Easter

I hope everyone had a great Easter! We sure did! I'm sort of late in posting about it because we were so busy having a good time - especially since my twin sister, Tia, was here visiting to make it that much more memorable.

We went to Greenlake Park for an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday. Sawyer was a little confused as to what was going on, but when he saw all the kids start running around and grabbing things off the ground - he got the idea quickly. Later, when we let him taste one of the mini-chocolate eggs that he had collected, he got even more excited. It was pretty cold out, so after the hunt we walked over to Starbucks and warmed up with some hot drinks. It was relaxing after the hoopla of the hunt!

Of course, we colored and dyed some eggs as well. Jacob's eggs are always fun - this year there was even one with an eyeball. Just a single eyeball staring at us. I told him it was weird. (It was!) But it was still fun. Sawyer really had a good time coloring, drawing, putting stickers on, and dying his two eggs before bedtime. The Easter Bunny even paid us a little visit. We got lots of fresh strawberries and some Godiva Chocolates. Pretty awesome combination, don'tcha think?

It was Aspen's First Easter. She's now 9 weeks old! Next week, she will receive her special baby blessing at church. We went to our church building Sunday morning to listen to the General Conference Addresses that are given by church leaders twice a year to our world-wide congregation. The messages at church were wonderfully uplifting and enlightening. It was a wonderful Easter Sunday.

I dressed Aspen in her Easter Dress and the little headband she found in her Easter Basket (yes, I'm still slightly obsessed with making headbands!) I will have to say that the white was beautiful - until literally 30 seconds after I set her down to photograph her in her dress and she had her first MAJOR blow-out! Poor thing, I made her sit there another minute while I took her picture and then finally changed her diaper.

Later, at home, we hung out and prepared our Easter Feast. We were super happy to have the company of Tia this Easter weekend. We even got her for an extra day because she missed her flight back to Boston! Sawyer LOVED playing with Aunt Tia. And Aspen gave her tons of smiles. I've started calling Aspen "Happy" because she is just such a happy, smiley baby.

Aunt Tia brought the kiddies some treats. "Make Way for Ducklings" is quickly becoming a favorite bedtime story. And Tia hand-picked this awesome Jimi Hendrix onesie for Aspen. I didn't get them in the photo, but she has on RAINBOW baby legs. The furry kind. So rock n' roll, ya know? Kinda '70s too. Kinda Rainbow Bright-ish, too.

Ohhhh. We love you Aunt Tia. We can't thank you enough for coming to spend the past several days with us. We wish you would've missed your flight again and that they couldn't rebook you for another week or so. But we know you have to get back to work. Come visit us any time!