Easter

When I was a kid Easter meant church, the evil easter egg hunt,bunny cakes and snow. What do I mean by the evil easter egg hunt. Well I am the fifth kid out of six. And when I was growing up my two older brothers would hide the eggs. We used to use real eggs till Chris forgot how many he hide and where they were. A couple months later my mom moved the dining room table and found a rotten egg after that it was plastic. They would hide them all over in spots normal ten year old would never look. Now that I am adult with a 17 month daughter and another one on the way. We have been deciding on how to mix both families' traditions. Emme is too young to decorate bunny cakes or dye eggs and thank goodness there was no snow. We went with only Matt's side this year. (Maybe next year we will make cakes and take them with us) There is a brunch at Matt's cousin Marnie's. She always goes up and beyond yumminess. Then there is the Easter egg hunt. Each kid get six prize eggs in their own color, and one gold egg. The rest of the eggs are filled with candy. One at a time the kids get let out into the yard youngest first. It was so cute to watch these kids running around and staying away from where Emme was so she could find eggs too. It was really nice how her prizes were different then the older kids. She had so much fun picking up the eggs and putting them in the basket. She only needed to be shown once. And it was nice for her daddy to be involved before he had to dash off to work.

Emme exporing her Easter basket from Mommy and Daddy. She got a bunny made by Mommy, Disney Princess figures and a rubber ducky with bunny ears

Sliding with her cousin Aspen. (well Aspen's Mom and Emme's Dad are cousins)

She likes to go face first

She loved the slide

Emme finding eggs she figured it out real quick

Sometimes she need Mommy to point it out for her

She got a feel it book, a stuffed duckie, a little people farm animals, bubble wand, and three dollars from her gold egg which went in her piggy bank. She had so much fun finding the eggs she got upset when it was time to go inside. Next year will be interesting with Emme and Olivia

Spring photos

It is spring, well sort of. It has snowed or rained off and on. So on a actual nice sunny day we decided to go up to Temple Square and take pictures of Emme in her Easter dress. Emme loves flowers. What she doesn't like is her shoes and socks. She takes them off quickly as they are put on. She loved walking around. She really loved the reflecting pond and thought it was a swimming pool. She tried to crawl in it. Thank goodness Daddy stopped her and just let her splash instead. She loved Daddy entertaining her to get her to smile.

Splashing in the reflecting pond

Holding her daddy's hand

A Day at Wheeler Farm

Since today was the first day that it had been nice and Matt was off. We decided to take Emme to Wheeler Farm. It is this cute state park with old pioneer buildings and animals. Emme had more fun seeing the animals. She tried to pet them all.

She loves her daddy

She wasn't sure what to make of the chickens

She loved the goat and the goat loved her. The goat kept licking her fingers.

She loves her wagon. She would rather ride then walk.

Preparing for Olivia

When we found out we were having another girl we were so excited. We decided that we need to begin working on our back room. For anyone who has seen this room you know how much work this would be. When we moved into our home, this room had one wall covered in unfinished wood planks. The seams in the walls and ceiling were unfinished. There were hooks everywhere in the walls and ceilings. Matt's brother Travis spent several hours removing all the wood planks when we moved in. (So he could tell you what a disaster it was) So when we decided to make it the baby's room, it was a huge project. But with help from Matt's parents we have turned into a cute room for our little girl. We decided to go with a color scheme rather than a theme. We decided on pale pink and lime green.

The Before

The after

We still have a few things to put in. We are putting a quilt above her crib (Matt's mom is making) and probably a couple things we haven't decided on yet.

This is her blessing dress Matt's Aunt Linda Nuttall made for her.