Happy Birthday to Me!

  I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the birthday wishes sent my way yesterday! I can’t believe that I am 27 years old. At least I haven’t hit 30 yet like my dear old husband will in less than two months.  We didn’t have a big celebration (seriously, nothing is exciting about 27) mostly because we had to go to church and I had to teach the lesson in Young Women’s. But the young women did sing to me, and I got a few cards from them as well. Since I am not much of a cake person usually Jake makes me a strawberry cheesecake for my birthday but we still had cheesecake leftover from last weekend so he made cupcakes instead.  As you can see from the picture below, Ethan had already stolen a “cupcape” and shoved the whole thing in his mouth (as evidenced by the crumbs tumbling out the sides of his lips).

PS. To Ashton, Cayden, and Caitlin- I loved the song and hope to see you soon when you come to visit me in ‘Vada!

Happy Mudder’s Day!

At least that is what it sounded like Ethan told me yesterday. He may have been trying for mother, but we have been doing a lot of sheetrock mudding over at the house so maybe he actually did mean mudder. Hope all the mothers out there had a great Mother’s Day!

    I spent “Mudder’s Day” priming the walls in my kitchen dining room and laundry room. Not the most relaxing holiday ever, but if it gets me closer to moving in, then I am willing to make that sacrifice!

Easter!

So we spent the first part of spring break working on the house and then took a much needed vacation to visit our families. First we went to my parents house where we spent some time relaxing. Thursday night everybody came up for a big dinner of BBQ turkey (yuck), and all the other big family meal type foods. My grandma and aunt brought my favorite jello which I look forward to every time we have a big get together. Usually it is black cherry jello with raspberries, but this time they didn’t have any so they used strawberries instead, and guess what? Just as delicious! Friday night we went out to dinner, then back home to color eggs. Here are some pics…

    

Saturday morning after breakfast we got all the candy eggs ready and hid all the treats in the backyard. Ethan had so much fun. He kept wanting to pick up all the eggs whether they had his name on them or not. More pictures…

         

I don’t think there was one picture where they were all looking at the same camera, or even in the direction of the cameras but what do you expect when there are four people taking their pictures and they have a basket full of treats in front of them. Oh well! 

After the Green family egg hunt we had some Fat Jack’s Roy’s pizza (so yummy) then headed over to Delta. When we got to Delta they were coloring eggs so we jumped in on the fun. Then all the kids headed out for the egg hunt. Luckily Ethan had slept for the entire car ride over so he was ready to go again. Pics of the hunt…

 

Once the hunt was over we all settled in for the egg crack the etended family egg crack was a little small this year, but still fun (and of course very intense) for all. Ethan beat Katelyn but then lost to Ashlyn. Jake beat me and looked like he could go all the way by beating Stephanie, but lost out to Aunt Frog, who was the eventual winner.

         

After the extended family crack off, Jake’s family had one of our own. Ethan again won over his first round opponent of Quinton, then Ashlyn, then Grandma,but lost to Mekel (who came in second over all) . This time I beat Jake (yea!) but lost to Sheri (cheater!) who became the winner in the end.

  

From the look on his face, I think Ethan would have rather been playing in the dirt.

All in all, I’d have to say we had a pretty good Easter, and Ethan had so much fun playing with all his cousins. For us it was nice to get away from construction for a few days and just relax.