Blake's Birthday Party/Priesthood Session

Saturday night while the men were at the Priesthood Session of Conference, we celebrated my nephew Blake's birthday. It was so much fun to get together. The picture above is what Palmer kept doing every time I tried to take a picture of him.

My mom has tons of dress ups at her house. Most of them are my sisters and my old dance costumes. My nieces absolutely love it. It is always so funny to see the outfits they come up with. This was Symera's ensemble for the evening.

"So let me get this straight, you actually WANT me to hit something with a bat? Sweet!"

"Now what am I supposed to do with this bat again?"

Free for all!

He is holding as much as he possibly can. What can I say...the Nelson family loves candy.

My cute nephew Blake turned 4.

Look at all these handsome men.

Grandfamilies Easter Egg Hunt

This morning I volunteered at the Grandfamilies Easter egg hunt. This is an organization that I have been involved with all year as Mrs. Utah and I am excited for somethings that we are going to do with them for Project Lemonade. It was fun for my family to be able to come to one of my events. We had a good time.

The kids were pretty happy even though it was cold and snowy. I don't think I have ever been to an Easter egg hunt when it was actually snowing-well it was today.

It was so COLD-but still a lot of fun.

I helped with the face painting. So fun!

It was so fun to see the Easter Bunny! Lincoln was a little scared which surprised me because he is never scared of anything. I guess you never know how kids are going to act.

Maybe there is hope!

The other day when we were at the doctor's office this is what I saw. I am so glad that I had my phone so I could capture it and look at it each time they fight. I am glad that they are considerate of each other sometimes. They really are such cute boys!

"Sun" glasses

The other day we were out shopping and the boys decided that they needed some sunglasses (since we haven't seen the sun forever I have no idea why :) I decided that was a good idea and we bought them. They insisted on wearing them out of the store and Palmer literally strutted out. I wish I had had a video camera because I have never seen him walk like that. He seriously thought he was some hot stuff (and he is-let's be honest), but I had to laugh about it. Hunter has worn his nonstop and in traditional Hunter style slept with them that night.

The boys were going to soccer practice. Allow me a soap box moment. Why would any outside sport in Utah start so early. They should know that it snows here until the end of April, sometimes even in May. Why would they start so soon! So far we have missed a practice and a game due to weather and we are 2 weeks in! Okay now I am done, but if you ever have the chance to decide when to start spring soccer...start later please! I hate to think that we are just paying for the uniform...

"Look Mom!"

Hunter is such a nut. He is always so funny. The other day he came and found me with this little ensemble. He was so proud of himself. The funny thing is that he wasn't trying to be funny. He really thought it was the coolest thing ever.

HOA Easter Egg Hunt

Josh is on the board for our housing association "(a real live soap opera!) They did an Easter egg hunt this morning which not a lot of kids came to. Our kids aren't so good at the whole Easter egg hunt thing. They usually are so excited to get a piece of candy they must open it right then and there wasting valuable time. This time however they were ready and they came home with some serious treats!

Look how full those baskets are!

Best Buddies 5k

Last Saturday was the Best Buddies 5K run/walk. It was so successful and ended up raising enough money to start a new high school chapter of Best Buddies. My friend Heather Barber put it together and it was a lot of fun. GrizzBee from the Utah Grizzlies came and my kids loved getting their picture with him. This cute picture was taken by Michelle Sallay. She took wonderful pictures of everyone and gave them to us for free!

I forgot my camera once again and had to get these pictures later. These pictures were all taken by Creighton Lowe who is on the Best Buddies board with me. Josh ran the entire 5K with 3 kids in a running stroller. Talk about Superman!

Monsters vs Aliens

Josh surprised us yesterday with a fun night together. He wouldn't tell us where we were going and we ended up at Mosters vs Aliens. We have wanted to see this for a while, but never seem to do it. We also had plans to go to the California Pizza Kitchen (my fav.) but Lincoln's ear started hurting toward the end of the movie (meaning I didn't see the rest of it) and we just went home and ordered out. But it was still so much fun! Thanks Babe you are the best.

Once again no camera so the pics are all with the phone. Thank goodness for that! The kids watched the movie without the glasses. They just couldn't keep them on. I am sure they now all have eye damage...but hey they liked the movie.

Palmer wore his glasses for most of it.

Hunter hated those glasses!

Lincoln

Mrs. Utah on Radio Disney

So I remembered my camera...and the battery died after 1 picture...great! This is the opportunity I had a while back to be on Radio Disney. It was mainly to promote the Queen Bee Tea, but I was lucky enough to get to talk for a 30 minute program about Project Lemonade and being Mrs. Utah. It was a lot of fun.

phone pic.

Speaking at Hunter High School (marathon style)

I had the opportunity to go and speak to the classes of one of the teachers I knew, Ms. Jardine, back when I went to Hunter High. I gave my adversity presentation 7 times in 2 days. Each presentation lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. I was so exhausted and horse by the end of the the day that I would crash when I went home. I really loved it though. This is the 3rd time I have been able to speak at Hunter and it is so fun to go back to my old school. I had so many wonderful memories there. My kids were great sports about it and my mom is honestly going to go straight to heaven for all that she has done for me this year (she would anyway...pretty close to perfect). I am winding down the year, but still have a busy month ahead of me.

Happy April Fools Day!

I debated whether to tell teach the boys about April Fools Day since I knew they would "trick" me all day...I did and they did. This was my April Fools Joke to the kids. They thought it was pretty cool. Um...I couldn't write Happy April Fools Day, so it says Happy April if you can't tell.

We get cake for dinner, Hooray!

What is that?? Is that potato?

Okay so I know this isn't the nicest picture, but it was fun to see it with a piece out of it.