Easter 2014

Easter weekend was awesome!

On Saturday we went to my parents house, the Stokers. We ate a delicious lunch of sloppy joes and salads, I brought deviled eggs, and we had a bunch of fruit and tasty desserts too. We colored some eggs and hung out. My parents have a bunch of bunnies roaming their yard. We were able to catch 4 baby bunnies in a trap. The kids all had so much fun cuddling the 4 baby bunnies. There was a black one, a brown one, a grey one, and a white one. My sister Tina ended up taking 2 home with her and my brother mike took home one as well. The other one was claimed by my parent's renters. Then we did our Easter Egg hunt. Lily loved grabbing the eggs. She made out pretty well too. After that we did our Egg Roll Easter Madness. I won the entire thing! Then we just relaxed, and played outside the rest of the day.

Michael was teasing the little ones all day that we were going to eat the bunnies and have some rabbit stew

Bentz and Lily

Easter Bunny!

Lily laid in the swing for at least an hour

Egg Roll!

The Winner of Easter Madness Egg Roll 2014

On Sunday we went to Church and Lily wore her adorable new dress Grandma Malouf gave her. Then after church Lily got to go through her Easter Basket before her nap. That afternoon we went to the Maloufs for some yummy traditional Easter Dinner (ham, turkey, cheesy potatoes, asparagus, fruit). Then we played an estimation jar game and then Craig gave a spiritual thought about what Easter is really about. Then the kids got to hunt for eggs. Each kid has a certain color of eggs to search for. Lily's all had flowers or Minny Mouse on them or were a very shiny purply pink. Lily was excited about finding more eggs! After the egg hunt they each got a special golden egg that gave a clue as to where their Easter Basket would be. Lily's was, "In a place where Lily and Bruce like to splash" which meant the tub! She got lots of fun, cute things in her basket. Renee also gave the adults an Easter gift as well and there was even a gift for the baby in my tummy. Then we celebrated the April birthdays and had some yummy cake and ice cream.

Going through her Easter Basket

Its so fun to watch Lily enjoy the holidays!

Spring Break 2014

We had a blast this Spring Break! Lily and I started celebrating early the Friday before by going to Kangaroo Zoo in Pleasant Grove with my niece Holly and her little boy Bentz. Lily and Bentz are great pals! Holly and I were great pals growing up too so its fun to see them play together. Lily was nervous of the place at first and didn't want me to even put her down. But she soon warmed up to it and it is now her favorite place ever!

Then we had General Conference weekend. I made Cinnamon Rolls from scratch that we ate both days during the morning sessions. I think it will have to be a new tradition. I bought all these things to keep Lily entertained, but she was still nuts. The afternoon sessions were much more enjoyable for us to watch since that was during Lily's naptime. Great talks as usual! On Saturday night during Priesthood Session Lily and I went with my mom to get pedicures and then to Kneader's for some dinner. On Sunday we all went to the Maloufs for some food and fun.

It was also our 10 year anniversary of our first date on April 6th. Here is a flashback to our 2nd date which happened to be Good Friday April 9th, 2004.

On Monday we left for St. George! We took our time getting their stopping at a petting zoo on the way and taking the tour of Cove Fort. Lily slept the last hour and a half. She was great in the car! We stayed at the Best Western Coral Hills. It had an indoor pool and an outdoor pool with a little toddler swimming area as well. She loved swimming, jumping off the side of the pool and riding in her boat. The weather was awesome while we were there. in the 80's. We ate at a really yummy pizza place called Riggati's the first night and then went for a walk to the temple.

Historic Cove Fort

Keeping an eye out for any bad guys

Pizza on the bed!

On Tuesday we went swimming, then to The Children's Museum. Lily had a ball there playing dress up and with all the different toys. Then we ate at Mad Pita which was also very tasty. Then after attempting an unsuccessful nap, we went to a splash pad and swimming some more! We then ate at Frostop, a place I kept calling "Footloose" because I have really bad eyesight :) It was a tasty hamburger drive-in place that reminded me of good old Parker's that I miss dearly.

Lily on her first airplane

On Wednesday we hit the outlets before heading home. We really liked the hotel. It was cheap, but clean with a friendly staff and we liked the free breakfast every morning :) It was a fun little getaway.

On Thursday we dropped Lily off with Grandma and Grandpa Bruce to go see Captain America and eat some thai food. Friday Lily decided it was time to take Daddy to Kangaroo Zoo too. He paid to jump too and took her on all the huge slides. She loved having him play with her. She loved having her daddy around! Spring Break was a nice teaser for Summer!