Easter Sunday

Love my Hailey!

Eliza figuring out this whole Easter hunt thing

Handsome Ben!

Hailey and cousin Devin, I wish I knew what they were saying!

Me and my Eliza bug

Cute cousins!  They just love each other!

Eliza found that egg early on in the hunt and I think she had it most of the night!

This is my mormor's brother Olaf, he is eating off a frisby.  Maybe that's how they do it in Norway!

Nina, mormor, Eliza, and other mormor

We have always gone up to my mormor's house in Sugarhouse for our Easter celebration.  She has a long yard full of great hiding places.  We enjoyed a great dinner and the kids had a great time with the Easter egg hunt.  The weather managed to stay somewhat nice, just a little chilly.  I have so many memories of my mormor's house and I'm glad that my kids are able to create their own great memories with her.  I didn't get a picture of this, but there is a tree in the lower part of her yard that had a tree house in it when my mom was growing up.  There are always fabulous hanging treats of some kind or other that we get to find.  This year all the adults got huge chocolate bunnies, and all the kids got fun soccer balls.

4/24/2011

Saturday Easter Egg Hunts

We did our Easter hunts at our house on Saturday morning.  We decided that the kids would get plenty of candy elsewhere, so they got camping chairs and hard-boiled eggs!

Ben finding his star wars camping chair!

This is the madness that was South Jordan's free Easter egg hunt.  My kids are in there somewhere!  It was the craziest I've ever seen any race.  Their hunt was at 9am, and the rest of the cities were at 10am, so everyone including us hit this one then went to another one.  My kids had fun, so that's all that matters.

Ben and Nathan checking out the fire truck after the egg hunt.

This is a picture of Riverton's Easter egg hunt, much better organized and a lot less people.  Hailey has the bright yellow rain jacket on.  Ben, Hailey and Eliza all had to be in different areas.  So, Ben did his own thing, Mike went with Hailey, and I went with Eliza.  Eliza was not into the crazy crowds but managed to get a few good things.  She picked up one piece of candy and was happy to just have that!

4/23/2011

Ben's First Tooth Out...Finally!

I was really excited in January when Ben got his first loose tooth.  But, the cute kid  never wiggled it.  I asked him why, and he said it was because his kindergarten teacher, Mrs. McKenna, told them not to wiggle their teeth in school because it grossed her out.  He said he forgot to do it the rest of the day.  Well, it finally got loose and it came out April 22nd!!!  I had my mom and Bri tag team him and get it out!!!  He got: a pennie, a nickle, a dime, a quarter, a gold dollar, a dollar and a chocolate dollar from the tooth fairy. 

His second tooth was much easier.  It was the tooth on the bottom next to the one that came out.  The night before we went to Disneyland I was flossing his teeth before bed.  His tooth was practically sideways, so I just gently tugged and out it came.  Luckily the tooth fairy came through again!  Ben is growing up way too fast.  When he lost his first tooth I thought, he's just getting so big. I can't beleive I have a child old enough to be losing teeth!

Cute Hailey!

Eliza loves swinging!  Notice how she has to be in full winter gear even though it's April.

Easter Celebrations

Cute Hailey on the go!
We celebrated Easter early with my family.  The kids had a great time scouring Mormor and Buddy's yard!  After we went in and played some great minute to win it games.

Lucky Eliza got the deck to herself for the Easter egg hunt.  She loved this little lamb!

Ben was too fast to take a picture of when the egg hunt was on, but this shows his awesome finds!

You have a minute-to-win-it, good luck!

Hailey doing a great job, Mike beat Jake and is still going!

Ben and Nathan heading off.  Notice how Ben is stacking his on his eye,
I think he gets extra points for that!

Nicole was so much better at this than me!

Eliza was the smart one and ate her cupcake!

4/10/2011