Ready for spring!

Spring made an appearance last weekend and then it disappeared again. I took the kids outside and all of the kids that live in neighboring buildings came out and they were all playing outside. It was so nice! It makes it rough when it gets cold and snows some more. This week is not looking too good either.

I don't get real sick that often but when I do its a doozy. I couldn't hardly function yesterday morning when I woke up. I had a headache and then every time I coughed it felt like my head was going to explode. I was dizzy when I stood up and eating made me a little nauseous. It was not a good day. Devin and Garrett came in the afternoon to help me out. It was sure nice of them.

I am also a little jealous of Morgan and Sophie. The live quite the nomadic life. It would be nice to be able to take off a week of work and go to Moab and then on down to Phoenix. We've always either been in school or working and it's tough for Erica to get off that much time at a nursing job. We've never really taken a trip anywhere. We had considered going to Hawaii this spring until things got so slow at my work we decided against it. We kind of lost our drive after that. We need to sit down and think of somewhere to go. If anyone would like to volunteer to watch our kids while we are gone just let us know! :)

Delivered as promised

I would like to start by telling Sophie (my sister-in-law), "You inspire me." And I don't mean that in a weird way! She's the reason why I wanted to start a blog. Last night Erica and I were looking at her page and decided that we needed to update ours. I am always amazed at the things she shares about what is going on. I love to see the pictures she takes. Which reminds me that I need to carry our camera with us more often and take more pictures. It's a digital camera for pete's sake, you don't have to pay to have them printed! Her and Morgan are always up to something; going somewhere, building something, etc. When I grow up I want to be cool like them.

Erica mentioned in her post last night, or early this morning I guess I should say, that I haven't been working full time this winter. We finished up most of the jobs we were working on last December and didn't have any new ones to start. We all switched to hourly and have cut back on our hours. I have been pretty lucky to have had a project that still needs to be finished. Erica got a job so that we would be able to pay the bills regardless of how much I worked. She likes to be able to work and keep up her nursing skills and enjoy the companionship of coworkers (not people who work with cows but fellow employees).

I have been able to stay at home with the kids part of the time which has been a blast. Who knew that it could be so much fun to spend hours making paper airplanes and then color them and throw them around the house? It has been fun to find things to keep the kids busy inside the house. Sometimes though we get the bug to go outside. Dad has not been working this winter either with home construction being pretty dead in the water. We have had some fun excursions with grandpa. We went ice fishing a couple times this winter. We took the snowmobiles once and the boat once. We went up the ski hill several times with the kids. It was a good winter. Again I wish that I had taken our camera with us more, but I do have a few pictures to post. Enjoy!!!!

Cows Are Awesome!

Snow Kayaking is Awesome!

Gavin loves to ride on my snowboard.

WEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Going ice fishing.

Okay, just a few more

Who knows when I will actually sit down to do this again? I was informed that it is proper blog etiquette to post something every two weeks. Right?

McKinley Skiing with Uncle Morgan

McKinley sitting down while she is supposed to be skiing

"Some people wouldn't know majesty if it bit them in the face..."

So I couldn't even come close to posting all of the pictures that I wanted to so here's another post. Apparently you can only fit so many pictures in one post. There's so much to learn still!

Riding on the chairlift with Uncle Morgan

Ice fishing with McKinley's Dora the Explorer pole

Gavin loved watching the fish come up out of the hole!

I took this cute picture of Gavin sitting on the log and then he fell off the log backwards and landed in the deep snow which poofed over his face and made him cry. It was pretty funny.

Here is the crew in the board shop at Kelly Canyon Ski Resort (don't tell anyone though or we'll get busted for child labor laws)

So.......We really aren't good at this!

Here we are at quarter to midnight, wondering what we should blog about. We almost forgot our password! Oh well!

We have decided to distinguish between our blogging (me and Matthew) by using different fonts. See if you can guess who is who. I'm the cool one! Whatever.

Matthew's little brother, Devin, got home from his mission last week! Cute kid! He is very easy going and lovable. I'd forgotten! See sophie's blog for a picture of McKinley in a rare episode of shyness! She wouldn't even look at him or talk to him! She's okay now-a week later! It's weird to veiw life in missionary time. Garrett-the youngest Hill brother-leaves in May. He kindly pointed out that when he gets home, McKinley will be 6 (oh my gosh!) Gavin will be 4, and the new baby, whenever it comes around, will be here and who knows how old! That's just sick! I'll also be 30! Old duffer. That's just weird! I so do not feel that old! Matthew will only be 28....baby!

Otherwise, life is just busy and normal. I've been working a lot cause one of the nurses has been sick. That's okay though, Matthew hasn't been working as much, so it works out. I'm torn between him having a good, stable job and him being home with the kids. It's so much easier to go to work when I know my kids are with their dad. We did finally pin down a good babysitter, so it's not as bad now. Shout out to Sophie-who is the best aunt ever-who helped me and saved me a lot of stress during her week of surrogate motherhood. Of course, if his job was stable then I wouldn't be working this much-so it's a toss up. It's been good for the kids to have some Daddy time. I think every daddy should be a stay at home daddy some time in their life.

I guess that's it for now. Matthew didn't have much to say-he's always like that. He did post the first blog though, and he started this thing! I shall show off my mad blogging skills at a later time. Keep checking back for some of my work. You won't be disappointed. Yes, I just said that, Erica.