Easter Eggs, round 1

Today Jessica and I dyed some Easter eggs. She was SO excited to do this and was not very pleased when I explained that we had to boil the eggs first, etc, etc. But once we got going, she had a blast.


Oh, never leave your child, even for a second, around a cup full of dye. Duh. Yeah, they might just reach in for the egg and end up looking like this:

Scrapbook Pages

Most of the pictures are repeats, I just wanted to post some of the scrapbook pages I've been doing.

Crafty, crafty

I just had to share this blog I discovered. Let's just say that I'm super excited to have a sewing machine again and permission to accumulate things. :) Some of the projects look really cool, others are just so-so, but I'm feeling crafty. Anyone else know any cool crafty sites?

Spokane

I just can't get enough of this boy!

I love this boy! I hope you like seeing pictures of him as much as I do. :) He is just a good little kiddo! 5 weeks old, can you believe it?

It's hard to say goodbye

Have any of you noticed that Michael and I tend to get rid of stuff rather frequently? In fact we just got rid of all of our personal belongings except two carloads this past summer. That was hard. This school year we've done without a lot. .We spent 6 months with only a $50 Wal-Mart futon for our couch (until our kind home teacher and his wife gave us their old couches). We are sleeping on an air mattress (that was not fun during my last trimester of being pregnant). We've made due without a microwave. We eat on a card table with folding chairs. Our walls our almost entirely bare (minus a framed copy of "The Living Christ" I made at Super Saturday). I only have three pairs of heels here for crying out loud!! :) I've told Michael that once we move after graduation we are never again allowed to have a major purge of stuff. But the end of the semester is getting closer (2 months until graduation!!) and that means that the final purge has begun. Obviously this purge will be much more subdued than the others since we have so little already. But Michael decided that the TV was probably worth more sold than stored for two years (we're staying at my parent's place while they go on a mission). It sold today. We actually sold it for close to what we originally paid, which is nice. As the buyers packed it up and carried it away, poor Jessica was trying to hard to be brave. I could tell she was holding back tears. Poor thing. Michael had to console her for a few minutes and let her know that we could still watch movies on the computer.

I'm afraid I didn't get a picture of me having to console Michael a few minutes later once reality hit him. :) I'm actually really looking forward to life without TV. We were never really big TV people until we got this TV and cable. I'm sure we'll get much more done now.

And I just had to post a few more pictures of little Chan-Man. He is just a cutie!

Too Cute

This is what happens when you leave marshmallows on the counter in plain sight. And yes, I told her to stay up there while I ran to get the camera. :)

And this was just a cute picture of my boys:

Quotable

Jessica really cracks me up with things she says sometimes:

"Daddy, I won't leave you. When I get big, I won't go bye-bye."
"When I go on a mission I will go to Australia."
"Daddy, how do you say, 'what the heck!' in Spanish?"
"I want Chandler to get big so he can say, 'I love you Jessica!'"
"I have short hair, so I can play soccer."
"Daddy, I want to get on your back and get a piggy-tail ride."

1 month old!

Wow! Time sure flies. Chandler is one month old today. He weighs 8lbs 5 oz (up from 6lbs 11oz) and is just a joy. Yesterday he went to church for the first time (we decided to wait a few weeks because of all the darn winter illnesses that are going around). He wore the same sweater his dad wore when he was blessed. We're waiting until graduation weekend to bless Chandler, so that more family can be there, so he'll be too big for the outfit by then.

Pictures

I just wanted to share a few cute ones of the kiddos.

P.S. No, we didn't do the bangs like that on purpose. That's just what happens when you try and cut a 2 year old's hair sometimes. :) Oops.

Blog Role

FYI - I anyone wants me to change the way I have them listed in our blog links (or if you'd like to be taken off all together) just let me know. I understand that it's kind of crazy in our world with how easy it can be to Google people and such. :)

What I do all day

My fabulous sister-in-law had this on her blog a while back and I thought it was worth sharing. Luckily I think most people aren't as ignorant as the person writing in. :) FYI - you'll probably have to click on the image to actually read the article.