Sundays

I'll admit it right here and now that sometimes, Sunday afternoons can get long. 

Greg is usually gone visiting other wards, and it's just us, trying to survive.

We do a lot of Legos, and reading, and sometimes Book of Mormon movies. 

We always go for walks/ bike rides.

This week, I asked the kids to show me their "secret treehouse." 

I got quite the tour.

We have had the most beautiful Spring. It's so green and cool and just plain dreamy.  I hope we get at another month of this.

But then I'll be ready for summer. Best season of all!

The Wedding

The real reason for the whole trip to Colorado was to attend my cousin, Scott's, wedding Saturday night. It was beautiful and such a fun reason for us all to get together. My dad has one sister, so adding our five to their three, it was 100% attendance in the Secor cousin category. It's been  y e a r s  since that has happened.

We pretty much acted like the whole shindig was for us, so we had our own little photo shoot before the festivities began.

If you've done your math correctly, you know that this wedding was going on during the exact minutes that Duke was playing in the National Semi-finals.

I will neither confirm, nor deny, that this is how Greg spent the entire wedding. 

Maybe Jimmy found a selfie stick.

Maybe we used it.

And maybe, just maybe, we danced the night away. Us Secors don't have many traditional... how do you say... talents?... but we do know how to party.

Thanks for getting married, Scott! You did good!

Easter Egg Hunt

Nana sure brought her A-game with these darling little outfits. 

And Gramps scored some major points with the egg hunt he put together.

Drew managed to produce one, and only one, real smile.

Secors in Colorado

After skiing, we drove to Denver to meet up with my family. 

But not before I had a date with this pretty little number.

I have my priorities.

Ethan prepared himself for wrestling with Gramps.

And it appears the preparations paid off tenfold.

We made a little visit to a little store that Kate has had dreams and visions of for years.

Where Greg once again proved himself as the superior parent.

Ethan and Drew finally got their birthday visit to the Lego store.

We enjoyed a less-than-delicious-but-worth-it-for-the-show lunch at Casa Bonita. 

Apparently, this is a landmark in the Denver world and I can now see why. The kids were in heaven with the show and I made myself comfortable with a nice basket of warm sopapillas. 

Skiing

We'd been home from our Cancun trip for over a week, so we were just itching to get out of our house, so we hopped in the car and drove some 700 hours to Beaver Creek Ski Resort in Colorado.

Between Greg and I, one of us is basically a professional skier, and one of us has never been. So, while one of us spent the days at ski school, the other did some skiing, watched the kiddos in their ski school, and spent the afternoons with sweet boy Drew, who wasn't quite ready for full-day ski school.

In case you're wondering, that's a smile from Drewman. If you didn't know Drew, you'd probably think that I post really awful pictures of this kid. But really, he's just the quirkiest dude there is. We've learned to just go with it.

Cause sometimes, he actually smiles like a real human.

In fact, when I'm taking pictures and he's making faces, I sometimes say, "smile like a human," and this is what he gives me. He knows how to do it. He just chooses not to.

Most of the time.

Warm cookies at the end of skiing is like, one of the best things in life, amiright?

And there we are, looking like a family that skis.