Fun in the sun!

I got a new job and started yesterday so we decided to take last Thursday and Friday off and head down to sunny Mesquite. We were there for one day and Kenz called and said they were on their way down. Surprise! Brig had to deliver soap so they thought they'd come to Mesquite for a couple days, then head to Vegas.

The kids had a great time with Kenzie and they all wanted race the go carts! It was quite the track and as you can tell, Lance is having just as much fun as they are. Him and Kenzie had a fierce competition going, but I think she won! I of course creamed them all the first race so that's why I had to sit this one out!

It's a Girl, and a Boy and a Boy and a Girl!

Okay so really I have no idea what they are, but Maisey's eggs hatched! Lance and I were in the front yard working and he noticed Maisey was not in the garden. He took a second look and saw that the eggs had hatched. There were 4 adorable little black and yellow fuzzy ducks!! I ran inside to get the camera and before I could come back, Maisey did. And was she ever pissed! We tried to get pictures of the little ones, but she was sitting on them and we could barley see them. If you look close in the last picture you can see one poking out from in front of her.


I seriously called my family tonight to tell them the news and they were so excited! Albeit not quite as excited as me. Hmmmm....


These two show the broken eggs:

This one shows the little guy right in front of her:

S'mores anyone?

The weather is finally warming up so we decided to have a cookout at Pa's! He has a beautiful back yard and it was a perfect night. The kids played, cooked and roasted some marshmallows. I can't wait for summer!

Ahhh, another picture to show the dates!

Maisey!

So I had to name the duck. I mean really, there she is in our garden ALL DAY LONG just sitting on eggs. It would be rude not to name her. So, her name is Maisey! I think it's the perfect name for a duck and she really likes it. We're getting closer to the eggs hatching and she is still just as feisty! She did leave once and we got a quick picture of the eggs. I read (shocker huh?) that if you get too close or touch the eggs, she will abandon them. That would suck. Although I did hatch a chicken in an incubator in 4th grade and raised that cute little thing so I am sure I could hatch 4 duck eggs, right? Hmmm, I think I'll leave that up to Maisey.

She is quite camouflaged. Maybe that's why she picked us.

What the DUCK?!

It's Easter morning and Tevin goes out front to play. As he jumps from the front porch to the lawn, over the garden, he is met by a very angry duck!! She stands up and hisses at him and spreads her wings. I had no idea that ducks hiss, but do they ever! He comes inside to tell us and we all run out to see that a duck has indeed laid eggs in our garden....and on Easter nonetheless.

Needless to say, I immediately needed to know more about ducks and when those cute little ducklings were going to hatch. I read up on ducks and was pretty annoying with my duck facts for a few days. We have a pretty good idea of when the eggs should hatch so we'll just keep on waiting....for 28-32 days :)

Eggselent!

We died Easter Eggs yesterday and the kids seemed to thoroughly enjoy it. They said they wanted to dye a ton of eggs so we boiled more than 36 eggs. That's a lot of eggs between two kids! We helped them out a bit though.

They thought the stickers...and they...were cool.

I simply cannot wait to show some of these pictures to Tanner's dates:

Let's Get Ready to Party!

We have been in our house for 3 months and decided it was time to finally throw our house warming party we had been talking about for so long. We invited a bunch of our good friends and so many of them came! Also, Rick was in town which was great!! The biggest surprise of the night is that Michelle, my work friend from Dallas and her husband showed up! They came into town to go skiing with some friends and came to the party. It was such a nice surprise and so fun to see her and meet her husband. We have the best...and most fun friends! The night was a huge success and so fun! We did get short sheeted, but were too smart to be fooled by it ;) Sorry Dale and Steve!