Duck Pond

Carri was at our house for a week and then we had to drive her up to the SLC airport. We stayed in Provo one night and visited Trisha at BYU. We met her at the Duck Pond after she got out of class. Ruby loved the ducks and tried to walk into the water. Porter liked the ducks and when he found out we could feed them bread it was all he could talk about until we did it. We ate kids meals at the Creamery for dinner that night (what a bargain) and breakfast the next morning at Kneaders, yummy, yummy almost to the point of being sick. The next day we tried to go shopping all day but by lunch time my kids had had it. We went up to SLC to my Aunt Ruthie's to talk, play cards and luckily she made us dinner so we didn't have to have more fast food. I drove Carri to the airport and off she went to the ever cloudy land of Seattle, which is why it would attract vampires.

Easter Dresses

I sewed Ruby's Easter dress this year because I use to make dresses for my neice Josie when she was little, but had yet to make one for Ruby. I spent half of Saturday making it and it was still missing a eyelet skirt underneath the dress but oh well. I waited until the last minute to get Ruby dressed because she had a white shirt under the dress and I cleaned up all the candy but it didn't matter she somehow found a RED jellybean and ruined the first white shirt I put on her. Luckily Ruby's grandma Dodd had bought her another white shirt the week before and I changed her right before we left for church. The funny thing is that I must have not have cleaned all the red mess from under her chin because the second white shirt had a hint of pink around the chin area.

Obviously Ruby was not in the mood for picture taking because I could not get her to really smile. Even the first picture is only a half smile.

Easter

The kids woke up and before I got ready Ruby had found her easter baskets, but Porter had a harder time. I had really hidden Porters baskets this year and we had to play hot and cold for him to find them. They each had two baskets because their baskets are small and the toys they got were small but with the packaging they wouldn't fit in their normal baskets. So they each had one basket with a little toy and one basket for candy filled eggs. It was nice to have Carri here to help me celebrate because as usual Sam isn't big on holiday celebrations. Carri and I had stayed up and put the baskets together and hid them. Carri and I had tried to buy all of the fun candies we had when we were little. Carri bought the Cadbury eggs because I didn't like them too much. I bought the big Reese's Peanut Butter eggs, Cadbury mini eggs (my personal favorite), Easter SweetTarts, Starburst jellybeans, and Easter malt balls. Yummy Yummy!

Porter Strikes Again

Ruby loves Porter so much that if he does something mean to her she usually doesn't care. It was a nice chilly yet sunny day in Cedar and while I was busy Porter went into the backyard, leaving the backdoor open so Ruby followed him out there, and he turned on the hose. We have a sprayer on the end of the hose and Porter had turned it to mist and was spraying Ruby right in the face. Of course she wasn't crying so I didn't notice until she was already soaked. I sent Porter to time-out and changed Ruby's outfit for the 2nd or 3rd time that day(that is her undershirt so at some point in the day she had already trashed her normal shirt). In the second picture you can tell that with that big of a smile its obvious how much Ruby didn't care that she was soaking wet and cold.

More Easter Prep

After the hunt we went back to my house to have some Easter fun. I was busy sewing Ruby's Easter dress at the last minute so I wasn't a lot of help except taking pictures every now and then. We boiled eggs and Porter could hardly wait to start dying them. Carri and Porter colored all of the eggs. We had these little cups that came with the dye kit that Carri thought were ingenious. Porter put face stickers on his eggs and Carri had lots of fun rubbing gold on her eggs. Next Carri made sugar cookies and frosted them. I did help with the sprinkles.

Getting Ready for Easter

Saturday morning we went to the city easter egg hunt which is always chaotic. We got their early and had our baskets ready. The eggs were tossed around and this one guy (he was part of the group putting on the egg hunt) realized that their wasn't any eggs close to our side so he attempted to get us to move in 10 ft but kids on the otherside of the area saw us moving and thought it was time to go. We stood there knowing we weren't supposed to go but the guy couldn't stop the other kids so if we didn't go we wouldn't get any eggs so away we went. I think their should be only one adult per child allowed in the egg area because you have to push your way past parents to get the eggs. Last year when we only had one kid I stayed out and took pictures while Sam helped Porter. People need some common sense.

Aunt Carri

My sister Carri came to visit on Friday April 21st. We waited and waited and Porter asked everyday for 3 weeks if today Aunt Carri was coming. Sam just happened to be in SLC the day that Carri could fly in after her finals so he drove her to our house. Friday morning Porter woke up and the first thing he said was "Aunt Carri is coming today". - Carri I need a picture of you and the kids.