine and I am guilty of that also so that makes me think that no one is looking at it so why update it. I've also become really bad at taking pictures. I had Marcella for a couple days and I took two pictures. She was out playing in the snow and I tried to get her before she came in but I was too late and I was going to have her go back out in the snow but she had already started taking her snow stuff off. So that is what I took a picture of. The other day I thought I should get my camera and take a picture of Jason - he was building a snow hill to slide down on his snowboard and then was going to slide across his rail - he was getting on top of the hill and putting his snowboard on and would usually slide off before he got the other foot in. I wanted a picture but I thought "no by the time I get the camera the moment will have passed", so I didn't go get the camera. Nathan and Amy built an igloo and I wish I would have taken a picture of them doing that. I'm slacking off and need to do better. Dann has been working on his truck and I should have documented that also - it's just not a good idea to go out in the garage while he is working on vehicles, he gets very frustrated. I hope that you all went to the worldwide leadership training meeting and if you didn't hopefully you can view it online, it was really good. This year it was for everyone 18 and older - not just those in leadership callings. Worth hearing if you didn't get to it! So, now that I have updated my blog and vented I hope to see updates on all those that read this! Leave comments please!!!!
So I can know who is actually looking at this.

A funny: Marcella put herself in time out last night - she was mad because Dann took away the spray bottle - she wouldn't stop spraying us - she ran into the bathroom - closed the door while dann was telling her to come out and come here - she told him - "No Grandpa, I'm in time out" she shut the door then we heard her say okay I'm ready to come out now - she came out and Dann said to her - does mom always put y ou in time out and she said no - only when I'm mad!

Rosalee tagged me and I'm suppose to list 8 things that no one knows about me - that's a hard one!

1. I've lived in Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Washington and Utah again.

2. We moved 11 times in the first 8 years of our marriage and have now lived in the same house since 1989.

3. I have h ad 8 pregnancies but only 4 living children - can you imagine if all 8 had lived - I'd have more grey hair than I do now. It would have been crazy and fun.

4. I'm shy

5. I graduated from airline school as a ticket agent and never did anything with it until recently when I applied at Jet Blue and was turned down after a couple interviews - why - due to my shyness probably and how nervous I got when they interviewed me - dumb I know - I can't believe at my age I still get nervous when talking to people.

6. I love horses and wanted to have a horse one day - my dad promised that I could get a horse when we moved from Arizona to Idaho - didn't happen though.

7. I'm addicted to chocolate!

8. I would like to start over in raising my kids and I would change a lot of things that I did or didn't do. It's no reflection on them because I feel that they are all pretty amazing and I love them dearly - I just would change some of the ways that I acted and did things.

and just so you know - I'm done with tags - so no more tags please!
I tag Nanette and Debbie

And this is the last of them from my camera - Nathan what are you doing pinching Jasons on the butt?! They were opening the new home theatre system that Santa brought them.









Marcella wanted to help everyone open their gifts - it was cute - she did get bored with that after awhile. She had fun playing with her kitchen, table, chair, tea set, food, pots and pans.

More Christmas pictures!