Catch Up -- Easter and Spring Break

For Spring Break we stayed around town - and the girls got to play in the snow! They loved it and had so much fun. It was a huge snow storm (our power was out for a good 5 hours) but as typical Utah weather goes it was melted by the next afternoon!

We always said McCall could choose to get her ears pierced once she was 8, which came and went with out her wanting to do it -- fine by us -- the later the better. But she came to us a couple weeks ago and asked if she could, so over Spring Break we headed out to get it done. This was the second ear and she was smiling so that was a good sign! She has followed the instructions for care PRECISELY, three times a day and hundreds of cotton balls later (one ball in front one behind with the cleaner and fresh set for each ear... that makes 4 per cleaning session, 12 per day for 6 weeks... no wonder my waste basket seems to be full so often!)

I snapped a quick pic of the girls with their Easter eggs as they were dying them... They love it so much I thought maybe we should start dying them for other holidays as well -- why do it just once a year!? Of coarse, we love egg sandwiches and never have a problem eating up hard boiled eggs. (I always am a bit concerned about McCall unzipping her lunch at school to the pungent smell of an egg sandwich!)

It was rainy and kind of cold but we headed out to the "circle" for our annual neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt! I always think we'll head out to one of the big organized egg hunts but you just can't beat the convenience of walking next door! The Bedier's arranged it this year... we really have the nicest neighborhood. It makes a huge difference to have such nice people around and to have such awesome youth for your kids to watch and to grow up with.