A Morales Minute

Easter was a little strung out this year.  Friday the kids and I went to dye eggs at Grandma Marcia's.  The gems made a cute look on these bright eggs.  Kids enjoying the horse swing…Aidan enjoys the occasional photo bomb.  Where else would Lindsey be? Saturday morning the kids got their Easter baskets full from Grandma Morales. Then went to Heritage  University for the family Easter festivities. Miranda and Diana took the kids and met up with Marcus there. They had lots of games and activities and of course an egg hunt. Some enjoyed their chocolate bunny. Jaime and I stayed home and enjoyed watching General Conference. Afterwards we went to meet Jaime's mom in Benton City to get the kids. When the kids came home Saturday afternoon we had their second round of Easter. Easter baskets with goodies and an egg hunt in our yard. They still think it's so much fun! I do it for the joy i...

Jaime has had a lot going on during work. Getting very stressful and crazy is an understatement. Well the topic came up with some friends of going on a weekend getaway. Jaime wanted to go somewhere he could sit and relax and listen to the ocean. Sarah and I liked the idea of somewhere warm but that would involve a much longer trip to drive or a more expensive trip and fly. So it was either going to the coast in Washington or to the coast in Oregon. Oregon is always too windy on the beach and we go there almost every year so I preferred going north. Our hubby's booked our hotels and we were counting down the days to relaxation.  Until… an outdoor water faucet began leaking inside the house. Yikes! The inside pipe had cracked, probably during the freeze in the fall. It's not supposed to freeze but it looked (after the plumber cut in to the wall to find the issue) like the pipe wasn't secured to anything on the inside so as it got loser and loser it sagged inside the wall a...