We went to visit Ryan and went swimming in the hotel together. The pool was a little chilly so we hung out in the hot tub that wasn't super hot. It was a lot of fun and nice to get away for the weekend. Abree is feeling so much better and she and Jane loved to put their feet in the hot tub and kick the water. Although, it did snow on the way home and we are glad that we won't get any here. We went to the mall play area and I asked Sebrina is she wanted her ears pierced and she has told me no for several months. She said yes today so we took her and she went through with it. We also got Abree's pierced as well and Sebrina picked the earrings out for both of them.

Conner finally lost his first tooth. Sorry for the bloodiness, but we had to pick up Sebrina from school five minutes later and I had to get a picture. He finished lunch and said that his tooth hurt because he kept biting on it so I told him to come here and I pushed it a little. I asked if I should stop and he said no so I kept pushing it and it came out pretty easy. He was so excited!!

Abree was not too fond of the swings though.

Conner can do the monkey bars all by himself now.

We are at the top of a mountain. In the aerial picture the building kind of to the left of the center is Target.

Sebrina made a temple out of her toast. I though they were just taking a long time to eat by nibbling around the edges, but they were really forming masterpieces.

The girls got matching dresses and Sebrina wanted to wear the even if if was Conference Sunday. Abree did not want to sit still so they are not great pictures, but very cute dresses.

Conner was eating toast and made the ten commandments. I had to get a picture of this. Abree likes to pull the marker lid off and then suck on it so her tongue is yellow if you look closely. I was able to get her to stick out her tongue to show me. The kids were being very imaginative in building with the foam alphabet letters. They even built around Sebrina.

Here are some pictures from the park a couple of weeks ago. Double click on the pictures and they go fullsize.

Life goes on

I only have a minute before the boys need to get ready for school. I have wanted to update the blog, but we were without our home phone and internet for over a week so we could keep the same phone number when we switched companies. Abree is now teething again with a cold and an ear infection. She will only sleep if I am standing up while holding her. I am finally able to lie her down if she is dead asleep. It has been a hard week to do anything except hold Abree and try to get the kids to school. We did enjoy watching conference on our computer which was nice since Cadin and Ken had a cold that weekend and we they would not have been going anywhere. Conner and Cadin are excited about school because they are incubating eggs and are learning about the life cycle of a chick. They got the eggs yesterday so in 21 days they will hatch. Sebrina also has a cold now so she has taken a nap all week without a hard time. We went on a hike last Saturday that was really fun. The kids did great and I have pictures that I will post later. Sebrina also had her first sleepover at someone else's house and then she had one at our house during Spring Break. We are off to northern Idaho this weekend for a mini vacation. Ken and I have been trading all week with the kids and it will be nice to have all of us together for a while. Ken has visits tonight after my Presidency meeting and that has been the schedule this week. We are doing the Lord's work so everything seems to work out. Last night at mutual the Laurels planned a crazy dinner where there was a main course, a side dish and one utensil to try and eat it. Some funny combinations were refried beans with spaghetti and a turkey baster to eat it. There were several people that had whisks for spaghetti. Another combination was taco soup, salad and chopsticks. It was a lot of fun. We offered some people forks to finsish their food at the end and most declined. They either had figured out a way to eat it or had resorted to eating spaghetti with their hands instead. Have a great weekend.