Easter

We had a pretty good Easter, although I was worried for part of the day. The morning and evening were great, but in the middle Emilee was the break-down queen and was so tired she couldn't function. Luckily staying home from church for a nap did the trick. (Britt and I traded off so we could each go to part of the meetings.) So much for having Em dressed up in a cute Easter outfit and the family sitting all together at church, though. Sigh.

Anyhow, we decorated eggs Saturday night with Emilee. She had a full dozen to work with. I had a friend give me a tip to use a wire wisk for dye-ing as that would be easier for Em to hold on to. Thanks, Michelle!! We chose to only work with three colors to keep from getting too much mess. Emilee did a great job. She didn't want to let the eggs soak at all, so we started a game of counting to ten and twenty so the colors would be brighter. Britt got some video footage, so we may edit it and post that sometime. For now, I put together a slide show since I can never choose which pictures are best to put up.

The hunt on Easter morning was fun. We already play a hiding game with Emilee's toys, so as soon as we said she could find eggs, she took off. She is a speedy egg finder. There are more pictures from the hunt, too, but I did try narrowing pictures down. She was excited when she discovered (after the hunt was over) that the plastic eggs had treats inside. She tried a yellow jelly bean first and decided she didn't like it, so she spit it out. She refused the rest of the jelly beans after that. But, she was not deterred from looking for something better. She tried opening more of the eggs and finally discovered the M & Ms. Jackpot! She loves those and proceeded to shove them all in her mouth at once (just like Augustus on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). It was fun to watch. We then ate some of the hard-boiled eggs as part of breakfast. Emilee likes those too and wanted not one, not two, but three eggs. I actually stopped her at two so that we'd have eggs left over for another day.

Later in the morning we watched The Lamb of God together as a family. Emilee sat still for the whole thing, and I tried to point out parts that I wanted her to really get. As always, it made me a little teary to be reminded of such selfless love and sacrifice (and patience). Being a parent does put a different perspective on all that the Savior has done for us and our children. I know that Jesus Christ lives today! I am so grateful for His love and the love of Heavenly Father. What a blessing to know our purpose on earth and to know that we can some day return to live with our Heavenly Father.

To celebrate in the evening, we had Melinda and Robbie over to dinner. We had a delicious feast and really enjoyed the time to be with family. It's been so nice having some family close by.

So, my ramblings on are done for now. Enjoy the slideshow. I can't wait to see pictures from everyone else's Easter Day. If you hover the cursor over the slideshow, the little comments I put will appear.

Work and play, or, play and work

Okay, let's face it. I will probably not recap the last two months. However, I'll try to recap the last two weeks.

Last week I took Emilee to my sister's so we could go swimming. I figured we could splash around a little until I got tired. Much to our surprise they had a kiddie pool that was only 1 1/2 feet deep -- perfect for Emilee!! Yay! I told my sister we will have to utilize that this summer until she moves. (Boo on the moving, by the way!) Since Emilee took her ball to the pool, I decided to take mine as well. ;)

Emilee had fun splashing, throwing the ball, and "swimming" on her own. Emilee crouched down like a gorilla so only her head was out of the water and proceeded to walk around the pool. Then she said, "My swimming." She was quite proud of herself. I told Britt he can be the one to really teach her how to swim. Thanks, Melinda for letting us come over!

We've still been enjoying the opportunity to fix things up on our house (yes, I know I need to post pictures of the house still - I just haven't taken them yet). So, last week/end Britt re-did the caulking in the guest bathroom. It was his first time ever doing it, and even though it was more work than he expected, I think he liked it. Here he is scraping away the old goo.

He also fixed the sink in the master bathroom, but I didn't get pictures of that. Thank goodness Britt's parents were here so his dad could help him out. We're hoping we're finally done with repairs for a little while at least. With the baby coming, we'd like to just spend any extra time sleeping instead of working on little projects.

overdue

No, I'm not talking about the baby's birth . . . there's still one month to go. I've just really slacked off on posting. I want to do a quick blurb tonight so that I can still make it to bed before it gets late.

We have kept ourselves very busy this past month. Hopefully I'll be able to recap some of the events soon. And, Emilee and I got sick with a cold, so I've been using free time to get extra rest to recover. I think we're mostly better now.

Yesterday, Emilee and I met up with our friends at the Desert Botanical Gardens. It was free admission day which was a big reason why we went. We were lucky enough to go see the butterfly exhibit there. There's just a screened-in area that houses a lot of butterflies. You are allowed to walk through and look but not touch. There are also beautiful plants in there, too. So, I had my camera, but did I take pictures of the butterflies? No, of course not. Didn't cross my mind as I was too busy watching Emilee and her friend to make sure they weren't fighting. (These girls are best friends . . . and just like best friends they love each other half the time and fight with one another half the time. Fine for them if that's how they want it to be, but it sure is stressful on the moms!!)

I did manage to think about taking pictures of the girls.

And, I also got some pictures of some really cute caterpillars. :)

It was a quick trip, but I think it was just right. We had time to enjoy God's creations, and we didn't stay out long enough to get overheated.