The Happiest Easter

We started celebrating Easter with a ward party on Saturday morning. I made our favorite sticky buns, and they were gone within seconds, I was so proud. Then we had an Easter egg hunt. Well should I say the eight year olds had an Easter egg hunt. Liv got one pink egg. She cried, for a minute, so someone gave her a few more eggs. But when she realized that when she opened her pink chocolate egg, and realized it wasn't a pink candy, she threw it on the ground. She is a bit obsessed with pink. 

After Livy's nap we dyed her very first Easter eggs. She was so good at it! She was very careful with them, for the most part. And of course we had to do a glittery-pink egg. We only did a few eggs, but it was enough. She was so proud of her eggs that she wanted to carry them all around, it was hard for her to understand that they weren't really toys. 

We have 9:00 church. So I wanted to have a fun and enjoyable Easter morning, rather than stressful. So we woke up a little early, got all dressed, saw what the Easter bunny brought, then went out to find some eggs! Livy was so excited about all of her new things, she really did not want to go outside, she wanted to stay and play with all of her new things! But once we showed her that she either got a pink jelly bean or a princess sticker then she was excited to go. 

 

After a nice Sunday afternoon nap, daddy showed Livy how to blow bubbles. She was having so much fun. And once she figured it out she started yelling, "Yay! Good job! Good job!". Sargie loved it too, he would jump and catch all of the bubbles. 

 We got to have Grammy Sue and Grandpa Bob over for a nice Easter dinner. We had ham, I made my very first "Funeral Potatoes", rolls, fruit, salad, and a delicious carrot cake. Livy was so excited to get a new swimsuit and jammies for Hawaii from Grammy. She also got some ponies in a pink castle, lucky girl!

And most importantly, I had the privilege of doing Sharing Time today, and talking about the Resurrection of our Savior. I am so grateful for the chance to be in Primary, I learn so much from the sweet children, and their sweet knowledge and testimonies of Jesus Christ. I know that He lives and He loves us. Happy Easter everyone!

18 Weeks

Discovery of Peanut Butter

Yes, I know, she is already 2 1/2 years old. But she has no interest in peanut butter until today. I got her to finally try it, and she definitely liked it! I was so happy that she finally likes it that I just let her sit and eat it out of the jar for a few minutes. This means we can FINALLY do PB&J sandwiches. I am thrilled to have another option for a quick and easy lunch and snack. I love this girl. 

Annual St. Patty's Day Green Dinner

Besides wearing a little green on St. Patrick's Day I love to do a fun green dinner. Basically everything is green. This year we had green bread (it hardly looks green in the picture, but it really was!), green water, green jell-o, a green pasta primavera with broccoli and peas, and a grasshopper ice cream cake. It was all very green and very delicious!!

A few phone pics from after dinner...

16 Weeks

72 Degrees

Today was a very big day. It was not only warm, it was 72 degrees and beautiful. It hasn't been this warm for a long 6 months and we were loving every minute. We went with some friend to a park close by and the kids just ran wild. They were so thrilled to be out of the house, going up ladders and steps and braving the big slides. Livy was so brave, she hardly hesitated trying something new. We came to this park the other day and we were the only people there. So today, when there were about 20 kids running around she was a little possessive and didn't want to take turns. She didn't understand why everyone was on her turf!! She also did great in a  "big girl" swing! She held on so tight and she swung for a good long 15 minutes or so. She loved it. We are so excited for many more days like this. 

An Afternoon with Baby Josie

I have the best neighbors in the world. I am so lucky to have lived by them once, and move back to be next to them again!!! One of my neighbors and I have become good friends, and I got to watch her sweet baby girl today for a little while. She is the sweetest thing ever. First of all, doesn't she remind you of little Livy when she was 10 months?!

Josie came over right went Livy went down for her nap, which Livy will be sad to know she missed out playing with baby Josie. It was just what I needed. A chance to realize how much I love babies and how excited I truly am about having another sweet little person in our home. 

 I've forgotten how much I love the little squeals, the constant little drool, whispy little hairs, a cute chubby face, and big eyes looking right up at you. I feel so lucky, so fortunate, and so blessed to have my own children. It is such a privilege to raise these sweet spirits. They desire all of the love, hugs and kisses that you can give. I'm learning never to take a single thing for granted. No matter what happens, I am so grateful to have my little growing family.

beck-a-boo blog

I have another little blog, beckaboocrafts.blogspot.com. It's mostly a place for me to record a lot of my favorite recipes. But I love to throw up some other craft projects or sewing projects I've been working on. All last fall I was super busy making boots, so I hardly ever posted. Then I got pregnant, so I could hardly got off the couch, let alone cooking a meal!!! So now that the 2nd trimester welcomed me with it's open arms, I've been at it. Here are some of my latest projects and favorite recipes:

Primary Prez

I just got called as the Primary President in our ward....our ward with over 170 kids on the record. Yep, it's a bit crazy, and we're praying for a ward split soon!! I have awesome counselors, and feel so blessed to have them help me in every way. Definitely could not do something like this by myself! I received the calling literally the day after I found out I was pregnant. Needless to say, I was a bit overwhelmed at the thought of doing morning sickness, plus Livy, and then the whale-stage of third trimester, and a newborn, and a crawling baby, etc., etc., all while having this busy calling! When I told the counselor in the bishopric I was pregnant, he said, "We were trying to find out if you were pregnant or not, but then we figured that you'd be strong enough to do both.". Ah! I'm glad one of us thinks that. Not only that, but my 1st counselor is due to have a baby just a few months before me. But in a ward like ours I guess that's to be expected. 

Ryan has been a huge help, and I really have enjoyed the calling thus far. I am super exhausted after a Sunday of meetings, and there are constantly emails in the my inbox for Primary. But, I absolutely love Primary. This is actually my very first time ever serving in Primary. So everything is completely new to me, but I love the sweet spirits of all of the children. We were trying to get to know all of the names of the kids in our ward (ambitious I know), so we started taking all of their pictures to make a little picture directory. Livy saw me doing this, and wanted her picture too. Man I love this girl. 

Here's to an awesome but crazy next few months and maybe years. 

Photo-bomber

During my last little "prego photoshoot", during the self-timer, I had a little intruder. This picture makes me laugh everytime. Her toys, her blankie, her sly little grin, her eyebrows, I love it all. She knows she she was being silly. I think she thinks I'm a weirdo taking picture of myself, and she is definitely mocking me, but whatever Livy, I still think I'm cool.  She is such a goofball. Boy does she makes us laugh. 

Livy is such a joy. She loves to talk. She just speaks her mind, her voice is just a constant trail of her thoughts. I could definitely say that one of the most tired parts of my body at the end of the day are my ears. She is beyond obsessed with pink. People try and ask her questions..."Livy, what is your favorite food?"..."Pink". "What is your favorite toy?" ... "Pink". But literally, she loves eating pink food, and she loves any toy that's pink. She not only love yogurt, but she wants pink yogurt. We tried doing pink Mac & Cheese the other day, it was kind of an orangey-pink, but she was pretty excited about it. At this point she will be having a 'Pink Birthday Party', and being 'Pink Girl' for Halloween, she's just that obsessed. 

She has amazing confidence. She is always saying "I'm beautiful". She is always saying 'hi' to others. She will sing at the top of her lungs. She dances her heart out. She is darling in every way. She still throws some awesome 'silent tantrums'. When she is upset and when she is sad, she will turn, walk away, throw herself in a corner, turn around and give nasty-pouty looks, until she decides she's done. Most of the time we have to just wait until she's done. It is so hard not to laugh when she does this though. I wouldn't change one thing. Life is good. 

Pregnancy Progress

Since the word in finally out, I thought I'd recording the progress of our next sweet baby. Here are the last couple of weeks. Can't wait for a whole lot more of these updates.