Easter Gifts from Nana/Papa Don (Apr 9), Aunt Stephanie (Apr 10), & Grandma/Grandpa (Mar 29)

The boys always look forward to holiday gifts that come in the mail from family far away. The excitement shown in jack's face and body language says it all.

Gavin loved Peter Cottontail. I was surprised that he wasn't afraid of him. He jumps up and down, moves his head and sings a song about Easter. Jack was in the background waiting for Gavin to give him up so he could play with him. The boys were singing the song for about a week. Thank you Nana and Papa Don.

Dylan is showing off the Easter card that came with Peter Cottontail.

The next day another package came in the mail from Aunt Stephanie. She made them a letter and sent some yummy chocolate that we all enjoyed. Thanks Steph.

Grandma and Grandpa gave the boys their Easter Package in Utah the end of March when we went for Uncle Bill's surprise birthday party. They gave them some toys, lot's of candy and the movies Bolt and Madagascar II for the long car ride. Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for the peace it brought mom and dad on our 12 1/2 hour trek home.

Jackson's Pre-school Easter Party (April 9, 2009)

Gavin and I went to Jack's school for a hunt and party in the class afterwards. Gavin enjoyed it too. He wouldn't do the hunt though. I don't think he really understood it. He enjoyed the candy from inside an egg a student gave him. Jack had lot's of fun. He really loves going to school now. At the beginning he was so timid and unsure. Not anymore. He looks forward to the days he gets to go to "schoo" wear his backpack, and bring a snack. Just like Caden...it was pre-school that has helped him to go to Sunbeams (sunday school) without crying. The sunday right after his first week of school is all it took. That's exactly how it was with Cade.

Dylan's 1st Pinewood Derby (April 8, 2009)

Dylan and Chad had alot of fun preparing for their 1st pinewood derby together. Dylan loved sanding and painting. His brothers loved watching him and are now counting the years that they too can be in Boyscouts and do a pinewood derby car with their dad.

Here is the finished product.

There were 30 boys racing their cars that night. They raced three cars at a time. Each boy got to race 6 times. One point for 3rd, two points for 2nd, and three points for 1st. Then they added up the points. Chad was out of town that night and was very disapointed that he could'nt be there. I had to put the graphite in the wheels and add a penny to make the weight just right.

Gavin, Jack and Cade supporting Dylan. Nice hands in the pants there Jack.

The first four races Dylan came in 3rd and then all of a sudden he came in 1st for the last two races. I don't know if the graphite finally kicked in or what. I noticed at the end one of the front wheels started to come out. I wonder if thats what started making his car go faster. He tied with 3 others for 18th out of 30. We were happy to win a couple races. It was fun.

Dylan was so excited when he saw his car come in 1st. The pic on the left is of him right after his first win. He got a certificate for Best Workmanship. They put the date wrong...2009 not 2008.

Expensive two weeks

Yes....that WAS our T.V. until Cade was playing wii bowling with his brothers and the remote slipped through his hands and smacked the screen. When the T.V. is turned off you can't tell it's broken. This happened on Saturday, April 4th. The boys had a wrestling tournament so we decided to tape general conference and watch it later that evening. (For those unfamilar..general conference is held twice a year and was that sat and sun and we receive spiritual guidance from the leaders of our church.) I had to run an errand and Chad had the boys play the Wii until I got back. When I got home he broke the news to me. Anyone want a 5 year old? It is Chad and my fault because we don't enforce them wearing the straps around their wrists. So, if any of you have the Wii...make your kids wear the wrist straps!!! They're not all stories...the remote really can go through the T.V. I called the T.V. repair man and he said to find a big black trash can and throw it in and go buy a new one. Unfortunately there is no fixing this. So Sunday we decided we could at least listen to conference because you could still hear sound on the T.V...just no picture. Well, on Sunday morning we turned it on and even the sound was gone. So we set up the laptop on the kitchen table for the kids with their coloring books and Chad and I watched conference on our bedroom computer. I really needed to be uplifted that day and conference really helped.

On that same Saturday...Gavin broke my cell phone. In the last two weeks our washing machine, video player in the car, and video camera also broke. I was wondering what else could break down. Maybe I shouldn't ask that question out loud. EXPENSIVE TWO WEEKS.

IT'S A....

BOY!!!! We now have our basketball team. Daddy and Dylan thought it would be a girl and Cade, Jack and I guessed it was a boy. We have decided to name him Carson Edgerton. We are really excited and look forward to all the sport events we have ahead of us. The highlight of the week for Chad and I are going to the older boys sporting activities. It's fun to know that won't end anytime soon. In fact the boys wrestling coach was very excited when he found out we were having another boy. Everything looks good. Baby is healthy. I just took my glucose test and I passed. Yeah....no gestational diabetis. I had it with Caden, but he was the only one...thank goodness.

Well, I've had my computer fixed since January, but have been so busy that it's been hard for me to get to posting my journal entries. By the end of the day I'm exhausted and never get to it. So I'm going to try hard to get back to it. I'm also going to "try" and back post a bunch of stuff so family members can see pics I've never shown them and so I'll have them in my blog book. We'll see if I get that done or not. :-) I'm excited to start looking at everyones blog again since I haven't done that lately either.

Good News and Bad News

I always like to start with the bad news first. My computer has broke down yet again. So I'm out of commission for awhile and I guess I'll start off with Thanksgiving day once I get everything back again. The good news? We are expecting Baby Edgerton #5. I'm guessing the due date is between June 29th and July 4th. We are very excited to watch our family grow. The boys like to let me know what the baby's name should be. The names change often and some are pretty funny. Shelton and Alexander are the most recent from Dylan. Both boys names in his class. You see.. we don't discuss girl names in our household because it seems too unlikely. :-) I am all out of ideas for boy names. Any ideas out there for names that go with Dylan, Caden, Jackson and Gavin?

The Turkey Pit (11/26/08)

This was my first year making Thanksgiving dinner...well, with my mom's help of course. In the past we have always gone to family or we have gone to a Thanksgiving buffet because my kids were too few and too young for the hassel and all the major leftovers that would be left to just Chad and I. I had it easy this year because we cooked our turkey underground in a pit overnight.
Some friends of ours in our ward...Buckey and Marcey have done this in their backyard for 3 years now.
We first cleaned out the turkey and then rubbed 4 cubes of butter throughtout it and threw in some garlic and seasoning salt. Then we wrapped it in two turkey oven bags, wrapped it in foil, and then in chicken wire. We made an "E" for Edgerton so we would know which was ours. There were 24 turkeys in the pit this year.

After the turkeys were lowered beams were put across the pit and then plywood on top.

Bucky and a few others are putting dirt on top of the plywood wherever smoke is seen to keep it all in.

We haven't had rain for the last 98 days until last night and it started to rain again so they decided to try and put a tarp on top because the rain was suppose to be heavy. Here's Chad covering it up. We brought our turkeys over at 10pm and will pick it up at 10am tomarrow morning.