St George Spring Break

Sissy and kids came from Portland for spring break, and Marnie, Lauren, Candy and Sissy took the 7 little kids to St. George to stay in Marnie's inlaws fabulous St. George home for 4 days. We took 7 little kids under 6 hiking to Zions and Snow Canyon, tons of swimming, total playing. We had a wonderful time, the kids were great, and super hikers and climbers.

This is what Jack does home alone!!

Happy Birthday Big Daddy!

Today is Big Daddy Brian's birthday!! Happy Birthday Dad!! You said you had a great day doing EXACTLY what you wanted!! Hope so!! We love you and are all proud to call you our dad! Hope you had a great day!!

Love Marnie

ok everybody!! Lets get a post in here and tell the big man how much we love him!!

ps.. Sorry no pictures, I have none with me and am in Florida. I will put some up when I get home.

Sun Valley

going to the cabin was great overall, but we definitely had to work dang hard to have fun. we had to hike through knee high snow into the cabin, which took a full 20 minutes one way. poor tim had to do 4 round trips just to bring in all of our gear. plus, the water didn't work at all, so we hauled in gallons of H2O from the store. because of the water situation derek and brett got a hotel for the two nights they were in town, which didn't surprise us one bit. the weather was beautiful while we were there though, totally sunny and not too cold during the day. claire is definitely going to be our girly girl, every time we tried to put a hat on her she said, "no, pretty hair!" and she threw the biggest fits when we put her coat on and stuck her in the backpack. she even hated sledding and getting the snow on her pants. tessa loved all of it, especially the sledding and the swing. it was a wonderful little family vacation and i think the girls had a blast in the end. love, al