It's gone!

 Avery & I have been growing our hair out to donate it together. Avery's hair was finally long enough for us to donate! We both have been waiting patiently for her to have 8 inches to donate. Tonight was finally the night. She has been so anxious to have short hair again & I think she looks so beautiful!

 I'm so grateful we were able to do a special type of service together. I would definitely do it again, but for the time being, I'm going to thoroughly enjoy drying 10 inches less of hair!

Jake finally did it!

He lost his first tooth last Wednesday (April 27th)! The first one came out with a few tears (as you can tell from his slightly red eyes). I gave it two good twists, he started crying, but immediately started smiling once I got him to look in my hand. Then he lost another one tonight (with Dad's help, which is a first in this house!)& not even a week later! He has been so bummed that he was the only one in his class that didn't lose a tooth, yet. I'm so happy that he finally lost his first one before the end of the year, so he could sign the tooth poster in his classroom. Yea!

Easter 2011

Coloring eggs

 

Easter morning egg hunt

 

  Wyatt, I'm pretty sure there are no eggs hidden there!

 The annual hunt at the Miller's. This year we had to stay inside, so hiding 135 eggs got a little tough.

 Avery & Lily

 Peep Sushi

 Brynne & Eden

 Some of the kids were brave enough to try eating outside. Brrr!

This boy makes me laugh!

 Here is Wyatt doing P90X. He was trying to do one arm push-ups. I had to stop to grab the camera!

Hmmm. I wonder who colored the front door with blue crayon? Could it have been the boy with the matching blue lips? I should have taken a picture of him scrubbing the door a few minutes later.

Preschool Dairy Tour

 Eden's preschool field trip to the dairy farm was far more uneventful than our last field trip here. Which is a good thing! We didn't have to clean cow poop off of anyone! As you can tell from the pictures, Eden was not a fan of the smell of the dairy. She spent the first half of the field trip gagging, coughing and pulling her shirt up over her nose. Then I think she got use to the smell a little.

 

Eden let the babies suck on her fingers once, but I wasn't fast enough to get a picture & she wouldn't do it again for me. It is a little slobbery, but this is by far my favorite part of the tour. I love the babies!

A few of Avery's dress-up days at school

 Mismatch Day - she totally nailed that one!

Mommy loves Crazy Hair Day!

 

Roman Day - she dressed up as the Roman Goddess Ceres. Ceres was one of the few modest ones!

Our Spring Break trip to California

 These are only a few of MANY pictures, but you get the idea of how much driving we did. We took two days driving down through New Mexico and Arizona to arrive at our first destination, the San Diego Temple. Avery had told us that she wanted to see as many temples as we could on our drive, so we took a few detours to see some, but also had to miss a few temples due to weather.

 We went to Knott's Berry Farm the next day with Eric's sister & her family. We were lucky enough to have Eric's parents & youngest sister to surprise us down there, too! Well, we had a head's up, but the kids were surprised! The kids had so much fun spending time with their cousins they don't see very often.

 The next day & on our way out of Southern California, we stopped at the Los Angeles Temple.

 Then we made a beach stop in Santa Barbara after lunch (at In-N-Out, of course). It was foggy, but I think it made for some cool pictures. I love this one of three generations of Morris boys with near perfect reflections.

 My messy baby boy loved the sand and mud, but wasn't a big fan of the waves.

 Avery is always up for digging & making stuff in the sand & finding bugs.

 Eden went from clean to a churro pretty quickly, but always with a beautiful smile on her face!

 Aunt Jamie's wedding day at the Oakland Temple.

 All 10 of the granddaughters!

 The boys are definitely outnumbered!

 The happy newlyweds!

 Hiking around the Redwoods the day after the wedding.

 Grandma & Grandpa with all of the grandkids.

 Climbing around in the Redwoods & Wyatt with the death grip on my neck.

 We had one relaxing day of watching General Conference before we went to San Fransisco on Monday. We took BART into the city & then took the trolley to Fisherman's Wharf. All of those times to San Fran & this was my first time on a trolley!

 Fisherman's Wharf with sea lions to the left, Alcatraz & the Golden Gate bridge behind us.

 

We began making our way home & stopped to see the Reno Temple.

Our last stop was in Salt Lake before returning home. We spent the majority of the day walking around Temple Square, the Conference Center & stopping in on a whim to watch the new Joseph Smith movie. It was a wonderful vacation full of great memories! And the kids were SO good for all 53 hours in the car!