We had a few days off work the first part of April so we headed down to sunny St. George. We really love it down there and it will always have a place in our hearts as long as we have a place to stay!! Thanks Grandma & Grandpa Marrott for the vacation home. Not too many pictures from there, all Chase wanted to do was 'catch fish' and watch the cars & big trucks driving on the freeway.
Chase wanted nothing to do with the hot tub! The other grandkids practically live in it so we were very surprised. It wasn't quite warm enough while we were there to hit a real pool, and I guess its a good thing since he was not interested.
The next weekend was Easter, and we were excited to spend some time with the Wright cousins. You might notice a lot of 'ball' eggs for the boys, but there is a crown & flower in the mix for princess Ella!!!
Chase was taking way too long of a nap, so he was not able to participate in the coloring of eggs....we were too excited to wait!!! What a cute group!!
Here they all are lined up ready to go on their hunt!! They had so much fun playing together all weekend.
The hiders that fun putting the eggs in hard places. Don't poke an eye out Chase.
Now these are our kind of baskets!!! Racecars and spiderman...what could be better?
Ella with her Ballerina Bunny. It was almost was cute as Ella!! Thanks to Aunt Sara, there were some fun prizes along with candy in the eggs. The boys got 4-wheelers, swords & stickers, and Ella got play food, a doctor/nurse play set & of course the adorable rabbit.
That night we went to the Jazz game, thanks to Chad's friend Joel, and a guy in my dad's bishopric that has season tickets. Mom & I had row 4 seats for the 1st half, then I traded with Dad for his row 15 at halftime. Both were amazing seats....close enough to get a picture of the bench!!! We love going to Jazz games, but it was hard to swallow a loss to Golden State that night.
This was the real reason for the trip to Utah Easter weekend. Chad's deer & elk were finished and needed to be picked up from the taxidermist. It makes us sad we aren't able to hang the elk up at our house, but we just don't have a big enough wall for it....Elk are such large animals & so unique looking we would love to add it to our collection, but we are going to need a bigger house. And that won't be happening any time soon.
I know everyone has been talking/blogging about how much snow and how crazy it was, so I just have to add my totals as well. Over 18 inches combined over 2 days!!! It is almost melted so we really can't complain about our prayers being answered for MORE MOISTURE!!!
Chase threw the biggest fit Wednesday morning when I dropped him off at Rachelle's house. He wanted to play in the snow soooo bad. I promised him we would play in it all afternoon and we did. It was fun to wrestle in the snow for a few hours with Chase, while daddy cooked dinner. It wasn't even that cold either....
We decided to head to the marina to feed the ducks a loaf of bread that was WAY past its due date. Chase was loving all the birds swarming to him....I on the other hand after the first 20 got a litte nervous. Luckily it was a small loaf.
Chad's birthday was this weekend, and so we went to this awesome cafe in Lamoille to have breakfast. Afterwards on our way home we decided to take a drive up Lamoille canyon and see if we could see any big horn sheep. We've both had a lot of patients tell us they are everywhere so we went to check it out!!! There was one sitting right on the road!!! We had to drive in the opposite lane of traffic to get around it.
The amazing thing about these sheep is the way they scale up vertical inclines!! And because of the snow storm there was a lot of waterfalls too....it was AMAZING to see them just dart right up a wet slick surface. I'm guessing that's why this one has a chunk of hair missing-! Great Nevada wildlife for my great wildlife husband on his birthday.
Hope you feel up to date on the happenings of the Marrott Family!
