Easter

Alissa and Benjamin


More Grandkids


Landon and Gabby


Kylie


All the baskets lined in a row and Grandma and Grandpa Simons' house


Landon and Kylie checking out what they got.


Landon loves his new book


Kylie is excited to play with her new book.


Doesn't Tannen look thrilled?

We had a great Easter. We have the Easter bunny come early on Friday night. We got to spend the night at Grandma and Grandpa Simons' house and got to play with cousins Joshua, Adam, Mason and Aubrey. They had a fabulous time. As always there was chocolate hidden through out the house in the morning, and everyone had a great time looking for it. After presents Grandma made a great breakfast. I think that was the only thing my kids ate that was nutritious (maybe a roll at dinner).

After breakfast we headed over to Grandpa David and Grandma Vernae's house. We had more cousins to play with Benjamin, Naomi, Gabby, Gavin, Abby, Aleah, Ryan, Clayton, Corinne, and Alissa. Plus Great Grandma and Grandpa Woodbury were there as well. We had an Easter egg hunt with all the kids. The kids got to play for a while and then we headed on over to Rochelle's house. We had our traditional Easter dinner, Ham and Potatos. Plus we had Oreo Treat and Cheesecake for dessert - My mom and Justin's birthday request. The kids got to hang out and play some more. Then by the end of Saturday my kids ended up getting sick so we headed on home.

On Easter Sunday it was pretty low key. Marcus stayed home with the kids from Church. I went and really enjoyed the quite time in Sacrament Meeting. Then I was a sub for Sunbeams. They are so cute. For the rest of the day we just hung out.

Easter Egg Hunt

Measuring Up

Landon loves to measure against me to see how tall he is. He has been doing this for a couple of years and I think he started around my belly button. A few days ago he wanted to measure. After placing my hand to where the top of his head landed he stepped back and said "Look I'm as tall as your milk."

Tannen's Blessing

Landon, Marcus, Tannen, and Kylie


Kylie, Wendi, Tannen, and Landon


Kylie, Tannen, and Landon

We blessed Tannen on Sunday. We were able to have a lot of our family come and visit. Grandma Simons bought him the cutest blessing outfit, and made him a beautiful white blanket. We had a huge snow storm and I felt pretty bad about having family travel though it. Marcus gave him a beautiful blessing. My sister wrote down notes of it for me. Since I use this as a journal I will share it.

Marcus blessed him with health and strength. That Tannen will grow to be a righteous son of God. That he would have the spirit and learn the things of God. For him to be an example, and stand in holy places. To listen to his family so they can teach him and that God and his family loves him. To look to his family for guidance.

Family that were able to be in the circle were Great Grandpa Simons, Grandpa Simons, Grandpa David, Brendon, Grant, Christopher, and Matthew.

I really enjoyed the day. We reserved our club house since we are in an apartment and can't fit 40 people in here. But they ended up double booking it. I was quite upset, and was glad Marcus was there to deal with it. We waited about a half and hour and the other group cleared out and we were able to have our luncheon. We had rolls and made sandwiches out of them with salads, and desserts. It was very good and I am so grateful for such a wonderful family to support and love us.

Kimberly was able to take a ton of pictures. I will post them when I get them from her. I was very excited to get a four generation picture of my Simons' Boys. Marilyn was telling me that they only have four Simons' Grandsons out of five sons. And I provide half of them ;o).

You're Fat

So the kids have been on a cartwheel kick lately. Landon has decided he wants to know how to do one. Today they were practicing again during Marcus' lunch break. We were all sitting on the couches watching the kids practice. (I feel sorry for the people below us.) They have gotten really pretty good. Kylie finally figured it out today a little before Landon. He was feeling a little bad about it, but Marcus gave him some pointers and he also figured them out. Marcus decided that he was going to show them a cartwheel. And Kylie said "I think you can do one because you are fat". We busted up laughing. By the way Marcus and I both can still do cartwheels.

The Perfect Night

Last night Tannen fell asleep around 10:00pm and I went to bed around 11:00pm. He slept until 6:30am. It was heaven. I am surprised he slept for 8 1/2 hours. I felt like I had two huge bag of rocks attached to my chest, and the little stinker wouldn't latch on but just played around for about 5 minutes. After I finished feeding him he went back to bed and so did I. Kylie came in and woke me up at 8:00, I ate breakfast with her, and was finally able to work out. I haven't been able to because Tannen doesn't like me to put me down much. Tannen woke up when I had ten minutes left to finish exercising (8:45) , but Kylie was able to get him for me, and I was able to finish. I would take a night and morning like that any day.