Bunny Money Egg Hunt!

So it become a tradition to every year have a egg hunt in which my Dad and DeRay (my second dad) hid plastic eggs that contain money all over the yard. Its called the Bunny Money hunt! It is great. My dads hid them so well that it takes up almost an hour to find them all. There is usually always one golden egg that has a high bill in it(like a twenty or something) and then small bills and finally pocket change mixed with candy. Its in the rules that we can't look in our eggs until we have found them all. Everyone is allowed a certain amount. Its a lot of fun and without doubt, every year, there is at least one egg that stays hiding! The hunt was started to after Megan (DeRay's daughter and my best friend growing up) and I got married. Our parents decided that they needed to help us out and this was an easy way. It kind of back fired when all our younger brothers got the big finds. Oh, well! Its so much fun and nobody really cares about the amount of money that they make! The boys also got to do a egg hunt. When Peter would find an egg, he would insist upon opening it up and seeing what was inside. In one, he found a dollar and he was so excited! He runs up screaming to us..."I found a thousand dollar. I found a thousand dollar," and promptly put it in his pocket! It was so cute and funny! This is Anthony finding an egg that had been hidden in the dead flowers that are up by the top of my parents driveway! The Dads got very sneaky this year and hidden alot of the eggs in things like dead plants, the snow, and the trees.
This is the Dads (my Dad John in the brown and my second dad, DeRay in the stripes) keeping track of where we hid the eggs. They mapped out where they hid them and then had us report when we found one so they could mark it off. They love this almost as much as we do!
This is James and Glen looking for some eggs. The Dads were giving out clues to help us find the last few eggs. They said to look by the burn pile but it was really about 10 feet from them in the grass. Notice that James is moving a tree and Glen is kicking through the burn heap to find the eggs. They were getting a little desperate!
This is Glen after he had found some of his eggs. Poor guy, he ended up being the one that was short one egg because it got lost.
Last of all, this is Chad after he found an egg in the bird feeder! His face says it all!

James' Birthday!

So my brother's birthday was last week ( I think...my days and week are seeming to run together. All I really know is that I have less then three weeks left of school!) and we celebrated by having my family come up here and have a party! It was extra special because we got to go do baptisms at the Rexburg temple for some family names! That was a totally awesome experience! I can totally understand the feeling of Elijah now and I feel so connected to my ancestors and really feel that some of them excepted the work that we did for them.

I was also excited to see my family and to celebrate a my brother's birthday. Eventhough we tease each other horribly, we really do love each other and I so thankful for his support and willingness to be there whenever I need him.

Yummy! Let's eat!

Andrew and Peter loved the appretizer I gave them: a celery stick with some zingy Ranch dip! They just licked it right up while the rest of us were more cautious. Peter was so excited to eat turkey! It was all he talked about for days. His favorite was probably the olives and jello that I gave him! Isn't that every kids fave? Thanksgiving at Grandma Monson's house was a lot of fun and we had so much food left over that we are still eating three days later! Anyone want some turkey or pie?

Playing in the snow a Alisha's family's over General Conference weekend.

For Conference weekend we decided that we would go down to Grandma Monson's house to watch Conference on the big screen! Oooo! Our trip ended up being a little delayed because of the snow storm that hit that morning. We didn't make it out of Rexburg on our first attempt and Peter was so upset. We turned around and came home and had hot chocolate and marshmallows. During the break we ventured down to Firth , only to have the power go out. But my parents, being well-prepared, plugged in their generator so that we could watch Conference. Sunday during the break between Conference, we decided to go out and build a snow man, uh... I mean snowwomen. That lead to a snowman and then to a snowbaby! It was so much fun! Peter has been talking about it ever since! Andrew , on the other hand, has never seen snow before and his first encounter wasn't so hot. Uncle James, my brother, was holding him and James got hit by a snowball and some of it went onto Andrew's face. Whenever we would try to put him down, he would scream his guts out. As you can see in the picture! I'm sure that he will get over his fear as winter continues to come upon us.