Arrow of Light

      Last week McKay received his Arrow of Light award.  It is the highest award you can earn as a cub scout.  In our ward a mountain man comes and does a pretty intense ceremony.  McKay totally ate it up and had a great night.  Thank you to Grandmas and Grandpas for coming out to celebrate.  Way to go Mac, now onto boy scouts!

Happy Mothers Day

     Funny thing...just as I sat down and started to write this post about the beauty of motherhood Breck came in.  He climbed up on my lab all snugly-like.  It's the middle of the day after his nap so I assumed he was tired from the fun weekend schedule and just needed to rest....until he started puking, over and over again down the fronts of both of us.  Kind of ironic, pretty typical of being a mom.  Now it's the following day and he's much better and life goes on and I can finish my post, here goes.    
      Is every mother completely taken with her own children?  They're so beautiful, unique, difficult, wonderful, amazing...I could go on and on.  I took a few pictures for my own Mom and Mother-in-law and loved this one!
     Happy Mother's Day to all you Mom's out there!  I've been so blessed to have an amazing mother, mother-in-law and friends who are great examples of mothers to me.  Corey is wonderful and planned a weekend of activities to celebrate the mothers in his life.
     He started out planning a date for us, babysitter and all.  He took me to my favorite restaurant, The Red Iguana.  If you haven't been there...call me and we'll go.  It's one of those places that I crave and wish for and then when I get there it's even better than I remember...yeah it's that good.  Then we wandered around city creek center and ended the date with shakes from Arctic Circle (I love Arctic Circle Shakes by the way). This date was the perfect treat for me. Thanks Babe.
     On Saturday afternoon we went to Corey's Grandma Rees' house to work on her yard and have a BBQ with his family.  It was great to see everyone and pitch in a bit.  It's not something we get to do a lot and I was grateful for the chance.  It's always good to catch up with family and Grandma's yard was beautiful!
     Sunday was filled with the best kid-made cards, the perfect gift from Corey (I asked for a trampoline and got it along with flowers for my planters, along with a really nice letter), and yummy food all prepared by Cor & the kids.  That night we went to my Grandma Gough's for dinner and visiting with my Mom.  It was a beautiful day, I couldn't feel more blessed.

     After note: Okay, I lied, I could feel more blessed.  A day or two after mothers day Corey called to tell me he'd nominated me for lasik eye surgery through a Mother's Day promotion from Ogden Eye Center and I won!!!  He wrote the nicest letter to them about me and then got a bunch of his family to do it as well.  Thank you everyone. Lasik surgery is something I've always wanted to do but haven't been able to justify it when there are so many other things to spend money on that would benefit my whole family.  I'm beyond excited for this and so grateful!  I threw away my last pair of contacts last night and am sporting glasses until surgery the first week in June.  Whahoooooooo!

Easter

     Happy Belated Easter.  My thoughts have been a little overwhelmed by concrete and such, but we did have a great Easter so I thought I should document it. 
     We had a great time dying Easter eggs.  Corey rolled his eyes when I told him we were doing four dozen (so immpractical to him) but it was fun.  I love the twins pics, Brecks little face just melts me and you can't help but catch Avery's enthusiasm.
     Every year (since I was little) we go to Scipio.  It's where my Grandma and Grandpa Peterson grew up and we love it.  They have a community egg hunt on Saturday morning and then we have a picnic up at the grove.

After the hunt

     At the grove.... This is a great picture of my Mom trying to stay out of the picture.   Hayley and Adam and sweet Wyatt. Below are the twins "fishing" in the streams.

     On Sunday we had an egg hunt at Corey's parents.  So much fun with cousins....such little time to take pictures, oops!

     I love Easter clothes, but I've found I need a little help in the photography department.  This is the best of the bunch.  I couldn't resist a few of Avery, somthin' about girls and their clothes...