Church Easter Egg hunt

We had our annual eater egg hunt this year at the church. I gave a 5 minute lesson on the atonement (thank you Robert and Charity for the church art book) and then the little kids got to hunt for eggs. The older kids whent on a scripture hunt. It was pretty cool and the kids were loving it. Some of the parents didn't want to stay and wait for them to finish so they didn't get to finish their hunt. Some of them were kind of bummed. They got to finish during primary. All in all, the weather was fairly warm and we had a good time.

Sometimes Love Hurts

McKelle is such a sweet little girl. She smiles all the time and loves when anyone pays attention to her...well, almost anyone



Sage loves her so much and is constantly trying to hug on her and cuddle her. The only problem is she is much too big for the way she loves on her. It is funny, McKelle will be so happy and you can see her start to cringe when Sage comes around. She is a trooper though. She only ends in tears 40% of the time. Sage can't understand why she gets so upset. Especially when she is thrilled when Cole comes around. At least McKelle will get bigger and will be able to handle the roughness and hopefully Sage will still want to show her the affection.

Camping out

There is a tradition with the Winsors that every Friday night all the kids could sleep in the livingroom. We would get out all the sleeping bags, pick couches or sleep on the floor and sleep out. I thought Cole was old enough to start this tradition at least 1 time a month. Of course we wouldn't make him sleep alone and because of McKelle waking at night, Will was nominated to sleep out with him. Cole chose to sleep downstairs instead of the upstairs livingroom. Sage decided to sleep down with them too. They were so excited! Will put in a hunting video (cole loves to watch them "smoke the deer"). I was upstairs watching a movie and about 9:00, Sage comes up and askes me to put her to bed. Well, one casualty but the other two were hanging in there. At 11:00 I go down to kiss them goodnight and they are both crashed out. I turn off the t.v. and cover them both up. I go to bed. The heat in our den isn't as warm as the rest of the house for some reason and at 6:00 the next morning, they were up the stairs and freezing me out of my bed. They had a good time but Cole does not do well with any less sleep than normal so he was really cranky the next day. Now he always wants to camp out. I think we will change it to one time every 2 months because of his nasty temper the next day. It was very exciting for him though.

Trading up

We went to K-Mart to put Will's motorcycle in the parkig lot to sell. Later that day, a man calls because he doesn't want to buy his cycle, just trade. Will says he isn't trading. He thinks about it and then later he calls back to go look at the other bike. Sure enough it was a steal. It is like 20 years newer, 60 thousand less miles, and it can haul! The trade was straight across, title for title. So now we have a more age appropriot bike. I love it and he likes his other better but this one has more promising selling potential and we are not scared that it will break down every time we get on it. Will told me that there were only two kinds of bikers in the world, those who have Harleys and those who don't. Guess which group we are.

A little thought

On the radio a couple of weeks ago, they were some dating advice piece. What to do and not to do etc. Then they said something to the effect that your significant other needs you the very most when you are fighting. I kind of blew it off because when I am mad, I don't want to sit and fight, talk to the person, or anything. I want to be left alone to clean or work out or something to blow off my steam and then I am good. If I am still a little perturbed, then I will talk to my significant other and we work it out. Then, I made Will frusterated (he told me I don't make him mad ever, just frusterated (ha ha ha)). He was kind of steaming and I was really torn up about it. I was apolagizing profusely and about two seconds later, he says, "I love you and it is okay." Amazingly enough, I felt a ton better. Then a few days later, Cole was driving me insane with his whining, screaming, and back talk. I screamed at him to go to his room and wait for me. He had better not come out until I say. (I have never yelled at him like that and I have never sent him to his room before.) He quickly ran to his room and shut the door (he knew I meant business). A few minutes later, when my sanity came back, I went in there to talk to him. He looked so sad. He says, "Mom, are you happy with me?" It really broke my heart that he was so upset. I told him yes, hugged him and we talked. The rest of the day, we were on great terms. That incident brought me back to the commment on the radio. It was absolutely right! I never would have thought about that on my own and I didn't even beleive it when I heard it but put into action, it is spot on. I have since used this advice when dealing with dicipling my children and next time Will and I are in a tiff, I will also use it. You all probably know and incorporate this into your lives but just incase you don't, give it a try. This is why they say not to leave when you are angry. It may not matter to the angry one, but the one the anger is directed to, it tears them up. If it doesn't, then you may want to do some work on the relationship. You should care when you hurt or are being hurt by someone you love.

My Neighbors

I have these neighbors who live behind us. I don't know their names, ages or even what they look like (yeah, I'm a good neighbor); but, I love them! They are the best. Every Friday, they are having a bon-fire. The kids are always on the trampoline, riding the golf cart, swinging, etc. I went to bed on Fri. at 11:00 and they had their big lights on outside with kids jumping and others around a fire. I want my kids to be like their kids in a few years. Camping, playing and enjoying their world.

Who needs a playground?

cake recap

Okay, so you know how I didn't get to decorate Will's b-day cake? Well, I let the kids do it the next day and that night we had it. Well, the kids had it.