Happy Birthday Eileen!

We'd like to wish Aunt Eileen a Happy 50th Birthday. Over Easter weekend we were able to attend her 50th B-Day bash at the Wilkenson Center at BYU. It was essentially a mini-family reunion and it was great to see everyone there.

I think we all feel blessed to have "Queen" Eileen in our lives. For those of you who don't know her, she is a happy soul with an infectious laugh. In fact, she even manages to make us laugh on the rare occasions when she displays her stubborn, grumpy streak.

In addition to her ability to bring a smile to our faces Eileen has numerous other talents. She can out-bowl Jen (she even used her patented granny-style technique to bowl a 110 and win the gold in the Utah Summer Games this year), she has an incredible memory for music, and she always remembers her family members' birthdays. Then there are her killer dance moves--check her out during this song that Jen, Steve and KT performed to honor her "Eileenisms" and to exploit the humor in the only swear word she ever says.

Easter

Here are a few of our favorite pictures from Easter weekend. We went to Cedar City for the weekend, but for the first time ever we missed the Judd family egg roll. Egg roll?, you say. And no, we're not talking about the asian kind. Suffice it to say that it is a time honored tradition in the Judd family. In fact, nothing captures the Easter spirit so well, for the Judds, as two sloppily colored, hardboiled eggs careening down a race track dug into the side of a sand hill. See Below:

Although Alec struggled to deal with a competition-free Easter, we still managed to have a great time with our families, and here are the pictures to attest to that fact.

This is Lily wearing Eileen's wig and Eric's socks. Never looked better.

Looks fun, right?

We thought this was a cool picture, with Lily framed by the sky. This was from our Easter weekend trip to Cedar City. Lily couldn't get enough of this game.

Spring Break

Isaac, Jen and Jake came to visit us in Arizona for spring break this week. Isaac has always been a guy who likes to have fun and have it now, so we tried to have some exciting activities lined up. Unfortunately, its hard to find opportunities for excitement and adventure that are toddler-friendly, allow for a two-hour nap session in the early afternoon, and wrap up by 7:30 in the evening.


That means the types of activities that make impressive blog material just didn't pan out this week, but we managed to have a great time anyway.

We made the rounds at several local parks, where the kids played to their hearts' content. We took an afternoon dip in the pool--the weather was nice, but the pool was a bit on the cool side. We played a round of mini-golf (By the way, Alec won handily. In your face Isaac), had some great mexican food in Guadalupe, when shopping at an outlet mall, and went on a mini-train ride.

The adults even managaed to have a little fun after the kids were in bed, playing some board games and going out to eat one night.

Cousin Jake is as adorable as ever, and if anyone is looking for an expert witness in a court case related to Lightning McQueen or Thomas the Train, he is your man.

The kids all adore each other, and it was great to have so much time for them to spend together. And the bright side of having such a ho-hum vacation is that there will still be plenty of new, and exciting things to do the next time they visit.

So Many "Pretties"

Lily loves princesses. Lily loves "pretties." And apparently Lily loves body art. In fact, body art of any type will do--stickers, marker, or tattoos. Right now she's got a hot tat of Sir Topham Hat adorning her right ankle. We were curious whether this was a fleeting phase, or whether this represented a long-term interest, so we uploaded these two pictures and a swab of cheek DNA into Google's new G-netic Seer Program (GSP), to see where life will take Lils over the next 28 years . . .



. . . And here is what the program spit out. Not what we had pictured for her, but as long as she's happy that's the important thing, right?