Dragon fruit!

My adventure for the week was trying dragon fruit. The inner texture is like a kiwi with the little seeds, but it's not as sweet. I really liked it. 

The kids said it was kind of good.

I thought the inside was so different from the outside that I was a little shocked when we cut it open. It's fun to try new things though. 

Merril's 41st birthday!

After our trip to Japan, our whole family fell in love with Japanese toilets. The seats were warm and had so many features that are awesome. As Merril's birthday approached, I was talking about it with my neighbor, whose husband is a plumber. She told me she bought a Toto washlet but that it didn't work out for them and so she still had it at her house. I decided to buy it from her and install it so that I can give it to Merril for his birthday. He's always talked about the Japanese toilets and how nice they were. It took a trip to Japan to convince me.

He was gone to Mexico on a motorcycling trip and so it gave me the perfect window of opportunity to install it without him knowing! He came home late at night to a warm toilet seat.

Merril went with Ryan and Owen.

They took a boat ride out to the arch of Cabo San Lucas, or the El Arco.

On his actual birthday, we had cheesecake and dinner together as a family.

Update: it was Easter weekend and spring recess for Merril birthday weekend. We decided to have a get-together with Friends the following Friday night. Merril invited people via text and then we both completely forgot about it! I made dinner on Friday, we ate together as a family, Merril went to the bathroom, came out at 6:23 p.m. and said, "We are supposed to be eating dinner at Cappelettis at 6:30!" We had forgotten to make reservations and they were totally booked. I had to take Jack to a movie theater that I had previously promised him and Merril took off into St George, calling friends quickly.  

We ended up at Viva Chicken and had a great time, even though we didn't actually eat. We all laughed about it and thought it was hilarious that Merril threw his own surprise 41st birthday party! I was so frazzled I didn't snap a single picture. 

Easter 2019!

Yo it was Easter! Winchester as usual.

Jack graduated to the big kids field, where the eggs are hard to find!

Julie still has one more year of the easy stuff.

Mark wasn't in the mood and wouldn't walk onto the grass to pick up eggs so he didn't get any. Then bawled later because he didn't have any eggs. No effort, no reward bucko. I'm trying not to baby him as much.

By the Sunday morning egg hunt, Mark was ready to rock it.

I never remember to take a Sunday dress Easter picture until it's too late. Whatever.

Rolling through April...

With the new age changes that the church made this year, Juliet was able to do baptisms in January of 2019. She's only 11 and a half but was super excited to go. Our Ward is still new and trying to get things organized, so she's only been once with Maxine. So I took her to go again because she was wanting to go.

Other than that there was a bike/walk to school day and we participated in it. Since we live too far away to walk or ride our bikes, we drove in the expedition to a drop-off point and biked from there.

And we got this new outfit for Juliet for Easter, and I just can't believe how old it makes her look!

Wow! Gunlock Falls!

To say this is a waterfall would be misleading. Out at Gunlock reservoir, there is a spillway that leads to these rocks. We have received so much moisture this year that the reservoir is overflowing. This is a rarity and so Gunlock Falls was flowing this year. I have never seen it, but wanted to.

At first I told Merril I wanted to go during the summer, and he told me that wouldn't be possible. It only happens during the spring when we've had a ton of moisture.

So we seized the day and went to play in the water. It was freezing!

It was not disappointing!

Maxine wasn't even posing for this picture, I just snagged it while she wasn't looking.

The kids were making me nervous, there's a huge drop-off right below them.

I didn't get any pictures of Mark but he was running around somewhere and of course got all wet even though we weren't in swimsuits.

Mountain biking and 6 hours of Frog Hollow!

These kids have been mountain biking a lot lately. They are training for a race: 6 Hours of Frog Hollow! Jack with Connor and Mark.

There were some cool waterfalls out by Jem trail.

Race day came and they did great! In the parent/child division, Merril and Jack won 3rd place and got a little trophy! Logan and Collin won 1st! Yay!

Twinsies...

Jack is job shadowing Merril today. He wanted to dress in the company uniform.