A special Easter

We had an unexpected change of plans for Easter this year.  Jon's grandpa Joe passed away, so we went to Utah to attend the services.  It was nice to be with family, and Easter was a good time to celebrate the grandpa Joe's life.  We had fun catching up with cousins, and doing all the traditional Easter activities.  

Happy Birthday to Carley!

My little one is a year old.  Carley decided to start full on walking about 1 1/2 weeks before her birthday.  She was taking steps for a couple months so it was funny to see her just all the sudden start walking all over the place.  Even though she didn't open many presents, she had a great time with her cake.  She even blew out the candle by herself, impressive if you ask me.  She started grabbing frosting as soon as she saw the cake, and then mutilated it in her high chair.  I think she sat there for about 30 minutes and pretty much finished the whole thing.  It was fun for everyone to watch.

Brianhead

Last weekend we went on the best vacation ever, thanks to my friend Missy, who organized the whole thing.  We went to Brianhead with our friends the Underwoods, and took the kids skiing for the first time.  They went to ski school the first day, so us parents had a free day and explored the mountain.  Jon and I were on snowboards and I was worried I was not going to remember how to do anything, but thanks to my sister's awesome board, I was back to normal in no time.  The second day we went with the kids.  They improved so much in just two days, although Tanner needed some help, but was pretty brave.  I actually had to go pretty fast to keep up with him.  We had a couple traumatic moments with him not being able to climb up the hill, having to go to the bathroom, and knocking me down every time we got off the chair lift.  We decided that we need to make this trip an annual tradition, but it has to be in March, (I don't think we could handle the weather any sooner).