Fun at the park

It has been such nice weather outside these past few days. We could not waste the opportunity to go to the park and have a little fun outside. We went to the park with Kristin. The kids had a lot of fun and were not happy when we had to go home.

Autumn playing on the arm slide
I took Hunter down the twisty slide

Brooklyn helping Hunter down the slide

Brooklyn swinging
Hunter's big smile. He loves to swing
Hunter playing in the soccer goal.

A time of happiness, A time of Sorrow

This past week has been one of joy and sorrow. Easter is the time of year that reminds us of the atonement of Jesus Christ. I know that because of his sacrifice, we will be able to live with our Father in Heaven again. Life is such a precious gift and sometimes it ends way too soon. We learned this all too well. My cousin, Jason and wife Tricia lost their baby boy Lucus. Yesterday I attended his funeral where I played the song "I am a Child of God." I know that he is in a better place. I am grateful for the knowledge of the gospel. I know that the lord will watch over and comfort his family. I know they will be together again.

In Memory of

Lucus Jay Farner 1/21/09 - 4/9/09

Easter Traditions

Easter is a fun time of year. We enjoy spending time with family and just having fun together. It was beautiful weather this year for most of our activities. It has been a long time since we were able to enjoy warm weather for our Easter activities. Here are a few of the traditions we enjoy.

Nibley City Easter Egg Hunt

Every year we go to the park for a big Easter egg hunt. It was a little chilly for the first little while but at least it didn't rain.

Coloring Easter eggs.

Every year we color Easter eggs with my family. This year were were able to do it at my house. The kids really enjoyed decorating and dying eggs.


Autumn showing off one the dozens of eggs that we colored Saturday afternoon.

Brooklyn "cheesing" it for me while coloring her eggs.

Even Hunter got to color a few eggs.

Rolling Easter Eggs

One of my favorite Easter traditions is rolling Easter eggs down Old Main Hill. It is a tradition that I enjoyed when I was young. When Autumn was little, we started the tradition up again with our family. The kids really enjoy it. I don't know how, but I think every year it ends in a egg fight. I stay clear and try not to get involved. This year, I think Brooklyn started it.

The girls helping Hunter up the hill after chasing their eggs.

Autumn rolling one of her eggs.

Hunter had a blast throwing his eggs down the hill. He always had a great big smile on his face!

Group picture with Aunt Kristin. Smile!

Easter Egg Hunt at Grandma & Grandpa McBride's House

It is always fun finding lots of eggs and getting lots of candy. But the best thing about Grandpa's egg hunt is not all the eggs are full of candy. Some eggs have money in them. This year we had Brian's brother Chad visiting from California with his 4 kids and Brian's sister Kristi with her 3 kids. I think each kid ended up getting about $2.50.

Brooklyn and Autumn showing how many eggs they found.

Hunter sitting on the patio enjoying his candy.

Birthday Boy!! 1 Year Old!!

My little boy turned one Monday March 30th. I can't believe how big he is getting. He is always into everything. But it is a lot of fun watching him grow and learn everyday. He is getting so smart. He is learning some baby signs. It makes it nice to kind of know what he wants. He knows the sign for eat, milk, dad, ball, more, and bath. They aren't perfect yet but he is getting better everyday

We ended up having two birthday parties for Hunter. My parents realized that they were going to be out of town on his birthday so we celebrated with my family the Friday before. That way my sister Natalie could also be there with us. We had a lot of fun. Hunter loved opening presents and playing with his new toys. But I think he liked eating his birthday cake the most. Hunter is trying to sign the word baby.

Hunter got a new truck from Natalie and her kids. I wish I would have taken out his binkie because he had the biggest grin. You can still see his big smile behind the big binkie

Hunter playing with his new truck. He even makes a motor sound when he drives it around.
He is definitely all boy!

First bite of birthday cake.

Hunter enjoying he birthday cake at my mom's house. What a messy boy!

Yum!!

What's inside?

New toys!!! Trucks and Four-wheelers!!

Hunter and his new cup and Spiderman slippers.

Hunter got a sword from Dad, Autumn and Brooklyn.

He likes to walk around getting people with it.

I made his cake into a soccer ball because he loves balls. Everytime he sees a ball he makes the sign for it. It wasn't beautiful, but it still tasted good and Hunter liked it.

Hunter enjoying his soccer ball cake. Yummy!!

Cleanup after cake. A sink bath!

Birthdays galore!

We have had a lot of fun celebrating birthdays these last few weeks with another one coming the end of the month. My niece Sarah just turned 4 on February 23rd and then my mom's birthday was March 8th. We had a lot of fun.

Sarah's Birthday Party

I took Hunter and Brooklyn down to my sister's house to celebrate. Brian and Autumn weren't feeling wonderful so they stayed home. It was a lot of fun seeing my sister. I don't get to see her very often. We had a lot of fun taking goofy pics and talking about everything.

Birthday Girl

Goofy Girls!!

Sisters (Am I short or what! They had to bend down to my height)

Hunter Playing with Brayden

Hunter between Kristin's legs. (she was standing)

Mom's Birthday Party

Most everyone was able to come up to help celebrate mom's birthday. We were sad that Natalie and her family were unable to come. Brayden was sick with bronchiolitis and pnemonia. We still had a lot of fun though. We had a large dinner and then broke out the Wii and played rockband. I was sad that the batteries in the camera died or I would have posted some of the funny pics but I did get some pictures of some of the people who came.

Ryan and Heather came down from Boise

Grandpa and Grandma Page

Hunter feeding himself. He didn't like the carrots. He was pulling funny faces and spitting them out.

Kristin and Jake how cute!

Hunter and my dad. It's rare to actually get a picture of him.

My "cheesy" Autumn

Grandma's new puppy

My mom decided to get a new Shi Tzu puppy. I don't think that she would have gotten him, but at our big family Christmas party, both my Aunt Conni and cousin Heather brought their new puppies that they got for Christmas. My mom fell in love with Conni's dog, Lilly, that was a Pomeranian-Maltese mix. My Grandma mentioned that a friend wanted to get rid of a little Shi Tzu puppy. We called on him, but the family had decided to keep him. It really made my mom sad. Well, the other day my grandparents called my mom and told her that some people were selling Shi Tzu puppies outside of Wal-mart. We rushed into town to take a look. My mom decided on the runt of the litter with the tiny little ears. He was half the size of all the other puppies and just freezing. He is such a cute little puppy. Everyday I went over, he had a new name. I think that they have finally decided on the name Zeek.
I brought the kids over to see the new puppy. Hunter was not sure what to think of the puppy. It was fun watching Hunter follow the puppy around. This is Hunter and Zeek playing together at grandmas house.



Hunter has really started to walk a lot more. Autumn has a lot of fun helping Hunter walk back and forth between me and her. This is picture was taken after playing with the puppy.