Fischer turns 3!

We're horrible parents!! We decided to take advantage of the fact that my mom would be here for the ballet recital, and booked a trip to Hawaii and she agreed to stay with our kids. A trip had been a long time coming, and even though we'd be gone for Fischer's actual Birthday, we celebrated before hand.

 This kid LOVES his diggers and our dear neighbor, Angie, made him this cake. He was speechless!

When we sang Happy Birthday to him, and at the part where we all said Fischer, he said, "DIGGER!"

We sure love this BOY, and boy is he all boy.

Things about Fischer:

-He loves to be outside. Riding bikes, jumping on the trampoline, and digging in the sandbox.

-He is NOT ready to be potty trained yet. Trust me.

-His best friend is Lincoln and they are very nearly inseparable.

-He loves "his girls", even though he can often be found trying to murder them.

-His favorite color is Black. 

-He still naps and I love a good cuddle nap with him!

-His hair is SO FLUFFY, so we keep it pretty short.

-His favorite foods include frozen greek yogurt, fruit leather, nutella sandwiches, and JUICE.

Ballet

It's that time of year again... Elsinore Recital! My parents and Josh and Sydney came to partake. This was the first year the girls have had people come watch and they were so excited to show off all their hard work, to somebody beside us.

Easter

I'm a year behind in blogging, but it feels good to be slowly chiseling away at all these pictures. 

Why do I take all these pictures if I never do anything with them?? My children spend many afternoons reading our old blog books and I need to finish up the last one before our New Adventure takes over our lives!

We love EASTER! 

The Bunny came on Saturday and I just love how he's been putting less candy and more snacks in those eggs. Emory doesn't even care for candy, but Tessa and Fischer are addicts!

The Golden Egg 

 Weirdest hard-boiled egg.

 Doesn't sound like candy...

 Three gold dollars?

 This isn't CANDY??!

 Not impressed.

 They got over it quickly.

 Easter Sunday

Other Spring happenings:

 Fischer in his sandbox, he must've dove in head first.

 Mowing the lawn with dad.

 On Easter, we usually roll all our eggs down a nearby hill. Except for the fact that is was freezing and a torrential downpour, it was really entertaining!

Other spring pictures:

Random. sneak shot of me shopping at the store in my gym clothes :(

Grandma Lisa sent these Hoppy Taws for the girls, after they had so much fun playing hopscotch with her during Spring Break.

Spring Break- Logan

We decided instead of driving up and down a ton of times, to just visit Logan while driving through, on our last weekend in Utah. It consisted of the usual fun with cousins at the movies and playing in front of Grandma's house.

This year, we loaded up on Aggie Gear and...

 started a very new and exciting venture!!

The BEST is yet to come.

St. Georg-itty George

My sister-in-law, Amanda, was so kind and asked her Grandma if we could stay in her house for a weekend during Spring Break. Her Grandma "snow birds" in Arizona for the winter, HA!

It was just like the olden days, heading down with the family and just enjoying a fun and warmish weekend.

This was the view from the backyard.

 Cory is a master of all games and schooled us in horseshoes. 

I want to hold it!

 

 My kids could not have been happier!! A swing set, places to explore and lizards to chase (and catch- or just rip off their tails.

The Lizard.

We hunted this guy for, no joke, at least an hour, if not more. He was huge, and so pretty. And we all learned how big of babies we are. It was a struggle for any of us to muster the courage to pick him up. Finally, Kate was "strong enough", but then she shortly lost control and chucked it at Amanda. 

I sure hope I washed out that microwave cover.

The Crack.

 Don't know how I've never been here, but it was, once again, right up my kids alley. Rocks for climbing galore and sand to dig in.

This is one tight crack and you wriggle your way along until you come out the other side. There were a couple times I felt very nervous and stuck, so I can't even imagine how Cory felt!

Fischer walked/crawled right through without a problem.

That rock climbing made us ultra sweaty, plus anything over 80 degrees is muy macho HOT to us Oregonians, so we went to the water.

 Sunday pictures.

After everyone else left, just the Maughans headed to Snow Canyon. We hiked and climbed and visited a lava tube. Southern Utah is one of my favorite places on earth!

 Emory climbed up to this area where Pioneers carved their names into the stone.