Shoshone Falls

We stopped at Shoshone Falls on our way home from Boise. The kids had a blast running up the hill. Thing 1 tried to roll down and Thing 2 ran down. It was beautiful like always, we enjoy visiting the falls in the springtime.

Funny

We have Elmo potties, when you touch Elmo’s hand he says a phrase. Thing 1 was going potty tonight and she was pushing Elmo’s hand on accident with her leg, he kept saying, “it’s fun to use the potty”. She replied, “Elmo, I am going potty” over and over. Like “be quiet Elmo I know what I’m doing, I’m already going potty”.

Today while Jake was making dinner the kids wanted some cans of food to make their own soup. Thing 1 said I need 4 cans of carrots and 4 cans of sugar. Jake compromised and gave her a can of cream of chicken soup to carry around, Thing 2 got enchilada sauce. A little while later he came in to get the can opener out of the drawer so he could open the can. Jake said no, so Thing 1 came and asked if Jake could open the can for her.

We watched my niece and nephew the other day and it confuses the kids a little when they are talking about me to their cousin. Thing 1 kept saying Mommy, Cathrynn when she talked about me.

Thing 1 and I went to a jewelry party at our neighbors about a week ago. Jake had her all excited about a “girl party”. Thing 2 really wanted go so Jake told him that they would have a boy party in Boise. Two of his uncles went to pick up some pizza and drinks and he just followed them when they were leaving our hotel. Jake let them take him, he was so excited and happy to spend time with the boys.

Playing with Cousins

Here are the last of my Easter trip pictures. Well there are more, but these are the ones I narrowed it down to. I had to post a few pictures of the kids playing with Phil and Bridgett. They are the entertainment when we all get together. They are always willing to entertain the kids.

Phil and Bridgett are adopting a baby in June,we are very excited for them, but we will miss having babysitters around. We are also very excited to have a cousin so close in age to our baby, our due dates are exactly a month apart.

Easter Egg Hunt

We had a fun Easter day. We found Easter baskets in Becky’s backyard and then we had a little Easter egg hunt. Church was nice, I got to go to adult classes instead of Primary which was a nice break. Jake took the kids on a little drive during Sunday School so they could nap for half an hour. Then they went to nursery.

Easter dinner was nice with everyone there and Jake and I got to relax a little while aunts and uncles entertained our kids (more pictures of that to come).

Thing 1 did a great job hunting for Easter eggs. Here is a little video.

Easter Egg Hunter

Trip to Boise

We made a trip to Boise this weekend to spend Easter with the Whipples. We got up before dawn to make it to an Easter egg hunt that started at 11. Thing 1 acted sick in the car, we were worried she was going to get car sick so we stopped a few extra times, to get fresh air and to go potty. We made it to the Easter egg hunt but had to park far away and made it to the school at about 11:02 and everything was over. We played at a little park for a few minutes but there were a ton of kids so we went back to Becky’s house to play. The fire truck was at the Easter egg hunt.

We went to lunch at Tucanos with the whole family and then went to the hotel to “relax” for a while (like spending time in a hotel room with two year olds is ever relaxing). Then we went swimming with cousins and I invited a friend of mine from college to come with her family. It was great to catch up with her and see her family again. (No pictures of the swimming for fear that someone would catch one with me in it.)

After swimming we bathed and went to the courtyard to play until the pizza arrived. Thing 2 went with his uncles to pick up the pizza, it took forever so the kids didn’t get to bed until about 9:30. Thing 1 woke up about every hour screaming or Thing 2 needing water. It was exhausting. The end of trying to sleep occurred about 8 in the morning with Great Grandpa Whipple calling us to say he was heading home early and Thing 1 falling out of the bed.

A giveaway

There is a fun giveaway here.

New Pictures

We had some pictures done again. Which ones should we put on our wall and print for Grandparents?

Oh, and I made the Easter dress and Easter tie, don’t look to close.

Dying Easter Eggs

Decorating Easter Eggs was a ton of fun. We dyed them before breakfast. Then I made “egg soup” for breakfast (an Easter tradition for me).

It snowed again last night, the kids had fun playing outside with Jake. We packed up the winter clothes about a week ago, so we got a few things out and left the snow pants in storage. Thing 1 got pretty wet making snow angels.