Author: Joy

I adore tulips. I’m so glad we have some in our yard, and I will most definitely plant more bulbs this fall (if I remember) so we can have lots more of these cheerful spring flowers. If only they lasted longer than a month and stuck around all summer long!

I love this picture of Caroline “planking.” Kinda reminds me of that super intense scene in Mission Impossible when Tom Cruise is dropping down into that crazy high-security, white lights room.

Caroline has started army crawling and can get anywhere she wants to go. It’s a lot of fun, and also tricky to keep tiny things off the floor that she could choke on.

 

She lights up when that Daddy guy is around!

Here’s Gretchen with her Big Baby Boy (Tyler), who is now home from his mission!

 

The girls in their matching dresses (they have cute white matching cardigans that go with them). Caroline’s is still shiny gold pink, whereas Charlotte’s is just pink now since she wears it all the time & the gold sheen has worn off. She gets a lot of use out of any dresses she has that are frilly & pink.

            

Easter Egg Hunt at the McGrandparents’ place

I tried to be some sort of creative mom by cutting out 70 pictures from the Friend magazine & putting those in each egg along with the candy. The idea was to have the kids glue them all onto poster board and make a collage that showed things that we believe to be good & true & uplifting for a nice Easter Sunday discussion. Well, it was a flop. They tossed the little pictures aside & just dug into the candy!!

Dying eggs! That was a little crazy, as you can see. Kind of fun. I don’t think we’ll necessarily stick with that tradition…

The day after Easter, Chase was very eager to have his own Easter egg hunt with his neighborhood friends. So he went to everyone’s houses at 8am & invited them to come over at 9am (I made him wait till 9) to have a hunt at our house. I was fine with this because then we’d get rid of all the candy! Which we did!

So they put candy back in the eggs & hid them all outside. Some kids came over and they had a blast having their own little Easter egg hunt. Oh, Chase, my funny boy! Such a social, creative kid who loves to share with others.

The last time we went to the aquarium was when Chase was under two years old. I’ve wanted to take the kids for a while now, but wasn’t too jazzed about taking them on my own. So we decided to head over there after the baptism we went to in West Jordan. The Aquarium was much better this time than last time; they’d added a lot & I think it was actually worth the price this time! The energetic penguins & the adorable otters were especially entertaining to watch! No good pictures of those, but I think Pace might add some from his phone, that some random lady took & emailed to us. Kinda weird but kinda nice.

Charlotte ended up throwing the tantrum of the century over sitting in this canoe one more time before we left, so we exited the building immediately. But it was a lot of fun for the rest of the time leading up to that!

This post is mostly for my mom, because she’d be interested to see these pics!

Our Family Photo Op

My Kids’ 2nd Cousin, Natalie (the one being baptized)

The women (from left: Dianne, Sung Hee, Leann, Shannon, Joy, Katelynn, her friend, & Ingrid)

Awkward picture (above) for the records!

Caroline & 2nd Cousin Jessica

Easter Egg Hunt afterwards with all the kids!

We went to this free event about a month ago at the fairgrounds. Let’s just say, Charlotte was in heaven! We all had a great time checking out the gems, geodes, fossils, etc.

Charlotte was so happy to be there, she even temporarily overcame her extreme fear of animals, & touched a bearded dragon!

These were taken about 6 weeks ago.

Couldn’t get a perfect shot of all three kids, but here are some pics for you to enjoy, anyway!