Easter

Easter is always a joyful time of year. We look forward to time with family, the kids look forward to candy and easter egg hunts, but we especially look forward to conference(listening to our Prophet) which happens just before, and celebrating our Savior Jesus Christ, and his atonement and ressurection. We are so greatful for Him, and for his divine love for us. He is our Lord, and because of Him, we can all live again.

We spent Saturday at my Mom and Dad's house, and Sunday at micah's parents, so it was fun seeing the whole family. Here's some Easter egg hunt photos:

                                                      Cousins from my side:

                                                    Kim Family:

                                                        Rory and his cousin Kyle:

                                            At Micah's parents house:

                                                My nephew Seth:

The past few weeks

We have been going to help my good friend Jayda out with her new twin boys Rowan and Luka every week, and have loved watching these boys get bigger and bigger! They are dolls. Sydney thinks they are anyways, and tries to hold them every chance she gets. Rory had a day off of school and got to come and play, too:

                                 Having a picnic with Rachel, the twins big sister and a good friend of Sydney.

                               We went to another puppet show in Balboa Park with Gene, Rory's best buddy.

                              All the kids with the star of the show, Benito Bunny:

                                Sydney, myself, and my sister and law Lynnette and niece Kaydence went to a ballet performance of Cinderella at the Poway Performing Arts Center. It was so fun! We got front row seats. We all got a little antsy after the first hour, since ballet isn't as exciting as a play, but it was still a fun girl's day:

                                             Sydney went to Mema's for the day, so Rory and I had a Mommy son day. He wanted to go tor Mormon Batallion, and he even got to dress up:

 He thought it was fun scrubbing clothes, but when he thought about it, it wouldn't be so fun to wash our whole family's clothes on this wash board. We are so grateful for a beautiful gas powered washer and dryer!

                                                       Joy school friends. We learned about imagination and creativity, so lots of dressing up was going on:

                                                                   The whole crew:

                                                      Making a collage:

                          

                                       Sydney and one of her closest friends Gage. Gage is one cool dude, and we love hanging out with him!

                                                  Rory at an assembly at school, he's in the blue sweater with the sour face. he doesn't look too happy.

 The whole school:

 Mrs. Lerner, the principal, who got a tidal wave of pineapple, coconut and silly string thrown on er, since the school read 400,000 pages during the read-a-thon.

                                       Sydney and Emily, who is another one of Sydney's closest friends. We have had a few movie nights with her, here they are cuddled up watching Alvin and the Chipmunks:

  Rory went to Legoland this past Saturday with Mema, so we had a fun day with Sydney going on a train ride, going to lunch at Prepkitchen in La Jolla, and riding bikes. She's pooped:

Silly Sydney

Here's Princess Sydney. She literally makes me laugh all the time. She is so enthusiastic about everything, thinks everything is "hilarious," and has a lust for life. I love her so much!! She truly is a bright shining star!

Weekend "getaway"

Micah and I decided to take a long weekend getaway, but decided to stay here in San Diego, so we went downtown and stayed at the W hotel. it was so great! We relaxed, ate at some nice restaurants, ate lots of yummy desserts, slept in every morning, and  took a nice bubble bath every night. It was one of the nicest weekends ever. It was a Thursday through Sunday, So it was just enough time to miss the kids! Thanks to Mema's and Grandpas for taking care of them.

Just had to share our huge room; It was one of the top floors, and full of windows and had a huge comfy bed. I would definitely stay here again.

 We checked out the USS Midway while we were downtown, and it was really interesting. A very cool tourist attraction. See those chains next to Micah? Each link weighs 150 pounds!

 The presidency the year I was born, 1982.

                                                  Yes, this was as relaxing as it looks!:

                                     We topped off the weekend with going to the movies, playing disc golf with friends, and going to the Mormon Battalion, too. Can't wait to do it again.