Easter Weekend

We went up to Bloomfield/Farmington for Easter last weekend. We love getting together with all the cousins up there! I'm not going to lie, it is a little crazy-but fun!

We had an Easter egg hunt on Saturday which was so much fun! All the kids (and parents) loaded up on candy!

Just a small glimpse of the craziness!

Cousin lovin

Baby Brig was given a name and blessing on Easter Sunday. He was blessed at Scott's parent's house and it was nice to be in a more intimate setting.

Scott's Grandma Katie came to visit. I have to say that she is one of my favorite people! We love her so much!

I absolutely love Easter. I always feel so uplifted and grateful for our Savior. I absolutely loved Elder Holland's talk in conference. I found this great video of part of his talk and wanted to share it with you.

back back to Cali Cali

The kids and I flew out to California for a week, and we had a great time. We went to disneyland, the beach, watched conference together, and celebrated Easter. It's always nice to go home, and I always want to move back every time I go!

Charlie enjoyed eating Jace's fallen food, and Jace eventually started throwing it to him!

My cute dad and Makenna on the tramp

An Easter egg hunt just for Kenna!

The Easter eggs we dyed

Cute sister Kara

Dying Easter eggs! Check out those hands!

My adorable first nephew on the Sheffield side, Clark

Cousins!

This is why I want to live in California...

We met up for lunch at Ki's and had an amazing view!

What's with the photogenic child all of a sudden??

"The Best Day Ever!"

We got to have a mommy-daughter day at Disneyland, and Makenna was in heaven! We had the best time, and I absolutely loved spending the day with her. While we were in line for one of the rides, she said "mom, this is the best day ever!" She insisted on wearing her "disneyland hat" the entire day. I thought she would have been sick of it, but she never took it off! Funny girl..

teacups!

This is the first time she tasted cotton candy! I let her take it in line with us as we waited for "Small World," not thinking that she would make a total sticky mess and my wipes were in the stroller... The poor girl was ridiculously sticky... Good thing the lady behind us offered some wet wipes!

She LOVED the "Small World" ride! The colors are amazing!

Makenna absolutely loved seeing Mickey again... One person she did not like seeing? Pluto! We stood in line to meet him, and when we got to him she started crying and said he was scary... hmmm.

Megan joined us in the afternoon with her little sister, and we had a great time together!

Meeting princess Jasmine and lovin it. (I think she needs a better bra... I'm just sayin...)

I think this is one of the cutest pictures I've taken of Makenna so I had to include it! Right after this we got in line for Splash Mountain! Makenna is just tall enough to go on it now! She loved it! She definitely didn't take after her mommy who was forever too scared to ride splash mountain as a kid.

Megan and her cute sister Shannon.

I think our favorite ride was the carousel! We rode it 3 times! I think riding on a carousel definitely brings the kid out of you!

Botanical Gardens

I absolutely love the botanical gardens in the spring. The bulbs look so pretty! Here is a picture of Makenna at the botanical gardens last spring...

And here she is this year! She sure has changed a lot! I thought it was funny I happened to take the same picture a year later... I thought this picture looked familiar!

Still crawling!

Playing tag. We were one of the only families there... not sure why, it was a perfect day!!

Alllll boy

Jace is a total busy body. He has to be doing something or getting into something at all times. His all-time favorite place to be is outside. He will seriously cry if I don't let him out there. haha. (Sorry for the picture overload- I know less is more but I can't seem to do that!!)

He goes in and out of this hole over and over!

No this did not hurt him, it's all a part of going through the hole

He walks up the slide

Then slides back down

Check out those cute buns

Who got into the flowers??


He's still obsessed with balls

Maybe not all boy all the time- it's not unusual to find a headband or princess crown he's stuck on his head! It's nice he still has a sensitive side...

Other updates on Jace- He can sign a few words now, he LOVES carbs (bread, crackers, cereal- not helping the figure! haha) he's down to one nap a day now (still transitioning), the boy still can't say mama but can say "all done" and "no" (umm, what's up with that??), and... he's finally taking steps!

This is the best video we could get... sorry!