DARWIN is on his 12th year of teaching, currently at Springville High School teaching astronomy, geology, environmental science, and physics. He also teaches physics at UVU for a 7 week STEM summer school program for junior high students. He also teaches teenagers in our church ward. He's super busy, but still makes time to be an awesome dad and husband.
March 26, 2016
This year we decided, somewhat last minute, to take the girls to a nearby city Easter egg hunt the day before Easter. It was 7:00am when we decided we'd go, and the race started at 9:00am. With 5 people to get ready, we were rushing to get there on time, but we made it! The race was extra exciting because we woke up that morning to snow on the ground! It actually made the eggs easier to see on the ground. There were tons of people there! The city had different areas designated for different age groups to make the "race" more fair. Our girls were in separate age groups this time so Darwin and I split up. He took Savannah and I had Aurora and Talmage with me.
This year we decided, somewhat last minute, to take the girls to a nearby city Easter egg hunt the day before Easter. It was 7:00am when we decided we'd go, and the race started at 9:00am. With 5 people to get ready, we were rushing to get there on time, but we made it! The race was extra exciting because we woke up that morning to snow on the ground! It actually made the eggs easier to see on the ground. There were tons of people there! The city had different areas designated for different age groups to make the "race" more fair. Our girls were in separate age groups this time so Darwin and I split up. He took Savannah and I had Aurora and Talmage with me.
Savy girl ready to get some eggs!
Go get 'em, girl!
She got lots of eggs (like 7, or so)!
Rori ready to get some eggs in our section.
The older kids were a little more aggressive. I told Aurora to just run to the middle, thinking she'd get more eggs if she could get there quickly. Turns out, that's what everyone else did so I had her turn around and get the eggs that all the other kids had missed. She still only got about 5-6 eggs, and the "race" only lasted about 10 seconds total, but the girls had fun.
After the hunt was all done.
Baby Talmage at his first Easter egg hunt :)
I was a little nervous to have him around so many people with him being so little, so we didn't linger after the egg hunt to find to Easter Bunny. The girls were a little sad that they didn't get to see the Easter Bunny, but they got over it pretty quickly.
He's so cute in his little snow suit!
After the egg hunt, we took the kids up to the "doughnut factory" (a.k.a. Krispie Kreme) for some fun, festive Easter doughnuts. They were pretty delish, and very cute!
Later that day, Daddy helped the girls color Easter eggs. They had a blast, as always!
They had a LOT of colors to choose from!
Being so careful!
After the eggs were dry, they got to decorate them. I think this egg had 20 stickers on it :)
March 27, 2016 - Easter Sunday
The girls were very excited to wake up Easter morning to see that the Easter Bunny had in fact found our house. Daddy had told them the night before that the Easter Bunny may have skipped our house because the girls were taking so long getting ready for bed. Thank goodness he came back to our area!
Our cute girls in their pretty Easter dresses.
Rori thought it was pretty funny that the Easter Bunny hid an egg in her shoe. Savy found one in a sock she had left out.
Being silly.
Trying to reach an egg up high! They waited until after church to come home and do the serious egg hunting. We were still finding eggs a few days later!
We thought it would be funny to take a picture of Talmage in his Easter basket. It didn't turn out quite like I pictured in my head (mostly because he is bigger than I pictured he would look in the basket), but it'll do :)
With the bunny ears he got in his basket. Poor kid. We just couldn't help ourselves!
Ready to go to dinner at my cousin's house. My great-aunt, who my kids lovingly call Nanny Sharon, made the hat and booties. He looked so cute!
My parents got this bib for Talmage but Darwin thought it was for him :)
Talmage didn't love wearing it.
Dinner was delicious! We had so much fun visiting and chatting that we didn't get any pictures while we were at dinner, but overall Easter was wonderful.
Most of all, we're so grateful for the sacrifice of our Savior and his glorious resurrection that we celebrate each Easter season.
Happy Easter!
She got lots of eggs (like 7, or so)!
Rori ready to get some eggs in our section.
The older kids were a little more aggressive. I told Aurora to just run to the middle, thinking she'd get more eggs if she could get there quickly. Turns out, that's what everyone else did so I had her turn around and get the eggs that all the other kids had missed. She still only got about 5-6 eggs, and the "race" only lasted about 10 seconds total, but the girls had fun.
After the hunt was all done.
Baby Talmage at his first Easter egg hunt :)
I was a little nervous to have him around so many people with him being so little, so we didn't linger after the egg hunt to find to Easter Bunny. The girls were a little sad that they didn't get to see the Easter Bunny, but they got over it pretty quickly.
He's so cute in his little snow suit!
After the egg hunt, we took the kids up to the "doughnut factory" (a.k.a. Krispie Kreme) for some fun, festive Easter doughnuts. They were pretty delish, and very cute!
Later that day, Daddy helped the girls color Easter eggs. They had a blast, as always!
They had a LOT of colors to choose from!
Being so careful!
After the eggs were dry, they got to decorate them. I think this egg had 20 stickers on it :)
March 27, 2016 - Easter Sunday
The girls were very excited to wake up Easter morning to see that the Easter Bunny had in fact found our house. Daddy had told them the night before that the Easter Bunny may have skipped our house because the girls were taking so long getting ready for bed. Thank goodness he came back to our area!
Our cute girls in their pretty Easter dresses.
Rori thought it was pretty funny that the Easter Bunny hid an egg in her shoe. Savy found one in a sock she had left out.
Being silly.
Trying to reach an egg up high! They waited until after church to come home and do the serious egg hunting. We were still finding eggs a few days later!
We thought it would be funny to take a picture of Talmage in his Easter basket. It didn't turn out quite like I pictured in my head (mostly because he is bigger than I pictured he would look in the basket), but it'll do :)
With the bunny ears he got in his basket. Poor kid. We just couldn't help ourselves!
Ready to go to dinner at my cousin's house. My great-aunt, who my kids lovingly call Nanny Sharon, made the hat and booties. He looked so cute!
My parents got this bib for Talmage but Darwin thought it was for him :)
Talmage didn't love wearing it.
Dinner was delicious! We had so much fun visiting and chatting that we didn't get any pictures while we were at dinner, but overall Easter was wonderful.
Most of all, we're so grateful for the sacrifice of our Savior and his glorious resurrection that we celebrate each Easter season.
Happy Easter!
