Easter 2010

We had a great Easter this year! We got together with a bunch of families the Friday before and had an Easter egg hunt and played Easter games at a park in our neighborhood. The kids had a lot of fun and Stephen is proud to have dominated the egg toss. He did regret smashing a confetti-filled egg on my head when I got him back with one though. :) We enjoyed watching conference on TV and then went to my mom's house for Easter dinner on Sunday. We had a delicious turkey and ham dinner that my wonderful mom made. The kids enjoyed spending time with their cousins and I just loved the cute rice crispy eggs I made for dessert! Then we had another Easter egg hunt with the kids. Needless to say they have more than enough candy than they know what to do with.

Sweet Deals

I've decided to try couponing lately. These are a few pictures of my deals from shopping tonight. They aren't my best deals ever but I figured I would brag anyway. A few weeks ago I got $95 worth of groceries for $39! That was probably my best yet. I also got my Toy Story and Toy Story 2 blu-ray/dvd combo packs for $6.99 each last week! PLUS they came with free movie tickets to see Toy Story 3!! So pretty much I made money off these movies! I know there are better deals out there but come on, I practically live in Mexico so I gotta work with what I've got. I've got to start getting the Sunday paper...

At full price this would have cost $85.16 but I got it for $38.67. (This was at Target) Note my cute shopping companion!

At full price this would have cost $49.17 but I got it for $15.24. May not seem like all that great of a deal to you but I'm proud!!!

Spring Training Game

My mom and I went to a D Backs spring training game a week or so ago. It was really fun but I realize now that I didn't get any pictures with my mom!!! Sorry Mom!!

Follow the Prophet

Today Bailey spent the morning pushing her stroller around the house while she sang, "Follow the prophet, follow the prophet, he knows the waaay..." It was worth crying over. She is so good at memorizing. Especially songs. I hadn't taught her this song yet so it lets me know she is paying attention in primary too! Bailey has always wanted me to sing songs to her before she goes to bed at night. She used to make me sing every single song I knew before she'd go to sleep but now I limit her to just 3 songs. Sometimes she suckers me in for second verses though. I just love this girl and I love that she already knows to follow the prophet!

My crazy girls

Rodeo Weekend

I was really bummed that we weren't going to have Ethan at all over Rodeo break because he was going out of town with his mom....so we decided it was a good time for a girls weekend! I had my 3 nieces over for a sleepover on Wednesday night. We had root beer floats and did fun girly stuff. My mom came and spent the night too because the next morning she and I took all the girls to the rodeo parade.

The parade was pretty lame at best. I've gone almost every year with my mom and this was definitely the most uneventful ever. We went over an hour early and still had nowhere to sit but the worst was that we were the only English speakers there. And I kid you not, there were foreigners singing their national anthem and selling cheap garbage on the sidewalks like you were in the middle of Noggie. There were more Mexican flags than American, the mormon batallion has dwindled to only a few members and my high school's band didn't even show! It's sad becuase we've really enjoyed going over the years but I'm thinking this is the last year that we'll go. My mom said this could be the last year they even do the parade, I said no, it's just the last year before they start doing it on Cinco De Mayo!

On Friday night I had a softball game and a bridal shower and then we had another girls night with all the nieces at my sister's house. All 5 girls and my sister and I did hair curlers, nail polish, makeup, ice cream, marshmallows, movies and had lots of fun. My girls were so excited to be in on the fun even though they were the littlest ones there. Bailey thought she was so cool hangin with the big kids.

"I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived."

— Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Ditto for me.