Easter Weekend 2008

Okay, well I didn't intend for this to be the first picture, but here we are just starting the 3rd trimester, 27 weeks on Easter...

Our Easter weekend was wonderful! Here are some pics from our Easter Egg hunt at Nanny & Papa's house. Remember all those days of winter (and Spring) when I was so ungrateful and complaining about the pounds and pounds of snow? These are the days that make it all worth it. Look at those mountains! You can't see too much of the green here, but it is so beautiful here right now! The daffodils are blooming and it is just gorgeous here!



Here is Isaac at the Egg Hunt at our Church party- (He doesn't like to show his teeth anymore because of all the missing teeth!):

Isaac and Daphne are reading a book with "Granny Great", Matt's maternal grandmother. This is right after Daphne looked up at her and said, "You have wrinkly cheeks and poofy white hair." :)


I can't believe I didn't get any cute shots of them in their Easter duds, but hopefully you can see how cute they were in all of these shots!

On Saturday we had a Church Easter Party, which was so much fun! We had breakfast, egg dyeing, coloring, relay races, an egg hunt and an awesome family scripture Easter activity! Here they are squinting.
Here they are in the bunny hop relay race:
This is Daphne crying because she wanted to run to me instead of to the lady in charge of the relay races!
EGGS!

March Odds & Ends

My life is so fabulous! Every single day is brightened by my two sweet angels. I have so much joy from being their Mom and I am in awe of the fact that we will have another child in our family. I wanted to share some of the comments that have brightened my life this month!

On the way home from a Mommy Daughter trip to buy Girl Scout Cookies Daphne said, "I wish they had boy scout cookies so Daddy & Isaac could eat some."

After church one day, we were getting in the van and Isaac called Daphne a slow poke in a very mean voice. Daphne was upset (shocker) and I said, "Isaac, we don't call eachother names- that hurts feelings. How would you feel if Daphne called you a slow poke?" An indignant Isaac replied, "It doesn't matter." Daphne exclaimed, "REPENT, for crying out loud!"

Matt was watching Robin Hood with the kids one night while I was at church. The next day they were singing the song from the movie "Not in Nottingham". Then Isaac said, "Hey Mom, do you know why it is called Nottingham? Cause that sheriff is so Naughty!"

Here are a few pictures from March... This is Isaac & Daphne enjoying the GREEN Rice Krispie Treats we made for St. Patrick's Day! They particularly enjoyed turning the marshmallow goo green. Matt began a new job this month and had a few days off in between careers. I had been telling the kids it was Daddy's last day and that afternoon, Daphne said, "Today is Daddy's last day at work and then he gets to stay home with me!" Ummmm... that was a little sad to try and explain!
Anyway, we took a day and went to the Children's Museum and here are a few pics from there:
Isaac rock climbing:


Checking out the Helicopter... Okay, so there was a little theatre where the children could put on costumes and choose a backdrop and put on a little play. So we were making up the story while the kids acted it out. Here is Daphne being a "lonely leopard", because her brother wouldn't be in the play with her:
Now, the leopard is no longer lonely because Daddy Sunshine head is here to keep her happy! :)

Pinkalicious!

Pinkalicious! This is the hottest topic at our house right now. My sister recently gave this book to Daphne and 3 days later she began retelling this story to her friends and anyone who would listen. She remembers so much of the phrases and lines- it is one of the cutest things ever! A few weeks ago, Daphne' class went on a field trip to the Annual Story-Telling Festival, where her teacher was to be a Story Teller. As they were waiting to go into the auditorium, Daphne re-told the story "Pinkalicious" to her class-mates and several other classes! She did great and did get a little nervous toward the end when she looked up and realized that there were so many people watching her. These are some pics that one of her teachers took with her phone:

Hole In My Head

Well, Isaac lost his first official tooth this week! Many of you know that he fell in the bathtub when he was 18 mos and killed his top frotn tooth. We had to have it pulled when he was 4 1/2. But this week he lost the tooth right below the top one, leaving one very large hole in the front of his teeth! It has been loose for a while, and Matt pulled it right before bed on Monday night. He was very brave and didn't even wince (which is really impressive if you heard about his Kindergarten shots fiasco last summer!) Isaacwas incredibly excited to find a dollar under his pillow in the morning! The other top tooth, and the bottom one right next to it are both loose as well, so we could have one supersized hole in a month or so!