April and Easter

April brought a freak snow fall the Friday before Easter. We all wondered if it would be melted in time for the Easter egg hunts planned for Saturday. The snow was not quite right for building a snowman but that did not stop our neighbor's father from trying to build something :)

They had lots of fun taking it apart and throwing the pieces at each other

Well the snow all melted by Friday afternoon making it a great day on Saturday to hunt for some eggs. Our apartment complex did an egg hunt again this year that had lots of eggs for all the children! Tucker and Hunter were super excited, both already knowing what to do.

Brylee needed a little guidance at first to know what she was looking for and that she was meant to pick them up and then put them down in her bag. She caught on quick enough and thanks to the ground rules of everyone finding 10 eggs to start she was allowed to take her time to find her ten eggs

Hunter did not pay much attention to the rules of how many eggs to pick up. Fortunately there were so many that we just stopped him when everyone was told they could have a free for all for the rest of the eggs :)

We then tried to go to the BYU football stadium for their first egg hunt but it was a lot of time sitting in the bleachers waiting for them to get started and only a few moments out on the field. I think a lot more people showed up than they expected. Brylee was only able to pick up two things by the time we got to the field. The boys had a little more luck but not much. We will not be going again next year unless they change the way they did it. I hear the city has a pretty good setup that they use every year so perhaps we will try them next year.

Tucker took the opportunity to read a book to Hunter. This is one of my favorite moments and I wish Tucker would be willing to do it more often, but I am grateful when he chooses to "read" to his brother every time he does!

Brylee's hair is so short! If she were in boys clothes I swear she would look just like a boy.

On this particular day she was practicing her climbing skills. It took a few tries but she eventually made it to the top of the back of the couch and laid down. This is generally impermissible behavior but her brothers were not around to witness the act and I didn't think it would be too harmful once (boy was I wrong, now she is always climbing up on the couch)

Bryant was "cold" because I refused to turn on the heater in April. So he decided to warm up in his blanket on the rocking chair. Well Hunter decided he was cold too and then Tucker and then Brylee. Bryant was a good sport until all the children started climbing and hiding rather than sitting to be warm.