Finally, pictures from Easter

The boys had such a great time dying eggs, David thought they were toys to play with. It was fun watching them, they were sad when all the eggs were dyed!

Oh, how time passes

So right after Easter Eric took off to Colorado for a week and took my camera, so I did not post photos of Easter. I'll do that soon, I hope! We had a wonderful Easter, we spent it with my sisters and their families in Rexburg. The boys had an Easter Egg hunt and just loved being with their cousins.
The boys and I survived the week without Eric, I even took the boys to wrestle on Friday and Saturday! They both did Greco on Friday and did a good job, I think they both took 2nd. I cannot remember. The next day they did great, Robbid took 5th out of 14 boys and Kamren took 2nd out of 6 boys. We are now getting ready for State in Boise. I am a little nervous for them, Robbie is in a tough weight class and there are some really good boys he wrestle. It is good for him, but I am a mom and I want my boy to win! He handles loosing very well, and as long as he tried his best we are all happy! Kamren has a hard time loosing, he still cries, we are working on that wiht him. He is so emotional and intense that we try to channel that into his wrestling. I am sure they will do just fine.
Eric, Abe and I drove down to Provo last Friday to see Katie, Eric's sister, graduate from BYU. It was a long drive there and back in the same day. Abe was good and we are glad we were able to go and suport her in her accomplishment.
Sunday we woke up to snow...I think spring will never come!

Pinewood Derby

This was our first car, last year we did a rocket! Robbie called and asked the Bishop to help him cut his car out. We painted it and did the decals. All the boys had a great time. I am glad it is over!

Utah Wrestling meet

Some of the R.A.W. team went to Utah to a meet. Here are a few photos of the team members who went and of Kamren and Robbie. Robbie took 7th out of 14 and Kamren took 5th out of 14. The competition is a lot better down there so it was a good thing for the boys to go and wrestle some really tough kids.

Yummy treat....

My good friend Jackie put this on her blog...I have not yet made them as I know I will most likely LOVE them! She said they are fabulous so here is the recipie.


Frozen Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls

INGREDIENTS:
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 tablespoon water
2 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup mini semisweet chocolate chips
3/4 cup chopped walnuts, if desired


DIRECTIONS:
1. Cream the butter and sugar in a mixing bowl. Stir in the vanilla, water, flour, chocolate chips,
and walnuts, if desired, and mix until well blended. (dough will be granulated till rolled together) Roll dough into bite-sized balls. Place on a baking sheet and freeze until firm, about 2 hours. Store balls in resealable plastic bags in the freezer.

*I froze mine on a plate covered with suran wrap.

Sunny California

So, it has been a while since I have had time to post. I don't have time to do pictures this time, but I hope to get them up over the weekend. Robbie and Kamren are in wrestling, again! So our weekends are shot and the week is so darn busy. A couple of weekends ago there was a big competition at the Holt Arena in Pocatello, it was two days of wrestling. I took the boys on Friday since Eric had to work and I ended up helping at the tables...this was interesting with Abraham, but it worked out. Robbie was eliminated on Friday and I think he was a little frustrated with himself. He did a good job, but has some really tough competition. Kamren made it to Saturday and ended up taking 2nd in his division. He won another trophy! YIKES. Eric and I ran a table on Saturday, so we had to stay till the end of the competion. I think the boys had a great time.
This past week we went to California to see Emily and Mitch's baby girl Olivia. Emily is Erics sister for those who don't know. We met Katie, Eric's other sister in Wells Nv. and drove her down with us. We had to wait for an hour for her to get there as they did not listen to Eric on what time to leave. It was a blast waiting in a gas station with four boys who were already tired of being in a car!
Anyhow, we were on our way and had a pretty uneventful drive down, thank goodness. We packed in a lot over the weekend, the zoo, bird watching, riding bikes and scooters, visiting Grandma Larsen, going to Church, going to a movie...and just being together. Olivia is a doll and has so much dark hair. She is a good baby and I'm so happy for Emily and Mitch.
Katie announced she and Ian are having a baby in October. WOW! We are finally going to have some cousins on the Larsen side! The boys are excited about that.
The weather was wonderful and traffic was horrible. I don't really miss Calf. enough to move back. The drive home Abe was fussy pretty much the entire way. We dropped Katied off at Wells, again waiting about an hour for Ian to pick her up, but it was good for the boys to be out of the car for a bit. But it did make our trip longer!
We are happy to be home and back in the grove of things. Oh, it snowed yesterday! I wanted to be back in the sun of Calf. All the snow had melted and I was so happy. Then yesterday it snowed about 2-3 inches. I guess spring is a ways off for us in good ol' eastern Idaho!