Spring Fever!

I love spring. The weather has been great the past few weeks. I am pretty sure we will still get moresnow before summer but I am enjoying the nice weather while it is here. We have been busy as usual the last few weeks. Last weekend we went to Grand Junction to get new tires on our car and see Susan and Al. Addie always has a great time at Grandma and Grandpa Slack's house. She and Grandpa are pals and she has the radar and wants to know where he is at all times. It is very cute. She spent a lot of time outside with the goldfish. She decided she wanted to catch one so she would slowly move her hand to the water and poke one finger in and then pull it out really fast and say I caught one! While Brandon and Al were out shopping for a bow and playing with Brandon's new bow Saturday, Addie and I spent the day with Susan. We played at the playland at the mall and went for a walk to the park in Palisade, the park is Addie's favorite thing right now. Trent, Jess, and Brett came down Thursday night and stayed with us for the weekend. Trent, Jess and a group of friends and family ran the Canyonlands half marathon. They had a good race and we had a fun weekend. After the race we took the kids swimming at a pool in Moab, it was about 80 degrees and it was so nice. Addie loves the pool, she calls it the waterfall and would have stayed all day if I let her. When we got out and I was getting her dressed she kept running towards the pool and would have jumped right in if I didn't get to her fast enough. that is my fearless child! Later we had a BBQ at our house with Jess's Mom, Dad, brother and his girlfriend. Jess has a great family and we always love hanging out with them. It was branch conference today and I was gone all day to chuch and meetings but Brandon cooked a big breakfast and his "famous" pancakes before they had to go. Brett is getting so big and is saying so many words, it was so fun to see her and watch her and Addie play (even if Addie doesn't like sharing much). As always it was good to see them. Other than work and spending as much time outside as possible that is what we have been up to!Catchin' a fish

Love that smile!
WEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Purple people eater
Bath time with Brett!

What ?
Crazy hair!
Jess at the end of the race, no pictures of Trent he was off to find food before I even saw him!
Brandon found these sheds in the field next to our house. We were all stading in the kitchen and Brandon was looking out the window with his binoculars (not an uncommon thing), all of the sudden he is out the door and running across the field and the rest of us are just looking at each other saying What? They are pretty impressive though.

Gunner checking them out. We see elk in the field by our house all the time, the other night I was driving down the road in front of our house after dark and I almost ran into 3 cow elk standing in the road, one night Brandon counted twenty something elk in the field. Also the prairie dogs are out in full force, it is crazy how many there are, Brandon and Trent had a good time shooting prairie dogs. We also have eagles and coyotes hanging out hunting them. There is a tree in front of our house and a lot of days when I am driving home from work there are 4 eagles, 2 golden and 2 bald all sitting in the same tree or they also fly together, it is really cool to see them in a group like that!