Easter

As a full disclaimer, I am posting about Easter two months late. I've had a hard time keeping up with all of the daily life requirements and blogging has kind of fell to the wayside. So if I am missing some pertinent details in this post you can blame my two month old memory. We didn't have any visitors this Easter, so things were kept relatively simple. We dyed eggs and I found a monster egg dying kit this year. So the boys were able to get creative with eyeballs, wings, tails, and spines. While they didn't fit back in the egg carton very well, they were some of the most ferocious eggs we've ever seen. 

Our ward did a fun run and an Easter egg hunt at the park nearby. The boys each ran a mile, and somehow the girls wriggled out of it. The boys came home with the Junior and Senior Primary boy prizes for the fastest time, so it was really the girls' loss.  

We are also had an egg hunt there at the park. I couldn't believe how many eggs the boys had in their baskets. I had hoped that none of them were the ones I donated. I remembered the night before that I needed to bring 12 eggs for each kid, and I didn't have time to run to the store to get new candy. I found some candy in the basement and loaded up the eggs with that. Cambrie was helping me stuff them and snuck a couple pieces for herself. We both decided it was some of the oldest and grossest candy we had ever eaten. I figured that I was doing the other parents a favor. If the candy taste awful then the kids wouldn't want to eat it. I'm really saving the parents a huge headache. 

Picnic breakfast friends.

Church for us this year starts bright and early at 8:30, so we didn't do any Easter festivities before we left. When we got home they kids were still dressed in their Easter duds, just a little more rumpled than they were before we left for church that morning. I still think they looked incredible.

They all participated in the scavenger hunt around the house. I don't even think there any major mistakes this year as they solved each clue. Perhaps they are growing wiser. 

Ultimately they found their baskets in the boys' bedroom closet. I'm shocked they were able to find them at all in there, since the room was such a disaster! 

Later that afternoon we had our own egg hunt in the backyard. By some miracle each kid found all 12 of their eggs. It was really windy so we didn't hide many eggs up high in the trees since.  The wind was the kids' ally this year as it blew a lot of their eggs out into the open from where they were hiding.

We also learned that Moki loves Easter eggs! We hid some treats in eggs for him, and he would sniff them out and was able to crack the eggs open. As soon as he learned how to pop them open he was unstoppable, and we had to keep all straight eggs away from him. He discovered he liked devouring the plastic eggs as much as he liked to devouring the treats that were inside. It was fun to add him to our Easter celebrations this year.

Soccer so far

Tis the season for spring soccer.  Even though my soccer seasons have gradually become crazier and busier over the years, this season has been surprisingly manageable.  First of all, Daxton chose not to play, which means I have two less practices and one fewer game each week.  Secondly, Cambrie is playing for Legacy which simplifies everything, because she can walk to and from practice, and her games are during the week instead of on Saturdays.  Tryouts for the Legacy team were absolutely terrifying and she almost didn't make it to the field for those.  But at the last minute she literally gritted her teeth and marched to the car for tryouts.  It was intense and terrifying (for all of us!) but she made the team!  She is playing with their C team and is so proud.  The other girls on her team are really good, and she has proven she is just as good as they are.  Watching their games is incredible.  Jeremy said that it's like they're playing actual soccer for the first time.  Their positions, their passing, their skill, their strength, and their technical knowledge is awesome.  Not only is her team really great on their field, but they're also great off the the field.  In the hallways during school they pass high fives, jokes, and greetings.  Cambrie says they are some of the friendliest girls she's ever met and now she understands a little of what Jeremy and I were trying to tell her about high school and high school sports.  She comes home from practice each day so buoyed up and happy.  I couldn't have hoped for a better outcome.  I haven't wanted to embarrass her by taking pictures on the sidelines while she's still developing her friendships, so I only have one picture from the field, and one that I borrowed from the team photographer.  Hopefully I get more pictures of her smiles this season. 

Kelton and his team are still working on shaking off the winter rust, but this last game of his was awesome.  Kelton was keeper for the first half of the game and managed to make five saves.  This in and of itself was a huge accomplishment.  But once he was put into play on the field the second half, he scored two goals!  It's been awhile since he's connected with the net and he felt like a rock star. 

 These boys play their hearts out each game.  

I love being a soccer mom.

Mokinator

Here's an update on our little Mokinator.  We are loving him.   Honestly the boys love him more than I expected.  The best way to wake them up in the morning is to simply open their door.  Moki will dash in, leap onto their bed, and lick them to death until they get up. His good morning greetings are definitely the most energetic good morning we've ever experienced.  He will greet each of us with the same enthusiasm when we come downstairs, licking, jumping, and running around like a crazy dog.  

One afternoon Daxton was trying to teach him how to play Sum Swamp.  I am shocked Moki hasn't chewed on more of their toys.  

This is his favorite way to gnaw on his own toys, completely upside down with the toy balanced in his mouth.  If he can get the squeaker positioned just right he'll just lay there and squeak endlessly.  

his makes me chuckle.  Just when I thought he had mirrors figured out, he sat in front of my mirror while I chatted on the phone, and growled at his reflection.  Silly dog.  

One afternoon Jeremy and I were doing yardwork, spreading fill dirt in the backyard.  Moki has never had the chance to dig in dirt like this before and he went wild!  He spread each pile much more efficiently than both Jeremy and I.

  Unfortunately the price of that crazy afternoon was a bath!  

Needless to say he prefers dirt to baths.

#GeneralConference

Saturday was busy with soccer games, so we were only able to sit down together as a family to watch the Sunday sessions of General Conference.  Moki has decided that he really likes it when the rest of us make beds and comfy places there in the family room.  He'll cuddle with anything fuzzy.  I didn't hear any complaints from Cambrie about watching conference this way.  

Towards the end of the afternoon session we may or may not have had some wiggles.  I know not all of our General Conference sessions will look like this in the future, and I love that they look like this right now.  Isn't my family amazing?