Easter Weekend

We had a great Easter vacation and managed to fill all our days off. The kids got out a half day on Wednesday. We busied our selves with scouts, a birthday party and young womens that night. Thursday, we made a trip up to Billings with Grandma Foulger. The main reason for our trip was to find some clothes for Carson to use this summer when he goes on his Pioneer Trek. 

Carson chose to eat at Red Robin and it was tasty!

Friday, we went and worked out, dyed Easter eggs, went to the pool for open swim and then went and saw Peter Rabbit at the theatre.

Their colored eggs...

Waiting for their 5 minute brake to get over.

Saturday, we left bright and early to head to Worland for Travis's wrestling tournament. He had a pretty good day, (despite throwing up again because of nerves...at least this time it wasn't in front of the whole crowd), taking home  a 4th place medal.

Sunday was Easter and Conference. I love when they occur on the same day!  The boys woke up and looked hard for their Easter baskets.

I loved all the talks that were given during Conference and the new announcements that were given. We sustained our new prophet, President Nelson, in a solemn assembly along with two new apostles. Other new changes are that there will only be an Elder's quorum meeting on Sundays that the Elders and High Priests will attend. President Nelson also announced 7 new temples to be built and that there will no longer be visitng and home teaching but the program will be changed to ministering where we are to pray and ask for those that we can minister to. It will be interesting to see the new changes take place! I am so thankful for my Savior and for the miracle of the resurrection. I know that he lives!

After conference, we headed to Powell for Easter dinner with Grandpa and Grandma Foulger and Jason and Cassie. Grandpa got the boys good when he asked them if they wanted to do an Easter Egg hunt outside...when they never found any, they finally figured out that he had tricked them on April's Fools Day! Luckily for them, Grandma did have some eggs for them and hid them in the house while they were outside looking for the "eggs" that grandpa Foulger had hid. Travis was the first to catch on that he was teasing them!

Carson finding eggs inside grandma's house.

The boys going through their eggs they found in the house after grandpa got 'em.

 Although we didn't attend church on Easter, I still go the boys Easter ties and they wore them the week before. Man did they look sharp!

Some other side notes from recently...
Travis got a remote control boat from Grandpa and grandma Foulger for Christmas and for the last two weeks, he been going down to the pond almost daily to see if the ice had melted off of it so he could drive it. Finally, this last week, all the ice was gone and he was able to put it out in the water and drive it. It's a fun little boat...he's been loving it. He also got a minnow trap and has been putting it out daily and going down to see what he has caught. He's caught several suckers, a bunch of minnows and several crawdads...

Travis trying out his boat.

With all the minnow trapping, there have been some interesting items in the wash lately. After doing one load of Landon's laundry, I found a dime, bullet casing and a crawdad claw...oh the things you find in the washer in a house full of boys!

Landon's Special Day

Tuesday was Landon's Special Day in Kindergarten. They make a poster all about themselves and a make a book to present to their class. He got to invite anyone he wanted to come and be there and got to bring something special from home for show and tell and bring a special treat for the class. Landon wanted to have oreos and juice boxes for his special treat and to bring his fish with him to show his class.  He's wanted to bring the fish for show and tell since he got it for Christmas!

Sharing his poster and book about his family with his class.

Introducing Caleb the fish to his class. What's funny about this, is Landon can NEVER remember his fish's name. I'm not really even sure why he ended up naming it Caleb! I'm thinking he should rename it! Even while we were in his class he called it a different name!

This is what happens when you leave the picture taking to your hubby...

Handing out his treats.

Enjoying his treats with some of his favorite people.

Landon was lucky that both of this grandmas were able to come and be there on his special day.

 The kids in his class said some very nice things about Landon. He really is a great kid. All of the things they listed are true and there are so many more. He is a friend to everyone, he is funny, kind, tries to always choose the right, compliments others and sees the good in people. We are so happy that he is part of our family because he sure is special!!

Our last week...

We had a busy week last week! Here are just a few camera pics of what went on:

March 14th was Pi day, so we celebrated with some Banana Cream pie for dessert that night.

Friday was a busy day for us. Carson headed to the mountain with the scouts for a winter camp-out. It sounded  like he had a good time for the most part (they got to go sledding)...He said they crammed 11 people inside a 7 man tent, making it so there wasn't a lot of room to sleep. On top of there being a bunch of people in the tent, they also had it set up on a slope so during the night, they all ended up kind of shifting downward. He was towards the opening and he said he ended up sleeping with his legs bent up towards his chest because there was no room. He woke up with sore knees. They ended up coming down off the mountain earlier than planned because it started to blizzard.

After we got Carson dropped off with the scouts, we loaded up the car and headed towards Thermopolis for a wrestling tournament the next day. We picked Christian up in Greybull on our way through. We stopped in Worland and grabbed some Subway for dinner and then made the rest of the trip to Thermop.

These two were out within minutes of beginning our drive!

 Once we got to Thermop, we decided to explore the hot Springs instead of going right to our hotel. We walked around the boardwalk and then ventured out onto the swinging bridge that crosses the river. Landon was not going to join us (he hates heights) until we found a cool frozen waterfall and we convinced him to come out.

Walking the board walk. The boys were not impressed by the rotten egg smell!

After exploring, we checked into our hotel for the night. We let the boys swim for a bit before heading to bed.

Passing the time while the boys swam.

Check-ins for the tournament were from 6-7 Saturday morning, so we had to be up bright and early! We got to the gym around 6:30, got Travis checked in and were waiting for things to start when Travis said he needed to use the bathroom. He came back after a bit and told me that he had thrown up twice while he was in there! I  said it was probably nerves and told him to have a drink and relax for a minute. Christian came over a little bit later and told him to head down to the mats to warm up. As Travis was heading down the bleacher stairs, he threw up in a garbage can and then came back. We sent him to go clean up and again, on his way down the bleachers, he puked in a garbage can, and then again in a garbage can in front of the bleachers, and then again in one just outside the door! We met up with him out in the lobby and decided we probably shouldn't have him wrestle that day...not how we were planning for the day to go! I think it was nerves that got to him (he did it before his first wrestling tournament too). So, back home we went! He forfeited his matches that day, which was sad because I think he could have done really well in the tournament. Funny thing is, after checking the bracket later that day to see who had ended up winning, he took 6th place (which would have been a ribbon) with out even being there!! He was pretty upset about not getting to wrestle when we got home, so Christian did a good job of talking to him about how it's ok to be nervous before you wrestle, and that if you have to puke in the future...do it ALL in the bathroom (so people don't think you have the flu). He showed him some professional athletes that do the same thing before they perform and talked to him about ways he might be able to overcome it. Let's hope this is the last time this happens!

Since we had planned to be gone most of St. Patrick's Day at a wrestling tournament, we planned to our annual St. Paddy's Day meal on Sunday. We invited Grandpa Foulger over for corned beef and cabbage, since Grandma was out of town. It turned out so good this year!! Carson helped me put it all together. It was a fun little meal and fun to have grandpa there with us!

Last week...

This all happened last week...

Christian and a couple of guys from work decided to finally extract the massive amount of bees that had made their home in the wall of the Co-op building located in Lovell. They were able to round up some gear from friends and remove the honeycomb and bees. They weren't ever able to find the Queen, however.

Christian all geared up!

We had a really busy Saturday and are so thankful for family that helped us out being where we couldn't be. Carson was able to attend the Billings, MT temple for the first time and perform baptisms for the dead. Both Christian and I were able to be in the temple with him. It was neat to see him be baptized by a yound man in the Priest's quorum in our ward. We had originally planned to head straight to Powell when we were finished in hopes of being able to watch Travis wrestle some, but it didn't quite time out right. We ended up eating with the rest of our ward at Fudruckers and then making a quick trip into Costco before heading to Powell to pick up the kids.

Meanwhile, in Powell, Travis was wrestling. He and Landon were able to spend the night at Grandpa and Grandma Foulger's house Friday night so that Travis could attend his tournament Saturday while we were in Billings. He had a super rough weekend and only won one out of four matches (there were only 5 kids in his bracket so they did a round robin instead of a bracket). He ended up getting 4th, but he wasn't super happy with his performance. Grandpa and Grandma did a good job of keeping us updated with scores, pictures and video.

I got to go on my monthly lunch date with Carson. We ate at Good 2 Go and ate some good ol' chicken...his pick! It's always so fun to get to spend some one on one time with my littles during the day!

The weekend

The kids were out of school Thursday and Friday last week, so we tried to fit in some fun things to keep us busy. But before that, on Wednesday, the elementary school had their breakfast with buddies. I got to go and enjoy a muffin and some apple juice and read with both Landon and Travis before school.

Thursday, we went over to the Aquatic center in Powell and swam for a while and then grabbed some McDonalds for lunch before we headed back home.

Saturday we had a full day. Christian and Carson attended a youth pheasant hunt put on by Pheasants Forever. They started the day with some trap shooting. They had instructors for each of the youth attending that helped them learn how to shoot trap. 

After trap shooting, the instructors took two boys out at a time to hunt pheasants that they had placed for the kids. Each kid was allowed to shoot two birds. Carson got one, which was the first one he's ever been able to shoot (he's gone several times with his dad and never been able to get one). After the hunt, they fed them hamburgers and hot dogs for lunch. They didn't stick around for the drawings, but had a really enjoyable day. Christian said it was really well organized and the instructors they had were really nice to the kids and were great at providing feed back to the kids to help them better themselves. They are looking forward to getting to do it again next year!

While those two were hunting, Landon, Travis and I were also in Cody for Travis's wrestling tournament. It was a pretty tough bracket for him, but he came away with a fifth place ribbon and their team came away with a 3rd place plaque. He was just happy the girl he was supposed to wrestle ended up forfeiting so he didn't have to wrestle her!