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GLAD For Our GRAD

Mom & Dad journeyed to Provo last week to pick-up Sarah after her freshman year and to honor and celebrate Jeffrey's graduation. LOOK OUT WORLD - HERE COMES OUR SON...

Easter

We got home late on Saturday night - but not too late to dye eggs. We dyed raw eggs since we probably won't be eating too many hard-boiled eggs around here. There were 12 different colors - it was awesome.

The Easter Bunny did come and made Sarah have to really work for her Easter Basket. After lovely church meetings we went to grandpa's for an Easter Feast. Here are the great guests.

It was fun to have Thomas and Melanie in town. They are expecting in July.

Camden had just been at the Mormon Prom. That is why he looks so amazingly dapper. Jannon had hurt herself in a running competition at school.

Grandpa carving the ham - Janell - always happy about helping.

Cherie had really knocked herself out with the table setting. Egg shaped plates - they were awesome. Great Day.

Easter Photoshoot

We had a terrific Easter which you will hear more about I am sure, but we just wanted to share our little photo shoot with our matching Easter outfits. Starring Bennett of course, the most delicious part of the day!

FINDING FAITH...

We enjoyed this video on this Easter afternoon.
(You will need to right click the image and then select "Go To Full Screen")

Productivity

When we got home from out cruise and our house still hadn't sold we decided to was time to get to work... again. This weekend we got started on some projects that will take us a couple weeks to complete. We power washed the gazebo and back stairs preparing them to get stained.

The first coat of stain!

We also have an awesome plan for our kitchen counter tops but before we jump into that, we decided to practice on a desk in the garage. First we sanded and primed.

Then we painted a base color and spray painted some stone fleck to add some color and dimension.

Then you finish it off with an epoxy sort of mixture. This is the hard part of the process. It means constant babysitting for about 4 hours. Continually wiping edges and using a blow torch to get the bubbles out. Lots of watching and care.

After about 4 hours, it stops running and you can finally stop babysitting, although it still won't be dry for about another 4 hours. Here is the comparison of the finished side and the side we didn't touch. We only did half the desk in case we totally blew the first half and needed more practice. Luckily so far it looks like we aced it!

We think it looks gorgeous! It will make our counter tops look like a solid surface and perhaps get us on the road to a sale, and living together again in Missouri! (BTW pictures don't do it justice, it is just so pretty, but it doesn't seem to translate in the pictures)

Spare Time

We went bowling today for MBs spring break. Marybeth got a buy one get one game free online so we played two games and had a great time. Bennett even got a chance to bowl for the first time. Marybeth was nicer than me to let Bennett go on her turn.

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Highlights

Here is just a small sample of our Caribbean cruise we took last week. We had a blast and LOVED spending 10 whole days with Jason! We haven't spent that much time with him in over 2 months! Here we are when we first got on the ship, of course we headed straight to the ice cream!

Our first formal night!

Many, many times Paisley would come back from camp Carnival with her face painted. Here she is a princess.

The recognizable tail of a carnival cruise ship.

Jason was a good sport during the camp carnival scavenger hunt and put ice cream all over his face to check off one of the items on the list.

Swimming in Jamaica! The water was really cold, but very beautiful. There weren't any waves and we all had a blast! Jason and I ended up getting sunburned on our shoulders, so that was a bummer for the rest of the trip, but it didn't slow us down!

In the Cayman Islands we went in a semi-submarine to see the coral reefs, ship wrecks and fish around the island. It was a lot of fun!

In Cozumel we had our biggest adventure. We took a long ferry ride across to mainland Mexico. Then we took a long drive down to Tulum so visit the Mayan ruins. Paisley and Jarom fell asleep on the car ride to and from the ruins.

The timing in Cozumel was short enough to make us nervous most of the day, so we were very happy it all turned out ok and we made it back to the ship in time!

The day before the cruise was over we stumbled across a "fun farewell" where the drinks were free, so we enjoyed some fruit punch!

Paisley loved the pizza on the cruise and had some almost every day. We also loved it when we got to sit by the window at dinner.

What a wonderful trip with wonderful people! We love cruising and it has been a long time since we have enjoyed such a great cruise! We can't wait to go again sometime!

My Other Kids

We had a little get together Saturday night to welcome a potential seminary student. It was fun to have kids in the house, pizza and goodies galore and lots of laughs. It helped to have it on a day that was 90 degrees outside. It was beautiful.

Snowbird

With Thursday being a reading day, the three of us boys (Jared, Connecticut and myself) decided to use our voucher passes to Snowbird. (We attempted to go before and after buying our passes from a ski shop, discovered the poor, icy conditions of the snow and got vouchers.) It had been snowing all week and was even snowing when we arrived. Result: POWDER. We decided to take the lifts all the way to the top right from the start. We were all in great anticipation as we peered down into the abyss of fog and snow. Each of us leaned o'er the edge and one by one dived in. I started off and after some time realize I was alone. I halted. Soon Jared caught up. Unbeknown to us, Connecticut had little to no powder skiing experience. Shortly after he plunged into the deep, he quickly sank a ski in the snow and fell. He realized that there was not two, but one ski attached to his foot. The other, buried in the snow. After a couple hours of unsuccessful searching, we succumbed to the fate that had landed on us and called ski patrol to bring an extra ski so he could get down the mountain. I thought the day would be over for poor Connecticut and even myself, but Snowbird was kind enough to allow him to borrow the ski for the day. After that infamous incident, our remaining time on the mountain was amazing. The clouds parted and the day became gorgeous. The powder was amazing. We had a grand 'ol time. It ended with a hearty meal at In-N-Out. A glorious outing to end an amazing semester, school year, and college career.

Snowbird

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