Easter Weekend 2010

Our Easter festivities this year began with a huge potluck dinner and egg hunt with the other podiatry student families in our ward. We had a great time visiting with the other families and enjoying some sunshine!

Though Grace was a little too young to do much hunting, she still thought the plastic eggs were pretty great!


Our Grace girl sure loves being outside...




...and spending time with dad!

I told you she likes dogs! Here she is getting some doggy kisses! =)

On the Saturday before Easter, we did our annual egg dying, with Brandon and Rachel and the kids. It was entertaining to watch the kids dye their eggs, and fun to see what designs everyone came up with.

Here were my creations:

We also did another egg hunt (because there isn't such a thing as too many). I love this girl!

I just love Grace's expression here as Jenna hands her the egg, like "Oh! Thank you!"

And on Sunday, we had an all-out, scrumptious Easter dinner with Brandon and Rachel, Danny and Crystal, and the kids. (Can you tell how much everyone wanted me to take the picture?)

Yum-o! Thanks for letting us share in your annual tradition guys!

With all of these fun activities, and with General Conference to enjoy as well, we had a wonderful Easter weekend. I am so grateful for the Resurrection of our Savior, and to have a day set apart to remember that He lives and to spend time with our family and friends. Happy Easter!

Louisiana Trip

The end of March (27-31), Grace and I traveled down to Lafayette, Louisiana for my little nephew Sean's baby blessing. I hadn't seen (my brother and sister in law) Mike and Jenn since Travis and I got married, and had never met Sean (and they had never met Grace), so we were excited for this opportunity to visit. And my parents came over to be there for the blessing and meet Sean as well, so it was a fun impromptu family reunion!

Grace, I, and my parents stayed at a KOA campground--Grace's first camping experience! With a cabin right off of the lake and warm showers, we were camping in style!


Grace thought cabin camping was pretty neat, though she loved to escape out of the cabin door! (Notice the AA wings on her pjs--one of our flight attendants gave that to her.)


We found out on this trip that Grace also LOVES dogs. Here she is with Buddy, one of Mike and Jenn's. It's the funniest thing too, cuz she loves chasing them around and will squeal with delight as she does!

On Sunday, we went to Sacrament Meeting, where my dad gave Sean a beautiful blessing. Here's sweet little Sean, all dressed up in his blessing outfit:

And later with his Grandma Susie...

...who LOVES her grandbabies (can you tell?)!

Grace loves her Grandma Susie and Grandpa John too!

We spent the majority of our visit at Mike and Jenn's--visiting, playing, and eating. =)

Mike and Sean:

Jenn and Sean:

They sure do love their little man!

It was so nice to finally meet and snuggle this little guy!

Mike taking me for a ride on his Harley:

Jenny the biker chick. =)

Of course, we had to take some family pictures :)

Mike, Jenn, and Sean:

The Grandparents and Grandkids:

Mike and Grace making silly faces:

(This is Grace trying to make elephant noises =) )

It was SO nice to see and visit with my family again, and though we missed Travis, we were very sad to leave! Hopefully we'll have another family reunion soon!