Two days ago was Easter, and guess what? My kids found out that the Easter Bunny was not real! I was grinning so wide when they suspected that. I couldn't conceal emotions very well. The boys didn't care whether if the bunny was real or not, but they still had us. *wink* The boys had a superb time getting all these treats. I hid candy inside our house, although, we didn't have the grass yet but maybe next year. Brady took the boys out to the park while I hid the eggs and made some wonderful dinner for our family. We did have Easter with the Cluffs the Saturday before. They did the hunt, ate lunch, and the boys played paintball while I went shopping afterwards. Easter was a good time for our family to get together and remember Jesus. He died for us so that we may return to our families in heaven afterlife if we were righteous. Sometimes people took Easter for granted, therefore, it was significant for us to remember Christ and his resurrection.

Picture Tag

1. Check out this picture...it's not our engagement picture! It was taken the time before Brady left for his mission. We were sweethearts at that time. My mom wanted to have our picture taken, so our picture taken by a professional. It does look like we were getting married, but not so true. Don't we look so young?

2. Here's our wedding picture. We were married on August 19, 1997, approximately 4 months after Brady returned from his mission. We were sealed for all time and eternity and so in love on that day. I left all my wedding albums at my parent's house inside the safe, despite this picture was the only one I had at my house. I needed to get a few out so I could hang them up on my walls. Our friends said that we looked like that we just came out from heaven, of course, with the whiteness we were wearing.

3. It's our honeymoon picture of us at Disney World. We both had an incredible time down in Florida and had lots of "fa la la". This picture was a great memoir for us because it was just us before having the children. I ended up being pregnant the next month right after the trip. Look at the Cinderella's castle all decorated like a birthday cake for the Magical Kingdom's 25th anniversary. Sweet!

4. We went to New York for a mini vacation to see the sights and visit Brady's old friends from his mission. We went to the World Trade Center and got our picture taken inside the building. It was only a year later when the two airplanes crashed into the WTC on September 11th, 2001. I just couldn't believe my eyes when this happened. I remembered going inside the store, museum, bathroom, and rode on the elevator to the top at that very same building. Now that it was all gone and it would never be the same. We would never forget.

5. Our trip to the Cayman Islands (2/2000), our first scuba diving trip and also saw the crystal clear waters. Oh, how I loved the ocean with water so clear like you could drink out of it! We saw all these cruise ships (approx 15) on Grand Cayman. We went scuba diving down at Little Cayman and Cayman Brac, little islands by Grand Cayman. From what I heard, Cayman Islands was one of the best places in the world to scuba dive because of the rare deep sea cliffs filled with various sea life. It was quite a sight! We played with the dolphin down at Cayman Brac while scuba diving and Brady got to hang out with the dolphin for a long time. It was one of the most amazing experiences we ever had. I'm optimistic that we'll have the chance to go back to and experience it again near future.

6. Our favorite pictures of our babies...

Timothy on the left was three months old and stood up all by himself! Really, he was supported by the fence which it helped him to stand. Joshua in the middle, was also three months. We decided to curl up his hair just to see what it would look like if he were a girl. He looked so cute! Caleb on the right, six months old, was chilling out and I love on how the way the sunlight hits on his body. The interesting part was that all my three boys doesn't look exactly the same! They all looked different and I wondered where their genes came from. Timothy looked lot like my father when he was young and a bit like me and Brady. Joshua in the middle was the difficult one since he doesn't look like anyone else, but he reminds me little of Carter and Spencer. Caleb looked similar to Benson and also my mom as a baby. Whadda you think?

7. Our family and all the rest of the Cluff family went up to Wyoming to go on a pioneer trek to pull handcarts. We had to pull the handcarts for a few miles to arrive camp and back. It was a wonderful experience for us and got our picture taken with the clothes we wore like the pioneers did decades ago. I was preggy with my third during that time. We honor these pioneers and all the challenges they had gone through. It was hard work!

8. We went to scuba diving again with our good friends, Jaime and Ann Wilson, and was the first with friends (10/2005). We all drove down to Los Angeles to a port, where we went on a boat filled with scuba equipment and bedding for us to sleep for two nights. We scuba dived off coast at Catalina Island. The island was so beautiful with its lush greens and saw tons of sea otters and dolphins out there. We never caught a lobster, but we got to hold lobsters received from other divers. We had to watch out their tails because they would snap and your fingers would come off! Just kidding, but it would hurt! Under the sea was filled with sea kelps where you could get stuck easily. Brady and I were stuck in a bed of sea kelps and had to cut kelps to free ourselves. I also got seasick on the way back to the port from being on the boat too long, but other than that, the trip was fantastic!

9. FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER... finally, we got our family picture taken at the San Diego temple. I didn't think we ever had any family pictures with any of the temples that was just us. We shall treasure it always!

10. Brady's mistress, the snowmobile, down below. He got so thrilled when winter had arrived and would go snowmobiling just about every weekend. I didn't think he would ever let it go. That was the picture of Brady riding on his snowmobile, to show off.

I tag everybody who reads this blog and has not been tagged yet! You'll need to paste 10 favorite pictures and explain why.

I got tagged! I'll do it next time when I get back later this week.

Hey guys, my camera software is back on my computer. We got the new computer anyway since our laptop was having problems. Stupid laptop! Excuse my language... you guys can go ahead and check the pictures below for those who haven't seen them.

Sorry, I haven't blogged for a month. I have been busy with everything. I'll try to post anything that happened during the past weeks.

Timothy got a horrible toothache last Friday. It was very painful for
Timothy to bear. Notice from the picture on the right, his left face was
all swollen. I took him to the emergency dentist and he couldn't find anything what was wrong with his tooth. The dentist told me that he would have to pull his tooth out if it kept hurting for more than several days. Yesterday, the swelling on his face had diminished. Now that today is Monday, Timothy's tooth is doing much better and he'll keep his tooth after all!

Last week, my father took our whole family to go skiing/snowboarding for three days up at Snowbird. We stayed at the Cliff Lodge where you could ski in and out of that lodge. That was one of the nicest amenities the hotel had. Joshua took ski school for three days and he was a much better skier than Timothy. Joshua loved to ski and he could ski all day til close. Timothy and Joshua could go most of the blue runs and few black runs. Timothy didn't want to take ski school, but decided to take snowboarding school at the same time Brady and I took snowboarding classes. Timothy does snowboarding pretty well, maybe a little better than I did. Brady was a great snowboarder. Brady went up to the mountain after our class and he made it. Brady fractured his rib when he had this nasty fall and would take a while for it to heal itself. I still had to learn. I just barely learned how to do the turns when the class ended. I guess it was easier on the guys to learn than we women do. When we arrived home, Brady and I were sooooo sore for several days. It was quite a workout and we maybe lost about 5lbs, but we gained all that back when we ate so much. Let me tell you guys, the restaurants up at Snowbird were way much better than any other places I ate. They had the best steaks, hamburgers, and even sushi. Pricey, though, but it was worth it! We had a blast at Snowbird!

In the past two weeks, I started school at UVSC. It has been two years I had not been in school. I'm taking one class in Microstation. It's similar to AutoCad, but with a different software. This class is not too bad, but it requires me to do my homework at school, not at home. It takes more time, but fortunately, it'll be for only two months.