Easter 2016

We had a wonderful Easter Sunday! Our morning started with the boys trying to find their baskets that the Easter Bunny had hidden for them. Landon and Carson found their's with ease, but Travis's took some hunting for.

Landon found his in the old tv stand.

Carson found his basket in the bath tub.

And Travis finally found his hanging under some bags in the pantry.

They had fun exploring what was in their basket/eggs and then we decorated some sugar cookies for the boys to take to some of our neighbors. After that, wewatched the Chipmonks Road Chip movie as a family.

Carson going through his football cards he got.

Travy with his new tie for church.

Landon finally got the bulldog hat he had been waiting for!

 Before church (at 3) we went out and took some pictures of the boys in their new matching ties.

After church, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Asay's house for dinner. It was delicious. The kids loved having their cousins from Billings to play with and it must have worn them out because we went down 20 minutes after we got home to find this sight: Landon and Travis asleep!

The day of Eggs

The boys were out of school Thursday, so we thought it would be fun to have an Easter egg hunt with our cousins. We had lunch first (wraps, veggies and dip, fruit and dip, salad and egg rice crispies) and then sent the kids out to find eggs.

Landon on the look out.

Carson found some on the play set.

The boys on the look out.

Checking out their treasures.

That night, we had grandpa and grandma Foulger over for dinner and then dyed eggs. I boiled 4 dozen eggs and grandma brought 2 dozen eggs, so the boys got to help dye 2 dozen each. In the past, they have always zipped through their eggs, but this year, they were very methodical and took their time.

Landon concentrating hard.

Travis had some the darkest colored eggs this year!

Carson's creations.

Travis and his eggs.

 When we were taking his picture, it looked like he was posing for his mug shots, so we made him turn to the side too to take his pictures.

He had a hard time keeping a straight face.

Now we have lots of eggs for egg salad sandwiches, pickled eggs (yuck) and potato salad!

Camera catch up!

This winter a group of us ladies got together every Monday night and watched the Bachelor on tv. It was so much fun to be able to spend some girl time, chat and eat some yummy treats. We always stayed up way too late...we didn't usually start watching until 9 and wouldn't get home until after midnight! We had an ongoing joke about the crazy eyebrows that some people had, so the final night, we did eyebrows on each other, along with watching and eating!

Our group: Kristen O., Addrienne M., Tiffany A., Jill M., Nicole H.,

Kasi, Lauren S., Jill A., LaraLee R. and me (yes, there were 3 Jill's each week!)

Our finale night treats! Christian referred to this night as the Super Bowl for ladies!

 We celebrated Pi day (March 14) with homemade chicken pot pie and some rhubarb pie (Travis's request)!

For St. Patrick's Day, the boys had individual scavenger hunts to find their pot of gold. For dinner that night, we had corned beef and cabbage.

Landon looking for a clue.

Found his in his closet.

The co-op in Powell got in a new shipment of chicks and Landon LOVED getting to hold them one day while we were waiting for Christian.

Last Saturday, I bought my very first year fishing pass. So, we went out and fished at a pond by Grandpa Asay's house to see if anything was biting...they weren't!

Trying to catch something.

Trying the other side of the pond.

 For Easter, Grandma and grandpa Foulger got the boys each a kite. They spent lots of time outside actually enjoying our windy days as they flew their kites.

The scouts in our ward had a dinner/carnival fundraiser this last week. We had breakfast for dinner and then the boys got to use some tickets to play at the games. They most anticipated game was the repelling.

Carson getting to kick off the wall.

Travis's turn to repel.

Travis racing his friend Rocco in a corn hole game.

 Friday, the boys had the day off of school and Christian decided to take the day off of work too. We had decided to take a drive up the entrance of Yellowstone Park to see if we could see any animals. We woke up Friday and heard that Cody had several inches of snow, so we decided to take the boys to the Buffalo Bill Museum. Carson has been asking for a couple of years to go, but we just never have. We got to Cody and found that the roads were dry and there wasn't much snow, so Christian and I thought we would just do the drive instead. We ate lunch and told the boys what we were thinking about going for a drive instead. They were pretty disappointed about not going to the museum, so we decided to just stick with our plan and visit the museum. It ended up being a great trip and the boys really enjoyed it all. After the museum, we grabbed some ice cream from Dairy Queen and then headed home.

Carson checking out some rocks which is what they are studying in school right now.

The Natural History part of the museum was their favorite part.

Inside a beaver dam.

Shooting some play guns in the Gun Museum