Kyle's New Tricks!

EASTER FUN!

Easter is such a fun holiday, colored eggs, baskets, egg hunts and yummy candy! With only two teenage boys left...well, who wants to color eggs?? Let alone hunt for them....I did get some candy though and was just going to put it out on the table or something but....Kyle was kinda wanting a basket! We alway hid them for the kids to find...and wow he really wanted to find a basket! So I quickly fixed on up and had Bryce hide it as I knew he would make it challenging!

After much searching...he did find it! Getting it down was the hard part, but he figured it out...I put both of their candy in one basket and Bryce pulled out his bunny.....

His face is gone! Guess he was on the roof a little too long....poor bunny!

SPRING BREAK!!

So Kyle and I have been counting the days down to spring break this year and really wanted to get away to ANYWHERE! Of course I said "How about Utah" and he rolled his eyes and said that's where we always go....well, its true, we started thinking about where we could go around here....the closer it got--it seemed no one really cared about going much of anywhere but ME----
My friend Terri mentioned that they were going to Lake Havasu and that we should come out and meet them! Kyle was game for that so he invited Johnny and Eli to come along and we were set to go! The Howells have a boat and also the Cranney's were going out and they have a couple of Jet Ski's so the boys were surely excited to go! Plus we were going to stay in a Condo for a couple days--pool, Jacuzzi....fun times...! We packed up and off we set, leaving Gordon and Bryce home to work. Everyone is chillin in the car with their IPODS and all of a sudden......the car is acting funny....oh no please....well, sure enough I was losing power fast and the RPM's were racing...I made it to the next exit and by the time we were off and into the gas station, smoke was pouring out of my engine....I wanted to scream and the boys were just glad there was a Wendy's across the street! Well, trying to make a long story short...I called Gordon, he left work and came up to rescue us. He was sure it was the transmission (we just bought this Honda a year ago so that we wouldn't have transmission problems...) So we packed up what we could and piled in his little car, left ours there for our good friend/mechanic Nick to come and tow home....
Needless to say the drive back home was like going home from a funeral...talk about frustration and sadness!! Our big adventure--foiled....We got back to town and I was determined we were getting out of here so I called another great friend who owns a car lot and he had a car he would let us rent for a couple days!! And after a call to the ins company making sure we were covered... Our life was saved...
In a couple of hours we were off again...much later than we had anticipated but we were leaving town!! Happy boys once again! We finally made it in to town about 10 at night and while driving through miles and miles of NOTHING I was certainly grateful we broke down where we did--it could have been way worse...We checked in to our room and the boys immedietly hit the pool and jacuzzi and I reveled in the fact that I indeed was somewhere else!! The next morning we were off on the boat for fun adventures of tubing, jumping off cliffs and jet skiing. The boys had a blast and yes, I even drove a jet ski for the fist time! It was really fun--thanks Sarah, for coaxing me to do it! Unfortunately....the camera got left under the seat of Gordon's car so we have nothing to even show of our adventure! Despite the rough start we had a great spring break getaway! Thanks Howells, Nick Snodgrass, Jeff Cranney, Mark Friebe and Gordon.....