Easter

I only have today until April is over, so I decided I had better post about Easter now!

We had a great Easter Weekend and went to Wolf Creek with with Schultz and Stevensons. We enjoyed each other's company, played games, ate some yummy food, and let the girls play! It was fun to stay up late too:) 

Maddie and Brooklyn having a "tea party" at the club house. I also attempted to play pool for the first time. 

Madison, Eleanor, and Brooklyn watching.....yep you guessed it FROZEN.

After a pancake breakfast the next morning we took the girls to an Easter Egg hunt while the boys went golfing. 

Brooklyn, Madison, and Eleanor with their Easter Goodies!

We a great time and ended our Wolf Creek weekend by eating out at a local BBQ place

Madison and I went to the Easter egg hunt at our Foxboro community park

Easter Sunday

Our first family picture outside of our finished house! It's about time huh?

Madison, Kingston, and Eleanor looking their Sunday best after church. Madison unfortunately didn't feel well and DIDN'T want to be photographed! I am sure you can tell. 

Our Easter Loot

Madison having another hunt for eggs, she was a pro by this one:)

We also had a little Easter Egg hunt with some of our neighbors. You might be able to tell that Madison was done by this point and was ready for her NAP! It was still a lot of fun, and I love having a little one to share these moments with. 

Miles gathering some eggs

Eleanor adding to her stash

Brooklyn finding some hard to spot ones

and Madison and Mom working together to get some Easter eggs. 

It was a fun day/weekend and we are of course grateful for the reason for the season. It was nice to think about our Savior, Jesus Christ and ponder about this life, atonement, and resurrection for us. I am grateful for him, and the price he paid for me. 

Spring Break Part 2

The second part of our week was jam packed with fun too! One of the major highlights of the week was getting to go to DISNEYLAND!!!
Disneyland- It was so fun taking all the kids to "The Happiest Place on Earth". I just adore Disneyland and loved getting to watch Maddie experience it for the first time, and I was so glad Scottie was there too.

 The Whole Group

 We all spent most of the day together and went on all the family rides we could, starting out with It's a Small World.

 The Parkers at Disneyland

 On It's a Small World. Madison really liked this ride. 

 Playing at the Tarzan Park

 Ok this is my favorite thing ever!!! The Disney parade was Madison's favorite part of the day, and we ended up watching both parades, just to see her adorable reaction to the characters,songs, and dancing. 

Our little princess walking through the castle

 Meeting Mickey Mouse!!! So exciting because Madison loves all the Mickey Mouse Club characters and she got to meet most of them. 

 Toon Town was a blast

The 2nd parade. This time Grandpa got to see her reaction!

Thanks to helpers we were able to ride all the major rides, and here we are on Space Mountain, I think Scottie knew the pic was coming up!!! LOL. It was a great day at Disneyland that ended with an amazing firework show. Madison also loved the fireworks, which made me so happy!

Legoland- On Friday Austin and Abby went to Legoland with us. Mom, Dad, Auds, and April's crew had to head out so we said goodbye. We enjoyed the slower pace of this park and even spent time at the water park and aquarium.

Legoland

Looks like the law finally cut up to these crazy "wolf pack" members!

Legoland's water park. Maddie loved swimming and going down all the slides.

The aquarium 

Whale Watch-We ended our California vacation Saturday morning with an amazing whale watch at Dana Point Harbor.

Our trusty ship. We happened to watch Captain Phillips the night before...very fitting if you ask me. No pirate attacks for us though. 

At one point our boat was surrounded by hundreds of dolphins! It lasted for almost an hour and was totally amazing. Madison was so excited and kept pointing and saying "Dolphins swimming, dolphins jumping!"

 These pics don't even come close to doing justice for the real thing. 

Some sea lions too. Even though we didn't see any whales, we had a great time with all the dolphins.

Precious!

Scottie, Me, Maddie, Abby, and Austin

Thank you Mom and Dad for the wonderful vacation. It was so nice to spend time together as a family, we appreciate all the opportunities you give us to do fun things together!!! Here's to an amazing Spring Break 2014. 

Spring Break 2014 Part 1

My parents took us all to California during their Spring Break to have a little family vacation together. We had a great time and stayed super busy! We did a TON of fun things; Sea World, The Beach, Disneyland, Legoland, and a Whale Watch. Maddie and I drove down with everyone on Monday and then Scottie flew in on Wednesday to spend the rest of the week/weekend with us. 

There are toooooooo many pictures to pick from so I decided to split up my posts into two parts. 

Part 1 (General Conference weekend, the drive, Seaworld, and the beach/pool)

Maddie and I made a count down chain to when Grandma, Grandpa, and Audrey would come down for General Conference. Here is Maddie taking off the last one with Grandma Karen. 

At the Conference Center

Maddie had so much fun with our house guests and here she is showing off her dancing skills! She's even lookin cool in her aviators:) 

Watching conference with Grandpa in her princess dress Grandma gave her for Disneyland!!! She was excited if you can't tell. 

The Drive to California

 My sleeping princess

Maddie enjoying her first slurpie. She liked it so much that we had to send Daddy a picture of her enjoying it. We made good time at got into the hotel early enough to go swimming Monday night. 

Sea world- Tuesday morning we all got up early and went to Sea World. We had a great time watching the dolphin and whale shows, touching sea life, and riding a few rides.

 The Hansen Family Group

 Me and Austin without our better halfs!!!

 The dolphin show was by far my favorite part. Maddie loved it too. 

Getting a shoulder ride from G-pa. Too cute:)

Touching some sting rays with Andrew, Emmy, and Jordie 

 Maddie checking out Shamu 

 Emmy and Maddie 

 Cheese!!!

The touching tide pool

The Beach- On Wednesday we stayed around the hotel and spent time on the beach and pool.  

 

Maddie wasn't sure she liked the ocean this time, not quite sure why. She had fun looking at it though. 

Maddie and Mom

I even used gold fishes (her favs) to lure her to the water. She would quickly run away after she got her gold fishie and the process would start all over, until I gave up:0 At least I didn't have to worry about her drowning. 

Building a sandcastle with Uncle Austin and Aunt Audrey. So nice of them to let her join.  

Fun with cousins

One good thing, is that Maddie loved her sunscreen! Did have to worry about her burning. 

Maddie looking at the ocean...just thinking about it....

Maddie and Emmy with Grandma Karen

April, Austin, Me, and Audrey- my siblings. Wish Andrew and Jill could have made it!!! We missed them. 

Fun at the pool with our cousin Rachel and her cute son Axel. They came and spent part of the day with us. We enjoyed a picnic lunch, the sunshine, and each others company. 

 Rachel, Me, April

We drove to Dana Point Beach and snagged a few good pics! Love this one:)

 The view was amazing

 SO EXCITED TO SEE DADDY- Scottie flew in that night and we got to go pick him up

Scottie's ride to us

 After we picked Scottie and Abby up from the airport we all went out to eat at a fancy ocean side restaurant called The Cliff. It was super yummy and fun to be together as a family. 

 Me and Audrey. Ok now time for the next blog post with the second half of our fun vacation.