April 2014

Easter, a trip to Yellowstone and Josh's 34th birthday were the highlights of April!

So I believe the first thing was Josh's birthday on the 18th. He chose to go out to see the movie "Captain America" with his cousin, Devin, and his wife, Charm (and me of course! haha). We love hanging out with them. You know how sometimes it is hard to find a couple to hang out with that everyone actually gets along? Like the guys get along, the girls get along, and it's fun for all? Devin and Charm are that couple for us! We are even planning a trip to DisneyWorld with their family (they have three kids) next Spring. I am already counting down the days!
Anyway, so we went to see the movie and ate dinner at Rumbi Island grill. It was a fun time!

The next thing was probably Easter - but we actually went to Yellowstone ON EASTER Sunday! (We skipped Church, how horrible, huh? Even the Catholics make it a point to go to church on Easter!!! Haha Just kidding there Gramps, I know you go every Sunday….) So we wanted to go that day because it was opening weekend and it was therefore FREE!!! We saw some buffalo but no bears or anything to exciting. Then we went to see Old Faithful and we ate a little "car picnic lunch". There was still a ton of snow there, so we didn't have the picnic on a blanket in a meadow like I had been envisioning. (You always build things up a little more in your head, you know?)

For our actual Easter celebrations, we did do a little egg hunt with the kids on Saturday at the church. Me and some of the neighbors (Brittaini - yes that's how she spells her name - Millner and her family, our new neighbor, Jesse and her husband and two kids, and Boyters were in attendance.) We hid enough for each kid to find 20 eggs, so it sure beats the city egg-hunt where you are lucky if you get one!! I vowed never to go back to one of those hunts after the first years we moved back to Idaho and Caleb left crying, with no eggs. :( So sad.

Then we headed up to Josh's parents' house for their little Easter egg hunt and cook-out. With 20 kids involved, that one actually goes pretty fast too!
On Easter morning, the Easter Bunny came and left out kids a little treasure hunt again - but this time in each egg, there was a little rhyme telling them they had to do something before finding their next clue!
In one they had to do jumping jacks, in another it was push-ups, they really got their morning workout!!
Then the three baskets were finally found in the backseat of the van. They had a lot of good car food goodies, like crackers, juice boxes, and fruit snacks, which they took with them as we made out drive to Yellowstone.
It was a pretty fun Easter!