April 30, 2011

Easter 2011

Our Easter was great!  Since we try to keep Sunday about the resurrection of our Savior we did our egg hunt on Saturday.  After traveling to Kaysville for a baby shower we came home and had dinner.  The first one done with dinner got to start hunting for eggs.  To keep it fair we assigned an egg color to each girl.  Emma - pink eggs, Khloe - blue eggs, and Samantha - purple eggs.  Emma finished dinner first so the easter bunny quickly hid pink eggs for her.
Emma has been using this Elmo Easter basket since her first birthday.  She was so excited to find the eggs.
 Just as Emma was finishing up her hunt Sammi finished her dinner.  So the easter bunny hurried to hide her purple eggs while I got out her bag and got her ready to go out.
 Sammi was super excited when she found out there was candy in the eggs.
 When Sammi was done Khloe was getting done with her dinner (kinda nice how that worked out huh) and so the easter bunny repeated his work one more time with blue eggs.
 I could not get Khloe to be excited about the eggs.  She just walked around picking up eggs with a stoic look on her face. 
 Finally when she picked up her last egg she turned around and had this beautiful smile on her face!
 On Easter Sunday I did have the girls help me make cookies.  On Monday morning I decorated them and then we delivered them to our neighbors.   Our kids love sneeking up to the doors, set the plate of cookies down, and knocking on the door.  Mostly though they really like the part where we run.
I feel bad.  I thought I had taken a picture of the cookies after they were decorated but I couldn't find them with the other pictures.  We had a great Easter!  We hope you did as well.

April 2011

We did a lot of stuff in April!  So hang on and enjoy the show . . .
Eating dinner in the backyard
 Sammi stuffed her mouth so full the food was falling back out.  Sammi practicing for the paparazzi!

Les' cousins came to stay with us during their spring break.  We did a few things with them but Singstar seemed to be their favorite.  Here they are playing Singstar.
 Les finally used the meat grinder I got him.  
 Emma is the Sous Chef!
 Our last pictures with our guests!
Playing at the neighbors house! 
Katie and Kayden at the baby shower in their honor.  Meagan (in red) put the shower together for her sister.
The cake with cute duck candles.  A "cake" made out of diapers and ribbon.
 Khloe "helping" put up tables.  Les' grandma.
 The girls played in the gym before, during, and after the shower.  I couldn't keep them out of there.

Playing in the rain!
We are all exhausted from our long busy month!

April 21, 2011

Bryan home from Afghanistan!

On the 20th of March my oldest brother Bryan came home from his deployment to Afghanistan.  Even before we showed our ID's at the gate I was crying tears of joy.  I had feared he would die before he could come home.  My prayer every day was that he would be able to come home to his family.  Today was that day!!  So I will skip right to the pictures!
Here we are as we wait for everyone to get to the airport.  We are so excited!
 
Here we are waiting for the plane!
Bryan's plane is here!!!
Coming off the plane!!!
 There he is!!!
 The Reunion!!
 After the airport we went to our brother Daniel's home for a family dinner.  It was a great day!