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So much to catch up on… Here is a few things we have been up to the last few months.

 

Brad and Kami are officially engaged. He popped the question on Friday February 4th. Welcome to our crazy family Kami!

Such a cute couple

Her bling

 

**MIKE GOT HIS MISSION CALL**

 

 

Everyone’s guess

 

the verdict is….

Warsaw Poland!!!

 

Love this picture.

 

Elder Raines left to the MTC on April 18th, we are so proud of him and lucky he is part of our family. 

Ash and Mikey

 

Mike made Ash a replacement while he is gone. 

 

We have had a fun couple of months.  We went bowling with Melissa, Kambree and Braelee. 

 

 

 

 

Braelee, Kambree, Carson and Sean

Playing in the arcade

 

**Lady A Concert**

We had a ladies night, and had a BLAST!

Kami, Ash and me

 

**Crazy hair day at school for Sean**

 

 

**St. Patrick’s Day**

The trail of chocolate coins

 

The crazy leprechaun used our toliet

 

Sean thought it was pretty funny

 

Carson didn’t know what to think

 

Their loot

 

**Shower for Chelsee and baby Scout**

Chelsee came to Utah for a shower for her and baby Scout, can’t wait to meet my cute niece!

 

The Snider girls

 

**Easter**

We had a fun Easter, the weather was amazing!! The day before we went to the Herriman Easter egg hunt and to Tommy’s parents and my parents. My parents had a fun treasure hunt for the boys.  We only went to grandma Tschaggeny’s for Easter this year, it was weird to only go to one house, we usually have 3 or 4 to visit on holidays.  The boys had so much fun dying Easter eggs. The night before Easter we left milk and carrots out for the bunny.  The next morning the boys had to find the hard boiled eggs outside, he hid eggs with money in them upstairs, eggs with candy in them down stairs, and he led them on a treasure hunt to find their baskets.  Such a fun day!

 

 

**Fun with Dad**

I had to run a few errands one night and left the boys home with dad and came home to a fort in the middle of our living room. The boys love to build forts with daddy.  When he is not home, they want me to help them build one, but I just can not make them like dad can. 

 

 

**Zoo**

We took advantage of our beautiful spring weather and made a trip to the zoo with grandma.

 

 

 

 

The poor giraffe was trying sooo hard to get the one last leaf on the tree.

That is one looong tongue!!

The day would no be complete without a churro!

 

**Back Yard**

We have been busy working on my parents backyard. Well… Tommy and my dad have been busy on the yard, we have be busy playing

Playing with the rocket blasters

 

Carson did not have a bucket, so he used his shoe.

 

 

After a long hard day, pop-great is giving Carson a ride.

 

I recently got put in as 1st counselor in the Young Women's. I absolutely LOVE it!!  Life has been crazy busy, but I would not change it for a second.  I am so lucky to be a wife and a mom to my 2 sweet, amazing, energetic loves of my life!

Rhino Rally

 

Tommy and his two friends Marty and Tim signed up for a desert race on their dirt bikes in St. George on February 25th.  Tommy has rode a dirt bike a few times before, but this was a 45 mile race in the desert, but he was excited to give it a try and gain some experience. I was even more excited for some warmer weather, which the weather was BEAUTIFUL, it was in the high 60’s.  It was so fun that all 3 families were able to go for some fun in the sun.  We left early Friday afternoon, thankfully no car problems this time.  Our 2 other friends Brewster’s our neighbors and Christensen’s our old neighbors left different times later Friday evening, so we all just met up Saturday morning at the race.  Marty did pick up Tommy from our hotel Saturday morning since the men had to be there around 8:30.  The boys and I got ready for the day and decided to take advantage of the beautiful morning and find a park to play until we had to be to the race to see the men take off. 

   

Riding scooters at the park

 

 

 

I was not 100% sure where the race was, we did scope the spot out the night before, but we didn’t go to the actual spot where the race would start.  So me and the boys headed on the dirt road in my little car (and yes I had to blast Jason Alden’s Dirt Road Anthem “Chilling on the dirt road”) as we did a little 4- wheeling of our own.  After what seemed like forever on the dirty, dusty, bumpy road in the middle of no where we finally pulled in to a crazy, crowed “parking lot” that was jammed packed with trucks, motorcycles and yes even a few cars. I was so nervous of where to park, because I was afraid I was going to get us stuck in the dirt, I was able to squeeze my way in between a couple of trucks, of course as far as way as possible from where Tommy parked.  Oh well… we made it, the men had to get to their riders meeting so we quickly made it to the truck in enough time for Tommy to get his riding gear on and stuff his face with a few Doritos before taking off.  Seth and Michelle had been at the race all morning so we went with them to where we could see the men leave.  Alissa and her kids were a little behind us and still trying to find a spot to park.  Well after all that rushing the race ended up being delayed for and hour (we are still not sure why) So during the delay the kids had fun playing with the lizard the kids named Mary that I saw and Seth caught. 

Getting ready to ride

Marty

Tim

Tommy

Headed to the riders meeting

All lined up and ready to ride

Kids patiently waiting for them to start

Mary the lizard

Silly boy

Carson, Seth, Powell and Sean

It was the weirdest lizard ever, it did not try and run. The kids were able to take turns holding it

 

 

Tommy is in the middle on the blue bike, Marty, then Tim

Seth LOVED the lizard, it just chilled in his pocket for hours, he may or may not have snuck him in his dad’s truck so he could take him home. 

Rhino Rally, sorry for the shaky video :)

After the men took off we went and ate some lunch since we would not see them again for 2 hours or so.  Alissa’s parents live in St. George and they came to watch the race and they were so sweet to make us all lunch.

Lunch time

 

After lunch we decided to go back to Alissa’s parents house for a little brake then Alissa’s mom was going to take us on a hike to see some petroglyphs.  The kids had fun running around in the back yard for a little bit, then we hopped back in the car for a hike. 

 

 

 

 

Alissa’s mom showing us all the petroglyphs

 

Carson looking at all the pictures

 

 

 

Powell, Seth, Kiarra, Carson, Georgya, Sean

 

Carson had so much fun with Kiarra

Such a beautiful view

 

After a fun afternoon we went back to Alissa’s parents house for a yummy dinner of pork burritos followed by a delicious dessert.  Tim, Michelle and Seth left shorty after to get back to Hurricane where they were staying with her grandma.  Alissa’s parents were so generous and sweet to let us stay with them the second night (they had a full house with other guest the night before, otherwise we would have stayed both nights)  We all got in our pj’s and watched a movie.  Surprisingly after a long day no one fell asleep during the movie.  Boy did we all sleep good that night though.  The next morning we all woke up to breakfast on the table from Alissa’s parents.  We got ready for the day, helped clean up the house and decided to go to Snow Canyon for a hike before heading back home.  

 

 

*Snow Canyon*

We went for a hike on the lava rock trail, we found some really fun caves to explore

 

Carson and Powell

 

 

Sean and daddy ready to explore the cave

 

In the cave

Love the amazing colors of rock

 

Alissa, Sean and Georgya

 

Sean and Carson loved climbing on the rocks

 

We had such a fun weekend with our 2 great friends, can’t wait for some more fun adventures this summer!!