Landen's First Trip to the ER...

We are on vacation and we never go on a vacation to St. George without one of my boys getting sick. Then in turn means we make a visit to the insta-care or in this case, the ER.

Landen had an ear ache that came on so suddenly. 

He was playing and everything was great then the next minute he was crying and telling me how much his ear was hurting.

I had him go lay down and he ended up taking a huge nap.

After his nap he proceeded to cry for hours regardless of medication. 

Next thing I know it's the middle of the night. 

I am worried and go wake my Mom to see what we should do.

I then ask her to get my step Dad and see if he would give Landen a blessing. 

By the time they get back to my room Landen has finally fallen asleep. 

Peace at last! 

Thank goodness, I was ready to lose it! 

The whole next day goes by, he seems good.

The middle of the night rolls around and so does Landen.

This time he is crying worse then ever.

I then see blood coming out of his ear.

I know immediately what has happened.

Perforated  ear drum.

I know first hand how horribly painful this is.

I then decide we need to take him in. 

Of course it has to be the middle of the night and no where to go except the ER.

Bummer!

Landen was a great patient. 

He even got a Popsicle. :)

Chemistry 101...

Grandma Nette is always prepared.

No matter what the situation, she is ready.

That even goes for a week long Spring Break with 3 boys!

She was ready for us with many activities, plans and yes,

science projects.

This is right up Cody's ally!

The first project we took on was Volcanoes.

We started with the salt dough. This will be used to build up the sides of our Volcanoes. I love Crew in this picture. He thinks he is one of the big boys for sure! 

Helping the boys build up the sides around the water bottles.

Cody was very hands on.  Landen...not so much!

Finally Landen gave it a try.

But didn't really like it. Didn't want to get his hands all messy. Whatever?

Just the smell of the salt dough brought back so many memories. My Mom was always making salt dough for us, and she was always using it to make ornaments, bowls, decorative tops for jars, all kinds of stuff. She would sell it at craft shows.  Craft shows! Man, that really takes me back! lol My Mom could do a whole post just on that and all the crazy stuff she would sell! 

Letting the Volcanoes dry. Crew checking it all out!

After the Volcanoes dried Cody & G-ma painted them.

The next day it was time for the chemistry part!  Grandma had a recipe that she got online. A cool chemical reaction that would happen after mixing the solution with the baking soda.

Success! The Volcano erupted!

Now it was Cody's turn.

Again...we have success!

The next project we took on was...

SLIME!

Do any of you remember GAK?
Well, if you do the slime we made was the same exact thing.
It was really easy to make and pretty cool!
I loved Gak as a kid.
I can't believe I paid money for it, but hey I was 10 or so! :)
  We made green and blue slime.
Again, Landen was not down with getting his hands dirty.
So weird to me, since he will play out in the mud and other gunk.
But Cody enjoyed the whole process and had fun with his SLIME!

Happy Easter!

Our beautiful Easter morning began around 9am.

It is so nice that the boys are sleeping in.
The Easter Bunny managed to find us all the way down here in St. George.
Phew! Some of us were worried!
He left us lots of goodies & toys and even shoes!

It was a pretty relaxing day.
Watched conference, ate candy, played games, played in the water,
Landen came down with an ear ache, watched movies, ate more candy,
went on an Easter Egg hunt, Cody tripped & fell in the rocks, ate more candy,
took naps, had eggs on toast, watched more conference, Landen crying for hours,
taking Easter pics with the boys,
and to end it all we had an awesome Easter dinner together!

Crew was so funny with his squirt gun. He finally figured out how to shoot it but just didn't figure out to face it the other way! He would squirt himself in the face every time!

Crew was so good to sit and watch Conference with Grandpa.

Grandpa tossing Crew in the air.

Cody found the crystal egg. It had a dollar inside!

Cody and his egg hunt battle wound!

Here is Crew and his eggs he found on the hunt. Also a good way to transport your sippy cup!

Easter Dipping!

It's Easter Dipping time!

Easter dipping is a term that Cody made up when he was little.

We loved it so much that we now call it this every year.

I was sad Matt could not be here with us for all our fun Easter traditions.

He is always so fun to dip eggs with. He gets pretty creative with it.

However, we did get to spend Easter dinner with him last weekend and our 

big Easter Egg Hunt at Peggy's.

So Matt was not totally left out of all the fun.

We boiled like 4 dozen eggs. Which seems like a lot, right?

Well, it wasn't!!!

The boys were dying eggs at record pace.

No one got real fancy this year.

But it was still good ol' fashioned fun!

Dying the eggs sure was exciting but I am more excited to eat lots of

Eggs on Toast!

My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

YuMmY!!!!!