Easter 2015

 Hawkins Family Annual Easter Egg Hunt - Missing JD and Kiana this year :(

 Rhett

 Laiklie

 Dallin

 Oakley and Macady helping Paityn

 And this cute little baby Memory with her mommy and dad....and of course grandpa!

 Everyone checking out their findings.  So fun! I love Easter and our family traditions.  Another tradition is Elderly Baskets.  The kids love putting together treats and then running the plates of goodies to the doors of our dear elderly neighbors. This year we delivered 17 plates of goodies.  They love the hugs and smiles that they get from the elderly.  I love the lesson of service it teaches them and the joy I know it brings to those lonely on the holiday.

 This year Easter and General Conference fell at the same time.  Yay!! There is no better way to spend Easter Sunday then listening to a living Prophet of God.  We are so blessed!

Spring Break

We loved spring break! We needed the break so bad! We hung out, slept in, went to the movie, did some antler hunting and on the weekend went to Utah for a volleyball tournament.  We took the three littles with us and all we heard about on the way there was, "WHEN DO WE GET TO SWIM?"

 They swam and swam!

 The volleyball team climbed in Friday night too after 4 hours of ball.

 These girls are so fun! Their coach this year is a young college student and the girls love her! She didn't feel well and was sitting on the edge of the pool, the girls started splashing her so she (fully clothed) jumped in and started taking them down.  They got her back by corning her with their endless splashing.  Lucky for her one of the girls dads cannon balled in to help her.  Hilarious! So much fun!

 The facility the tournament was at was AMAZING! It had raquet ball, soccer, basketball, a track, batting cages and so much more.  For $1 they let the kids rent a ball of any sort and they could go back and forth trading it in and getting a new ball for a different area.  They loved it and didn't want to leave when the tournament was over!  A great spring break for everyone!

 Hawkins, Barrie's and Hammer kids enjoying some McDonalds!

And one VERY EXHAUSTED girl! I absolutely LOVE watching her play ball!

Antler Hunting

Over spring break one of the things the kids wanted to do was to go antler hunting at the ranch.  What a great idea! We haven't ever done this together and loved it so much the first day we went back another day too!

 We hiked until the kids could see the cabin and the girls had to pee so bad they decided to hike into the cabin instead of back to the suburban and drive around to it.  So I hiked back alone and sent the kids on their way.  It ended up being a super long walk because Oakley thought Dallin got the hidden key for the big cabin on his way past it and he thought she did so they ended up doubling back...both mad at each other of course. :)

 The first time we went we found several bones....like this one Rhett is pretending to be a tail of some sort, but the only antlers we found was one I found and this one that Laiklie found.  The next time we went Laiklie was the only one to find any! The boys didn't think that was fair.  Girls are just better at finding things than boys! True story! Hahaha!