Awards & Date Knight

They had a special Honors awards ceremony at my school.(This is my program director, Tony, who presented me with my awards.) I was chosen as the most outstanding student in my program and was given an award for maintaining a 4.0 GPA.  I thought I should share this for posterity's sake :) and to recognize how blessed I have been and how much help from on high I have been given through this schooling experience.  It has been a crazy adventure, this past semester has flown by, and I am beyond excited to graduate (next month)! Then off to Salt Lake for an extra year of schooling to specialize as a Medical Dosimetrist.

 My amazing little family has been such an incredible support to me. I love them so much!

 At Chick-fil-A they had a special Mother-Son Date "Knight" where we were supposed to dress up. So I was a black and red princess and Dal was my matching black & red knight. We had a great time together. We ate food, played little games, talked, he gave me a rose, and then he played in the play area with some friends from church who were also there. It was a great date with my sweet little Dal.

 Of course Braelyn had to get a picture of me and her and the rose also :) Love that little happy face

Then Braelyn wanted to take over the camera and do a photo shoot of me with the rose, so this is one of the pictures she took :)

Easter & B-Rae Ready For School

For our Family Home Evening before Easter we decorated these eggs Star Wars style. Dal was quite excited about it all :)

On Saturday one of our grocery stores had a candy hunt for the kids. They dumped a whole bunch of shredded paper in a couple of the aisles and then dumped candy in it and then the kids hunted through that. They both had a lot of fun. We also had our own little Easter egg hunt at home, had the missionaries over for dinner, and watched one of those neat Bible videos on lds.org about the resurrection of Christ. It was a great weekend!

On Sunday Braelyn was very excited to wear her "princess dress" to church

A few nights ago Braelyn came walking out of her room looking like this and said she was ready to go to school. (She had 3 babies in her hands along with the balloon. Notice the sweat band around her thigh and she put all of those hair things in herself :) She then went in our room and sat on our bed with her babies and pretended like she was eating breakfast at school. I just love that girl-she is so funny!

Littleton, Baseball, Link & Pink Wigs

The rest of my spring break was spent playing with family in Littleton. It's always fun to be there because there is so much fun family to play with. We had such a great time!

We had fun enjoying the beautiful outdoors

Playing baseball with cousins

My sister-in-law Miriam is very talented at crocheting and while we were there she made Dalyn this amazing crocheted toy Link (from Zelda). He has been wanting a toy Link for a while now so he was beyond excited! It was so sweet of her to do that.

Miriam, Dal & Link

After seeing Dal get his picture taken with Miriam and Link, Braelyn wanted to get her picture taken with Miriam and Pink Baby, so we did :)

While there Braelyn and I got to participate in the ward talent show (She's the short one in the front with the pink wig and I'm behind her in the pink wig) Our group was called "The Not Ready For Prime Time Dancers" Braelyn got really into the dancing. She was so cute and funny.

Here are a couple of short video clips of Braelyn dancing. Doing the blender in the first one and I love the second one of her doing the running man and raising the roof (the video quality is terrible though)

This is what happens when Dal hears music that moves him :)



A 5 second video clip of Braelyn being friendly and saying hi to a little girl she just met at the talent show. She is just too cute sometimes :)

Estes Park, Colorado

I had a nice long Spring Break so for part of it we headed up to the cute little mountain town of Estes Park, CO. It is right at the entrance of Rocky Mountain National Park which is so beautiful. My parents were ready to do something fun too so they met us there. We had soooo much fun! It was such an awesome break from school.

Us walking down the river walk in Estes

They had lots of cute little shops down the main street so we checked them out

Our cute little cabin we stayed at

Dal standing in front of our cabin (look in the trees behind him)

Here is a close up of the deer in the trees behind him (deer and elk seem to hang out all over the place in Estes Park)

We saw these elk that were just hanging out in some open space next to a restaurant (the fence was part of the restaurant parking lot)

Here's a close up of a couple of them

Lake Estes

Entering Rocky Mountain National Park

We drove to Bear Lake and then from there hiked to Nymph Lake. There was a ton of snow (that the kids loved playing in) and the trail was so beautiful and peaceful.

Nymph Lake (ice and snow covered of course)

While there we saw a cool blue bird

Daddy helped Braelyn make a HUGE snowball

After she threw it at Dal (more like dropped it in his lap) he grabbed it and was excited to try to throw it at mommy

We also went up near Sprague Lake where we tried out snow shoeing. It was a lot of fun!

Here are a couple little video clips of Braelyn snow shoeing. She was a natural!

While on our snow shoeing adventure we stopped and built a cool snow fort complete with a couch to sit down on

And a snow tunnel to crawl through

My mom also used some of her artistic skills to make a snow sculpture

More Rocky Mountain National Park

We went to a place called Alluvia Fan. It's where years ago a dam broke and it brought a lot of boulders down the mountain with it. So there are a lot of cool rocks to climb on around there. The kids loved it!

We loved Estes Park and Rocky Mountain National Park. It was so great to enjoy the natural beauty of the outdoors. We definitely want to go back someday.