A little bit of Grace for EASTER!

What better place to spend Easter than in GRACE?!
We hosted the whole Hoopes Bunch + LeGrand's Parents for a fun 5 day Easter weekend!  We ate lots of good food, Colored Easter Eggs, Celebrated Loa's Birthday with Pizza & Bowling, went on walks, hunted Easter Eggs, Shot guns, went fishing, played games, flew kites & had a lot of late nights!  The kids had a blast together and we made lots of fun memories!  Thanks to everyone for visiting us in our quiet little neck of the woods :)

 Coloring Eggs

All Tuckered out & we hadn't even hit the bowling alley yet!

Bowling & Pizza, an early B-day party for a Princess!

Late Birthday for LeGrand/ Early Birthday for Loa --both got spoiled with lots of fun gifts!

Grace Egg hunt!  Kenz even managed to get her picture in the 'Caribou County Sun' from the Egg hunt! So funny!

Easter Sunday --didn't get a picture before church, so here's an after church shot -Loa had already ditched her cute headband!

More Egg hunting! Trying to get 4 kids to look at the camera & smile - nearly impossible in our family :)  I'm lovin Avi's poses!

Flying kites, Mom was the master kite flyer

Papa on a walk with all the kids, and the dog :)

...and the rest of March!

I'm not sure where the past month and a half went, but it seems things aren't getting any slower around here :)

We celebrated St. Patty's with a visit from the Silly Leprechaun who changed our Milk green & left clover confetti everywhere ;) the kids loved the 'lucky charms' they got to go with the milk!

We had a few really nice days & LeGrand took Laex out for the first fishing trip of the summer :) there are plenty of great fishing spots near us and Laex can't wait for a summer of fishing!

At the end of March I spent a week in Utah for my last boutique, it was a ton of prepping, and a busy week full of boutique & house parties --but all the work paid off & I'm happy to be almost out of inventory and moving on to new adventures :)   While I spent time dealing with inventory & pricing the kids had a blast with the boxes!

And, the final day of March, the 31st, LeGrand celebrated his 32nd Birthday!  All he wanted was a relaxing day to do nothing --and that is just what he got!  Oh, Ya and he bought himself this bad boy...55" of entertainment ;)  I must add, we've been married nearly 10 years and this is the FIRST TV we've bought - pretty good, huh?!

RS Birthday Party!

I'm playing a little 'catch up'!
Back in March we had our RS Birthday Celebration which I themed around a 'Royal' Celebration.  Everyone wore their best hats (we had some really creative ones) we had a awesome fondue buffet, a wonderful speaker and a fun little craft.  It was a fun night!

L & L

I love watching these two love each other!  They are best buds!

Life!

Things have been a tad bit crazy around here lately :)  As an Enrichment leader I've been over the RS Birthday Party which we are having on Thursday, this calling is right down my alley & I'm excited for the 'Royal' Celebration! 
AND as if that wasn't enough --I got ANOTHER calling... {I think I've said way too many times, "We live in the middle of nowhere, what am I going to do - I'm gonna be so lonely."  Well, Heavenly Father was like, "Oh ya, I can help with that, I'll just keep you too busy to worry about yourself." :) } So now I'm getting excited (and a bit nervous) for GIRLS CAMP this year!  I loved girls camp as a youth & I hope I can do it justice as Camp Director!
We've now been in Grace, 6 months!  Some days, it feels like forever - other days I can't believe it.  We are slowly getting accustomed to the routine of a whole day shopping trip once every couple of weeks, and I'm learning to live with going days at a time without seeing anyone but the kids & LeGrand - I did find myself a workout group that I go to 3 days a week, it has been my sanity :)  I can even say we've made a few friends :)
One thing is for sure, we live in a beautiful place --the other day I looked out the window to see these guys (& gals!)