I still feel like I am playing catch up in my blog posts. While I was in Idaho for Spring Break I got to take some pictures for my family. The first set I took were of my niece's new little one Brynlee. She was adorable and sweet and almost made me want another one...almost. I am glad my family lets me practice on them!! Thanks Hayley for letting me snap some pics of your little miss.
About a week ago Ryan and I made a trip out to Maryland to find a house to rent for our next adventure called fellowship. My angel of a mother watched our kids and we got a few days to ourselves. In addition to searching for rentals and filling out applications we did get to see some sights. The Washington DC temple is one of the sights we had to see. This will be the first time in our married life where we will be close (and I mean closer than 1.5-2 hrs) to a temple. Hopefully with it being closer and Ryan supposedly having better hours we can make it to the temple more often.
The US Capitol building. With an overwhelming amount to see in downtown DC, Ryan and I basically walked around and saw what there was to see and made mental notes of what we wanted to come back to see another time, or actually another 50 times.
Washington Monument with Capitol in background.
The White House
The Lincoln Memorial
To finish up our time in Idaho for Spring Break I needed to post these pictures of Wyatt down with Papa checking on one of the new babies. Wyatt had "needed" (he was bored and making life misrable for everyone else) to go for a walk so he and I went off down the hill to see what we could see and we found Papa working in the corral checking on the new mama cow and her baby. Well Wyatt had to be where Papa was.
Up on the fence he went like he had been doing it all of his life. He started jabbering to the baby calf and thinking it was pretty cool to be down with Papa.
This mama was not so sure about us hanging around.
I wanted to get a closer look and so I traipsed through mud and muck to get up close and personal. Mama didn't like me being so close and started literally growling at me. Baby was curious but the look on his face seems to be saying "back off ."
You may remember me mentioning that Meysa got a camera for Christmas. Here is proof Papa Don that she indeed does use it, just at the wrong times. Like when she is suppose to be going to bed. I found her camera the other day and was curious to see what she found interesting enough to take pictures off. These seven pictures were the only ones on her card along with some videos of her singing (they were too dark or I would have posted them as well). I about peed my pants laughing so hard. We have a twit of a girl on our hands I am afraid. I think the pictures speak for themselves. Enjoy the laugh!!!
The highlight of the week for Ayden was getting to "hunt" with his cousins Porter and Preston. It was also a learning experience for him. He hasn't had quiet the experience that the other boys have had with BB guns. Porter and Preston both shot a rabbit and Ayden was trying really hard to get the hang of shooting at a stationary target let alone one that moves...fast. After the hunt all the kids got a lesson in skinning and gutting and how to prepare and take care of the meat. We wanted to teach the boys that while it is fun to shoot it also comes with the responsibility of not wasting. 
After another day of trying to get a rabbit with no such luck. Ayden was frustrated because he couldn't hit anything. So Papa helped him get a target set up and helped him sight in the gun and then the target practicing commenced. 
There isn't anything better than getting one on one instruction from Papa. I even got to shoot a little when Ayden wasn't hogging the gun!!
Of course little man was not about to be left out of the fun. He followed Papa around ready for his turn to become a man. 