Swinging Fun!!

I was so excited when Vance confirmed the thought of there possibly being an infant/children's swing at the playground where we live. The very next day when Vance got home, we immediately took Mason over there before it got dark. He absolutely LOVED it!! It was so much fun to see his reaction. He was not afraid at all. And the higher we pushed him, the harder he laughed. It will be so nice to have that playground here all summer long. I'm sure it will be a daily event to visit the swing and slide. And of course the pool!! (which doesn't open till the end of May.) This nice weather has been so nice. I was out yesterday evening with short sleeves and no jacket, then I wake up to snow. What's up with that? That's Utah for ya! I can't wait for summer and 80* + weather!!

Sandgren Easter Party

Easter Parties!!

This Easter was the best Easter of my entire life. Growing up as a kid, we always had a fantastic Easter and it just got better every year. But this year topped it all. On Thursday night, my family celebrated Easter because Jules had to go out of town Friday morning. We got together at my parent's house and had a huge breakfast feast since that's what we do Easter morning. Then everyone gathered together and just watched Mason go crazy over his basket. My mom then got out a bunch of bubbles for everyone to blow at him, and he LOVED it! He just laid on his back squealing, kicking and flapping his arms while watching the bubbles fly above him and float down and pop in his face. It was adorable! Thanks to grandma and grandpa, the entire family had the best Easter in years! Then Saturday afternoon, Vance's family met in Provo to spend the weekend together. We had FHE that night followed by crazy karaoke that lasted until almost 3am! After a short night of sleep, we got up and had a great breakfast followed by an Easter egg hunt around the yard. Church wasn't until 1:00 which with the circumstances, worked out perfect. During sacrament, Melanie had to pass it down to "wake up" cause we were all so exhausted! We then went back and watched Enchanted. Well, some of us watched it, while most of us slept! Anyways, it was a very fun and relaxing Easter Weekend!

Time to Climb!!

We are more excited than ever for spring and summer to be here. We have found this new passion in our lives; rock climbing. It's mainly Vance's passion, but I love it too! He got his rebates back for REI, and with it, he decided to get me my own pair of rock climbing shoes so there would never be the excuse of me not being able to climb. With the good weather lately Vance was finally able to go bouldering for the first time of the season. He is so excited that he now gets home while it's still light outside so he can go right after work. This photo was taken at a spot up by the temple where he tries to go a couple times a week. He hasn't been able to get me to do much "bouldering" yet. I'm still pretty new at the sport, so I like the security of the rope. He doesn't boulder very high at all, but he's also a lot better than me and way more experienced. Maybe I'll try it next time now that I have good shoes. We'll see!! If anyone ever wants to go rock climbing, Vance would absolutely LOVE to take you. He is always looking for people to go with and he never gets to go as much as he wants. So just let us know!

Bird Watching

Last month we went to the Wildlife Bird Refuge (I think that's the name of it) in Farmington. Tons of Eagles, swans, hawks, and seagulls gather on the iced over lake to eat fish in the small stream that has melted. It is amazing to go watch. At times there are around 150 Bald Eagles there. It just so happens we only got there when there were just a few of them at one time, but it was still awesome to watch them. This one particular day, after I finally had a good camera to take good pictures of them, Mason and I got in the jeep with hopes to have great pictures for Vance when he got home. It worked out great to go in the jeep cause I just let Mason play in the back with all his toys while I sat on the back bench and took pics out the window! This particular picture is of a Bald Eagle snatching a fish right out of the water! I was so excited I got this picture. To the right are more pictures of birds. It was way cool, and I highly recommend going next February. They're only there until the ice melts, so I'm sure they're gone by now.

Afternoon Snack

Almost every afternoon, Mason and I sit down and eat our favorite snack together. Peaches and cottage cheese. I used to hate cottage cheese with a passion, but lately I have grown very fond of it. Although I try not to get into it as much as he does, I now love it! And as you can see by the look on his face (and what's all over his face), Mason loves it too! A day rarely goes by where we don't eat this snack together. I apologize if any of the pictures gross you out, he's only a baby!!

Busy Days

I am usually on the computer a couple times a day checking my e-mail, looking at blogs, updating my blog, etc... But in the last few weeks, I have had so many things going on that I have hardly had the computer on at all. So for those that have been checking my blog, I apologize for it being a while since I last posted anything. I actually have a pretty good excuse. We got this new camera recently that is 10 mega pixels. So Vance does not want to load the pictures onto the lap top. He only wants it on our other computer. However, we only have the Internet on our lap top. So every time we want to e-mail pics, or post pics on the blog, we have to transfer the pictures over. While watching kids all day, it's not that easy to do. And in the evening, Vance is on the lap top doing homework for hours. So that leaves a very small window of time for me to do all this, and I am usually busy doing other things around the house. So it's been crazy, but life has actually been very good to us lately. We have been very blessed. We finally sold our Honda that we have been trying to sell for over six months. That was a HUGE HUGE relief. We also have been financially blessed in many ways. Needless to say, a large amount of our stresses are now non-existent. And this all happened within the last few weeks. So things have seemed to calm down a bit, and have started to return back to normal.