Snow Day Mystery

Thursday when the wind was blowing and the snow was drifting, I decided to get up early to work on a paper that was due that day. So it was really me deciding to get up early, I was kind of forced to get out of bed at 5:30 to finish it. Ne ways... I got up and I could hear the wind howling so I, being in the need of a distraction, went and looked out the window. The snow was drifted into our sidewalk and our side of the street. I was totally bumped! Our wreath was knocking around something horrible so I opened the door and took it off the hook. I then closed the door and relocked it. I then forced myself to go downstairs to work on my paper. After about 10 minutes, I heard the front door close! Talk about spooked! I hadn't heard the door open or anyone walk in or walk down the stairs from our room to close it. So I did want anyone would do... called for Anthony! I know realize that if anyone had been in the house that this would have been a very stupid thing to do. Ne ways....He(Anth)groggily answered. I asked him," Was that you?" He replied no but that he thought it was me. I was completely scared now! I met Anth in the living room where he preceded to look out the window. There we could see tracks leaving our house, not coming up, and one lone car tread in the snow. Now the car tread looked like a car just appeared. There were no tracks leading up to it or pulling away. It looked like a car had been sitting there, but I know that one hadn't because I didn't see one earlier in my distraction. We were completely baffled! We figured that I must not have closed the door tight enough when I opened to take down the wreath and then the door must have swung open and then someone out of the kindness of their hearts, stopped, or appeared, and closed our door. We still don't know who it was or what exactly happened. Thank you to whoever it was!

****Did I mention that I went and did some Family History work the day before in the temple? Anth teases that it was my ancestors looking out for us. Maybe it was!****

Graduation Annoucement

For those of you whose email I don't have, heres an annoucement! We are so excited to be graduating! I only have six more class periods left! (I only go on Tues/Thurs) We are sad to leave BYU-I but are so ready!

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!

Happy Easter!

Here are some pictures from our Easter adventures. We got the boys some new clothes and I couldn't believe how big and old they looked! I wanted to cry when I saw Peter! I thought to myself this can not be my little boy. He is so big! If you can't tell I'm having issues with my boys growing up on me. We gave the boys a little bit of candy forgetting that they were going to get tons for the egg hunt later! Let's just say that I'm pretty sure that they didn't get all the main food groups today! Overall, it was a fun day and we really enjoy being with family and relaxing from the stress of school and work!

Peter's Birthday

Peter's birthday was on Friday! My little baby is all grown up and tried three on me. It really boggles my mind to think of him being that old. We had a great day and celebrated by going to McDonalds for dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Tietjen and then coming home and watching Bob the Builder! Peter's absolute favorite! My parents came up and saw him on Thursday because my dad had to work this weekend. Peter loved their presents and the time he gets to spend with both sets of his grandparents. Sunday, today, we went to Firth for Easter as well for another birthday party for Peter. This kid is all birthday out now. My mom made him a bunny cake and we sang and had some ice cream. It was a lot of fun!

Peter is such a special kid. He is very sensitive to others and hates to see people fighting or being mean. He loves his little brother Andrew is also taking care of him and usually sets a pretty good example for him.

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.

Spring has arrived!

I have FLOWERS! I am so excited! I looked outside the other day and there was these little green things popping out of the ground! I was pumped! I had been worried that all the flowers that the previous owner had planted were late bloomers and so I was so excited when little thigns began popping out of the ground! I was also excited because that means that spring has finally arrived! This last week most of the snow in our front yard has melted and some parts of our backyard. But in the back there are places that still have about 2-3 feet of snow! Its absolutely crazy! Ne ways... its so exciting to finally winter die and spring being reborn!