I can't believe the kids have finished(and survived) their first year of school in Vegas! Brooklyn was a cute little sheep in her class play-so cute! Papa then made an quick trip to vegas so we went to Hoover Dam and checked out the progress on the bridge they are building over the canyon-it is truely AMAZING! Brooklyn was given a "superhero" award. They rolled out the red carpet and she got the award and a picture with the Principal in a tux! Now the kids are finished with school, baseball, swimming, and dance, and the temperatures rising-I guess we'll have to visit Idaho!!

We finally have grass!!! It was quite the project. Since our fence is a brick wall with only one little gate to go through, everything had be hauled in and out one wheelbarrow full at a time! First we had to haul out the rock that completely filled the backyard,then Todd dug the trenches for the sprinkler system by hand with a pik-he bent it cuz the ground is so so hard! Putting in the system took, uh-30 minutes! Then we hauled topsoil from the truck to the backyard(I think they got it straight from the cow!)The neighbors were LOVING us when we started this phase. Finally we were able to put the sod down. The kids were so excited-it was as if they had never seen grass before! Now hopefully we can keep it growing in the desert!

Cute Easter Day

April 2009

We had so much fun this past month! We started the month with vacation(pictures still lost in the broken camera), and then Easter with Grandma and Grandpa C. Then the Utah Romriell's came for a quick visit. We had so much fun, we went to a park and climbed to the top of the "mountain" , and had a great view of the valley! Then we went to Pole Position to ride go carts, and then off to Taylor's baseball game-where he pitched a great couple of innings! Sunday we took a drive to the Temple through a shady part of Vegas-good times!!! Now that things have settled down we are working on our backyard, which was rock and cement. Todd is now trying to intstall a sprinkler system-6 sprinkler heads shoud cover it! Quite different from our last system!