9 Years

April 22nd, Talin turned 9 years old. We headed to the valley for Easter weekend with family and decided to invite everyone to the park to help us consume his massive chess cake.

Are all 9 year olds this silly all the time? Mine is. I still love him, but he makes us all crazy.

Talin, Ryder, Wyatt & Noah.

We had lots of cousins come and play and eat cake.

Wesley, Talin, Ryder & Wyatt.

It's crazy to think he's 9!
Time is really flying by, it seems like just yesterday he was my only baby.

Wyatt, Reagan, Collin & Davyn.

Wesley's awesome wrapping job. Who needs a ribbon when you've got painters tape?

Caleb & Savannah.

This picture is significant because Savvy usually does not like Caleb and finds him to be quite annoying, which I totally understand. But I think they bonded.

They put the soccer ball to good use at the park. Especially with the army of children around.

Squirt gun from Grandma and Grandpa Chambers. They had lots of fun with this.

Our family is so blessed to have Talin in our family. Despite his silliness, he's always trying to do the right thing and he brings a beautiful spirit into our home. I love you Talin and am proud of the older brother you are and the example you are to our family. You are so smart and I often call you the "absent-minded professor" because you're so busy dreaming and coming up with brilliant ideas all the time that you don't have the time for life's little details. You make you're mother crazy, but I look forward to watching all your creations and ideas come to life over the years. I love you like crazy!

Easter Sunday

From Left to Right: Standing-Wesley, Noah, Caleb, Talin, Savannah, & Wyatt. Sitting-Reagan, Ryder, Collin & London
Our crazy Easter gang. Mine, Tyler's and Mandi's kids.
It was great food and company.

Just in Time for Easter

The night before we left Cedar City, Shane told Tom and I that he had a little piece of Utah for us to take home. 4 Baby Chicks.

My boys were beyond thrilled.

It took me awhile to find my manners and say, thank you?

So they chirped and chirped the whole 10 hour drive home.

Thank you.

But we've grown to love them and even bought two more expecting some to not make it through their chick phase. But they're all super healthy and chirpy and fast.

You should see Caleb catch them, it's hilarious.

Tom did an awesome job building the chicken coop. It turned out great. I painted. We make a perfect team, he builds, I paint.

Although I ran out of white paint, I need it for the roof.

He even built openings to reach in and grab the eggs everyday.

They love their new home. Probably just happy to get out of the box they were living in. They grow so quickly.

Talin keeps telling everyone that we're going to have "farm fresh" eggs by July.

And Tom's cute butt. He's actually throwing the chicks down the ramp.

Cedar City

I am seriously the worst picture taker ever when I go up to Utah for an Adair family visit. I have no cousin pictures, no Pirate Pizza pics, no swimming pics, no quad riding pics, no play night pics, you get the picture, or not. I did get my camera out and snapped this shot when we visited the St. George Temple. The kids loved going through the visitor's center and watching the movies.

And I managed to take plenty of snake pictures. This is Andee's boa, Rango (I think that's his name, he had like five different names).

Caleb was enthralled.

Talin and Collin begged to hold him everyday.

Tom and Caleb at the property with the donkeys. It was cold. So I literally took this picture and went back to the house.

JoDee and I always have something we make while I'm there, and this time it was a Cub Scout cake for her wards Cub Scout Cake Auction.

We thought it was going to taste divine, so we made Shane buy it.

It really wasn't divine, but worth the contribution for the scouts.

Overall we had a great week playing and hanging out, drinking Pepsi, playing monopoly and letting the kids run wild.

And I'll have to post about Uncle Shane's departing gift to the boys.

Super exciting.

"A little piece of Utah", as he put it.