Easter 2010

We spent this past Easter in Salt Lake City with Justin's family.  We got into town on Thursday afternoon.  Our first stop was Teresa's house so we could see Grandma Olsen.  We had a nice visit with her.  The boys kept her entertained.  Then we went to Kathy and Earl's house.  Tyler and Garrett were excited to spend time with their cousins.  The kids spent Friday playing with all of their cousins while Justin and his brother put in his stepbrother's air conditioning.

Saturday morning we went to the Easter egg hunt Bluffdale city hosted.  It was cold and windy.  Justin went with Garrett and all of the younger kids.  Tyler and Morgan were in the same age bracket.  Tyler did O.K. gathering eggs.  We moved down from the sign where it told for him to stand because there were sooo many kids his age.  Tyler was only able to find 3 eggs in his age bracket.  I think Morgan did better than that.  Garrett picked up a lot of eggs as long as they were not pink or purple.  Justin would point the pink and purple eggs out to Garrett and he would tell Justin, "those are girl eggs.  I am not picking them up."  I have a real character on my hands.

After the egg hunt, we all went back to Kathy and Earl's house.  Justin worked on getting the slide in camper out of the pasture with the help of BJ, Earl, and Jim.  While he was doing that, the kids played.  Saturday afternoon all of the cousins dyed Easter eggs together, minus Braxton who was at a friend's house.  This was the first time in three years the boys have dyed eggs with their cousins.  I think everyone had fun.  After all of the eggs were dyed, the kids went outside and played.  Justin helped Morgan learn how to ride a two wheel bike.  She was so excited.  Morgan and Tyler were riding all over the yard while the other kids played in the mud and rode their little bikes and scooters. 

Easter morning, we woke up to snow!  The Easter bunny swept all of Kathy's back yard to cover up his footprints so the kids would have to look for their Easter baskets and eggs.  Tyler found his basket in the bushes on the side of the house.  Garrett found his basket behind the climbing wall of the swingset.

After all of the eggs were found, we went inside for pictures.  Also, all of the kids were dying to get into the candy!  Everyone knows kids love candy, especially mine.  The big kid, Justin, kept trying to get Tyler and Garrett to share their candy with him.  Tyler is good about sharing, but Garrett really does not like to share.  Next year the Easter bunny may have to bring Justin his own basket. 

Monday morning, we woke up and drove home to Montana.  We had a nice weekend visiting with everyone.  The kids had fun playing nonstop with their cousins.  We hope everyone else had a nice Easter too.

Haircut Time

The boys got their haircut in March.  Tyler really wanted a mo-hawk haircut.  Their hairdresser, Lanny, is a sweetie.  She gave him a faux hawk.  Tyler could style it as a mo-hawk or else he could wear it normal and it would still look good.  Garrett is funny.  He wanted his haircut to be the same as usual.  Lanny was going to put some gel in his hair and give it a little spike and Garrett kept saying, "No, no."  He then would take his hands and flatten his hair down.  I had one boy who wanted a spiky look and the other one wanted his hair flat.  Tyler and Garrett are so funny!  I love them tons!

80's Party

In March, my friend Trish celebrated her 30th birthday by having an 80's themed party.  Justin, Mike, and I went as the Ghostbusters.  Justin and Mike made our costumes.  Justin painted the Ghostbusters decal on our sleeves and put our names on our shirts. 

Justin bought the Ghostbusters movie so he could watch it and make sure our costumes looked authentic.  Justin and Mike were really getting into the costumes.  I just wanted to go have fun!

My friend Trish, was Rainbow Bright.  Some of the other costumes there were Debbie Gibson, Daisy and Luke Duke, Heavy Metal groupies.  Everyone had lots of fun!

Justin borrowed some one's big wig and funky hat.  This is how Justin would look if he had lots of hair!  Justin had a good time at the party! 

St. Patrick's Day

Tyler was really excited for St. Patrick's day this year.  His teacher, Mrs. Fischer, kept telling the kids how they were going to build a trap at school to try and catch the leprechaun, Norm.  Well, Tyler was excited about trying to capture Norm.  He misunderstood his teacher and thought he had to build a trap at home.  Tyler and Grandpa Bill spent hours deciding on how to build the perfect leprechaun trap so he could catch Norm.  Tyler and Grandpa Bill made the trap and Tyler decorated it in green for St. Patrick's day.  Tyler and Grandpa also went to the store to by leprechaun food...Lucky Charms cereal.  Tyler was so excited! 

On St. Patrick's day morning, Tyler had Grandpa Bill take him to school to show his teacher his leprechaun trap. Unfortunately, Tyler was unable to catch Norm at school. Then he took his trap to the babysitters and should her how it worked. Tyler did not catch Norm at the babysitters either. Tyler came home and played and he frequently checked his trap but he was unsuccessful in catching Norm the Leprechaun this year. Tyler was disappointed. Maybe next year, Tyler will be lucky with his leprechaun catching. We will see...

G.G.'s 81st Birthday

On March 8, my Grandma Lois (G.G.) turned 81!  The boys helped me make her birthday cake.  They also helped me frost the cake.  Then they helped her blow out the candles on her cake.  I think G.G. was a little nervous about all the candles on her cake.  It was either that or she was nervous about how Garrett is a little pyro and was liked looking at the cake with all of the candles on it.  The boys love all of their grandmas!  They really like it when they get to help their grandmas do things.

Wrestling with Jeff

Tyler and Garrett love to go with Justin when he goes to see his friend Jeff at his house.  Tyler and Garrett love to attack and wrestle with Jeff.  Jeff is a big kid like Justin and he just encourages the boys.  Usually the boys will take turns and tag team Jeff.  One day while we were visiting, Jeff jokingly tied the boys up.  First he tied up Tyler.  Garrett helped Jeff tie up his brother.  Tyler and Garrett just laughed and laughed.  Afterwards, Garrett helped Tyler get free.  Then the next thing you knew, the boys were attacking Jeff again.  While they were wrestling, Garrett kept asking Jeff to tie him up.  So, Jeff tied him up for a minute.  Tyler and Garrett just laughed and laughed.  I kept telling the boys to settle down, but they were having fun.  Jeff was just laughing at how the boys kept coming back for more.  I have always said, my boys are all boy.  I love them to piece but there are many times, I just sit back and shake my head.

Over view of February

I am sorry that I have not posted anything for a couple of months.  Life continues to be busy with the boys, work, home life, dogs, etc.  Add to that, my camera broke and I don't like to post stuff without pictures. 

During February, we went to Powell, Wyoming to visit Aunt Alana, Uncle Pogo, and Telesse.  Kathy and Earl were there visiting from Utah.  We were there over Valentine's day weekend.  Tyler and Garrett were excited to go see everyone.  They helped Aunt Alana and Telesse gather eggs one day.  Tyler did not like all of the chickens coming close to him, but Garrett had no problems going in there and collecting the eggs. 

The boys liked it when the doorbell rang and their Valentine's gifts were left on the doorstep.  They thought that was neat.  It did not help that they were spoiled as usual.

The boys and I made a couple of day road trips to Missoula and Deer Lodge in February.  Other than that, life was normal...school, church, work, going to the babysitters.  We live a fairly boring life with the exception that the boys are very active with very active imaginations.  In February, the boys were carrying around calculators for a few days.  Garrett kept saying he needed his PDA.  We could not go anywhere without the PDA (calculator).