Happy Easter!

This Easter I am eternally grateful to have the Lord in my life. It is through his love and strength that I am able to do all that I must. I am so glad that I have an eternal family. I am thankful for my amazing husband who is serving us and our country, doing everything he can to let me be home with our wonderful children. I am so glad I get to be their mom, watching them learn and grow everyday! 

Here is a little of our Easter fun! 

 Lizzie in her new jumper!

 We did a secret 'You've been egged!' to one of our neighbors. We filled plastic eggs with treats and left them on their yard, with a sign! The kids had SO much fun! Grace and Bekah were excited to do something fun for a friend. Jake got all secret military, staying against walls... it was so fun!

 I made fun rice crispy 'eggs' with m&m's inside for a fun surprise!

 Coloring eggs! 

 Easter baskets ready for the morning!!!

 Breakfast

 Bunny faces!

 My beautiful kids!!! Growing up fast!

 Bekah!

 Jacob!

 Sweet Elizabeth Zoe!

 Gracie!

 Me! 

 Egg hunt!

Friday at the kids school, the kids did a dance show. They have been learning dances for a while and had an assembly to show their families. 

 Grace waiting to start

 One of the dances 3rd grade did.

 Jake waiting for his next dance.

One of Jake's dances! 

I got some video I will try to upload soon! 

It was fun to watch! 

On a down side Dustin's Grandpa Ashbocker who has been sick for the past few months past away last night. I am grateful for the past 14, almost 15 years that I have got to know him and have him as a grandfather. He was a wonderful man. I am glad I have those memories of him, and so glad my kids had him as a Great Grandpa. I am glad we have forever to be with him. He will be missed, we look forward to seeing him in the future. 

Love you Grandpa Ashbocker! 

We hope you all had a very Happy Easter! 

SSHH... it's a surprise!

I have enjoyed some crafting and assembling the past few days! 

Don't be surprised if you receive one, or many of these this year at sometime!!! They were fun to make!

 I made these 'pop tab' goodies for a friends birthday and a surprise for Dustin! Whats inside is a surprise I won't share! I plan on making many of these for different things this year!!! Some of you who will see this will be getting one, sorry!

 Easter goodies!!!

 I will show more on these after Easter as I made some for more than just my kids!!!

I found these ideas on Pinterest. If you really want to see more and get the free printable's go see my Easter/Spring Board!

AND some cuteness! Just because I got it ;)

 Look who found her feet!!!

 I LOVE these beautiful blue eyes! I never thought I would have a blue eyed angel after 3 deep brown eyed kids! 

She is beautiful!!!

I love getting to be home with my cute kids, making them and others fun surprises, and being a military wife! 

What could be better???

Spring Break Part 3, the last of the fun!

The last part of our trip we headed south and into the mountains for some more fun!

We went to a little Gator & Reptile farm, I know, in the mountains of Colorado???

Yep! There is a natural spring that keeps the place a toasty 87 degrees year round!

 Jake & Grace holding a baby gator! Bekah and I didn't really want to touch it! 

 Grace by a giant turtle! 

 Bekah by the fence to one of the many gator ponds! 

 Jake by the gators

 This gator's name is Elvis and he is 25 years old. 

 Relaxing on a swing, enjoying the sun! 

 Lizzie and I by another gator

 Meet Morris, as the sign below says, you may have seen him in a number of movies including Dr. Doolittle 2, Happy Gilmore and many more! 

 Watch out for those gators! 

We then went to the hotel, that had a mini water park inside! It was a really nice hotel, we liked it. 

Very family friendly!  We checked in and went straight to the pool! It soon became crowded, so after about 3 hours of playing we went to dinner! 

 Bekah in the kids side, going through the waterfall.

 Enjoying the pool! We have missed the water! 

 We played hard! Lizzie got worn out! But she seemed to really like it. 

 They had a big water slide! Jake enjoyed it!

 The first night, it was crowded and the girls wouldn't try it, but the next morning after breakfast we went and swam for a few hours and they came to love it! (Grace coming out, Jake at the bottom waiting.)

 Pretty girls! Isn't Lizzie's suit SO cute! Thanks Grandma Marie for it!!!She was tooo cute in it!

 Bekah coming out! Jake catching her! 

 'In the car AGAIN???' She did pretty good. She is holding a stuffed flamingo that Jake picked out for her at the Denver Zoo, its long neck is perfect for her to hold! 

Okay, so I had only been driving for 2.5 hours, we were almost home and I was getting a little silly! I was signing with the radio, and Jake had access to my camera= funny pictures of me! 

If you flip through the pictures fast you can almost figure out what I am saying, that's how many he took! He thought it was blackmail, I think it is funny :)

And thus ended our Spring Break fun! 

We had a great week, but are happy to be home and are working on getting back on our schedule!

The perfect end was watching Conference!  

Spring Break Part 2- The fun continues!

After 2 fun filled and packed days in Denver, we started for home. 

But first...

We had to stop and see the Denver Temple. 

 My cute Bekah

 My sweet Grace

 My handsome Jacob

 CUTE kids! 

 Me :)

 My precious Elizabeth Zoe & myself 

 Love these kids! So glad they are mine forever!

We also went to the book store and each got a new book and a picture of Christ for their rooms, they each picked their favorite one!

 Then... 

 You guessed it! We stopped at the new Denver American Girl store!

 The girls loved it!

 They were so over whelmed by all the choices!!!

The each got some money to spend and got to pick what they bought. Bekah decided on a custom made tee-shirt for doll, she picked the color, design and sleeve length. Then watched as it was made! The lady was great showing her ever step!

They both decided they wanted to come back! Grace even said she just wants money or AG gift cards for her next birthday so she can go back and go shopping! (She has another 10 months to go tho!)

And home we went to get ready for Part 3...