Ouch - Warning graphic photos ahead

Tad was blindsided and assaulted by an inmate at work the other night. He was punched in the face a few times and he had to take the inmate down while his partner was standing by frozen. He got a trip to the ER, a few stitches and a few days off work with pay. He showed great restraint by not really hurting the kid.

At the ER:

The next day:

Day 3:

He can now open his eye about halfway and is doing better. He did make the news. Check out the following link to see the news story...

http://www.koat.com/video/23251813/

This week at our house

We haven't been up to much lately... we rototilled our backyard and will be planting some seeds and plants hopefully tomorrow. Derek ran 15 laps around his entire school at his school's jog-a-thon (I think he ran 7 but got credit for 15). Anyway, that's a long way to run. I don't think I would've made 1 lap. I pledged $1 a lap thinking he would run about 3 so now I owe $15.... Paige got to go to a friend's princess birthday party and she had a blast. Kevin is still learning his words. Darci is just Darci. She loves to eat apples lately. She can chew on an apple for hours.

I made this Irish Wheaten Bread tonight to go with our soup. I got the recipe off of this blog. It turned out yummy!

I originally bought all the boys dinosaur stickers off of ebay or something like that for about $10. The other day I was at the Dollartree and found the exact same stickers for $1. So I bought a few more and now their room has a few more dinosaurs climbing up the mountains.

I also found some disney princess stickers there as well. I had ordered Paige these posters from allposters.com for about $3 each and I found these frames at Hobby Lobby damaged for about $4 each. I spray painted them black and ta-da! Don't look close though because the frames are actually a little bit too big but I didn't notice until after I spray painted them.

At the end of each day, Darci has crazy hair from her pig-tails.

Thank You

Darci has several words that she says and likes to sing in the van as we listen to music. She has learned to say Thank You really good. She's not a performer though and its been hard to get a good video of here, but here is her saying it a few times.

I made Posole tonight for dinner. This is a New Mexican dish we had a few months ago at a friends house, it was really good, so I thought I'd try it. It uses frozen hominy-like corn and pork. Just to play it safe I followed the directions on the package of frozen corn. It turned out OK, but now that I kind of know how to make it I'm going to experiment a little. I think it will be really good with green chili next time... Darci sure liked it. She's still a little orange even after having a bath tonight.

Darci loves the girly things. She likes to walk around with a purse during the day. Today at church she spent 30 minutes taking everything out of a friend's purse, putting it back in and taking it out again.

She loves to get Lulu's leash and pretend to walk her around the house.

I made some flower rings for Paige the other day. They were destroyed by the end of the day but sure were cute while they lasted.

This year for general conference we went to the chapel for the morning sessions on both days. In the afternoon we stayed home and watched it on the computer while Darci, Paige and Kevin took naps. Derek built the Albuquerque Temple out of Jenga blocks while we was listening.

Almost camping trip & Easter

First, here' s a few cute conversations with the kids...

The other night there was a full moon... it was really pretty and yellow. Paige saw it and said, "Look, the sun is out!" Derek says, "No, it's the moon." Kevin then says very seriously, "No, it's the Earth!!"

We were talking at lunch the other day about Mexico and I was explaining that Mexico is beneath us and we live in New Mexico. Paige looks at me and says, "No Mom, this is Albuquerque, not Mexico."

Here are some Easter goodies we made for our neighbors and friends this year.. They are rice krispy treats coated in chocolate. Yummy.

We had been planning on going camping for a few weeks. And wouldn't you know it the one day we plan on going is the coldest and windiest day of the week. We still packed up and went just in case the weather cleared up, but it didn't. It even snowed on us a bit on the drive up (about 45 minutes from here). So instead we went home and built a fire pit and cooked our tin foil dinners anyway. Our beds were way more comfortable than the tent would've been that night. Doesn't Tad look proud?

Dinner was yummy... chicken, beans, veggies and biscuits.... Yummy!

We did our Easter Egg hunt yesterday. This was Darci's first hunt and she had a lot of fun carrying around her basket. She was so quick it was hard to get a good picture of her, so thats why there's so many of her... It was also right after naps so don't mind the messy heads!

Darci watched us hide the eggs and was NOT happy that she couldn't go outside!

We had a good Easter although we wish we were closer to family and cousins to spend the time with. We are also very grateful for the atonement and sacrifice of our savior Jesus Christ.