EASTER

WARNING: This post is in reverse.

I did not have the time or energy to rearrange all of the pictures.

Happy Easter to all of you. We spent the weekend with family. The kids love to dye eggs, roll eggs, eat eggs and be with cousins. We hope that all of you had a wonderful Easter.

Our family Easter picture. I would have to say that Grandma and Grandpa's front yard is a tradition. Taking pictures with everyone after church or a big event is very common.

Mom and Dad.

Tricia and Darren's family.

The grandkids that were at Grandma's for Easter.

Looking at their goodies in each of their baskets.

Bailey's basket.

Paige's basket.

Gannon's first Easter.

Grandpa sat with Gannon one evening while I was helping with dinner and fed Gannon. I was very grateful.

We all went to Hendricks Park and rolled Easter eggs. These are my girls.

Madalyn and Taylor rolling themselves down the hill.

Matt organized an egg toss that one of the kids thought of. It was very fun. Carter and Hannah had the magic touch.

Bailey and Katelyn with their eggs!

Hayden's broken egg.

Tricia always helps me with Gannon and he loves her very much.

One, Two, Three GO.

Paige wearing the coat that every grandchild has worn. Isn't she a cutie!!

The children waited patiently for us adults to give them the green light.

Mom and Dad had watched the kids while I went to Utah, so I bought Dad a BYU shirt. He looked mighty fine.

Friends!

This weekend, I flew to Utah to be with Gina. We have been friends for 15 years! Our friendship is one of the greatest blessings in my life. I love her very much. I also love her children very much. I have watched all of them grow and become amazing people. When Gina and I are together we talk for hours, laugh, eat, cry, watch TV and we get a little bit of sleep!! This time I took Gannon with me. Almost all of the kids have traveled to Utah with me to visit Gina. He did a wonderful job. Gina's kids loved seeing him and treated him like their little brother. Friends are one of the greatest blessings in life.

This is Gina's 2nd oldest Elizabeth.

Madalyn and Elizabeth were born about 3 1/2 months apart.

We went to Rachel's soccer game in Orem. It was at a gorgeous day and pretty location with cherry blossoms in the back drop and the beautiful Utah mountains. We took a nice walk around the fields before the game started.

Gannon loved Gina very much.

He would reach out for her in the morning and when we would be out and about. It brought me great joy seeing Gannon love her so much!

Gina and I

She is the best friend that everyone would ever want.

This is Rachel, Tyler and Adam.

They are wonderful children.

Gina and Ken have done an amazing job raising them.

Rach and Gannon.

Tyler and Gannon had a special bond.

Tyler worried about Gannon when he would cry and he was very loving.

This is Adam.

Gannon and I at the soccer game.

Gina's friends let us borrow strollers for the 5 days. This stroller was a double stroller and was awesome! It glided all around. We always make great memories when we are together. See you all in a year!

Paige turns 4

My youngest daughter is officially 4 years old. Oh, how we love her and all she brings to our family. She wanted to go to Grandma's house to celebrate her birthday with her cousins. We all packed up and headed down south to watch general conference and have a party for Paige. She was so excited about the kitchen being decorated that she would not fall asleep on Friday night. Saturday morning we thought that she would want Cal's doughnuts for breakfast. She said that she wanted pancakes instead. As adults we were shocked and had Matt and Dad do a doughnut run anyway!! We watched both sessions of conference and then we had a little party for Paige. She got the Tangled Tower and doll, Tangled books, Tangled movie and an outfit. Paige thinks that she looks like Tangled and she loves the movie, so she was all Tangled out for her birthday! Happy Birthday my little Paigey.

Eating pancakes on Saturday morning!

Grandma making her famous pancakes in the kitchen.

Matt, Jeff, Gannon and William.

Saturday was the final 4 and so the Krebs family was decked out in Kentucky apparel.

Father and son.

While we played games, Gannon sucked on a sucker. He loved it.

The spanking machine.

Everyone lined up youngest to oldest and Paige scrambled through the tunnel of spanking.

Go Paige!

Carter be nice.

All of the cousins watching Paige open her presents.

The movie Tangled.

Uncle Jeff showing Paige her Tangled doll.

Tangles Tower.

The whole crew.

Aunt Tricia made a beautiful castle cake for Paige.

Paige in her new outfit from Jeff and Ashlee.

Blowing out the candles.

Gannon's new favorite toy.

"Madalyn, where are you going to put that dollar?"

On her official birthday we had a little party with 3 of her friends. The 3 friends were boys and they graciously wore a princess crown. We played bingo, pin the tail on the donkey and the candy game.

Princess Paige

Pin the tail on the donkey.

The candy game!

Paige's gift from Ethan. A Pillow Pet!

Ryan gave her sunglasses, bubbles and coloring book.

We bought her the Tangled soundtrack. Paige loves to sing, When will my life begin?.

Truthfully Tangled is one of my favorite movies and I was excited to hear the music all through our house.

Blowing out her birthday candles.

Grandma and Grandpa came from Eugene.

Paige loves her grandparents.

After everyone left Paige's party, we started to put kids to bed and began working feverishly on Carter's science project. He wanted to know if all brands of bubble gum blow the same size of bubble. It was due today. What a night.

This was the final display that Carter did with the help of Matt and I.

He gave Matt & I big thank you hugs.

Carter loves his dad. Matt is very creative and made this project look even better. Good luck Carter! He will be displaying it at school on Thursday.