Easter 2008 Pictures

We had a wonderful Easter weekend. We managed to fill the day with a lot of fun activities. I have added a whole bunch of pictures to document our fun. However, I want to make sure to mention that all though we had a lot of fun, we still took time to think about the true reason we were celebrating Easter. Our Savior Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins and made it possible for us to return home to our Father in Heaven. May we always remember no matter what the day, is my continual prayer. Okay so now for the fun.

When we got to my mom's house on Saturday the kids went played outside because it was such a beautiful day and we knew that it was to rain on Sunday. Jessica climbed a tree and I just had to take a picture. Isn't she cute?

The kids were able to play with their cousin, Becky.
Saturday night we had an Easter egg painting party! Here are the girls, my 5 with their cousin.
Here is Uncle Russell with Jared!

The Boys! I just love Jared's smile in this one.

Time for the fun! Krytal, Jessica and Becky dying eggs.

The adults got in on the action too! Here is my sister Sandy.

And my sister Theresa.

And my brother Ronn!

We decorated about 12 dozen eggs. I had bought 15 dozen but some broke and we put them into the potato salad!Then on Sunday morning we had our Egg hunt but before they could find the eggs the kids had to find the baskets that the crazy bunny had hid. Alecia found hers.

Here is Brandon with his, my he looks a little rough.

Katie with her basket.

Krystal with her basket.

The crazy bunny decided to make Bethany Jump for hers! LOLBut that's okay because she managed to get it in the end!

Jessica found hers under the table!

Jared found his up in a tree!

Once the baskets were found it was time to hunt the eggs.

Jared liked to find them.

Jessica trying to figure out how to get the egg!

Krystal happy about how many she is finding.

Bethany and Krystal share eggs.

Once the eggs were found and a yummy breakfast of eggs benedict we started to get pretty for church. Here is Jessica with a hair style I found off of Mormon Mommy blogs.

After we all got pretty we went outside to take some pictures.

Katie in a tree. Goodness she is growing up way too fast!

I did I fun hair style on Krystal also. I can't believe that she is 9.

Okay, here is Bethany and man does she know how to pose!

Okay there are more pictures of Jessica but I just wanted to show off her hair style. I was really impressed with myself! LOL

And the other side!

Now here is her smiling face.

I got the girls minus Alecia all together and told them they could have fun.

But I managed to get a good one first!

After Church the whole Crew got together for dinner. Ron made some awesome barbqued ribs.

Here is Trey and his fiance Stephanie.

Mom, Theresa, and Sandy

Bro. and Sis Pinegar

Ray and Chelle, My oldest Brother.

Russell and Riley, My youngest brother and a nephew

After dinner we had our annual cousins plastic egg hunt!

While the girls were hiding eggs and watching the hunt the guys talked gardens. Here they are talking about the blueberry bushes.

All in all we had a wonderful time and then came home. I hope everyone had as great a time as I did.

Happy Easter!!

We had a great weekend at my mom's house. We decorated eggs, hunted eggs and Easter baskets and ate a lot of good food. I will post pictures later. I hope that you all are having a great Easter too. But most importantly I hope that you remember the true reason that we celebrate Easter and take some time to remember Him whom we celebrate.

FAmily in need!

I was on sugardoodle.net and learned of a family in need. This family lost their father to a tragic car accident and it has 6 children, 3 of these children are in primary. As I think of how devastating something like this would be to me I decided to post a link to the website that is accepting donations for them. Here is the link http://ldsprimaryposters.blogspot.com/2009/04/lets-help.html
you could also go to the button at the top that says lds primary posters and buy something. All of her profits this month will be donated to the family.

At Grandpa and Grandma Alfords July 2008

I took the kids to see David's Dad last summer and they had a ball. I didn't blog about it at the time because we went from their house to my dear friend Michelle's and then came home to start getting ready for school and the chaos that follows. I had always planned to do it and then the house flooded and it went way down on the priority list and then I forgot. So I was talking to Michelle tonight and pulled out the pictures from last summer and thought that I would finally post a blog about the fun the kids and I had with their Grandparents. For those of you who don't know Grandma, She loves to have fun activities for the kids when we come. I am missing some pictures of some of them but I do have pictures of their water day. They also made windsocks, and played in bubbles and a few more things.

Here is Brandon holding up a sponge bomb that Grandma made. They had a great time throwing them at each other and then playing in the hose!

They took turns for a little while.

But then they started to play in the buckets!

I guess they thought that it was cooler in the buckets.

But the best fun of all was when Grandma took the hose and started spraying the kids. She had a great time and so did the kids.

All that water was fun but Grandma had even more fun planned! She loaded everyone up in the trailer and then drove them down to the river behind the property to play!!

While we were down there the kids saw this butterfly! It was very friendly and landed on Alecia! She had a great time playing with it.

She even got a chance to look at it really well! She was very fascinated.

The Butterfly also liked Katie's flowers!

Bethany was completely worn out!

Jared got to go fishing with Grandpa and he caught a Fish!!!!

Jared also had fun cooking with Grandma.

Grandma works really hard on her gardens and here is a sample of what she gets back from them! I just loved the sunflowers!

All good things must come to an end and we had to leave to finish our vacation. We really had a great time and hope to be able to do it again this summer!! Here is a picture of the kids and Grandpa and Grandma! We love you guys and hope you are enjoying Japan and our Cousins and Aunt and Uncle!!!

The Dream!

Slothful, not a wise servant, lazy, sinful, procrastinator, glutinous, .... the list could continue but I just don't want to think of any more. What is the list of you might ask. It is a list of things that I am. I must strive harder to be the person that I dream of being. You know the Cool Aid mom! I want to be the mom that all kids think is awesome. The one that can have dinner on the table, homework done, laundry completed, baths finished, play time included and still have time to be beautiful when my dear hubby comes home and not grouchy. (Sigh) Yeah you know The Dream. The one that says we must be perfect in all ways in order to be who we are supposed to be. Well this post started off pretty weird but I am starting to feel a little better.

Okay I want to be the mother who manages to get up with scripture study and personal prayers every morning, breakfast on the table, clothes out and ready to go so that there are no delays as we get together and have family prayers in the morning before we all go on our merry little ways. And then when the kids are at school I want to volunteer at the hospital and keep and immaculate house and yard. Have a beautiful productive garden in which I am able to put up a full year of yummy food from the bountiful harvest. I want to have my visiting teaching done by the 15th of each month and still have time to spend with my mom and sisters. I want to be full of energy the mom who is perfect in looks at all time you know the ones. Their hair is never out of place and they always look like they have an endless wardrobe and never are overweight. I want to exercise everyday and stay away from chocolate and offer my service to the ward members who are in need of a helping hand. I want to be the best member missionary and the best family history specialist go to the temple once a week and still find the time for my children to have their activities. You know dance, karate, personal voice lessons, piano lessons and gymnastics. I want to give my children every opportunity so of course I want to teach them how to bake bread and make meals from scratch and definitely not have sandwiches 5 out of the 7 nights of the week. I want to be the person that I see in my head but I don't see in me.

I want to be the person with the stories of how they were sitting and felt the spirit tell them to do something and they did. I want to think I need to finish something and then do it. I want to sew, decorate, and in short be a wonderful home maker. Wow I want to be perfect. Can you believe that I want to be perfect and I want it now. How in the world do I go about my daily life and give myself so much grief. When I start to think of what I am not I get overwhelmed to the point of thinking well I can't have it all so I just going to read and that is my biggest vice of all reading I love to read. I love to sit for hours with a good book and go into another world in which the characters have problems and then they overcome them. I love to think of how it would be if I were that person and were able to do the same miraculous things. Soooooo with all that said, I know that it is necessary to take life one day and one thing at a time. I know that I am not a bad person in fact I am way better than just average because I am a daughter of God with all the potential that it entails. I know that with faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I can do all things that are expedient to return home to my Father in Heaven. One day, one goal, one step at a time I can have the dream. I can have it all but it may not be in this life and it may not all be at the same time. I pray that we all strive to give ourselves some slack and realize that we have great potential if we strive to perfect ourselves one day, one step, one thing at a time.

Cool Give Away!

I just learned about Mormon Mommy Blog and found that they have a really cool give away for food storage stuff going on right now. So go over to my side bar and click on the icon and follow the instructions for Shelf Reliance give away.