As I sit here on this Sunday afternoon, I'm banking on this quote by Elder David A Bednar who shared this at a Women's Conference.

"Brothers and Sisters, we should find great comfort in the fact that ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results."

I say this because I came home from church thinking, "That was pointless today." You see Sienna was super loud and naughty in Sacrament meeting, but she's two, so you have to cut her some slack. The boys however are old enough to know better. So Steve had them sit in the chapel for a good 15-20 minutes instead of going to primary. (Hopefully they will remember that next week.) So I'm sitting in Sunday School, Kade is being noisy, but good. He's discovered his voice, and it's so dang cute. Then, the nursery leader comes to get me. Sienna has thrown up, all over herself and the carpets. So I'm home now. Two kids sleeping and the others at church with their daddy. Steve tells me I need to just remember that we are 30 year olds, with 4 kids trying to go to church.

So in the peace and quiet that I have for another 15 minutes, I was doing some reading and came across this quote.

"Brothers and Sisters, we should find great comfort in the fact that ordinary people who faithfully, diligently, and consistently do simple things that are right before God will bring forth extraordinary results."

I feel extremely thankful for my faith and the gospel to teach me in my efforts to be a mom. I'm really not sure where else I could turn that would be as effective in reminding me that yes, raising a family in righteousness is hard, but that it is the most important thing we will ever do on this earth and thanks to temples ordinances these sometimes crazy but mostly amazing kids are mine to keep for eternity. So I guess I'll keep doing those simple things of going to church, having family night, saying our prayers, reading our scriptures, and talking about gospel principles on the faith that I know Elder Bednar's word are true.

We had such a fun Easter this year. The best I can remember! We went and parked the camp trailer the weekend before so that we would be all set and get a good spot. Steve took Friday off work, so we headed up Thursday night. It's always fun to camp and do things with just "our little family". We enjoyed marshmellows that night and some hiking, baseball and relaxing the next morning.
Then Friday my family started showing up. Once everyone that could make it got there we headed up Arch Canyon on 4 wheelers. My favorite part was the hike up to the arch itself. Then on Saturday the Easter Bunny came, more family showed up for lunch, we raced eggs and the annual egg fight ensued, the boys shot guns, rode four wheelers, and played games. Then we packed it up and headed home in need of some serious showers.

I'm not sure all of my captions are showing on this slideshow. Oh well!

Wrestling this year was a lot of fun. We did the Monticello, Blanding, and Durango tournaments. Both boys improved a lot and had tons of fun. I think Steve had more fun than both of them combined though. My boys are lucky to have such a great coach.






And a random picture of Kessia and Sienna playing at grandma's house.

Parker came home from school yesterday all excited. Our conversation went something like this:

Parker: Mom, at school we made a bird feeder. We covered a pinecone with butter and put bird seed on it.

Me: Oh, that's pretty cool.

Parker: Ya, me and Bronsen are going to hang it up, and when the birds come, we'll shoot them.

Me: Why would you want to shoot them?

Parker: Why not?

Me: Because Heavenly Father made them and we should only shoot thing that are pests, or that we are going to eat.

Parker: (pause) OK I'll eat it.

And he runs off to get his nerf gun. Later he came in and said, "I wish I had some camo"

I so have boys!! They are definitely not city boys!

We celebrated Bronsen's birthday last month. After going to the airshow in Phoenix he was excited to have an airplane/fighter jet themed party. We invited a bunch of rowdy boys over, had missile target practice, made glider planes, and best of all we had a pilot's training course (obstacle course). The kids all loved it. I was too busy to get many pictures, except for cutting the cake. I'm glad Bronsen had such a great birthday and is a part of our lives.

Over Spring Break we got a chance to go down to Phoenix to stay with Steve's grandma. It is always nice to go down where it's warm. We did a lot of fun things, maybe too many. It wasn't our best family trip, but it was still fun.

Sienna was very excited about this ice cream cone, and even more excited about all the attention she was getting.

We hit a Rockies spring training game.


Can you tell it was a little hot!

On Saturday we went to Luke Air Force Base to watch an airshow and the Air Force Thunderbirds. Bronsen loved getting all the autographs of any soldiers.

We had some attitudes on this trip. Unfortunately, I contributed to that. Yes, sometimes moms just want their own way too. Imagine that! We tried hard to get a good picture, but at this point the kids were all mad about something, so we decided to take a mad picture. Hey, it's a memory right?


We did get in a round of golf. Fred even found us a course that would allow the kids to go with us, and didn't cost a fortune. I had a great time trying out my new clubs. Hopefully we'll get in a little more golf this summer.



In the end Chucky Cheese's won as the best thing we did on the trip, although the play area at Burger King in Kayenta came in a close second. It's just hard to beat! We enjoyed all the fresh fruit off of grandma's tree, enjoyed seeing her and Steve's parents. We had a good time and hopefully made a few good memories.

Last week I was cutting all the boys' hair and Sienna decided she needed a haircut too. So I decided why not, maybe it will help. Her hair is so fine and has so much static all the time. We trimmed a couple of inches off the back and make everything a little more even. She loved it and despite mom's inexperience with girly cuts, we still think she's adorable.





Kade didn't get a haircut, but we did spike his hair for him.

and I just love that smile . . .

and I just love my boys . . .