Easter Sunday

Easter morning started out with the kids finding their baskets. 

And looking at all of the fun stuff inside. The Easter bunny brought plenty of goodies, books, a movie, new outfits and toys.

Next we headed to church (in their new outfits but I forgot to get their picture) and then up to my grandma's for some yummy food and good family time. One thing I love about my family is their willingness to play with the kids. The kids wanted to play red- rover and duck, duck goose. And so my siblings did. What fun Aunts and Uncles my kids have. 

Next it was time for the egg hunt. We had so many eggs that I think each kid got 50 or more eggs.

Look at all this eggs! I think the egg hut was very successful. It was a great holiday and fun to spend time with family. 

The day before Easter

Our Easter weekend started out with Ethan coloring eggs. He was very excited about this and even more excited that he got to color on them with a crayon.

Saturday morning we had the crazy idea to go to the Provo city Easter egg hunt. HUGE mistake. It was so busy that Jared dropped Ethan and I off at the park while he looked for a parking spot. We walked around and found his age group. We had to wait for a little while and when they said go it was over in 30 sec. Jared didn't even get to see it. The kids and their parents in front of Ethan and I got all of the eggs. Parents were scooping up eggs by the arm full and poor Ethan only got TWO eggs. It was a horrible experience. 

So Jared decided to take Ethan to Thanksgiving point in hopes that their egg hut was better. NOPE it was about the same. But Ethan was able to do two more hunts there and came away with about 14 eggs. Here he is waiting for the egg hunt to start.

Here you can see how ridiculous this is. Look at how many people there are!

And here's Ethan with his few eggs. Luckily I had an egg hunt planned for Sunday. 

Thanksgiving point did have a few other activities going on so Ethan was able to ride the cow train and play on the blow up slide. He came home happy and excited about his eggs so I think it turned out okay but we're never doing a city egg hunt again. 

My buddy & kid sister

I have a feeling that these two will grow up being good friends. Ethan LOVES his sister so much and always wants her to play with him. Madelyn LOVES her brother and he's the one that can make her laugh best.

This little scene is a daily occurrence. Any time Ethan has a nap or goes to bed he wants Madelyn to come too. We sing a few songs together and then it's time to sleep. Ethan always ask if Madelyn can sleep in his bed. I'm pretty sure that if I let her stay in his bed there would be no sleeping for either child. 

Thank you & She's on the move

First of all I just wanted to tell you all thank you for all of your love and support to me and  my sister. Our booth at the Battlecreek Boutique did pretty good. Especially considering it was our first time and this boutique is kind of a slow one. So thank you! We hope to do it again some time.

Okay now on to the good stuff. Miss Madelyn as been a busy little girl. First she learns how to push herself up with her hands....

Then she learns how to get up on her knees...

Then she figures out how to scoot on her belly but she only knows how to go in reverse.

And now she knows how do to this...

This is actually video of her very first time crawling. She's a pro now and all over the place. Just yesterday I realized how much she moves and how quickly. It seemed like all day I was closing doors and picking stuff up so she wouldn't put it in her mouth.

Battlecreek Boutique

This weekend my sister and I have a booth at the Battlecreek Boutique in Pleasant Grove. Below are a few pictures of our booth as well as all of the info for the boutique. We'd love to have you come and see our booth.

Ethan's prayers

Recently Ethan has started saying his own prayers. I actually think he does a pretty good job. Last night said "thank you for our toilets that we can go poop and pee in them." I looked up at Jared couldn't keep my laughter in. But he's right I'm very thankful to have a toilet :)

8 months old

Yes it's true. My little peanut is not so little anymore. She's now 8 months old. Can you believe that in 4 months we'll be celebrating her 1st birthday!

Feeding the ducks with Grandma

We took a quick trip to St. George to enjoy some sunshine and family time but sadly it rained most of the time we were there. Ethan loved being at Grandma & Grandpa Vidoni's house and was Grandma shadow the whole time we were there. We spent one afternoon feeding the duck and they were crazy ducks. Not afraid of anything and would practicly eat the bread right out of your hands.

Do you see what I see?

Playing Dinos

Just a few cute pictures of the kids playing dinos on their new table. Poor Madelyn looks so tired.

More movies

Here's another cute video of Madelyn laughing at Ethan. Plus you can see her in the jump-a-roo. She loves it just as much as Ethan did. Only she seems to enjoy the toys more. Ethan would go crazy and jump more then play with the toys.

Madelyn eating

We started Madelyn on rice cereal quite a while ago but these pictures are from the first time she ate it. I did nothing but laugh each time I feed her. She HATED it!

The good news is that now she loves it and I can't feed it to her fast enough.
(if you click on the picture it will enlarge so you can see her silly faces even better)

Super Bowl

There was delicious food, good friends and family but a sad ending. Here's a scrap page I made about this years super bowl. Ethan has croup and is not a happy camper in this picture. Or maybe he was upset with how the game ended.