Great Grandma Darlene's 80th Birthday Party and Easter

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We went to Utah at the end of March and celebrated Easter and Great Grandma Darlene's 80th birthday with all of Rex's extended family.


She is one spunky, fun lady!  


At each of the tables at the birthday party, there were scrapbook pages of pictures of their family growing up.  This picture is of Mike (Rex's dad) and his 2 other brothers.  Look like anyone we know??  Those Phillips genes run strong!!

Cade seemed to think he was entitled to all the helium balloons there.  He has a balloon fetish.  Anywhere we go, he immediately spots any helium balloons floating in the aisles or show tables.  It's kind of hard to tell, but he has a frog puppet on one of his hands in this picture.  He saw it at the BYU Bookstore and wouldn't let it go.  It was too adorable the way he was "rawring" at everything with it, so I let him have it.

While at the party, we took individual family pictures.

And on the drive back to Colorado, we took a break at a rest stop and got this family selfie.  I LOVE IT!



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