Easter!! and the Cats.

So we had lots of plans for spring break and NONE of them worked out!!!  It started as we were headed to the slot on Friday, but dad couldn't get off work, its a six hour drive and he, mom, and jen would end up driving home Saturday afternoon right after the big hike.  PLUS it was supposed to be horrible weather and we'd be camping.  So we decided if they are driving 12 hours they might as well just come to Junction and stay an extra night, in doors. Dustan also had a couple FINAL projects for his Masters Program due.  My heart was broken a little because I was absolutely Stoked about slots but oh well, why make every one suffer for me.
So instead, I planned out Saturday to the Max!  Carters baseball game started at 8:00 and this way everyone could come watch him play!  After we would pack up lunches snacks and an Easter candy bag for every one and go hiking, picnic, and then our  traditional hunt!  and for dinner, fire pit in the back yard with tin foil dinners and Smoore :)
Guess what!  IT RAINED!!!!!  The whole stinking day!  We did get to hide Easter candy bags in the yard and made it impossible for Jennee and their friends to find theirs, But they all still had a BLAST!  Even though they all were sad about the hike.  My kids expecially LOVE hiking.  And even though the sprinkling never stopped, Grandpa and Dustan lit a fire anyway for the kids :)  With those two event and a day full of card games, I have to say it turned out REALLY GOOD!  I LOVE EASTER!  Sunday my parents left and we went to church with Dustans family, which was really nice because everyone was there.  After church we stayed at his parents the rest of the day and we hid and re-hid the eggs that they dyed over and over and over!  Its seriously their favorite thing to do!

Chasee's Easter bag was under all these bricks by the play house... Carter "helped" her find it.

Carters bag was hidden in these plants... heck Im surprised he even found it ;)

Its raining again...

Ha ha, this is Jennee's friend Kenna, we hid her bag in the tree bark and covered it with more bark!  We had to give her Loads of hints and play "hot and cold" so she could find it :)

Kody found his fast but he had to climb high to get it! My daddy is holding Chasee's cat 'Fuzzy', he is seriously the stupidest cat in the world!  not kidding, and the clumsiest thing, but by far the most tolerant and loving one I have ever seen, the kids burry it and dump grass on it, haul it every where they go.  And he LOVES every second of it.

Jennee got a boo boo trying to get hers! ha ha!

My dad hid theres in the grill for  my moms to find.  She would pose for the camera!

This is 'Camo'!  Carters cat!  He just LOVES Carter!  can be so flippin onry with me but is so protective over every member of the family!   It is so funny.  Carter is outside playing everyday, rain, wind, snow, or sunshine, and this cat is always at his side.  The other day me and Ryker were out side and Ryker started crying, Camo popped up, ran over to him to check on him and Ryker stopped crying (he is so interested in the cats) once Camo saw he was ok, he turned around to go lay back down.  Ryker started crying again, when he saw the cat was leaving, and Camo came right back.  Then the other day we walked over to the neighbors and they have a cute hyper little black lab puppy, and it starter to follow and jumping up trying to play with Chasee.  Chasee is scared of most dogs, never this one till now, it scared her to death!  She thought he was attacking her or something, so she started running in circles, crying and screaming, while it thought she was playing, Camo heard her screaming, ran over and attacked the dog!!!  Funniest thing I have ever seen!  Best protector ever!!

Kenna, Jennee, Kody and Chasee and their bags of yummy candy!.  (he is so good with the kids- they adore him) Carter ran off to play with the cats in the rain.

Beautiful Baby Ryker!

He is only 5 months old and army skoots all over this house!  For some reason he is attracted to cords!  He is nuts :)

Dinosaur Museum

Carter and Chasee LOVE the Dinosaur Museum!  It is there favorite place to go other than bananas!  This last time they got to take Owen, one of Carters best friends.  They had so many activities and events going on, it was so much fun!  They even had LIVE birds!  Huge parrots and all.  I learned that they found T-Rex DNA in a chicken!

The actual size of a Dinosaur egg.

That blue Parrot was HUGE!

At first the kids were a little nervous of this parrot BUT before we left Chasee asked if she could give him a giant hug!  It was cute.

This is where they got to pick a skeleton of their favorite dinosaur and cover it with clay for the skin.  For some reason Carter decked his out in feathers and Chasee put stars all over her.  My creative babies :)

Ryker had to eat half way through!  He LOVES his food ;)

They have an robot dinosaur that spits water out of his mouth... the spitter dinosaur.

And here he is!

This is the first time Chasee dared get even close.

Just waiting for the spit.

Earthquake simulator.

the size of a Brachiosaur heart!

Dinosaur foot prints

UTAH RAPTOR SKULL!!

This dinosaur was found in Furita on Dinosaur Hill.  (the kids make us go hiking up the all the time) Discovered by Elmer Riggs in the year 1900.

BASEBALL!!! part 1

Carter has absolutely LOVED baseball!  He now hits the ball everytime he is up!  He has had two black eyes and not the least bit scared of the ball! He is on a young team and they are 1-5, but he doesn't care!  They are learning tonz and having a blast! Gooooooo Dodgers!

Thats our BOY!!

 Black Eye x 2

Ryker has yet to fuss durring a game.

First Base!

Left Field

Dad helps coach the team

FLY BALL! 

HOME!

Pitcher

Line Drive to left!  It was such a beautiful hit!!!

On second!

He has made such incredible improvement already this year!  We are so proud of him!

That our BOY!

Scrimage!

Saturday, Carter had his first (practice) game. He is so excited to play machine pitch this year! We put him in a little early but he got too bored in tee ball :) He plays for the Dodgers and is number 5. Both Jennee's softball and Jaces baseball number, and he loves that he shares in this. Today he caught a ball while playing outfeild, and hit 3/4 times hes was up. (all foul balls but his bat was too heavy) Were hoping to get him a new bat this year.

 Carter sitting down the last inning. Poor kid!  1 1/2 hrs. is a long time for a kid to be playing a game at 6.

Batter UP!

Batting line up!

SPRING BREAK!

We had a blast this year for Spring Break! We stayed here in Colorado and spent the whole week together as a family. Went on hikes almost everyday. Banana's, the movies, and even a treasue hunt!