The True Meaning of Easter

We woke up and started out late for church. Yes, I know. Easter is a yearly celebration dedicated to remembering the resurrection of Jesus Christ and all other blessings that this single event in history brings. However, not only was my stomach protesting anything that wasn't warm, but I just felt it was unethical to feed my family cold cereal for breakfast on Easter morning. So we were 45 minutes late (later than we have EVER been) for nice, warm, homemade pancakes. Which made us miss most of Sacrament meeting.

We got home and had lunch. Then we did Easter baskets and Easter eggs. I try to keep the baskets somewhat Christ-centered, so they always get a church book. Erik loved his.

My two boys. Cute, huh?

Taylor dying Easter eggs (the night before).

Taylor LOVES egg hunts. I kept the plastic eggs from last year, and whenever he finds them lying around he hides them and tells me to go find them. Then he tells me to hide them so he can find them.

Have I mentioned that we have perhaps the best neighbors in the world? On Saturday night they went to all the houses on our street that have kids and put bunny pawprints on all the porches. They're awesome.

After that we went on over to Chris and Carlie's for Easter dinner. Yum! The kids had another egg hunt and loved it. No pictures; forgot the camera. But we had fun!

Mac 'N' Cheese

For bedtime tonight, we read Eric Carle's Panda Bear, Panda Bear, which has a Macaroni Penguin in it. When we got to the picture of the penguin, Taylor said, "No, that's not a Macaroni Penguin. Macaroni has cheese on it." I love that boy.

All They Want For Christmas

They already have their two front teeth. Next on the list? Boxes.

Not only do I not know which computer has the editing software, but frankly, I'm too tired. So you'll have to suffer through some video (and crack) to get to the awesome part. Apparently the adhesive on boxes isn't that strong.

The Big 1

One. I can't believe he's already one. It seems like it took Taylor forever to get there. But with Erik, I think I might have blinked a couple of times and he's already turning one on me.

Here he is brand-spankin'-new.

Three months:

Such a ferocious dragon. At least he doesn't breathe fire.

I love his eyes.

And here's my big boy today! Okay, so actually yesterday, but Kent was on call today, so we're saving the cake, ice cream, and party hat pictures until he can be home with us. So basically all I got were lame pictures today. He wasn't even smiling in any of them.

We love you, Erik!

Thanks, Nicole!

Okay, so maybe these are my all-time favorite pictures. We put Taylor in his snow boots so that he could rice on the bigger rides. He wasn't such a fan. It all started out innocent enough (even though he was already at this point a little skeptical concerning how much fun he'd have):

And this how it ended.

Thanks for the pictures, Nicole!

(Notice Brock, Kent's little cousin, in the background looking like he's going to hurl.)

And concerning the picture of the boys asleep in the backseat in the previous post: it was at In-N-Out. No Taco Bell for us.

The Happiest Place On Earth

Yes, it truly is the happiest place on earth. We went to Disneyland this past week with Kent's brother Craig and his wife, Nicole, and his parents, Steve and Linda. It was great. I wish we could go there more often.

While we were on space mountain the ride stopped. Very horrifying to sit there in the dark wondering if the car behind you is going to plow straight into you, considering you can't see or hear anything. We sat there for a while and the lights finally came on- it didn't look nearly as cool as you would expect. And with all the technology, all it took to get us started was a good ol' fashioned push.

Erik loved the water park area in California Adventures. Priceless.

After the water park area, they were soaked. I had an extra pair of clothes for Erik, but all I had for Taylor was pajamas. Here he is in his sweet outfit, complete with snow boots to give him that extra little lift.

The best picture we got of everyone (minus Kent).

Don't you think Taylor looks slightly crazed?

Yes, those are matching shirts. Cheesy, but I couldn't resist.

My all-time favorite picture from the trip.

Here's a slideshow of some more pics.

After Disneyland we went to stay with Kent's aunt and uncle, the Bushnells. Taylor LOVED playing with his cousin Brock. We took all three of the boys to the beach and they had a lot of fun- regardless of the fact that it was windy and a little chilly.

And if that wasn't enough, we topped it off with Sea World. First of all, not as magical as Disneyland. It would have been fine if we hadn't just had a rockin' good time at Disneyland. But since it was free with being in the military, it was great, and the boys liked watching the animals. Taylor wouldn't touch the sting rays to save his life, but Erik loved them.

It was a great vacation. Look how much fun they had!

A Test of Intelligence

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