Things are CRAZY here. It is end of level tesing time for the school district so we have a two week window to get all of our testing done. I finished today, YEA ME! All of my students were here so I tested like mad to get it done, lets just hope my approach works and I pass "No Child Left Behind". Stupid George W. Anyways, we are also very busy finishing the basement. We had Uncle Dale, Jason's dad's brother that lives near us, come and spray the basement with primer then with the color we chose for the walls, burnt almond. On Sunday, Jason and his friend Mike tiled the laundry room. It is the same tile we used in the bathroom we will just fill it with a brown grout instead of the gray we used to accent the blue walls in the bathroom. We have been painting baseboards, coconut brown (Cassidy picked that out because she loves coconut), like crazy so Dale can come back and halp us install them on Saturday and Jason is planning on doing the grout tonight. My new washer and drier get delivered on Saturday sometime as well. We bought stackable pair so we could finally have room somewhere in the house for a deep freezer, we will put in the laundry room next to the washer and drier. I am so excited to be able to do one load of laundry in the time it used to take me to do two. I promise to include pictures of the finished basement with the next blog entry.

Here are a few more pictures to finish off my blog. Two are of my sister's little girl, Kaydence. In one of the pictures Cassidy is feeding her rice at the Mexican retaurant we went to for my parents anniversary dinner. It was so funny, she couldn't get enough rice. In the other she is doing "Happy Feet". She saw the movie so now whenever you tell her to do "Happy Feet" she dances all around. She got her cast off yesterday, Tuesday, and can't stop jabbering about her arm (my sister told me on the phone). The last picture is a cheesy one of me, I am always the photographer so there is never a picture of me, my dad took with my camera at dinner. He thought it was fasinating how little my camera was. So he had to play with it for a minute.

I want to include as many pictutres from Easter that I can so here is another group of them. These are of the kids, Cassidy, Zack, and Megan, on their Easter Egg hunt and with their baskets on Sunday morning.

Here are the pictures that I promised of Easter, I am going to have to post a few blogs to be able to include all of the pictures from the weekend that I want to. Easter was so fun! We all really had a great time and the drive really wasn't all that bad. We got there Friday evening and all went for a nice walk on the golf course then back to my mom and dad's for a yummy dinner and relaxing evening. Saturday we went for a walk to a local coffee shop and decorated Easter eggs, these pictures are of egg decorating. My mom scheduled professional pictures at Foto Quick so we did that Saturday afternoon and it went really well. The kids were all behaving nicely and even my dad smiled a few times. Then it was back to my parent's house to eat again, we did a lot of that. Kim, Jason and I took a trip to the local clothing store, Beal's. It is kind of like a Ross. It is going out of business so Jason says there is no reason to go to Page anymore, he loves to shop there whenever we are in town, except RD's Drive Inn that is. Saturday night my mom and dad babysat the sleeping kids while we went and saw "Road Hogs" at the local theater, so funny. On Sunday the kids looked through their Easter baskets and found all of the eggs that the Easter Bunny hid. Then we went to church, napped, and went for a walk. Sunday night Kim and I took my parents to dinner to celebrate their anniversary, it was so delicious! Jason, Cassidy and I got up to leave on Monday morning and left Zack with grandma. He didn't cry like I thought he would and has had a really good time so far. My mom says he misses Cassidy more than anyone and I think the same is true for her, she is so bored with out her brother. Hopefully she will remember taht the next time she feels like fighting with him. I hope everyone had as happy and wonderful of an Easter as we did. I loved seeing my whole family and having such an enjoyable visit.

No pictures today but I thought I would wish everyone a Happy Easter! We are heading to Page, Arizona to see me family, it is my Spring Break so Cassidy and I have Friday and Monday off and Jason just gets to take a few days off. My entire family will be in Page for Easter so my mom is planning on having family pictures taken, I think the last one we have of all of us was at my wedding. We all haven't been together since last June so it should be a really good time. It is also my mom and dad's 36th anniversary on the 10th of April so I am sure we will all go out and celebrate that while we are there as well.
It is going to fun to watch the kids play and interact. Megan, Monte and Crista's daughter, is almost 2 and Kaydence, Kim and Elias' daughter, is 1 1/2. They are going to be so fun to watch, and I am sure Cassidy will be the little mother and Zack will be right in the middle of it all. I am not excited for the drive but the visit and fun will be worth it. My mom wants to keep just Zack for a week after Easter so we will see how that goes. I hope everyone has a very fabulous Easter and I should have some pictures of the trip to share with you all when I get back, if I remember to bring my camera that is.