Family Walk

One, of many, things I will miss about Mapleton is the amazing trails right out my parents backyard. The view is incredible and it's the perfect little path for walks, bike rides, scooters, running, etc... On May 1 we all took a family walk and just took our sweet time letting the kids hop of their bikes and run up the hill to the side of the path. They lay in the grass, played hide and seek, and found a random red flower that Kimbri thought was so awesome. She also wanted to pose and have me take numerous photos of her :) And let's not forget how Rick thought he could ride Garrett's bike, ha! The weather was perfect and it was so relaxing. 

Kimbri & the Little Blue Dress

We tried out a new hairdo on Kimbri. I got out my old crimper from back in the day and we did Kimbri's hair. It turned out so cute! I love the wavy hair on her. So then I thought we should take a picture before church. Then Kimbri thought we should take like 10 pictures... ha! She told me what poses she wanted to do and when I needed to take the pictures. She specifically was the one who wanted to "look the other way but have me still take the picture from the front".  Every hand and hip action was ALL her! I think she loves being in front of the camera!

Easter 2017

We did up a little Easter basket for each kid, using random candy we already had sticking in bunny glasses that we got from somewhere a long time ago. The other toy for each kid was from my random stash in our closet of little things that I find for a super good bargain on the clearance racks and save them for holidays, birthdays or Christmas. We also hid some eggs and the they had a lot of fun hunting for them! 

After church we had a quick little egg hunt in the back yard of my parents house, but then spent Easter dinner with the Stone's in Salem. They also had a fun little egg hunt with color-coded eggs. Each kid could only pick up their own color that they were assigned. Each color had one egg that was hidden that had a little bit of money in it and Kimbri and Garrett thought that was totally awesome!

Super off-center picture because we did a time photo and
had to use the deck ledge to prop the phone up, haha.

BYU Bowling Trip

We are trying to knock out some things on our "Utah Bucket List", so we took a trip up to BYU and went bowling with the kids and then out to a frozen yogurt place called, Spoon It Up. Rick and I used to go there when they did a buy one get one free sale during our college days. The kids loved the idea that you pull on the handle and yogurt comes out. They also loved tasting samples of a lot of the different flavors. On our way home we drove by the house we used to live in showed the kids. I love going and doing little trips like this with just our family. 

Where we used to live. Our time spent in this
was little house was so wonderful!

We also stopped by Sam's Club on our way home.
And as a side note, I love these kind of carts!

Baby Brenna

I still can't believe how amazing of a baby little Brenna has been. She sleeps amazing, she eats amazing and she has such a sweet calm spirit about her. Brenna has really brought such a special feeling into our home. I can't believe that she will be 2 years old this summer and is soon not going to be a baby, but a toddler! 

I love you, Brenna!

She loves berries of any kind!

She's very particular with how she likes her
blankies at night:) One on each side of her face
and then one or two over her body.

She woke up from her nap and I still had to finish
sewing a few things so she sat on my lap and
watched me finish the rest.