Easter

 

 

 

 

Usually I walk right past the egg decorating kits. 

Young kids with lot's of  tip-able bowls full of dye, no thank you!

But this year I decided to give it a try.

I figured it would be a fun thing to do during the last

Sunday general conference session.

And when I saw these fake eggs so I wouldn't have to hard boil my

own it was a done deal.

Seriously, they look real!

 

The kit came with a billion dye tablets.

I used 4 then hurried and chucked the rest

before the boys caught wind.

 

It turned out pretty fun.

And you can see how serious egg decorating can be!

 

 

My mom, dad, and brother were in the Easter pageant this year.

We have gone to the pageant for the past 3 years, but only because we would

get a call from my mom saying that she had extra seats saved and wondered

if we wanted them. This year it was my turn to go down to the temple at 4:30 to
save the seats. It was actually quite relaxing and the time flew before 8pm when it
started. I brought a book to read under my umbrella and enjoyed chatting with the lady
in front of me for a bit. We got 7th row in the middle section!!

For April break I met my sis-n-law down at the mall for some shopping.

You might think we are crazy to do that with 4 boys and 2 baby

 girls in strollers...which we were.

JC Penney had a sale that was hard to resist. $10 off $25!

Half way through our shopping my mother in law showed up.

She said she could hear us all the way down the aisle:/

She volunteered to take the boys upstairs for some Panda Express

so we could finish up without getting kicked out of the store.

On the way out I snapped their picture with the Easter bunny.

It was good enough for them.

Later that afternoon we had our big Easter egg hunt with Casey's family!

 

I went a little crazy on their baskets this year.

I was prepared and shopped early, which was my problem!

I kept seeing things I couldn't resist later on

 so their baskets kept getting stuffed bigger and bigger!

Next year  I'll make sure to just make one quick trip to Target Saturday night.

Our Sunday Easter pics kind of failed.

I wanted to do a family picture outside the church but of course we

were late.  Afterwards I got hung up in the halls talking and

 Casey already had the kids loaded in the car by the time I was done.

I'm thinking that was his plan out of pictures ,hmm.

Lindi was hungry and tired so this was the best I got.

 



She cracked me up in this dress.

It was hard for her to crawl in so she did the Mogli crawl.

I wish I would have put a cotton ball tail on her rear:)

 



We had Easter din din at my parents house.

Sweet pork tacos.

We like to be rebellious.

My mom hid some eggs out front for the kids to find.

Then she said she hid a few eggs in the backyard for the adults.

One egg per person. Casey and I were included as one.

We had a fun little surprise with $ inside of them.

Meaning in the range of $5, which was still sweet!

Then Casey got the idea it would be

 funny to take a picture with us holding hundred dollar bills

and send it to a sibling that was not there that night which usually is.

Hahaha, we had her going for awhile!

 



 



St. Patty's, Spring Break, April Fools and more!

 

Casey threw a huge elders quorum party.

It was the week before St. Patrick's day so he themed it around the color green,

seeing how that would be the cheapest, easiest way to decorate.

Are you feeling LUCKY? We played bunco:)

 

 

 Casey is a good party planner.

He pays great attention to detail and wants to make sure everybody will have a good time.

Before bunco we had an AMAZING dinner!

One of his counselor's is a manager over many Chipotle's so he helped

cater that for food plus mini chimi's from Nando's.

So we stuffed our faces then headed over to the bunco tables.

Each table had a bunch of goodies to munch on while playing.

Minus the loser table. They got nothing and had to sit on the little kid chairs.

The winning table got the plush, soft chairs.

 



The YW babysat to help earn money for girls camp.

I went to check on them half way through and I couldn't stop laughing.

It was a mad house! There were toys everywhere and kids running wild.



For the actual holiday I don't do much. No green pancakes or scavenger hunt for the pot of gold.

We did have lucky charms only on default that we have that in our pantry year round:/

I had to snap a picture of my sweet little leprechauns that I love so much!

 



 

Spring break wasn't too exciting. I did try to plan one fun thing to do everyday.

Since our neighborhood pool is heated we swam almost everyday.

We went mini golfing one night.

We went to the zoo on Lindi's birthday, I already posted about that.

And I'm sure there was a park day thrown in there as well.

 



I have to post this because it captures every meal or snack perfectly at our house.

Lindi is a hard core foodie. If she see's or hears of food, she makes sure she is in on the action.

I had already fed her lunch and Rusty wanted a smoothie so of course she screamed and cried until Rusty shared sips with her. The boys have figured out how to keep her quiet real fast... share their food with her!

 My April Fools joke on Casey, hehehehehe.

He will most likely kill me for posting this!

 This got me rolling as well.

We were running late to church.

8 o'clock church blows.

I asked Casey to get Lindi dressed.

And so he did: 

 We went to visit my dad at his work on his birthday!

It's a long story but I have never been to his office before.

My mom brought a bunch of Sprinkles cupcakes to share with his employee's and it was fun to

see who he works with and all that is entailed in his job.

 The One Direction song "The Story Of My Life" runs through my head
 as I think back a few weeks ago.
 Lindi stuck on my hip or crying at my feet while trying to get things done.
TEETHING. IS. THE. WORST.
 I think we are over it.
And she has 4 brand new teeth on top to show for it.

I have a new favorite restaurant.

The China King.

My better half doesn't like Chinese food so
 after the women's broadcast I kinda subtly hinted we should eat some.

 We walked in to a red satin, whole goose roasting in the glass window restaurant
and knew this would be an authentic experience.
 The food was amaz-balls.
 And getting photo bombed by the china king himself made it even better! 

 

Somebody upgraded to a front facing car seat!

I ran in the 5K Rock N Run race.

It was sponsoring the Special Olympics and was honoring my cousin CJ who passed away last month. My mom was there to do the 1 mile fun run.

 And I'll end with the cutest piggies ever.

All of her hair barely fits. Barely.
And I think it ages her instantly.

 

ONE

 

 

It happened.

She turned one.

I never saw it coming.

It seems impossible.

But to make it better it's nice knowing she

 is now the cutest one year old on the earth!:)

 

Her birthday was on Wednesday.

And even better that we were on spring break!

We went to Walmart early that morning.

Like still wearing our pj's early.

Our cupboards were BARE.

And Lindi needed a birthday donut.

Because you can't have a birthday without donuts for breakfast.

It's a good thing she doesn't know what good donuts taste like yet.

Because Walmart donuts are the lowest on the donut food chain.

Bleh.

She would have chowed down the whole thing if I let her.

 

 

 

The sugar must have made her crash because she then enjoyed a 3 hour birthday nap!

I almost had to wake her up so we could get going on her party to the zoo!



It was $20 more to sign up for a zoo membership.

So glad I did because with it we got free tickets to the sting ray exhibit and

free camel rides!

 

I text Casey this picture and he replied, isn't she a little dressed up for the zoo?

You can never be too dressed up on your birthday!!

 

Wasn't aware of the Amish in AZ

 

We hurried home so we could get ready for people to come over.

I took it real easy and picked up a dozen cupcakes from the Sweet Tooth Fairy.

 



She pounded that cupcake. Gone.

That's my girl.

She had lots of people come wish her a happy birthday.

Grandpa:

Grandma, David and Craig missed out on the pictures I guess.

 

She was so nice to share with Papa

 

Grammy

And Marcie!

To say she is loved is an understatement.

 

Here is a little recap of her first year of life:

 

-2 days after coming home from the hospital she had to go back in for jaundice.

-2 weeks after that Casey and I had to call 911 in the middle of the night because she was choking on

some mucus and started turning blue.

-She got to go to a cabin in Showlow with her Goodman cousins for her first vacation.
-She was 5 months old when she got to go to the beach for her first time.

-She started sitting up on her own at 6 months.

-Didn't learn how to roll over till 9 months old ( can you tell she was spoiled and was always being held?)

- Learned to crawl at 10 months

-LOVES her bottles and food. Can pound blueberries and strawberries like nobodies business.

-Has a love/hate relationships with animals.

Birds freak her out. I must have passed that down to her.

-Only has her 2 bottom teeth but the top 2 are coming in. And she ain't likin' it.

-Has the highest pitched scream that you can hear a continent away when you don't feed her fast enough.

- has rocked the biggest bows to mankind. And will actually keep them on her head pretty good.

 

 

We thank our lucky stars for this Lindi Lou of ours.

And here's to hoping her 2nd year doesn't go by as fast as her first!