Poor Jayce

While we were in Overton, Jayce was still trying to get over being sick. He was the last of the three kids to get sick and he had stayed home from school 4 days the week before because of it. Jayce went through 3 boxes of tissue (no joke)while we were in Overton. Colton and Megan each had earaches that kept them up at night while we were there. Luckily they got over them without antibiotics. While playing with a punch ball, he got hit in the face maybe by the rubber band and hurt his eye. We never found anything in it but he cried and cried saying it hurt. He must have gotten scratched or something. We'll never know. He could not open it and the sun/light especially hurt it. The hurt eye sure made the nose run. Poor guy. He wore the patch for 2 days and then it was better.

As stated before, the eye didn't keep him from 4-wheeling. We had to pack a lot of tissue for him though.

Jayce asked me, "Why does everything always happen to me?"

4-wheeling in Overton,NV

We spent a lot of time 4-wheeling during our visit with Grandpa and Granny Clark in Overton, NV. One day we road over 40 miles! The kids couldn't get enough. Even though Jayce had a sore eye he wasn't about to be left behind.

We saw a lot of beautiful scenery. One day we rode to the Virgin River. Not much water.

We rode the Logandale Trails and saw lots of red rock and caves to climb in.

We hunted for geocaches while 4-wheeling too. We put in a trackable coin and took out a presidential gold dollar. We saw at least 5 different kinds of cactus. Some looked very wicked and scared me to have the kids too close for fear they would fall on it and get hurt.

And there were lizards everywhere. The horny toad lizard was the most interesting and was camouflaged in the dirt. It froze still when we got close to it. Gramps was even able to pick it up with a stick under it's belly.

Easter

This year we went to Overton, Nevada to spend Easter with Blake's parents. This was also conference weekend so we hunted for eggs before and between sessions. Of course, the Easter Bunny hid eggs for the kids and then they had fun hiding them for each other. During conference, a close family friend, George Keele from Gardnerville,NV was announced as one of the new area seventies. That was exciting for us to hear.

The kids sure had fun coloring and decorating eggs with Granny.

Easter Bunny brought games, puzzles and books this year and cute beanies for Megan.