How long does Easter Last at our house?

By the end of the week I end up asking myself that. Easter festivities and prep seems to go on for an entire week. Its a lot of work, but a lot of fun--plus a lot of great memories are made.

We kicked our week off last Sunday by having a wonderful Family Home Evening on preparing not only for our General Conference, but preparing for a beautiful Easter. Reminding us that Easter is not only for the bunny and the eggs and the yummy chocolate. BUT-it is to remember our Saviour.

This week I made chocolate covered marshmallow Easter Eggs (36 to be exact). They are yum!

I also made 3 dozen yummy sugar cookied eggs! Oh and might I mention that they have a ton of frosting on them. They are the best with a big glass of milk.

But the real fun comes with the family--a few years ago we started our "Crack off" tradition. (Thanks again to our good friends Maleen and Tyler Cazier--we love you!)
Here is a little peak of the prep.

Here is Meg intently decorating her eggs. She is so creative! She made the best "Dog egg". She is an amazing artist at age 11.

Here is Mikayla with her Black eyed Pea version of "Imma Pea". We went to the Black Eyed Pea concert this past week and she is obsessed with them.

Rolling our eggs into one another...Did you know that if you roll two hard boiled eggs into each other, only one will crack?

Josh Ellis won our "Friends" crack off! Great job Josh! His eggs was Pinkalicious.

The highlight of the weekend was our Family Crack off. We have not spent Easter with the Scoresby cousins for several years. I planned a party and we had a crack off too. Everyone brought 2 hardboiled, decorated eggs to crack off. The funniest and the winner of the best decorated eggs was done by Steve's sister Suzanne. She decorated eggs representing their brother Blake and sister in law Jenna. It was hilarious! Funny thing is the egg looked like Blake. Blake and Jen live in Arizona and couldnt be here with us. We all miss them a ton and so it was only fitting that we include them.
Blake cracked Jenna. Poor Jenna. Blake was the laughter of the evening. Some of the comments were-"Here hold your uncle! As Brad asked Ashley to hold his egg. Or Hey I am eating your uncle! It was a riot.

Mason and Ash cracking off.

The winner of the Cousin Crack off was ASHLEY! and her little Chick!

After Cousin egg cracking, easter crafts, easter egg hunting and a barbeque we had the Adult crack off!

Rich and Steve were intensly competetive but the real winner of the crack off was---
"Hen"nah Montana and AMBER!

We had a great time! Easter was a blast!

Girls Camp Here I come! Again!

My very most favorite part of being a young woman was going to girls camp. I LOVED it! We went to Rock Creek Girls Camp in Idaho. I remember my leaders (who became some of my closest friends) and I remember all of the girls. The pranks, the skits,the spirit, the scarry stories and just being in the mountains. It was thrilling too me. I hated to see it end. It didnt end too soon for me, as I have gone to camp for MANY MANY years as a leader, as a stake leader, as a young womens leader, as a regional leader. I have done it all. I love the whole experience. I had actually gone 19 years in a row (minus the summer I got married) since I was 12! Yeah that is how much I love it! I then had a few year sabatical and went for a few years after Mikayla was born. I believe I have been 21 years to girls camp. That would mean in my lifetime that is over 5 months of camping! HOLY COW!

I enjoyed the break but knew as soon as my girls were old enough too go, I wanted to be there. I could not be there last summer with Mikayla as I was still in recovery, BUT I just got called to be our ward camp director for this summer. I am way excited to go! I think it will be a thrill to be with such a large ward and to be with my little sweetie girl.

Shut Up and DANCE!

Yes we are huge dance finatics at our house....At least one of us is, and she is almost 13 and loves anything to do with dance and music. Her director Jessie Thacker is in the Odyysey Dance Company in SLC. We went last night with a bunch of the students from Senior, Teen, and Junior companies to see them dance. Also Natalie Reid and Gev performed as well. Well to put it mildly, it was AMAZING! They did a fabulous job and our kids had a blast!
Might I add, that before the performance we went out to eat and who freakin knew that these dancers could put so much food away. Holy Cow! They can dance and EAT!

We had a great time, and it is so fun to see these kids that spend so much time together, get along so well and love each other. Mikayla is blessed to be around some pretty great kids!

I was really bummed about this photo! The kids were all excited to be dressed up, and I freakin had to take the photo by the window with the glare! Some of the comments of the night were-"Wow" you guys really look great outside of workout clothes! OR my fave by Marquett was -Hey we dont look like hobos!

Here are some of Mikayla's girlfriends from many years of dance.

And here is Mikayla and Jessie after the performance!

We love our dancer and friends!

Happy Spring

Spring has simply got to be my favorite time of the year! I love the newness and the freshness! I love all of the babies and the new buds. I just love it. I am also a huge blog stalker and I love to see what people are doing--especially in the spring around holiday time. Here are a couple of crafts that we have done recently to prepare for Easter. I got them off of be different act normal website. LOVE it!

And here are our cute eggs in the grass.

Watch for our upcoming "Crack off" coming this week with our cousins.

A huge OWIE!

Lately Mikayla (La) has had a few accidents. Accidents that seem a little weird to me-because she is a dancer and she really does seem to have it together and is poised and graceful. Lately she has lacked the grace. She fell down her Aunts stairs and banged her knee up pretty good... Which totally stressed the dancer girl out. Then she was climbing up on the washer to get something and slipped. She landed on the floor with the ironing board ontop of her. I tried not too laugh. So when on Saturday evening the kids announced that they were going on a bike ride I said-"Hey Mikayla be careful that you dont fall off your bike"..I think it kind of ticked her off. Sorry La. Anyways about 5 minutes later screaming errupted in our house. BUT it was not La it was the middle kid. She had blood streaming everywhere. She had hit a crack in the road going full force and flipped over the top of her scooter. Yeah nice I know. She really looked like the road got the best of her. Especially the teeth. Chipped both teeth as well. Darn it Meg! Her poor little face was swollen and her nose and lips were scraped up. Shanked up her knee pretty good too. On Sunday we were able to get her teeth fixed. Thanks to Dr. Dave.

Here is the wounded
Here she is with fixed teeth and a bandage across her nose.

I'm back!

Yes after a LONG break from blogging, I am back. The real story is this-My home computer crashed and so I was resorted to our many laptops, and yeah well it was a pain, so now I have a new home computer and I have all of my stuff reset back up-and so here I am once a again back on the blogging wagon.

We have maintained business since January 1st-We had two birthdays.

Megs turned 11~ It seems like yesterday when we were snuggling that cute little black hair black eyed baby. She is turning into a beautiful young lady. She wanted an ipod cake. Yes that is my attempt!

Next Mason had his big birthday. Birthday #8!

He was baptized in January by his Daddy-o!

It was a special day for him, his grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles and friends all joined us for his big day.

La-has been busily training, practicing, and rehearsing for her very first dance solo. She performed it at our company showcase and did fabulous. And this past weekend competed it for the first time at a competition. She got a high gold and first place! She was excited and happy. Of course we were thrilled and proud of her. It is fun to see her succeed in something she loves.

Really? I am a slacker- part two!

The holidays are suppose to be relaxing! How many of Megs concerts did we go too? It seems like 20 but I think it was 11 or 12. It was great though. She loves it and did very well for her first experience singing and dancing.


We enjoyed an afternoon at Color Me Mine... a new tradition that we love! Mace was ecstatic that he got to go this time. He made a very colorful Christmas Tree Plate that sported- "Go BYU"! Yes he is truly his fathers son.


Baking got put off until the week before, but my girls loved dipping chocolates and making goodies. Megs is a natural in the kitchen. Mikayla-well yeah, she needs a little help.

We were able to pull off our annual Christmas party. We had some of our good buddies and family members join us for a little christmas cheer. Note to self--Do not play the Santa's Beard Game. No one really liked vaseline and cotton balls on their faces.


The Traditional Scoresby Family Home Evening came off without a hitch. This was Dad and Mom Scoresby's first year since they were married that they were going to be home alone. Lucky for us, they were able to join us for our Family Night. Everyone was here except Blake and Jenna and kids. We totally miss them, especially at the holidays. It was fun playing games, telling stories, decorating cookies, singing and being together. Steve has a great family. We are blessed to have so many of them here near us.
Um yeah-I tried the santa game with the kids too-Make another note to self that kids hate it just as much as adults.

Hey I thought it was fun!

Christmas Eve was a different one for us. In the past we have always gone out to our best friends the Ereksons and celebrated, and the past 2 years I have been with my family as it has been hard since my uncle passed away. But this year (Mace was not totally over a bug) we spent it at home with just our family, and it was FUN. I think we will do it again. We ate a fabo dinner, and sang songs, watched the video of Luke 2 and played games all night.
Grandma Preece always makes the grandkids jammies. They love them!


Here is Megs and Mace spreading oats for Santa's reindeer. I am sure that Santa found our house.


Let the games begin!
Our Christmas was Merry, and we are very blessed. We love our family, our friends, the gospel and each other.