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Grandma and Grandpa came up and spent Easter with us this time around! We loved spending time with them. Over the course of the weekend, we participated in four egg hunts. Talk about candy overload! We have some friends in the neighborhood who do a flashlight one every year. On Saturday morning, Bryn got up at the crack of dawn, as she likes to do, and promptly ran up to our room to inform us that there was a bunny outside our window. Turns out someone had "egged" our culdesac! After reigning in a lot of excited kids for a couple hours, and much coordination with neighbors, all the kids ran like crazy through all the yards in the culdesac looking for eggs and had a blast doing it. So many eggs! And then a family at the end of the road just happened to have breakfast for everyone. What a cute idea. We'll have to remember that one for when our littles are less little. So. Many. Eggs. After that, Grandma and Grandpa graciously watched the kids while Nate and I went to a bapt...

In March we found a babysitter for Emmeline and took the four oldest kids to see Peter and the Wolf. A small group of the Utah Symphony, and Ballet West II performed it. It was awesome! Every last one of us really enjoyed it. There was a narrator that told the story, which helped the kids to follow what was going on.

Last spring I went with a couple friends down Bluejohn Canyon and out Horseshoe Canyon , and we passed by the Great Gallery, one of the world's best pictograph panels. I decided then and there to drag my family back one day. This weekend, that day came! We couldn't do the full Bluejohn route, which is many miles and includes rappels, but there's a great down-and-back hike into Horseshoe Canyon, and we set our sights on that. I'd originally hoped to do the hike in late February, thinking the weather would cooperate, but Utah has been cold and wet and miserable since January, so we postponed until mid-April. We invited a family from our neighborhood along - Chad and Lisa and their three kids - and also Bri and Mason, and Friday afternoon hit the road for the Super 8 in Green River. Our first stop was the Wendy's in Price, and when we got there we discovered that Asa had brought a friend along: a ball of ice he'd made out of the hail falling at our house when we le...