Easter 2012

For Easter we took a drive in the direction of Canyonlands and took a road that took us north before we got to Canyonlands.  We did an Easter egg hunt and did a weenie roast.  The Pipkins were kind enough to invite us on their yearly tradition.

Mundy took pics from up on a small cliff and to the rear of the direction that everyone was headed so you get a rear view.  From top to bottom you starting with the pink shirt is Jordan, Jeremy, Fritz, Vera and Lilly, Manike (left) Brad, Avery, and Sarah.

Here is Andrew, Jordan, Jaime, and Fritz.

From left to right Brad, Manike, Sarah, Avery and Fritz.

Here is a gaggle of kids trying to find the hidden Easter eggs.

Lilly had a blast looking for eggs.  She would get so excited.

Jordan helped to keep the little Lilly and Carolina busy while the eggs were being hidden.

Here is Fritz Sr. and Barbara.  They are Mundy's aunt and uncle.

Here is Brad and Manike.

This is part of the view of where we were at.  We drove for a long time, over an hour, on dirt roads to get to this location.  There was some pretty neat sites along the drive.

Jaime and Andrew killing time while the eggs are being hidden.

Fritz and Sarah.

Here are the sand dunes the kids got to play on.  They reminded me a lot of southern utah.

Jeremy.

Jonah, ever the ham, and Lilly.

Here is all particpants of the Easter egg hunt with their bag of goodies.  Good times!!!

We also did an Easter Egg hunt at our home with my boys and Carolina.  They thought it was pretty fun.

Here is Carolina looking for eggs with her mama's help.

Here are the kids with their basket of goodies.  The boys love having ownership over their own snacks such as chips and sunflower seeds.  Plus that means I get to buy less candy!  ;)  I don't know that they've caught on to that yet! 

 

Here are the kids coloring eggs. I used to love doing this and my kids love it too.  It's fun to see what  designs they come up with.

Lilly having a blast holding one of her creations.  And down below are some of the finished works of art.

Wood

This is as big a load as we can get.  It's half a cord but because our truck is so small this is all we can get at a time.  Our goal is to buy a truck big enough to get a normal size load as well as fit us all in the same vehicle for exploring as well as getting wood.  Cutting wood and using a stove is new for me, but luckily Mundy has had experience with it.  I'm learning to build good fires as is Andrew.

This is Andrew and Lilly exploring while dad is doing the cutting.  We don't go anywhere dad's chain saw.

Jonah and Jeremy messing around while they are waiting.  Don't you love the evil look that Jonah's got going on right now?

Here is a cow we saw on this day.  It didn't stick around long with all the noise the kids were making.

Here is Mundy cutting up the dead tree.

Andrew eating a snack during down time.

Random kid pics early 2012

Jeremy building a snowman.  This is a little bit of the snow we saw.  We had a pretty dry winter considering what we usually get.

Jonah always a ham for the camera. He's decided he's already sick of the snow. I wonder how he will feel if we get more snow this year.  I guess we will see.

Just a funny shot.  The boys and Lilly enjoy having sleep overs.  This was before we got Lilly's bedroom set up.  She started out on her crib matress on the floor.  Since then we've painted a bunk bed and gotten a cute bed set.  I'll try to remember to post a pic later of it.

Lilly crashed out on her big ole Pooh Bear sleeping with Jonah.

These balloons are part of what I got from Mundy on Valentines Day.  Lilly had a lot of fun with them.

I was playing with them and the balloons to get some cute pics of Lilly.

In this one you can see the static doing it's magic with her hair.

New Beginnings

Here is the virutal tour of our house as it was in the beginnning. This room is what used to be the previous owners' school rooms since they home schooled their kids.  This has been cleaned up and is now the room that Jeremy and Andrew share until we can get the downstairs renovated. 

 This is Jonah cleaning what is mine and Mundy's bathroom.  I just can't share one with the boys so they use the other upstairs bathroom and the one downstairs.  This bathroom has a whole ocean motif going on, but one day it will change.  It's very dark as all the walls and the ceiling were painted a dark blue and I'm not a huge fan of ocean motifs.

We put the kids to work cleaning shelves.  Mundy had to paint several of the kitchen cabinets on the inside because it was raw wood and the like.  No liners or paint and the shelves were pretty dirty.

This pic and the one above were taken in the kitchen.  We had stuff everywhere!

 This is our living room and our temporary family room until we get the downstairs situated.

 Another shot of the kitchen.

 This room is mine and Mundy's.  The oldest daughter was in it and had a thing for horses.  Eventually we will be doing this,but it will probably one of the last.  This house has no master bedroom/bath which I miss immensly.  One day we will change it all, but I'm sure it will be a while yet.

  this is Jonah's room.  It has a lot Disney characters on the walls.  I was hoping he would last longer in it the room but he feels like he is too old for it already.  I did warn him that it would be a while before we could get around to painting it.

 This is what will eventually become our family room.  This is also where our stove is.  It's something different to have to build fires for heat.  WE've got to find a better way to circulate it through the house, but I'm sure we will get it figured out.

This is the toy room.  Somebody had a thing for Garfield and it is present in nearly every room in the house.  It's kind of nice to not have toys all over the floor of the living room anymore nor in the boys' rooms.  Although I wish I could say the same thing about their clothes.

This is what we call our garage room.  Since we are now sans a garage this is what we are using until we can get one built or even a shed or something.

 this is the boys bathroom downstairs.  What did I tell you about the Garfield infatuation.  The mirror even has Garfield on it.

Yet another Garfield even in the pantry.  So weird.  I love having this big pantry though.  It's better then having to stash food storage under beds and in our closets.

More of last days of SG

Wow!  This new set up for blogger is something else.  My pictures are in order of newest to oldest even though I meant for the opposite to happen.  So bear with me.  I'll have to get if figured out.  These first two pics are of our last Christmas in our old home.  We were moving the next day so I didn't have any Christmas decorations up. In fact we had loaded up the moving truck a day or two before so that we could enjoy the holidays with our family.  Of course the camera died after just a couple of pics.  We just had all the kids come in our room to open their presents before we went over to mom and dad's for dinner and to see our family on my side.

I had to add this pic and will probably post this on fb because it's a memory from the old days.  My friend Christopher (Topher) decided we needed to staple this so we would have our '70's shag in the garage.  Reminds me of the old gang from Worldmark and the friends I made.

This is Lilly with her Aunt Kristi and Uncle Dion.  They came to visit shortly before we moved. 

Aunt Kristi wanted a pic of all the kids so I decided to grab one too.  My kids look so much older even half a year later.  Oh how they grow!!

This is one of my favorite things about Mrs. Paxman.  All 3 of the boys had her in 3rd grade and we were there just long enough for Jonah to make this too.  She had all kinds of goodies for them to make these gingerbread houses.  She had the frosting down to a science and it was so much fun for all the kids and the houses were always so cute!

This is the first time I gave Lilly jello.  Actually it was a jello jiggler.  I didn't realize that she is not a fan of eating them but she had a ton of fun squishing it everywhere!

This is the kind of snow I knew in southern Utah.  Life is so differnt now!  :) I will posts pics of snow from our life now soon.

Thought this was the cutest pic.  The boys talked her into sleeping a clothes basket.  It looked so uncomfortable I moved her but not before I recorded it.

The colors of fall.  I took these at the spin park in SG.  The colors were so pretty.  The older I get the more I appreciate and kind find beauty in the simplest things.  I'm grateful that God created so much beauty for us to appreciate.

Scott, Andrew and Mundy Dutton.  Andrew being is usual stubborn won't let me take pics.  I hope he outgrows that soon.

Lilly and Mykenna chillin.

Love this face! 

Jonah being a monkey.

An unguarded moment.  He was throwing a ball or something to his cousin.

Jeremy with his pal Cody who used to live across the street from us.

This park is so fun, as long as it isn't summer.  There is too much metal to make it enjoyable then, but if your kids like to spin and get dizzy this is the place to be!  :)