Camp Sweet Camp

We camped in an amazing spot. It was a wonderland for the girls. In fact they loved it so much they probably would have been content to just stay at camp and explore than going elsewhere. Here was our camp set up. I forgot to pack a few important things  (hatchets, salt & pepper, vegetable oil) but somehow we survived(thanks to our genius Super Scout Steve).

  

This is where the girls were dying to go as soon as they woke up each morning. They were so tired after exploring Goblin Valley and hiking Little Wild Horse Canyon but as soon as we got back to camp they were off climbing rocks and playing in the sand.

While the kids were playing Steve caught a lizard we named George.

Here the girls are telling a very frightened George goodbye.

Hayley woke up a 1:00 AM and threw up all over her bedding. Luckily we had an extra sleeping bag. It wouldn't spread out right so we had to trade sleeping bags again. I think we finally got back to sleep around 3:00 AM. Never a dull moment.

Emily and Abby slept in the back of the truck. Which would be perfect if we stayed at camp the whole time because they had to keep folding up their cots when we went somewhere.

Emily is going to girls camp for the first time this year. Steve taught her how to build a one match fire. She did it even though she was afraid of lighting the match. He had her build a fire again Saturday night.

Poulson Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday we went to the Annual Poulson Easter Egg Hunt.

The girls had a blast finding lots of candy and eggs and a fun bag of surprises.

Lindley and Hayley

Abby

Emily enjoying some candy

The whole gang

Time for dying eggs.

I don't know which age group had more fun...

Hunger Games!

Friday Grandma Rochelle picked up the girls and headed to watch Hunger Games. Abby who started the book but hadn't read it all liked the movie. Emily my little reader who is already reading Mockingjay the last book in the series was upset that parts in the book were missing or changed.

Easter Dresses

All dressed up in our Easter best! Thank you Grandma Shelley for making the girls beautiful Easter dresses. As usual everybody wanted to know where I found the girls dresses. It also helps if you start with some beautiful girls. I just so happen to have 4 of those running around driving me nutty.

Sweet Abby

Lindley was excited to have curly hair and boy was it curly.

Our own little Goldie Locks Hayley.

This girl is getting to big for her britches.

Dad did not like the shoes Emily picked out.

I was loaded with ideas I wanted to try from PINTEREST. So when Kami and Gage came over we decided to party. They played with LEGOS while I started dinner. Then we made some SOCK BUNNIES. They turned out pretty darn cute.

The kids couldn't wait for it to get dark so we could try the GLOW IN THE DARK EGG HUNT. Note to self use bigger eggs in lighter colors. The blue eggs didn't show up very good and the glow sticks were hard to get in the eggs. They were each assigned a color to find and traded in their eggs for goodies.

The kids camped out in the living room and stayed up late watching The Princess Bride and the new Muppet's Movie.

We had colorful waffles for breakfast. Everyone except Hayley got to pick what colors they wanted their waffle to be.

Hayley had all the colors.

Gage. Orange and Blue. Thunder colors.

Kami. Blue and Green.

Emily. Orange and Blue.

Abby. Wanted GREEN with 1/4 Blue.

Lindley had all the colors.

The we got messy with microwave puff paint.

It is fun for all ages.

Here is our puff paint gallery.  The kids had too much fun.

Birthday Bikes

This year we decided the girls would get new bikes for their birthdays. They have outgrown their old ones and it was time for an upgrade. We also wanted them to be able to use them this spring and summer. So birthdays came early this year.

Emily

Abby

I've been wanting a bike and trailer to pull the little ones so I got one too.

Hayley and Lindley are ready to roll. They love riding in the trailer.

We hopped on the bike trail and headed to the park. We almost made it to the park when the trailer got a flat tire. So the littles and I walked the rest of the way. Emily and Abby stayed with the littles while I rode home to get the van to put the trailer in. Then Emily and Abby rode their bikes home. It was fun despite the kink in the plans. Thank goodness I had the big girls with me it made it a whole lot easier.

Never a dull moment around here.

Bye Bye Binki

Hayley has been whining and crying for her Binki way to often lately. It was time to say goodbye. I talked to her this morning about it being time to get rid of her Binki but she didn't seem to excited about it. Then she came in and told me she was ready to cut them up. So we started gathering them up and grabbed the scissors.

She is happy about it now but it is going to be a long week.

Bye Bye Binki. I think I will miss them more than she will.

Conference Chaos

Abby and Emily were excited to listen to Conference this year.  Lindley and Hayley were excited to distract during Conference. While we "listened" to Conference Abby and Emily were building with Legos.

Abby made a baptismal font. Complete with doors to the girls and boys dressing rooms.

Emily wanted to build a temple but ran out of white so she created The Conference Center with beautiful spring flowers. I loved listening to President Uchtdorf and President Monson. Can't wait to go back and listen to all the Conference talks again.

Pinewood Derby

Steve attended a Pinewood Derby twice last week. The first one was the Cub Scout Pinewood Derby. He helped one of the boys in the ward finish his car. I'm not sure who had more fun. Levi had the fastest Weeblo car and placed 2nd over all. Pretty fun stuff.

Friday night was the Elders Quorums Pinewood Derby. Steve made 2 new cars and took his car from last year. Toothless (last years car) was the fasted regulation car.and Catch Me If You Can was the fasted modified car. Alex C. one of Steve's Scouts made the "Piston Cups" for the winners. Steve brought both of them home. Next year he has to defend his title if he wants to bring them home again. The fun thing about the Elders Quorums Pinewood Derby is it is a family event and the Cub Scouts can come and race their cars again. Guess who had the 2nd fastest car. Pretty cool stuff.