The Hunger Games

 So as we all probably know, everyone was really excited for The Hunger Games to be released. Our city was just as excited as everyone else. They had a fun pre-movie event out at Stadium 10 with bouncy slides, and booths, and even archery. 

 The archery was free for everyone to try and they even let our little kiddies have a go. Look at this big boy wield a bow like a pro! 

 Dex taking his turn. I'm guessing the sun was in his eye. 

 There he goes! They both actually did a pretty good job. I got a turn, too. It was super fun. 

Then, I went to the midnight showing with Derek and Cristina. Brian hasn't read the books and kindly stayed at home with our boys. The movie was great! And even though this was a while ago and probably not all that important actually, it was fun and I just had to post the pics of my little archer boys! 

Visit From the Matthews

 OK. So I found my camera cable and am going to do a little bit of catch up. I'm only going to get the biggest stuff because it has just been such a long time. And this tower is a little older, so it takes a while to load up this many pictures. Here is the first big thing that I missed. Way back during the first part of March, my sister and her family came all the way from Texas to visit for Spring Break. It was so much fun to see them after such a long time. We went to Judd's for some yummy breadsticks...

 ...after we took the whole clan to the Temple visitor's center. There were 9 kids and they all behaved beautifully. It turned out to be quite the unexpectedly enjoyable activity.

 One day we went to the sand dunes and Brian buried EVERYONE!! Derek. 

 Dexy

 A moments pause from digging massively deep holes for a picture with his wifey. Resume the digging and burying.

 Alice

 Me

 Ollie

 Really EVERYONE! But that's just too many pictures to upload. He dug and dug and dug like this for the longest time. Then we'd time everyone to see how long it took them to get out. It was so funny to watch. Not only were we there and the Matthews were there, but my uncle Rob's family was there and they got in on the digging and burying action, too. We stayed there for hours and had the most lovely time! 

 The kids all played so nicely. Here's Emily kindly working with Dexy as he names his pictures from nursery that week. They've always been kind of good little quiet friends. 

Hadley and Ollie spent a lot of time dragging their trikes up the hill entry to our complex and then riding them down the hill at full speed. 

 We also went with them to one of the coolest parks around town.

 It's so much fun because all ages of people can play at this park. We had a blast spending time with our long lost Matthews cousins. 

 Before it was all over, Ben rode with us and got himself caught in an Ollie Dexy Smooch Sandwich. Too cute!! We miss them and hope we'll get to see them again soon! 

I Am Not Dead!

Nor have I fallen off the face of the earth. Just the face of the internet. Our computer crashed 2 months ago and we have been without, except for the time that my nice brother let us use theirs. That didn't leave much time for blogging, though, especially since I usually forgot to bring my camera with me anyway. A very nice man who Brian goes to school with tried to fix our tower, but to no avail. The hard drive was just completely shot. Then my also nice parents were coming down to work out some job stuff (they are returning to good old St. George) and brought us their old computer. Yay!! I will now be attempting a massive catch up. Although, currently this computer is seeming unable to read my big, fatty memory card. Maybe it grew up in a time when memory cards this big didn't exist. And it seems that I'm also going to have to remove my Harry Potter quote of the day because it can't seem to handle that either. Shucks! So perhaps the massive catch up will begin tomorrow when I will have found the camera cable. Hopefully that route will work.  Until then, just rest assured that at least I have not died.