Spring Break 2017

It's Spring break here and so we planned a few days of family activities. The first one being a hike to a waterfall that we hiked to a few years ago and really loved. 

We didn't realize that we were too early in the season and the trail we needed to go on was still under snow. Not being dressed for a snow hike we decided to explore new, less snowy, paths. 

Luckily for us, the new trail we chose had three different smaller waterfalls that weren't on any map, probably because of the heavy spring runoff.  We had a great time exploring these new hidden gems. 

We spent another day visiting the new interactive exhibit at the Family History Library.  One of the features was that when you logged in, it would tell you if you were related to any of the other guests at the exhibit. Here it is showing that they matched up Ruth and Kaitlin as sisters. 

We had the best time photoshopping our faces into old time photographs.  There weren't very many people there, and we were laughing and really noisy, but the old people working there just seemed glad that we were having fun. 

One of many activities there was a big screen that would show you what you would look like in the traditional clothing of your ancestors. Since we are mostly English, that meant corsets and parasols for Ruth.

We also spent an hour or two at the Church history library. They have an amazing new exhibit there.  We couldn't leave until we visited the children's section and did some artwork. 

Every Saturday before Easter we have a family Easter gathering.

Even though the cousins are getting older, they still had a fun time dying eggs. 

The weather was lovely and we even had a small easter egg hunt - Kaitlin found a few eggs but only kept the ones with the best candy inside. 

Correction:  It was pointed out to me that I made an error on the blog post a few weeks ago when I identified Ben's first appearance on our blog being in December 2013.   He actually appeared on the blog a year before that on December 2012.    This was Kaitlin and Ben's first date!   Another Ben highlight from the past would be a post from March 2014 when he dressed like Flynn Rider to take Kaitlin to the prom. We are pretty excited to be adding Ben to the family.