Dakota turned four years old the day before Easter and was so excited to be able to spend Easter celebrating him. He kept saying "I don't have to because it is my birfday". Shane and I were cracking up, he didn't have to do his homework, chores, or anything else he didn't feel like doing. We took 4 of his friends to Clearfield Aquatic Center the day before and they had a blast. Callee is the only girl, but he loves her and would not have a party without her, and she doesn't seem to mind. Dakota, Forrest McConkie, Callee Hill, Gunnar Weston, Braxton, Gavin Hill
Forrest and Dakota opening presents.

We started out his birthday with breakfast in bed as is tradition around here. He got a kickball, a T-ball T, and a Wii game. We ate yogurt parfaits and cold pizza due to lack of planning and a late night swimming.

Cameron, Denim, Dakota, Jake, Braxton

Saturday we went to the egg hunt across the street then to my moms with a ton of my cousins and their kids to dye eggs. There were 14 kids total, it was originally planned for my house, but after finding out the number of people it was relocated to save Shane from going into cardiac arrest (he cant stand that many people in our house and dying eggs--not going to happen.)

AJ, Jake, Troy, Denim, Dakota

Braxton, Marley, Cameron

On Monday we were going to make Butterfly Mosaic's for FHE, but it was late and we bagged the activity and went to bed so we made them on Tuesday instead. It is frosting and Jelly Beans, it was pretty fun.

Shane's mom (Becky) is an amazingly talented seamstress and Braxton needed a puppet sewn for his puppet shows at school. He asked for the Colorado Rockies on the shirt and a hat. I thought we could print something online and glue it on the front, but Becky outdid herself once again and sewed the entire thing, I was shocked when I saw the detail and I would probably die if I knew the time she put in. He is so spoiled and lucky to have a grandma who loves him so much and is so talented. She sewed 4 total puppets and all the kids loved them and all made sure to tell me to tell her thanks, because they were so well done!

I just got the second edition of Weston’s Adventures printed into a book and let me just say I really love how this blogging makes me appreciate and record more of the small moments in my life. I am a scrap booker and I love to do it, but by the time I get around to putting the pictures down on the paper most of my memory of the event has passed and the little moments or conversations are long gone. Now I can still scrapbook when I get around to it (about 6 months behind right now), or I can put it down within a few days and with much more journaling and it has a lot more meaning later when we take the time to read about it. One thing I have really loved is at Christmas the past two years I wrote down what the boys asked for from Santa, I will love having that in the years to come to help me remember what they were into.

I attended Women’s conference for the third year last week and what an amazing time I always have. I have such a wonderful time with my sisters and mom and get to hear great wisdom from our leaders as well as other women who are going through so many of the same things I am. I have high aspirations of typing up my notes and getting them put on the blog, so it is a goal, we will just see if it happens. I did learn one amazing thing during the concert. Hillary Weeks said she was sitting across from her 9 yr. old daughter and realized that she has all of Eternity to get to know her daughter as an adult, but what a small moment she gets to spend getting to know her as a child. I reflected on my own children as well as the children in primary. I am so happy to get to spend my time at home with my children in these few small moments that they are children and am so happy that I get to spend time with them in primary while they are there. I was thinking about how many years I have to go to Relief Society and hear those lessons, but for not very long will I be able to be right there with my boys every week hearing what they are learning and helping to apply it to our Family Nights to better further their understanding of Jesus Christ. My mom stayed in the nursery for two and a half years just so she could be there with Cameron and many people thought she was crazy, but now I know why. He will never go to nursery again and she had the pleasure of spending every week getting to know him better, what a blessing.

More to come about this, sorry for the rambling.