EGGcellent Easter!

We had a most eggjoying, eggciting, eggstra fun Easter this year!

In our neck of the woods we didn't decorate eggs this year, we ate them instead!



Grammy and Papa had their annual Easter
egg hunt on Saturday. The kids had fun
running around trying to find as many as they
could,

but watch out kids...time for the "grown ups" turn! Here is where it gets intense because there is major $ involved. There is one GOLDEN EGG per couple. Each golden egg has money in it ranging from 100 bucks to 25 bucks. Plus there were 85 regular eggs, who ever collected the most regular eggs gets to go to dinner with Grammy and Papa. Side note: we are doing this with our legs tied together!

I never see Casey get more intense than in this hunt. He made me wear shoes so that we could run faster! I would say we made out good in the end:)

Lastly, here was Lane's ALMOST Easter Sunday outfit. I say almost because Casey thought he looked like a gay golfer. He has STRONG feelings that boys should not wear pink no matter how little is actually on the clothes. The shoes weren't winning him over either so back to the store it is going.

Opening Game

Since my dad took my younger siblings to conference, we scored his awesome tickets to the first
Diamond Backs game of the season!

Dan Majerle even sat a few rows in front of us

Lane, being the fan of baseball that he is, loved every minute of it! He even lucked out and got a picture with Baxter! Everybody sitting by us got such a kick out of watching him.

Another week O FUN!

For starters, Happy Birthday to the " grooviest" mom ever!
My mom/grandma (or Lanes version, mema) turned 47 on Monday.
If you are wondering why I said groovy, well you just have to know her to understand!
Growing up I always had the fun, cool mom who would roll down the car windows while driving and scream as loud as she could or that would blare loud crazy music right when you would get out of the car to get to school or that would lay loud long scratches over speed bumps on purpose and the list goes on and on! The funny thing is she STILL does all this stuff plus more! Read my sister's Stephanie's blog for more stories on this fun CRAZY women! We love you none the less
mom and should thank you for making our lives more exciting growing up!
For her birthday dinner we went to Cheesecake Factory!

I guess a few of her quirks have rubbed off on us:)

On Wednesday we cheered on the Dodgers and the Giants at a spring training game! It was a fun girl/Lane fest. Only of course we spent more time eating, talking, making fun of all the skanky girls or the old shirtless beer gut men then watching the actual game.

One of Melinda's missionary companions came from Idaho to visit. She flew in that day and said her flight was delayed because of a snow storm... I LOVE AZ!

Today we went out to Casa Grande all day where Casey's Aunt and Uncle live. We got to ride their horses, go on tractor rides, Uncle Benny made us a yummy lunch, we even watched a

movie. When Aunt Shirley got home from work we all loaded up in the Rhino to go see their neighbors brand new baby goats.

ALSO, today was another very special birthday. Grandpa or "pa" turned 48! I must say he is

pretty groovy too. I always had the fun, energetic dad who loves to surf, snowboard, ski, go hunting and many more things. Growing up he would always dedicate his Saturdays home from work to his kids. He would take us to Bashas to get doughnuts for breakfast, or go on fun long bike rides or take us to the park and play softball with us. I guess I just lucked out to have the best parents ever!

Just Because We Are Not In School...

... didn't mean that we couldn't have a fun Spring Break!! Ours was full of random FUN this year! I think everyday had something exciting in it! Here are some highlights of our week:



Tuesday we went out to the desert with my fam for some quad riding.

to IHOP we go for some din din afterwards!

On Wednesday, Marcie, Lane and I worked on getting our skin to looking off white instead of pale white.

well, I should speak for myself. Marcie and Lane are little brown bears now... I am still on the polar bear side.



Picnic at the park with cousins was our Thursday outing!

Friday evening we headed out to the River View shopping area. It kind of turned into an "animal" adventure, or our stuffed animal adventure:)

Casey needed new work boots, so we went to Shepplers where Lane and Minda got an 8 second ride on the bull!

Dinner at Famous Dave's were there was a celebrity siting!

After dinner we visited the Bass Pro Shop for our very first time.

I had heard that this place was amazing, the comments were right! I felt like I was in a million dollar lodge in Aspen Colorado. Definitely a campers, hunters, fishers paradise in there! Lane was eating up all the fish in the tanks and the wild animals that were mounted on the walls. That was not so much my favorite, I get creeped out by stuff like that.

Saturday Casey went to the dunes. Since Lane and I didn't have anything better to do, we enjoyed the nice breezy day shopping at the San Tan mall. That is our deal, when he goes to the dunes...we get to SHOP! We were good though and only had one purchase that was $8.50!

Spring Break treated us well... even if it was 90 degrees the whole week. I am a summer girl so it only made me more excited for June to come!!