Happy be-lated Easter

Sunday was a little busy, so I'm a day later than I originally planned to blog, so I hope everyone had a great Easter!

We did the normal Easter things-

Friday we dyed eggs-
Here is Savannah's favorite, she worked really hard to get it this color- back and forth between several different colors.

Juliana also had lots of fun coloring her eggs. After she finished the 8 eggs she was supposed to color she did the extra 3 eggs and then when she finished those she just re-dyed them again, and again, and again. They were all very interesting colors.

Saturday we went to an Easter egg hunt at Wheeler Farm- it really was more of a run and grab of the Easter candy that was on the ground.

They had the kids separated into three groups and Juliana and Olyvia were in one group and Christena and Savannah in the other. Jake had to work so I got to take the girls by myself.

Olyvia was a little upset when we were done because there was a gold egg she really wanted to get, but she got beat out for it. After it was gone she just stood around and cried until everything else was gone- the only candy she got was what I put in her basket. Juliana wasn't sure what to make of the whole thing and kind of just stood there until I helped her get some candy- she eventually figured it out, by the time the candy was pretty much gone. Christena and Savannah made up for the little bit of candy Olyvia and Juliana got- Their buckets were about half full. That on top of what the easter bunny brought was plenty of candy!


Here are my beautiful girls in their Easter dresses-they also get to double as their dresses for Kellie and Scott's wedding. This was after dinner so Juliana's hair is a mess, she also was sick all day with a fever, so she wasn't quite her normal self.

I hope you all had a great Easter weekend too,
Ours was pretty normal but we had fun!

Too Smart for Their Own Good

I've been meaning to update my blog all week but never seemed to be able to find the time- I figure it is a good Sunday activity, since that is the only day of the week I don't feel like I have 20 million other things to do and no time to sit down at the computer.

I wanted to share a couple of funny stories about my kids- they are growing up way to fast!

Last Sunday we went to Tonja's house to play games with her family and Scott and Kellie. Tonja made popcorn to eat while we were playing, and of course my ever inquisitive Juliana had to be right there with her to see exactly what was going on.

After the bowl of popcorn was finished Juliana decided she wanted more and since no one else was going to make it for her she decided to make it herself.

She dragged a chair into the kitchen and looked expectantly at the popcorn popper with the bowl under it waiting for something to happen, when nothing did she realized she had to do something so she opened the container of popcorn, moved the bag that was in it and tried to scoop up the
popcorn kernals to put them in the popper. That is the point where I intervened.
I don't know how she got so smart!


Then on Thursday, Jake was home for his day off from work, so I figured I would take advantage of the opportunity to go grocery shopping by myself!- It doesn't happen very often.
Jake was sitting back in his recliner listening to the BYU basketball game on the radio (We don't have cable so the poor guy has to listen to the games, and doesn't get to see them). After a strenuous week at work (He hasn't had to do physical labor in a long time!) he feel asleep in his chair while Juliana and Olyvia were playing. I came home with the house not quite as clean as it was when I left. He didn't tell us the whole story until dinner that night. When he woke up he found his shoe laces tied together, with his feet crossed. Every time he tried to uncross his feet it just pulled the laces tighter. He said he had to get a fork to get the knots out.
Olyvia is alway's tying knots in things. It seems almost daily we find the barbie's hanging from her bed with whatever she has found to tie them up with, (around their waists, not by the neck-she's not trying to hang them!) She likes to pretend that they get trapped and have to be saved.

Some good has come from her fascination with knots, however, The other day she did manage to tie her shoe. Only one of them and she hasn't been able to repeat the feat, but hopefully if we can practice with her before kindergarten this fall she will have it down!

The rest of us are all doing okay- we are passing around a cold and cough and poor Savannah is on medicine for an ear infection- only the second in her life! but for the most part we are good. Ready for the warm weather and spring break!

a crazy weekend

This weekend has been a crazy one. Friday, Tonja and Joshlyn (Jake's sister and her daughter) came over to my house so we could make the invitations for Kellie's (Jake's other sister) bridal shower. It took us a while (and a trip to Michaels) to finally decide what we wanted to do for the invites.

This is what Jake found when he got home from work at 10:15 that night!

It was a mess but we had a lot of fun!

After 3 hours of hard work, our creative juices were gone but this is what we accomplished!



















Saturday was Savannah's 7th birthday. I was excited when she said she wanted a green M&M cake. I figured it would be an easy one to make- until she informed me she wanted arms and legs, complete with gloves and boots.

This is the finished product. I think it turned out pretty good!

Christena said it looked like a buff M&M, but we decided it was just a little chunky- it is made out of chocolate after all!










Most of Jake's family came over for cake and ice cream, which was nice since I ended up making 2 cake mixes, so I could have the cupcakes too. It was a houseful, but never a dull moment.

Here is Savannah opening her presents!

This is the purse she got from Christena.
Christena originally bought Savannah a new shirt, but Olyvia told Savannah what Christena was going to give her so we had to get something else for Christena to give and Juliana got to give Savannah the shirt instead.










Juliana got a little impatient with Savannah and deciced she would rather open the presents herself.
She climbed up on the chair with Savannah's present and tried to open it herself. Jake had to rescue the present!

It's not real easy to explain to a 2 year old that it isn't her birthday!