Alyssa's Birthday

I guess I was so excited about Alyssa's baptism that I forgot to post about her birthday.  Her favorite thing is crepes, so we had them for breakfast with options of strawberries, yogurt, nutella, peanut butter, bananas and pudding for fillings. That is what is scene at the table.  Alyssa is a fun girl.  She has started playing the piano, although some days it is a struggle to get her to practice.  I think my favorite thing is to hear her laugh and she loves to be tickled.  The bed time routine is prayers, tuck in and then tickle her.  She gets along with everyone, Joslynn and her are really good friends.  She loves to ride bike, play Sleeping Queens.  Her favorite food is crepes.  We are very grateful for her sweet, smiley, happy spirit in our home.

rainbow loom bands

 purse cake

Alyssa was excited to get her own set of scriptures.  Thanks to my sister for the cute little bag.

JR Prom

Tyler went to Jr. Prom April 11th at Sky View High School.  His group consisted of six couples.  The "thing" to do is to have a "day date", so hopefully the dates get along, because it's an all day event.  Due to other commitments on Saturday, the "day date" events took place Friday evening.
I helped plan and prepare for some of the activities.  Trent Grunig's  grandparents graciously offered to have the activities and meals at their house in Hyde Park.  The girls and I, with Trent's mother and children met at the house to hide 180 Easter eggs.

Tyler picked up his date, Alexa Archibald, at 4 pm and they met at Trent's house.  The six couples then went to Hyde Park.  The evening activities consisted of an easter egg hunt, capture the flag, kickball, dinner, board games and just dance.  Trent's grandparents said there was a lot of laughter, so it sounded like everyone had a good time.  They ate pulled pork sandwiches, chips and salad for dinner.  The boys were all assigned a food item to bring.  I went to help set up, then left when they started eating.

Saturday, PROM day!!  Tyler& Trent traveled together.  They picked up their dates and met everyone at the park for pictures.  Dinner was again at Trent's grandparents house.  Sister Grunig had the table set with China dishes and flowers.  The meal was sweet & sour chicken, green salad, fruit, green beans, corn bread with honey butter and bundt bread.  After the dance, they went to Skyler Johnson's house for ice cream.  Lara made waffle cones and bowls for everyone.  Curfew was 12 midnight and Tyler walked in at 11:59!!  He had a great time and we were very grateful that Alexa had such a pretty and modest dress.

Alexa Archibald & Tyler

Mirae Whiting, Jeff Madsen, Darci Olsen, Trent Grunig, Lexi Murdock, Landon Spring, Hayli Gittins, Skyler Johnson, Madi Smith, Spencer Funk, Alexa Archibald, Tyler Dawes

Spencer Funk, Jeff Madson, Tyler, Landon Spring, Skyler Johnson, Trent Grunig

Tyler and Alexa meet up with their "twins" at Prom!!  Ryan Sorensen and Alisa Hinkson arrived wearing the same tux and dress.  Alisa and Alexa are both on the Smithfield City Royalty and thus have the same dress.  All four of them are good friends so they took a picture with their phones. Tyler really had a fun time.  I think I was just as excited as he was, I was giddy and excited to help him dress. He looked so handsome in his tux!! I was glad to be involved with the dinner part, so I could at least see them together in person, instead of just pictures.   It'll be fun on the other end with my daughters to see the flowers exchanged and pick up.  

Cousins Visit

After the wedding, Kenneth & Heidi went to Georgia on a house hunting trip.  Their four children stayed here and my parents stayed an extra week to help out with all the house full of grand kids.   We had several different activities, and for the most part, every one got along.  By the end of the week Grant stated he was"tired" of Joslynn!!

finger painting!!

Kaylynn wrote a play for all the cousins to be in.  While we were at the wedding they practiced, made tickets, props, and arranged seating in the basement.  

 

Dad wore this sweatshirt a lot so he was nicknamed "Horizon"

Dad tilled my garden and with mom's help planted several things for me.  My peas, onions, carrots, lettuce, spinach, kale & beets are planted.  Alyssa stated "I didn't know Grandpa knew how to plant a garden".  She was pretty impressed.

 

On art day, the kids decided to color themselves with chalk.  They came in looking like Indians!  The last day, I kept Alyssa home from school and we went to First Dam.  We feed the ducks 5 loaves of bread, chased the geese and went for a short hike.  It was successful as no one got wet!!

The girls picked up some moss and Arianna put it on her head like a wig!!

Mom was completely bored so she started weeding the flower beds.  Kate was kneeling on her back and then sat for a long time as Grandma weeded.

Spring Break

The kids had a week off of school for spring break the first week of April.  Tyler has wanted to tour BYU so we headed to Provo for a couple of days.  We had a free hotel stay at the Marriott for two nights that included breakfast for two mornings.  We toured both BYU and UVU.  The girls said they liked BYU better because we drove in a golf cart, UVU we had to walk and Joslynn was very tired by the end of the 75 minute tour.  Tyler is leaning toward BYU, doesn't really have any desire to attend UVU, but thought it would be good to do since we were there.  

We went to the BEAN museum at BYU, which was awesome. A room is devoted to Pres. Packer and displays the birds, art work and wood work which he has done throughout his life.  They had a few pictures of him as a child and sketches of when he was in high school.  We also went to the art museum and drove up Squaw Peak.  That was an impressive sight of the valley.  We spent a lot of time at the pool in the evenings and enjoyed the time together.  

Watch out!! Joslynn's face looks like she'll attack!!

Squaw Peak