April Happenings

You are always rotating your stuffed animals and today you picked Diesel that Spencer left for you when he moved to Texas. Nicole always brings her green frog and you guys play for hours creating new adventures for them. It melts my heart seeing you guys play so well.

We all go to the same haircut lady. We take turns when it is nice outside watching you run around the beautiful yellow flowers, blue flowers and the green grass.

Mr. potato head Ryker. You were hilarious in those tiny glasses with a serious face.

When walking into the post office we came across a wall of Iris's. You walked up and stood by them. I took a picture of you because why?  You are always just so darn cute.

On the way home you roll down the car window and yell out, “ Hey, all you pretty ladies I am available.” We both were laughing hysterically.
Wait what ?! I asked, “When did you start chasing girls?”

Egg Hunt and friends

We got ready and headed out the door by 8:30 am. We drove 1 1/2 hours south to Spring City to go on a Easter Egg hunt with our good friends the Brunner's.
We went to their house and spent the day with Carson, Danielle, Sienna, Kayla (Mom), and Jesse (Dad). We went on a four wheeler ride, held baby chicks, chased chickens, played on the swings, played in the dirt and had lots of Easter candy.
Every time I go I just fall in love with it even more and every time I try to convince your Dad to let us move there. I absolutely love all the historic homes and the quietness.

Happy 1/2 birthday

Time is flying by and we cannot figure how to stop you from growing. Despite everything we do it seems we are celebrating another 1/2 birthday. I swear you just turned 6.
We wanted the day to be special so we invited Nana, Gramps and Aunt Tiny to come celebrate your half birthday with us. This is one of the many perks of being the only child you get lots of attention and different traditions.
With your cake cut in half and 6 1/2 candles on the cake we sang half a birthday song to you. We then debated if we wanted to watch only half of Monster Truck but decided to watch all of it.


I needed some pictures of your special day and you weren’t to thrilled about it. Then…

your sweetness came out…

and your silliness came out…

Then by the end you were making us laugh.

The Reason is YOU

“There are so many BEAUTIFUL reasons to be HAPPY.” {Author Unknown }
On the top of all those reasons is YOU!

Easter Sunday

The Easter bunny came during the night and hid your  basket. You are very good at finding your baskets. It onlytook you a minute to pin down the Easter basket.  You found it in the laundry room.
The Easter bunny spoiled you with books and goodies. We spent the morning reading and eating the delicious treats.

We were finishing getting ready and you weren't to thrilled (like always) to have your picture taken.  I had to capture this sweet moment of Daddy putting your tie on.

After church we took  Easter pictures. You are an excellent photographer.

Other times you love your picture taken. You started posing and

then you became a bunny.

Nana and Gramps asked me to take there pictures. It isn’t to often we get pictures of the two of them. I love the pictures of them. We are so grateful for them in our lives and all they do for us. You love when they babysit you because you get all the treats you want. You have even asked us to leave so they can watch you.


Jesus has risen, Jesus, our friend. Joy fills our hearts; He lives again.
Praises we sing to him, This Easter-time. Jesus has risen, Savior divine, Savior divine. Jesus has risen, Savior divine! –Primary song -Jesus has Risen

Springtime

After a harsh white Winter it is so nice to have Spring come making the world beautiful again with pinks, purples, yellows, blues and orange.
We went on a walk, while we were on our walk we saw this beautiful tree that made us stop to look at it because of the gorgeous blush colored flowers.
What made my fall even more in love with it was when you were sitting in it.

The Y

We chose a cool Spring afternoon to go hiked the Y. It’s only a mile long, but it has lots of switch backs and steep hills. I hadn’t hiked it since I was about 13 years old and Daddy hiked it about 12 years ago. It was time to introduce you to the famous Y mountain that you see all the time driving around town.

We took it slow and stopped at every switch back to rest and look at the beautiful view.

When we got to the top you exclaimed, “I am staying up here for a long time!”
Then the wind picked up, it got cold and that excitement went away pretty quickly.

We are both so proud of you for trying and hiking this very steep hike. Dad is super excited to take you on more hikes.

Dad told us a story as we were hiking back down that he was hiking with some friends, lost his footing and rolled down a small cliff  scraping his legs and hands.

You two holding hands while practically running down the hill melted my heart and reminded me that I am a slow hiker all around.

After hiking for 1 1/2 hours we treated ourselves to milkshakes then went home and crashed on the couch.