Easter Weekend 2010

I haven't figured out that we should color eggs and perhaps even do the Easter Egg Hunt before the actual Easter weekend. It was quite and undertaking to do the whole thing this weekend with conference. And takes away from the real meaning. I am working on getting that balance with the religious holidays.

Anyway, we colored eggs Saturday morning. It was so fun this year. Max understood what was going on and was exciting about coloring eggs too. And Zac enjoyed writing his name and drawing smiley faces on his eggs.

Jon and I also took a couple eggs to decorate.

Jon's two eggs are the upper most right ones (I MEAN LEFT); they looks like dinosaur eggs he says. Mine are the rainbow striped ones.

These are my tulips! I just had to share because I loved looking at them all weekend!

Then between sessions, my family came over for lunch, and afternoon conference and we did an Easter Egg hunt.  Its so hard for me to get pictures of the boys when they find an egg-they are so fast!

It was fun to see Max be more involved and excited this year. And as always Zac was ecstatic! He was delighted and surprised with every egg he found.

As you have seen with the previous post, this green grass Spring Easter-i-ness didn't last very long!

Then that evening while the men were at the Priesthood session of conference, my mom, sisters, and me and the boys went to get our nails done and to dinner. They boys were very good! And my mom and sisters were SO SO helpful with them so I could enjoy myself too! Thanks a ton ladies! (Thanks Rach for taking the pictures.)

(PS I hate this bandana on Zac, but he wanted it on ;P I can't find the word to describe what it reminds me of)

I love this picture of Max! So funny!

It was a hectic day. Has anyone been to Wal-mart at 11:30p the night before Easter? It was crazy! It was more busy than it is during the day. When I was checking out there were 8 people in line behind me, and the same at all the other registers. I ran into my parents, a preschool friend parent, and the lady that was sitting next to me when we got our nails done. It was a weird night. When I got home Jon was sleeping on the couch after having folded all the laundry and put it away. So I prepared for the Easter Bunny to come.  And while I was doing that I realized that this year, with everything going on, we never told the boys that the Easter Bunny was going to come. I wondered if they would know who their goodies were from.

Zac didn't disappoint! He knew exactly what was going on. Although, I think Max had no idea, but then again he didn't care either.

I think the Easter Bunny did a pretty good job, if I do say so myself ;) I love those Cheetos carrots!

So with everything going on I didn't get to listen to much of conference. But with trying to get little kids to be quite it's pretty hard anyway. I did get to enjoy most of Sunday afternoon though; the boys were napping. I can't wait for the Ensign to come out so I can actually learn from the talks!

Then on Sunday evening we hosted Easter Dinner. All of Jon's family, minus the missionary, were able to be there! It was so good to see everyone all together and to visit. I am really bad at taking pictures when we are hosting dinner and I just don't really take pictures when we get together for meals anyway. I wish I had taken some. I know it will be good to see them when I look back. Especially, since its not often that we all get together. Hopefully I will remember do take some next time.

Happy Easter! 2010

Flower Headband

I made this the other day.

(Sorry about the no flash pic)

It was pretty quick after a few "practice rosettes". The sewing was a little tricky, or maybe I just can't sew in a circle. I used this tutorial for making the rosette. I really like it! My sister and I going to start making bib necklaces with rosettes. But I decided I would start smaller. Hopefully, I can get a necklace done in the next couple weeks.

Fresh Tulip Bouquets!

I am on the Parent Council for Max's "school". The PEIP program, through Easter Seals. And they are having a great fundraiser right now and some of the cost is tax deductible.

You're invited to take part in the 4th annual fundraising Bloomfest event to support Easter Seals-Goodwill and help bring autism services to more children and their families in the Idaho and Utah regions. Order bouquets of 10 fresh cut tulips for yourself, friends, family, co-workers and clients.

In this area the tulips will be available for pick up this Thursday or Friday. Right before Easter! You get 10 tulips for $7.00! Today and tomorrow are the last days to order. You can order them at the Easter Seals Bloomfest website or call 801-664-9228.

I ordered 3 bouquets and I am sooo excited to have those fresh beautiful flowers around my house during Easter weekend!

A Happy Birthday and March Madness

(Been lazy about blogging so this is a back post)

This year we decided to keep it low key for celebrating Jon's Birthday. We have a lot going on and are both pretty tired most of the time. On his birthday, he took half a day off of work and got to go skiing at The Canyons (which is where he is as we speak, April 6-lots and lots of spring snow-I think they got 26" of new snow in the last 24 hours.) Then when he got home we went on a nice relaxing simple date. We enjoyed dinner at Ruby River, and then caught Alice in Wonderland at the movies.

Then on Saturday we did the family festivities, after we cleaned our house and signed a contract with a Realtor. I made the traditional carrot cake, we opened a few presents and had a delicious dinner of fresh tasting orange chicken.

Then on Sunday we had a birthday dinner at my parents house.

Since March Madness is in full swing, Jon broke out the basketball stuff for the kids. The boys loved rolling up the carpet and playing. Zac is trying to get the hang of dribbling-its pretty funny to watch.

I don't know how to upload videos on here. But we have a funny one of Zac trying to dribble and Max trying a hot tamale for the first time.

Handsome Little Man

Zac is getting so big, yet he is still 4 years old. I often forget how little 4 year olds are, since he is the big brother.  He went to a "Royal Wedding" Birthday party for a little girl friend.  It was requested that everyone dress for the occasion. Here is our dressed up little guy.

Max Update

Is hard to accurately get pictures of Max's personality. I really wish we had a video camera for this reason. He loves to dance and move and has this cute way of bouncing off each foot when he excitedly runs toward something he wants. He is so very stubborn. He is still have some trouble understanding, which most 2 year olds do. He is beginning to want to swing on the big boy swing but gets himself off every couple minutes and needs help getting back on-over and over and over. He is getting along better with Zac. And actually tends to beat up on Zac. For some reason Zac just takes it, and doesn't retalliate . . . yet.

He is doing great with his progress with speech. He is picking up new words all the time. He had a video taped articulation test a couple weeks ago and he did fantastic. There were 3 speech language pathologists counting each error he made and he still scored the same as an average 3 year and 1 month old boy. He also had his annual test for the PEIP program, and I am pretty sure he will test out. He has come so so so far in the last year! Its amazing and so fun to see. He is so fun to have in our family!