What a fun weekend....the boys finally find their Easter treats....I'll bet Tucker and Tarrik walked right by their surprises at least a couple of times...I guess they thought they would be hidden more...

 The little girls find their surprises from the Easter Bunny...So soft---those pillow pets....

 Coloring the eggs....Aunt Ann's brown eggs really do make wonderful colors for the eggs...

 Our sweet Tyanne is going to be having her birthday next week, but we slipped in a little cake and some candles....Now this is how we came up with 10--Add the 1 plus the 2 = 3----then add 3 = 6---then add 4 = 10....By hook or crook we got the right number!

 The first of the lambs----these little guys weren't there with I left to go to town about 9:30 a.m.--but, by the time I got home at 11:00 a.m.---here they were jumping and frolicking in the field and chasing after their mama....baa, baa, baa....lots more lambs coming in the next couple of weeks...stay tuned...

Elder Rowley has returned!!!!  Joey was so excited to see his "Little Brother."  (All I can say is that the airplane must have had a "heck of a" tail wind....the plane was 20 minutes early....)

 Joey gets a good "head rubbin'"

 Mom get a hug....

 Grandma and Grandpa couldn't be more proud....

 Joey gets more hugs...these brothers really have missed each other...The girls said Joey hasn't slept for a week now....I told him that he'd better sleep now or Jacob will be giving him a "thump" on the head for keeping him awake.

 On the phone with Cousin Travis...

 Huuummmm.....can we get all this luggage in?

Welcome Home, Elder Rowley!!!!

It's a lovely afternoon here in Shumway!!!  Relatively warm and very little WIND...Grandpa has been very busy getting his raised beds and the potatoe bins filled with dirt, fertilizer and top soil.  

 These are the potatoe bins...Grandpa says it's a little early to plant the potatoes, but we are looking forward to this new method....here's hoping...

 Watering the raised beds....

 Walla-Walla and Spanish Yellow onions..

Naia and Jade have their field trips this year in a couple of weeks.  Naia is going to a pioneer village and Jade is going to the historical museum.  

 A special blessing day for baby Makenna Pearl...Jock and Pierre ("the boys") are feeling picked on - Haley and Grandpa trying to play with them through the window.

 Aunt Lorraine, Uncle Roy and their most of their family.

 Grandparents and mom and dad with sweet Princess Makenna..

 Great-grandma and Great-grandpa...

 Uncle Bob with baby

 Aunt Marilee with Makenna

 Stephie

 Heather and Lorraine and Stephie fixed a delicious dinner..really yummy...

 Haley especially liked the cute napkins...

 Great-grandma made the "little girls" some darling twirling skirts--so cute on cute  girls...

 Davey Buttons on the bottom....hee hee...

 This chair has rocked lots of babies...It belonged to my grandpa and I've been rocked many an hour in this chair...it was at Aunt Lorraine's for years and years and rocked many sleepy kidos there...now it is in Baby Makenna's nursery...still holding up great and now rocking another generation...Ellie feels right at home in it, too.  One can do some serious "napping" in this chair....

 "There's snow in them thar hills"....spring storms in Arizona can be very interesting.  The house was really cold when we got home...about 56' in the living room...Grandpa built a fire in the stove downstairs, we started the fireplace and the pellet stove and soon were cozy and warm...A really fun weekend.  Thanks, all...

The lawn sprinklers come on at 4:00 a.m.  I'm thinking it was a little nippy this morning...probably close to the 28' they were talking about....burrrrrr  --the sun in shining brightly though, perhaps it will warm up nicely today and perhaps the wind won't blow.....hhuuuummmmm...

Boy, is it quiet around here.....We sure miss you girls and the grands!!!!  But, Conference is wonderful!! Hope you enjoy as well.  I think I'll try a new recipe for cinnamon rolls this afternoon...although I still don't have much strength in my arm --a result of these "dang" shingles....oh, yeh, I'm trying to have a good attitude about the pain...mostly it's just a complete inconvenience...and you know how I am about inconvenience....

Inside Blooms....

Outside Blooms

Grandpa is working on a raised bed and the potatoe "bin" - I'll take some photos of that when he gets a little more done.  Yesterday we got a pallet of manure and a pallet of garden soil to put in the beds...sound like a plan - doesn't it?