The hunt is on!

Easter egg hunt at our house Easter Sunday with my side of the family. We had a nice dinner and then the hunt.

Easter egg hunt at Grandma Sharons on the Sat. before Easter. The gold and silver eggs had $2 in them.

Spring break we went camping/4wheeling with our friends the Sweats near Topaz Mountain by Delta.

Josh and Shawn 4wheeling up a really steep trail. Josh almost fliped backwards going up a large rock. He quickley threw his weight to the front of the 4wheeler just in time before he rolled backwards.

We found so many old mines.


The kids found so many cool rocks.

Kids trying to hide in the holes they dug. And hiking around old cabins. Sadie, Hayden, Hadlee,and Shancee on 4 wheelers. They got to drive them more than we did.

Easter Egg hunt at our campground. And kids digging holes for fun.

These pictures are taken at Porter Rockwells ranch.

Hayden's 1st grade program. They sang a lot of songs about what they'll be when they grow up. His was a cowboy. They did the cutest cowboy dance.

Sadie at the Thanksgiving Point Clogging Tournement. She took 1st place on her solo performance.
The other two girls are her friends Hadlee and Berkleigh.

The main reason for our trip to the "Big Easy" was for the Sugar Bowl. And our beloved UTES WON!!! The two crazy ute fans in the picture with us is my brother Derek and his friend Travis. Derek is the one with the black U on his face.
The Alabama fans were very nice after the game giving us congrats.

LOOK! Real swamp hillbillies!

We took a swamp tour in New Oreleans also. We saw 6 alligators.

French Quarter. The last house that is hard to see is of the LaLaurie house. I have read so much about it and have always wanted to see it and of course we ended up seeing it in the rain. The history of this house is of a Doctor and his wife the Lalauries. While they were living there (early 1800's) the house caught on fire by one of the slaves and when the fire dept and police came they discovered many slaves in the attic that had been tortured and had weird experiments done on them. they said it was the most gruesome sight they had ever seen. They arrested the Doctor but his wife had escaped never to be seen again.
It was a eerie house. People are living in it right now too.

We went to New Orleans after Christmas with my whole family for the Sugar Bowl. We spent 5 days there. One of the days we took a city tour and one of the stops were at one of the cemeterys there. Very cool.

On the tour we also went to one of the devestating areas that Katrina hit. We couldn't beleive the damage it had caused. There were homes completely gone and many abandoned because of black mold damage. We could see the water marks from where the water had sat for weeks on the houses, street signs and buildings. These pictures are of some of the damaged homes. The nice blue house is one of the homes Brad Pitt had helped to build for the victims.