Clark Family Easter Egg Hunt

The Zoo!

Gorgeous weather and family made for a great day at the zoo! Here are Kimball and the kids eating their snowcones, which tasted soooo good as the day started to get a little warmer. Don't you just love Kimball's hat. It sure made it easy to find him in a crowd! Gage withe the Rhino...

Emmalin really liked the flamingos...

Amberly and some of her cousins checking out the animals...

Papa, Brandon, and Bryan...

Gage with some of his cousins...

Wilkins Family Easter Celebration 2010

Hippity hop...Easter's on it's way! The Ericksons hosted this years Easter gathering. We met early and had a big, yummy pancake breakfast. Then, the kids had a blast hunting for eggs.

These are the cousins minus Adam, Grace, and Joshua. We missed our Nevada family!

St. Patrick's Day Fun!

Top of the mornin' to ya!! We love St. Patrick's Day at our house! The kids have been planning their leprechaun trap for a few weeks now. For our FHE activity we put our trap together. They made a rainbow with a pot of gold (the change from my purse) to lure the leprechauns over. The plan was for the leprechaun to lift the pot of gold which would drop the "cloud" camoflauged cup over him. They were so excited and sure that they were going to get a leprechaun this year!!For our FHE lesson we talked about the difference between being "lucky" and being "blessed". We wrote and colored on shamrocks the things we are blessed with.

During the night the leprechauns snuck into our house and the mischeif began! They TP'd our kitchen, colored our milk and our toilet water green, and polka-dotted our arms and feet with green marker! Little stinkers! They even got away with the gold in the trap! Fortunately for us, while making their getaway, they spilled gold chocolate coins everywhere!!!

For breakfast we used the green milk to make oatmeal, which turned our oatmeal GREEN!
Our dinner consisted of green mac-n-cheese, spinach, green grapes, and rainbow jello. Maybe next year we'll go the corned beef and cabbage route. It just doesn't sound as fun. Might have to wait til the kids are older. We'll see!

We finished off the day eating chocolate coins and rainbow cupcakes! It was a fun St. Patricks Day indeed! Wonder what the leprechauns have in store for us next year!!!

Hope you all had a wonderfully fun St. Patty's Day as well!!

Fun with Cousins

Last weekend we got to spend time with some of the Clark family (the Olsons and the Gibbens). We BBQ'd, rode bikes, played on their playset, and made S'mores (which quickly turned into a marshmallow fight). It was a perfect opportunity to try out the kids new bikes!

Ashley's fun new toy! The kids had a blast riding around the neighborhood...actually the adults enjoyed it too!!

This is where I panicked a little! Kids and fire always make me nervous. Happy to report that no one was burned and we all enjoyed the sticky, delicious results!

Bring on the marshmallow fight!

Emmalin and Blake hanging out in Blake's favorite spot.

Fun, fun, fun...thanks Olson's for a good time!

Blue and Gold

We attended our first Blue and Gold Banquet tonight. The leaders really put together a fun night for the boys and their families. The theme was "Happy 100th Birthday BSA". We dined on pizza, nachos, and popcorn while surrounded with colorful balloons and streamers. Each of the boys were asked to make a cake. The cakes were amazing. These boys went all out!

Here is Gage with the "camping" cake he made. (Mom baked the cake but Gage did all the decorating). Excellent job Gage! I think the chocolate rocks were our favorite part of the cake. Here are some of the other cakes. Aren't they great! Go boys!

And more cakes...

And more cakes...

and more. (I wish I had pictures of all the cakes. This is just a sampling.)

Carrigan and her friends drumming on their cups while waiting for things to start.

Amberly was drumming too.Sister Kerr, our Cub Master, saying goodbye to Sister Schank who has been released as Scout Committee Chair. I was recently called as the new Committe Chair. I hope I can measure up, Zoila is fabulous and has left big (huge) shoes for me to fill.

The boys made a tunnel with their neckerchiefs for Sister Schank to pass through.

Gage participated by helping to fold the flag in a "13 fold ceremony".

The boys and their leaders made a quilt. Tonight they presented it to the Bishop.

It was a wonderful night. Thanks again to our awesome scout leaders. We are so blessed to have you.

A Little Fun in the Tub

Emmalin still LOVES her baths. I enjoy playing with her hair in the tub. I think it's so fun when it's full of shampoo and easy to shape. She is growing up so fast. Too fast!