Spring Break to Cali!

I'm finally posting my trip to California for Spring Break. You see, my camera broke because I dropped it in the sand (I'm crossing my fingers I can fix it) so I was waiting to get pictures from my sisters. It was such a fun trip except for the fact that I was missing Tyler too much. Oh and as I was taking off from the airport a huge blizzard came in and our plane was stuck on the ground for 3 hours before we could take off!! But anywasy here are some fun things we did:

*We went out to dinner a couple of times


*We went to beach





We all got tar on our feet at the beach so Ethan had to wear grandmas fuzzy pink socks

*We went to Griffith Park and rode the infamous train that we used to ride when we were kids and Ethan was so brave and rode the horse all by himself! We were very surprised he didn't scream as they put him on the horse.


To get Ethan to laugh no matter how sad he was I would "hit" myself in the face or stomach so that is what I was doing in this picture. Kylie loved it this time as well!


*And mainly we just all hung out! I had so much fun with my Mom and Dad, little sister Kimberly and my oldest Sister Jen and her two adorable kids! I'm so glad she came for the week to see me! I just had to see them because they are growing so fast! She sent me this adorable picture of Kylie so I have to post it!

In Loving Memory

Early this morning my Grandma Virginia Zula Sunderland Passed away. She was old and in pain so it was actually surprisingly nice news to hear. I was lucky to have just seen her last week a couple of times when I went home for spring break. (which I will do a post on shortly). She is usually the funniest outgoing person when I see her and the last time I saw her she couldn't say a word because she was in too much pain so my sister and I sang her some hymns. My grandparents were divorced and my mom lived with my grandpa most of her life and didn't really know her mom. When I was little, I only remember seeing her one time when I was in second grade. After my grandpa passed away my mom and her siblings convinced my grandma to move closer to them so they could take care of her. That was when I was a senior in high school. So since then I have gotten to know her a lot better. She was always so fun and had the best stories to tell. She was a beautiful women with a strong testimony of the gospel. I'm so grateful to have the gospel in my life. It makes it a happy moment for me when old people die because I know that they are happier in the spirit world and I will be able to see them again. I don't know how anyone could deal with death without the knowledge of the gospel and the plan of salvation.


Speaking of the gospel, I have to tell a kindergarten story. Yesterday I was at recess with my class and I noticed a few kids in the coat room so I went to get them and one of the girls was holding a tiny pink New Testament. I asked "What are you guys doing?" They responded "Oh, were just learning about Jesus. I got this for Easter!" So she is one of my top readers and started reading a scripture about Jesus to the other kids. After, I asked "so what does that mean?" and she responded "well we don't really know. Those are more adult words so I'm trying to find one that kids can understand" Haha. So cute! I decided to let them stay in there and keep "learning about Jesus". Only in Utah.

I'm Dreaming of a White Easter?

This Easter Tyler and I were kind of on our own. Tyler's family went to St. George for spring break. I'm leaving tonight to go to CA for my spring break to see my family so we didn't want to go to St. George for 2 days. Last year Easter was really boring. I was pretty disappointed so this year I wanted it to be little more fun for us. As you know, Tyler and I got our Costco cards so we went to Costco and decided we could each pick out one indulgence treat and we can make little Easter baskets for each other. So Tyler of course picked out beef jerky and I picked out dark chocolate pomagranit seeds. We then went to Harmons on got cheapo eater baskets, eggs, and a couple easter candies and then Easter morning we put our stuff in the baskets and then we each had like 5 minutes and we ran around the house and put random stuff in that we already had in the easter baskets. So this is what they turned out to be like:

(top) Tyler's Basket        (bottom)Cheryl's Basket

We then went outside and SURPRISE, SNOW! what the? So we had to take a couple of fake easter egg hunt pictures in the snow.

After morning conference and yummy traditional conference breakfast we went to my grandma and grandpa's where we had lunch with them and cousins and then all the little kids had an easter egg hunt.

We then went home and Tyler's sister came over and we made a little dinner for her because she stayed home to work and was all alone. So we were pretty much stuffed the whole day and ended up having a little more fun this year. Here's a picture of us in our "Easter outfits" last Sunday when the weather was much nicer.

Like I said earlier, I'm flying  home tonight to see my family for the rest of the week. They just moved to a new house so I want to see it and my sister is coming up from San Diego with her 2 adorable kids so I'm really excited but Tyler still has school so he has to stay here which is going to be so hard! It will be the longest we've been apart from each other since we've been married. Man I love that boy!

April Fools

I love April Fools Day. I've always been a prankster and would love to scare people. The only problem was when I was little everyone would get mad at me for pulling pranks. They probably had the right because I did pranks like put ice in their shoes, Vaseline on the door knob, put toothpaste between Oreo's etc. Well I've learned not to do tricks that get people too mad now. Now I just like doing tricks that get people freaked out.

2008: When I was in New Zealand, I had the dad I was staying with call Tyler and tell him that I broke my arm. Tyler was in a panic because we were engaged at the time. I skyped him later that day with a fake cast on and then I took off the cast and on my arm it said April Fools.

2009: I did the whole fake pregnancy thing. Tyler fell for it and I could tell at that point that he was not ready to have kids yet. I thought about doing that again this year but I thought maybe he would be more excited now and that would just be mean.

2010: So instead, this year it was really sad because I couldn't think of anything good. So this morning I told Tyler that I dropped my ring in the sink. For a moment he freaked out about it but then he was like "Wait, is today April Fools? It is!" So that didn't work to well. I also put a fake parking ticket on his truck but he came home after dark tonight so he actually hasn't seen it yet. I guess I'll get the reaction tomorrow.

My kindergarten class was the funnest to joke around with. Right when I went out to get them I told them that I didn't feel like teaching today and to go home and then I shut the door. Then I said April Fools and they thought that it was SO FUNNY! I was like, yes this is going to be great. So then, I was telling them my schedule for the day and on my schedule chart all I had was Math. I told them "we are going to do math the whole day today and if anyone complains they are going straight to the principals office." They all had the most shocked disappointed faces. Then one girl raised her hand and said "Well, my mom isn't going to know when to pick me up if we only have math" And then I told them that it's the WHOLE day and they will be here the same amount of time and they were like what?! So I did my morning calendar routine and then I started doing a math problem with them and then said "April Fools!" And boy those faces were classic!! They were seriously the best little surprised happy faces ever! Well that was a mistake for me to do because I did not here the end of the corniest jokes that they thought were so funny.."Mrs. Babb, your shoe is untied! April fools!" "Mrs. Babb a monster is eating the school! April Fools!" "Mrs. Babb. There's a dragon behind you! " "Mrs. Babb, there's a spider on your head! April fools!" I probably go that one 20 times. But then someone was like "there's a spider over there!" and I kind of ignored it but then there really was a spider! haha! But yeah, those jokes got old after probably 10 seconds. It was fun though!