Soter Family, Easter 2009

Last Saturday, Sam decided it was a good day for a fire (he likes fires). Then, he decided he needed a hot dog and that the kids would need marshmallows! It was a great day, nice & sunny & warm and the fire really perked up Sam's spirits!!

Easter morning, the little kids found all the eggs that had been colored the night before by the big kids! Jake & Maggie had so much fun with them!

More random pictures of the family! Sam's posing for my picture...Dad & Maggie at the lake...Jakey at the top of the rope climb (Kyle's on his way up)...and Jake & Maggie enjoying a cup of hot cocoa!

Random pictures of the family! Maggie, relaxing at home...Sam relaxing with his guns (& with family), the boys riding ATV's at G'ma & G'pa Schiess' house at the lake! We love family!

Maggie loves playing with the Mr. Potato heads...except this is the way she plays with them! She plugs them into her own head!! Cute girl!!

One night, Sam helped Jake get clean in the bathtub & then sent him into his bedroom and told him to get his pj's on...this is the result! I especially like the Jack Skellington gloves! Incredibles slippers, TMNT shorts (it was January at the time) with a dinosaur flannel shirt! What a kid!!

We also drove out to Saguaro Lake for a picnic some swimmin and fishing. Both Uncle Steve & Kyle caught a fish! The rest of the kids swam while Sam, Mandi and I sat and talked and enjoyed the evening. We had such a good visit! We love Arizona in February!!

We went to an old western town east of Mesa. It had some mine tours we could have gone on (but didn't), it also had a mock shootout that lasted all but 3 seconds! Sam got real excited over it, and then was a little disappointed it didn't last longer! Oh well! We got some good pictures!

The tour lasted about 1-1/2 hours and we got to see everything except the inside of the Cardinals' locker room and the inside of the press room. It would be fun to watch a game from one of the suites! We got to see the field, which only comes inside on gameday...so it's indoors what...8 maybe 9 times in a year?? Cool.