Easter!


My kids looked so cute on Easter! It was a symphony of stripes and seersucker in a baby blue and white palet. My mom gave me Joel's clothes. I got Cara's smocked dress from the Gifts of the Heart exchange our stake does. Eli already had his pants and I got his blazer off of ebay. So all was cheap, but they looked like a million bucks. They were coordinated nicely but weren't too matchy matchy. We even almost made it to church on time, almost. 8:30 am is just a little too early to have us all there and looking presentable.

Best of all we have our Easter pics this year. Last year Kelly drove home during the middle of church with our camera on top of the car and it was never to be seen again, even though we looked and looked . . .

What's new with us? Not much. Yesterday I got Joel a bunch of Sponge Bob Square Pants books from the library and he was so excited, especially to have his favorite Alanits Squarepantis. Man I know so much more about Sponge Bob than I ever wanted to (never had a desire to know anything), or thought I would. I know all the minor characters and secondary subplots. Oh the things my brain is filled with these days!

Eli and I were watching one of those birthing shows yesterday where we watched a baby making it's entrance into the world. I could tell he was kind of freaked out, so I kept telling him that the baby was just perfect and healthy and that's how baby's were supposed to come into the world. He looked relieved and said, "but he has tomato sauce all over him!"

Cara has discoved the playset slide and is in ectasy every time she goes down. As soon as she hits the ground, she's saying "Up, uppp, upppppp!" And when I pick her up to finally go into the house all &*^%*&@# breaks loose. I know she can't fathom why we would ever quit that activity to go into the boring house. Because mommy's arms get tired of lifting her up, uppp, upppppp, that's why.

Kelly hasn't been working so much this week. He finished a big project and has been coming home at a half-decent hour, hooray! Yesterday he took Joel and Eli to the rock wall at Claude Moore. Joel made it half the way up and Eli was content to be Daddy and Joel's cheerleader.