Back in full effect yo!

That's right we're back, after our month long hiatus. We've had a pretty busy month and I'll do my best to give you all a good run down of the events that have transpired. Before I start I want to warn you that nothing really great happened, just every day life with some common events.
The first Sunday we missed updating because we had friends and family over for dinner. Bill, Cortney, Paul, Kate, Damien, Amee, Ashley, Cameron, and Lee all showed up for a bar-b-que at the Layton house. We ahd a great time re-living old times and catching up with each other. We decided that we needed to do this far more often. We'll see what happens.

Amee, Damien, Bill and Cortney

Ashley and Kristen

Paul and Lee

Sam working the grill. Look at that tooshie!

The following weekend was General Conference and we headed down to Tucson to visit with our family and friends. We stayed with Grandma & Grandpa on Friday and took them out for dinner for Grandpa's birthday. We stopped by to visit Larkin at Sauce and decided we would just eat there and visit with Larkin. After dinner we took the girls home and went out to get a movie. We picked up "Persuit of Happiness" which turned out to be a pretty good flic. We woke up on Saturday and Grandpa made us breakfast and we all watched the morning session of conference together.

For the afternoon session we went to SV to visit Dave, Lacy, and Penelope. Our visit was good but short, I wanted to get back to Tucson to go to Pristhood meeting with Grandpa. After the meeting Kristen and I went to her parents house to visit with them. Sunday we had a little family party that included watching conference, eating buttermilk panckaes and decorating Easter eggs with Kyla, Ella and Dayne.

The week after that was pretty uneventful - we finished up work early Friday which gave us a chance for a date night. We went to an early dinner at Texas Road House - one of our favorite places - where we split cesear salad, steak, a loaded sweet potato and some delicious rolls with cinnimon butter. Yum! The we saw Blades of Glory and finished off with a little grocery shopping for the weekend.

Saturday Damien came over to keep me company while Kristen attended a baby shower for her sister, Jayna. We met up in Mesa, had dinner with Brenna and Mike and then went to the Easter Pagent that evening. We drove around a while looking for a spot and must have looked desperate becasue a nice old man let us park in his driveway which was right across the church building by the temple. He said he just wanted to do what he could so everyone was able to see the Pagent. He was really nice and we decided to take him something next time we head down that way as a thank you. Jayna and Brenna at the baby shower!

Sunday was Easter! After church we went to Chandler for a Dever family party. We unfortunetly lost the egg toss this year, Kristen decided to stick her finger through the egg. I have to admit I was in good form though. Congrats to Jimmy and Sherree for being the winners - we'll get you back next year suckas!

Beating up on Uncle Jimmy

Jayna and Ella

Monday we got to go to the opening game at Chase Stadium - Diamonbacks vs. Reds. The Diamondbacks one 3 to 2 and we sat in the second row in right field - right behind Ken Griffy Jr. We got hooked up with free tickets, found a free parking spot, and got free D-Back t-shirts.

I think we have finally caught up to this weekend - it was another exhausting one. We had been painting all week so we were already pretty worn out. Friday we had a couple from our ward over for dinner which was fun. I grilled some steak which was pretty good I must say. Saturday we were up early to meet the Dever's in Chandler for a birthday breakfast for Kristen's mom. Then we continued down to Tucson to see some friends. We went to the LaBounty's for a BBQ held in honor of our fiends the Nilson's - Ryan and Sheina and their new baby. They were in town for a few days because Ryan had a some leave to use. It was good to see everyone again.

Ryan and Shiena

Dang I am FINE!

That brings us to today! We woke up late, had french toast and went to church! We just finished another teary episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition and we will probably head to bed! Next week we will be out of town, but hopefully we will have an update and some great pictures for you after that! Love to you all!