Easter

Easter was a little crazy this year. The Easter Bunny had planned ahead and got all of the Easter stuff well ahead of time. However, on Saturday - late afternoon - mom and dad realized that they hadn't bought the eggs that we needed to color. So, off to the store and back home to boil eggs. We had a lot of fun dying eggs together though. Emma and Grayce enjoyed their first tastes of jelly beans. Needless to say they enjoyed those. Abby, Bryant, and Tyler spent a good portion of the day sifting through their books, toys, candy left by the Big Bunny! It was fun had by all.
(the addition at our table is Abby's friend, Marta)

Baby Ethan

Steve and DIana had their baby on Thursday night - April 23 - at 11:55p.m. Diana was induced and delivered after 12 hours. Ethan was born very healthy at 10 pounds 13 ounces, 21 3/4 inches - thank heaven for epidurals. Everyone is doing really well and all are home and ready to start the real life. He is a cutie and we are all so happy he is here safe and healthy. Welcome to the world Baby Ethan.

Time Flies...

I don't know why, but the other day I was taking some pictures of the girls and we ended up taking this one. I didn't think about it at the time, but when the pictures were downloading, I remembered taking similar pictures when they were much younger. After a little searching, I found them. How fun it is to see how much they have grown and changed. They look so grown up now. I didn't realize how much like little girls and not like babies that they looked - my babies are growing up. (in the early pictures, Emma is on the right and Grayce is on the left - in the more recent pictures, they are switched).

Grandparents' Day

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haleyalt



Nick's parents came down for Grandparents' Day at the kids' school on Friday. Abby and Bryant had so much fun. There were all sorts of activities throughout the school for the kids to do with their grandparents. Anything from their pictures being taken to doing their handprints together. It was great! Plus, they got to go to lunch with Gram and Papa afterward. Tyler even got to go to lunch with them. There is no doubt that for that time on that day, my kids knew they were important. What wonderful grandparents they have - we are so lucky to have them.

Conference Marshmallow Roast

We had such a fun, relaxing weekend.
The kids were so cute on Sunday. They got so excited to listen to President Monson. It is fun.
After conference they came in - soldier-like - asking if they could roast hotdogs over the grill for dinner. So, we had a hotdog roast and then we roasted marshmallows over the grill (Nick and I are up for parents of the year and so we are trying to earn some extra points).
Anyway, they were so cute and had so much fun- it was just picture-worthy. One of those moments that makes you want to freeze time - so we decided to do that, with pictures.

Lucky for us we happened to have a bag of marshmallows in the pantry.

Then, we fired up the good old grill side burner.

To perfection we browned our marshmallows.
And then - eat, eat, eat!!

Homebound

We have been homebound for sooooo long.
Grayce is bored...

Tyler is bored...

But, I have to say for the most part we are dealing with it pretty well.
To fix her boredom, Grayce tickles Tyler.

Then she makes up for it by giving him kisses.

And Emma sits in the background crying because she wanted to give Ty kisses!! :)

Oh - we can't wait for spring!!