Easter Sunday!

This is all the kids in their Easter Outfits before church:

And this is them actually leaving for church:Winter coats, umbrella, and rain. I think it barley broke 50 degrees yesterday. Gotta love Easter in the NW! It's usually this way. I'm glad to see that some people got sun. (Monique, so jealous of your 88 degrees!)

Mason's Basketball

Mason had his end of the season bball party tonight. He has been playing on a league with several of his friends from school. He had a great season and improved a lot this year. The coach gave out the trophies, certificate, and a necklace to each of the boys. He compared each of the boys to different NBA players. Mason's name was: Mason "LaBron (King) James" Jackson. The look on Mason's face when coach was talking about him was PRICELESS!!! I would have given anything to have a picture of it! He was so dang excited to walk up and get his trophy. I was such a proud and excited parent right then. Coach didn't even know that Mason's favorite player is LaBron James. Mason's eats, sleeps, and breaths basketball. Jon and I love going to his games. Jon couldn't stop talking to his friend Alex Friday night about how great Mason did in his game earlier that evening. We look forward to many more of his games in the future. Way to go Mas!

What a Day!

Yesterday was a jam packed day in my life! These are the things that I accomplished:
made breakfast, lunch, dinner and cleaned up
vaccuumed my entire house
swept and mopped my floor on hands & knees
ran 3 miles and taught my weight class
watched a total of nine extra kids(4 morning/5 afternoon) including 2 babies! Baby Brody & Jaron
two loads of laundry
changed diapers and wipped bums
helped with homework
went to the school book fair
read books, scriptures and put everyone to bed by myself (Jon was at ward temple night)

I am trying to make up for last week. It took me a whole week to get back into the swing of things from my vacation. Part of this is due to the fact that I was out of commission for 24 hours with the flu. The only good that came from that is that I lost the weight that I gained on my cruise! I finished my jam packed day with 2 plus hours of reality TV: Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, and my favorite Biggest Looser!

Eastern Caribbean Cruise


I finally figured out how to do a slide show so I can now post about our cruise. We went with our friends the Dustins and the Moses'. The islands we went to were Tortola, Grand Turk, St. Thomas, and an island in the Bahamas. It was so fun and relaxing. My favorite day was when we were in Grand Turk and we went surfing and body surfing. There was hardly anyone at this beach that we went to and we just had a blast! Some other fun memories were snorkeling (I especially loved Allie's reaction when she spotted a Stingray), the beautiful water & sand, the swim up bar at Margaritaville, our fun taxi drivers, my favorite dessert the cappuccino bomb, dancing, the magacian, and my massage! What a fun way to celebrate Jon's 40th birthday! Thanks for the fun memories!!!

Cruise

Post Vacation Blues!

Being on vacation was absolutely great but coming back is hard! I feel like I need about three days until I am ready to tackle life again, but that doesn't happen. We were so excited to come home to see our kids on Saturday! They were all awake when we got home so we were able to snuggle and put them to bed. By the time we got to bed we were exhausted. Not only did we have a three hour time difference but we didn't realize until that evening that we were also Springing forward our clocks! Poor Jon who had to get up for early morning church meetings!!! I'm trying to get all the laundry caught up and bills paid today! My friend Karen had my house spotless when I came home! A big thank you to her!!! I will be posting about my cruise soon, I'm trying to figure out how to do a slide show??