Annual Ramey Family Egg Hunt

I was able to take Xander and Mara to the Provo City Center Temple dedication on 

March 20th. It was really cool to witness it (from our stake center) and I 

felt the spirit so much. I can't wait to be able to serve in that historic building.

Since Brent & Lisa were going to be gone on Easter, we had our Annual Egg Hunt a week early. 

All through dinner, Melody just wanted to go in the 'ard' and didn't eat much of her 

dinner. Once we were all outside, she didn't want to stand still for any 

pictures either. She was the first one to find an egg and was ready for the hunt.

Here's all the kids ready to go, plus Karri, so Melody would be in the picture.

Each child is assigned a color, which is really nice and much better than when they were all labeled 

with names years ago.  Xander was Orange, Mara was Light Blue, Jaina was Pink and Melody was Red.

Since Melody doesn't know her colors yet, she was picking up anything that she saw.

We slowly distributed the eggs to their proper owner and filled her basket with red ones.

Here's Jaina, the only one on that side of the yard with all those eggs!

I love that Xander wore the bunny ears the whole time.

Pat would find red eggs then throw them in front of Melody so she could put them in her basket.

Max and Xander were trying to do tricks with their eggs. 

This was a response to 'show me your eggs!'

I was wanting a family picture and was hollering to her to come 

here, but she just said 'no' in the sweetest voice and walked off.

I was able to get a cute pic of the kids, but Melody was more concerned with stealing Xander's eggs.

Then his bucket tipped over and she was the first one to help put them back.

These kids are spoiled and get a bunch of money in their eggs.

Bunny ears selfies!!!

Melody just wanted to put the money back in and shake it around.

We spent some time in the front yard and she decided to find rocks and line them up on the porch.

It was a great Egg Hunt and I'm thankful that we have these family traditions that the kids love so much.

Mid March

Mara and Jaina were playing Mario Party on the Wii and Melody wanted to join 

in. So she promptly found our remote control (that we use as a toy now) and 

sat down to play along with them. She even got upset when they lost! 

I love being able to see the crazy ways that Melody sleeps, and I've come 

to notice that she likes to have her head completely covered by her blanket.

The kids had Parents and Pastries at school. I came with them 

before school, we had some donuts, and did some reading. 

Melody LOVED her donut and to prove it, it was all over her!!

Pat and I were able to do Temple night at Timpanogos. I really love being able to serve in these 

amazing temples. We are so lucky to have (almost) 4 within 30 minutes of us.

We decided to buy a new computer, because the disc drive on ours had died. We use it quite 

often, so we knew we needed to upgrade. Also because our computer was 7 years old and 

the OS was out of date and programs were not longer able to update. So to get 

ready for the new computer, we organized our computer desk, and I found these cute 

drawings. They were drawn by Mara of course. She has always been such and artist. 

Here is her and Xander on the swings.

Me and Mara blowing bubbles.

Xander, Jaina, Mara and Me outside with ladybugs.

The kids had a day off of school and we just hung out, so that morning the girls 

went outside to blow bubbles and Melody wanted to join them. So I 

grabbed my camera (per Mara's request) and took some fun pictures.

It had been awhile since I did Melody's hair 'fancy', so I made sure to document it.

This big girl knows how to climb the ladder and go down the slide all by herself, and she loves it!!

Then she found some sidewalk chalk that hadn't been cleaned up and started to draw on the driveway.

Meanwhile, Mara and Jaina were having a grand time with the bubbles.

Melody finally wanted to blow some of her own, but she doesn't quite understand 

how to do it yet, so she was putting the wand in her mouth, yuck!!

Melody had started to eat corn-dogs for lunch and loves them! 

It always surprises me when she eats something new.

Melody's bottles finally died and I was nervous about her being willing to drink milk from 

a cup, because she had refused it earlier. So we did the flavor trick and gave her pink 

milk, which she wasn't too happy with, but she really took a liking to chocolate milk! So 

this was the first time she had chocolate milk before her nap. It made me so happy.

That night we went up to Orem to meet up with Pat after he had a conference in Salt 

Lake, we went to dinner at Arby's and Melody wasn't interested in her dinner 

at all, but she did love the 'chepah' and drank a bunch of that for dinner. Gross!!!

That next day, we wanted to take the kids to see Kung Fu Panda 3 at the Watergardens, because of 

Melody we split up and went in shifts. Jaina and I went together then Pat took Xander and Mara. We 

loved the movie and it was really fun to have this one on one time with her and make memories.

Beginning of March & Dad Day

Jaina had woken up in the middle of the night and felt scared. I usually send her back to bed 

because Pat and I wake up early, but she lucked out and it was a Friday night. So I let her sleep 

on the floor next to our bed. In the morning she was up earlier than we wanted to be awake, 

so I let her play on my phone to keep her quiet. When I got my phone back I found that 

she had taken a bunch of selfies. She really loves the camera and taking pictures.

Jaina is doing great in Kindergarten. She is loving to draw pictures, write words and make 'books'.

Pat got down his Death Star Lego and Melody immediately ran over to play 

with it. I love that Legos appeal to everyone, big or small, male or female. 

We took advantage of $5 Tuesday at the Megaplex theater and went to see the new 

Disney movie Zootopia. It was a lot of fun and we were able to see it with my whole family!! 

The kids loved being able to sit by cousins for the movie. 

Oh how I love Lisa's selfie stick, perfect for groupies!!!

I can't remember why or how, buy Melody was able to convince me to take a walk around the block. 

I loved that she held my hand the whole time and was so excited to see everything around her.

We were finally able to buy a new dining table and chairs!!! We've been using a 

hand-me-down table from Morri and Liza since we moved into the house 4 years 

ago. We got it from the Wayfair website and it is a perfect addition to the house!!

I'm so happy that we don't have to deal with a high chair anymore 

and that we have a lot more room with the new table.

March 10th marked 12 years since dad died. I love that we always get together for the day to 

celebrate him. We started the night with a Wendy's dinner/picnic at the cemetary.

Jaina was insistent on bringing her blanket brown to use at the picnic. 

Of course, Melody couldn't be contained to eat her dinner, but she was happy to mooch off of Karri's frosty.

Mara was sweet and walked around with Melody while we cleaned up.

JD is a pro at the groupie and didn't even need a stick to do it.

Karri and I ran over to see Grandma and Grandpa.

Then did a selfie with dad.

After the cemetary we headed to mom's to have a movie viewing night. Dad's favorite thing was to 

watch certain scenes from his favorite movies, with the sound way up to show off the sound system.  

We watched a few Bonds, The Matrix and Star Trek. It was a little too loud for Jaina at times.

Melody was mesmerized by it all.

It was fun to be together doing the things that dad liked to do. It was such a great way to celebrate him.