Phone Issues

I AM HAVING SOME SERIOUS PHONE ISSUES! Ha. Well it's not funny, but it kinda is. I didn't drop it, get it wet, or anything. It just finally gave out. It is the first generation iphone, that has been through three people. I was stuck in my twitter app all day, cause my home button wouldn't work. Hey at least I could text right? Then Adam tried calling me, it wouldn't connect. It finally did connect, but it kept vibrating like it was ringing and I couldn't hear him. So then I hung up and it kept vibrating like it was ringing for about two minutes after I hung up with him. Freaky and funny at the same time. SO it's pretty much shot. Well, except for tweeting....maybe. We've tried resetting, restarting, etc. So you all know, I could be a little hard to get a hold of or text in the next few days until we get something figured out. Hard to run out and buy a new one with no money...so I could be using something random for a bit. Anyway I'll let you all know. This is the only way I know of to let people know that I'm not purposely avoiding them. Wish us luck!

Hurray for Bike Rides

Yesterday we went on our first official bike ride as a family. We stopped along the way to have a picnic, much to Gabe's delight. I know a lot of you saw these pics in tweets, but I had to post our fun pics. It honestly was the most refreshingly fun activity we've done in a while. I think we've been inside too much lately. Thanks to the warm weather, we are so ready to get out and do more. It was a little on the windy side, but we weren't complaining.






No we didn't let him eat the cookie, but he did sample some crumbs (without choc) and wanted more and more. I can't get him to eat hardly any finger foods, looks like we just need chocolate chocolate chip cookeis on the menu. ;)


Gabe passed out on the way back, but we woke her up, cause we promised she could throw rocks in the river. It's one of her favorite things to do. We knew if we didn't let her do it, we'd never hear the end. She was in heaven. And that night when we said family prayers, it was Gabe's turn to say prayers. She said, "Thanks for the river to throw rocks in. I like to throw rocks." She really does LOVE it.

Easter Sunday

Do you know what I love about Easter baskets? You can fill them with the cheapest toys, and it's still inexpensive, and kids LOVE everything in them. Kids are so easy to please. We could have left Ollie's almost empty and he would have been happy with the grass. I was very happy he never tried to eat it. He just loved grabbing it. Gabe was thrilled, especially when she realized her basket had stuff in it. She then enjoyed hunting for eggs for herself and her brother. We then headed off to church where I taught an Easter lesson, even though it wasn't in the schedule. I think learning about the resurrection on Easter is appropriate, so I taught about it.







These are the kid's Easter clothes. We technically didn't get Ollie a new outfit, cause his sweater vest matched Gabe's. So we called it good. I know it wasn't a spring color, but he looked cute matching his sister. (plus the budget is low with a trip coming up)






Nana made Gabe this cute dress that all the granddaughters are going to wear to Cj's wedding. We already had an Easter dress picked out, but we wanted pictures in this one too.



Later in the day I sent Gabe and Daddy on a scavenger hunt. I gave her clues in Easter eggs that led her all along the house until she found some books at the end of her hunt. She was very fun to watch. I gave clues that led her to Daddy's shoes, or Mommy's pillow, etc. The last clue was in her froggy. Each clue she tried to read by herself. She would make stuff up. Usually something about,"Gabe was walking through the forest. We need to look in the forest." We thought it was great.




Later that night, we enjoyed a yummy Easter dinner. Afterwards we watched the living scripture animated movie, "He is Risen" with Gabe. She was very excited when she saw that Jesus was okay and that he came out of his tomb. Too cute, what a nice day. Hope everyone else had a good Easter.

The Day Before

The day before Easter we had a very nice day hanging out with each other. We did a few festive activities. Our lunch meal was Gabe's favorite, cheesy noonals. (How she says noodles) We used the special noodles that Nana found at world market when she was here. They were so fun for her to eat, she kept trying to pick out the bunnies. We then actually colored eggs again. I had an extra box up in our easter box, so I figured, why not? We attempted this sticker thing I saw online, and it didn't work. So we improvised and wrote the kid's names on their eggs. We then made Easter rice krispie treats for our classes for Sunday. We made rice krispie eggs that had M&M's in the middle, and let Gabe decorate them with sprinkles. Kinda fun, and way easy.













Setting things out for the Easter bunny. Gabe let me know that when the Easter bunny got there I needed to wake her up so she could hang out with him.

Gabe's New Hobby

Yep that's right, caught her with two fingers. It really is a gross thing, but it is how we find our daughter often these days. Ever since she had a runny nose for about a month, (really is was that long), she can't handle boogers in her nose. She knows she supposed to get a tissue, but she doesn't have the patience for it. So as much as she'll probably hate me for posting these when she's older, this is the fun phase we are in right now. Plus we found the double finger thing a little amusing. I used to look at other kids and think about how glad I was that my daughter has no desire to do that. Well, looks like she just hadn't discovered the convenience of it yet.

She loves to put her glasses on all by herself. This is how they end up most days, and she is persistent on keeping them that way.


Dont worry her hands were cleaned before these pictures were taken.


After I told her to stop picking her nose, she did this and argued, "But mom, I have Boogers. SEE?"