Easter weekend

 Saturday,  an Easter egg hunt was replaced with club volleyball from 8 am until 4:30 pm  /  the team won the silver bracket at a tournament in Idaho Falls

 Aubrey is not difficult as far as Easter candy.  Mini Cadbury eggs are all she wants.

 The yard is looking very springy.  These are flowers I can see from the kitchen window.  Little tulips and even smaller daffodils.

 Gotta love those "little purple pansies"

 Kendal came for a short visit.  Everyone fell asleep so.......

........I had to take a selfie.  

Prom 2014 Aubrey's Junior year

Spring Break - Sioux Falls

I did not take a lot of pictures, but here are a few  I managed to capture.

Marci drove over 8 hours to spend time with us.  We had Saturday together and filled it with some VB "peppering" - I think the temp outside was 22 degrees - watching the movie Divergent, eating some delicious food at Spezias, music with the guitar and singing harmony AND the movie Frozen.

We went  to an amazing Childrens Museum and hour north in Brookings.  I in no way captured even a small percentage of the great things for kids to do.  I did not get the barn, garden, grocery store, school, music, exercise area, water fun, explore area, newspaper, mail room, TV station, sod house, Indian tepee, island hut.  There is nothing that kids can not touch, climb on, carry around and play with to their hearts content. Sam pulled around a little red wagon most of the time.  I did not get a picture - so sad.

The hen house was so cool.  The huge mamma pig and baby piglets were also hands on and quite amazing.

This happened most mornings.  The boys wanting Aubrey to wake up when they did ---and be perky.

SHES BACK !!!!!

 Aubrey played volleyball from 9 to 5:30 on Saturday.

 We got up early to drive to Rigby.  

 Aubrey won the spirit award during the basketball season.

She has a black and orange tutu under her sweat pants that really adds to her outfit.

Christmas 2013

 I forgot I had these pics on the camera.

 We actually opened some presents Christmas eve....

 ...so the kids could use the XBOX all they wanted.

 Dad trying to figure how his ipod works.

Catching up

Preparing for the wonderful day.

Waiting and waiting.....he arrived late in the evening.

Lots of hugs all around.

He really is here and we can head for home.  Curtis and Courtney tried so hard to be at the airport, but were about 20 min. from the airport when he came down the escalator.  We found them waiting in our driveway when we drove in.  I felt so bad they did not know where we keep an extra house key. 

Friday we all attended the Brigham City Temple.  

With such a gathering and ........since it was my birthday soon, we had a party.

Thank you Chelsea for taking this great picture.  
On Sunday I did not take very many pictures.  

We had a busy few days and this is a great part of Sunday afternoon.   

On to Fall.....

Meet Zander, Aubrey's computer baby from her child development class.  She cared for Zander for the weekend.  He went to basketball games, did his thing while Aubrey worked the concession stand, shopped in Pocatello with us, a game night with her friends, a party, and a movie night.

The sounds he makes were very authentic.  He had two diapers and alternate them so the computer registers a change.

Sometimes Aubrey was doing something and feeding Zander was not very convenient, so this plan worked for a few minutes.  The computer knows a real person is not holding the bottle.

I bought some fresh masa in Prescott Valley, so we made a few tamales this year.

I was able to revive the tree one more year.  Some big sections of  the lights don't work so I added some strands, but the nonworking lights look dumb, so time for a new tree next year.  
I asked Aubrey if she wanted us to have a more formal, color coordinated, particular theme for a tree and she said no, she likes the one we always create.