Easter

We had a great Easter!! The Easter Bunny found the kids. After church Chad's parents and two of his sisters came over for dinner and a Easter egg hunt. Some of Caden' s buddies (Brennon and Keaton Romrell ) were walking by during our egg hunt so they came and joined us. The kids all had a ball finding eggs, when they found all of them they would give the eggs to their dads to hide again.



Caden and Chase in their Easter outfits, ready for church.

Caden on a mad dash to an Easter egg during our Easter egg hunt.

Chase and Aunt Kori enjoying the nice weather.

Chase and Caden's Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny. Chase got a book and summer outfits. Caden got golf clubs and golf balls. They both got supper cute outfits for church.

Keaton, Caden and Brennon with the easter eggs they found.

Kasey, Kori and Chad (Chad's Sisters) relaxing!!

Chase 5 months

Chase is 5 1/2 months and man has he grown, I bet he is almost 20 pounds. April 5 Chase officially slept through the night form 8pm to 6:30am, he has slept through most nights since. Waking up every couple of hours is a nice stage to be done with. Now he is going to be starting baby food I am not to excited about this, the smell just makes me gag. Our little guys is growing fast.

Campout in Zions

Last weekend we went camping up in Zion National Park. It is about 25 min from our house, and in the last 5 years that we have lived here we have probably been there 4 times. Sad I know we will be going more now that Caden is getting older and is getting into hiking and camping. We had a good time, we went with some friends Eric and Maranda Miller and their kids Maya and Gavin. Chad and Eric use to work together. They look like they could be brothers and have a lot of the same interest like hunting fishing and shed hunting(looking for deer horns). They have been spending a lot of time together lately and decided to get their families together and venture into the outdoors. We just bought and new tent this year(one big enough for our family of 4) and are hoping to start camping more. I have great memories of camping trips when I was young and hope my kids will have the same. We had a fun time, we thought the wind was going to blow our tent down in the night, but other than that it was great!

Caden waking up from the night!

Chase sound asleep! He did really well in the night only woke up once, ate and went right back to sleep.

Caden, Gavin and Maya

Our little family waiting for dinner to cook!

Eric and Maranda!! Great picture I know but it is the only one I took of them. I hope they don't see this!

Caden at the Dentist

Caden had his first real dentist appointment yesterday. I took him when he was almost two to the dentist Chad and I go to but they didn't do much I don't think they even looked in his mouth. That appointment consisted of riding up and down in the chair and picking out of the prize box, needless to say I was disappointed I thought he was getting a real check-up. This time I took him to Dr. Scholzen a child dentist and he did a great job. Caden didn't like it much and was throwing a fit so he had to sit on Chad's lap and lay back on the Dentist for his x-rays and check up. It took everything Chad had to hold his arms and body he is one tough kid. Caden survived the cleaning and the x-rays showed he had NO cavities so I was excited. Maybe one day he might mellow out and actually let the dentist look in his mouth without being held down, but it is not looking like anytime soon.


Caden after his check up with his balloon and book he got for being so brave!

Dr. Scholzen, Chad and Caden getting x-rays! Poor Kid!!

Grandpa and Grandma Erickson came to visit!

My parents came to visit last weekend, Grandpa and Grandma Erisquin as Caden would say. We had a great time it was fun to see them since we haven't been able to since Christmas. They live in Wyoming so we don't get to see each other and much as I would like. We went shopping, hiking, and had a little camp out. Well Chad, Grandpa and Grandma had a camp out, we wanted to go camping but decided 40 degrees at night might be to cold for Chase. We set the tent up in the backyard so Caden could still sleep out, well he lasted 10 minutes and was in the house with me and Chase so my parents and Chad slept out. We went up to Red Cliffs campground on Saturday and went hiking up to the pools of water, then went and roasted hot dogs and smores in the fire at the camp ground. It was a lot of fun and was good to spend time with my parents. Thanks for coming we love you guys!!!


Chad, Caden and Grandpa climbing up a big rock!

Grandma, me and Caden roasting our hot dogs. Grandma 's hot dog fell off her stick in the fire, she got it out brushed it off and ate it, insisting that that was the way she likes them BURNT!

Caden and Grandpa on a old tree stump that looked like a dinosaur, so of course they had to ride it.

Grandma and Chase sitting on the side of a big rock watching everyone play in the water.

OUR BIG BOY CHASE!!

Chase is 4 months old now!! I took him in for his checkup and 2nd set of shots, he weighs 17lb 3oz and is 25 1/2 inches tall. He is in the 85% for weight and 65% for height. We just have big boys what can I say. Caden weighted 17lb 6oz and was 26 1/2 inches tall at four months so they are very close to the same size. I also think they are looking more like each other the old Chase gets, Chase has the darker complexion and eyes but they both have big heads and big frames (future football players). Chase is so fun and has started to giggle last week, he has only done it twice but we know he can. He also rolled over once from his stomach to his back not on purpose I am sure but he did it. Chase started eating cereal at nights, what a mess I don't know if he doesn't like it or just natural instinct but he spits it out faster than I can put in. We will keep trying to give it to him it has only been two days since we started. Chad pulled out our jumper and Chase seem to really like to chill in that, he doesn't jump of course but he will grab at the toys that are on it and watch the lights flash and listen to the music. Caden of course gives him a few pushes in it as well and he seems to be fine with it. Chase is getting so big and fun to play with, Caden tells him everyday "I love you so much Chaser" Chad and I feel the same. What a blessing these sweet little kids are and how boring life would be without them.
We love you Chaser!!!!

Bad Luck!!

These last couple of months we have had bad luck with our electronics. Our computer and TV(bulb) went out the week before Christmas. We got those fixed and went to take pictures at Cadens birthday Dec 23rd and my camera wasn't holding the charge and has been acting weird ever since. Luckily Chad's parents gave us a new camera for Christmas, Thanks guys we needed it!! Chad and my cell phones screens went black with in 3 days of each other the week after Christmas. We went a bought those cheep go phone from Wal-Mart and put our sin card in those until we made it to January 12th for our upgrade. Got new phones put insurance on them Feb 9th and thought we we were set. Last Friday I went to Arbys drive through and got a drink and on my way home I went to take a drink and the lid wasn't on my cup tight and spilled all over the cup holders which happened to be where my phone was. You guessed it my phone doesn't work now!! I called to make a claim with our insurance to get a new phone and they said that it has only been 20 days since we got insurance and they don't cover anything until 30 days. So I am back to my cheep go phone until I figure out what to do. I am going to call back after the 30 days and see if they will cover then but who knows. So if you call me and I don't have good service and I sound like I am under water now you know why. To top it all off the last 3 weeks our printer has a warning sign blinking and wont let us print anything, we just cant win.