Melissa Basua

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Confetti Eggs

Without a doubt this is my favorite activity on Easter! Confetti eggs are so much fun!! I love love love it!!  Here's Tori before all clean!   Here we go!!!           Despite Tori's face she did have a good time and liked smashing eggs and getting smashed!     These are …

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Egg Hunt

We had family and friends come over on Friday evening for food, an egg hunt, confetti eggs and fun! We did it Friday because of Conference Saturday and Sunday and I was sure glad we did! Even in the evening it had the best weather by far. Adam made my favorite, carne asada! Oh, how …

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Easter

We had a marvelous Easter today! The kids woke up early to see what the Easter Bunny had brought them!             The Easter Bunny brought all the kids Operation!   They love it and have been playing all day!  Adam's Mom sent the kids Easter clothes!    The girls all got new …

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Confetti Eggs

Last week the family came over and helped my dye all the confetti eggs! I started saving early this year. Plus we eat tons of eggs so we ended up with 51 dozen eggs! That is the most ever!!! We had so much fun dying them! This was Tori's real first time dying. She lasted …

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Happy Backward’s Day!

Two years ago I saw on a friend's blog that she does Backward's Day instead of April's Fools Day. I loved that idea. Teaching my kids to trick will only come back to haunt me in a few years! So we started Backward's Day today by having dessert for breakfast! The kids loved having strawberry …

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Shopping Cart

Ariana had a friend come over today and play. Everybody had a great time being "Mom" and pushing Tori around in a little plastic shopping cart! She loves it too.   Tori's "cheese" face is too funny! She is saying cheese the whole time too!   Tori's hair is all pulled back into one ponytail! …

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Bubbles

Today I let Tori play in a sink full of bubbles! She had a blast and got soaked!     I tried to show her how to blow bubbles with a straw but she would just suck! Gross!   She thought it was pretty funny though and splash big getting water and bubbles all over …

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BYU Basketball

My sister Marie's basketball season ended with a loss on Saturday! They had a great run. It has been so fun being close to her and being able to watch her play a few times. I found these shots of her on facebook and had to post them for my Mom. They are pretty cool! …

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Reading Part 2

I took this video of Britain reading about three weeks ago. She flew through the book! I can already see an improvement between then and today when I read with her! It is amazing! Please excuse Adam's yelling, but it is cute to listen to him call Tori and hear her answer him! This video …

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Story Time

I love to read! Adam loves to read! I have always hoped that my kids would love to read also. Some days they do and some days they don't. But they do read and they read everyday for at least 30 minutes! This year I have seen an explosion in the improvement of reading. It …

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