Month: April 2012

After Elliot’s Easter Egg Hunt, Lorelei had a nap, and then spent the entire remaining afternoon and evening holding this pinwheel. So cute.

Is snacking (He’s ALWAYS starving when he get’s home!)

Laughing (When I ask him if the girls that chase him at recess finally caught him! because they want to catch him and give him kisses! Thank heavens he is a fast runner, because, he DOES. NOT. WANT. anything to do with that! Thanks Heavens. AHHH!)

Reading books to me.

And rushing to get his afternoon jobs done, so he can play soccer or play with friends!

Almost every day, that is his routine. And he is a happy boy in the afternoons!

Nora and Grams were able to come down for the Easter Party and Easter Egg Hunt.


Elliot wasn’t crazy about the parachute activity (He got hit in the head with a ball at a previous mom n me class, and now is a little afraid!)

But Nora thought it was great!

And Lorelei as always was content to just observe the busy-ness around her!

It was a TRUE easter egg hunt.

Eggs hidden in leaves,

tops of trees,

scattered everywhere.

Not just a look and grab hunt.

We had a few different colored eggs we had to find,and a pinwheel.

Then a hunt for the remaining eggs.

They had a pretty good ‘haul’. 🙂

I think Lorelei and my momma look alike. Aren’t they both cute and pretty ladies? 🙂

Elliot had a great time, looking, and Nora was darling, making sure Elliot got just as many eggs as she did.


Then they squished egg for egg sandwiches,

and ate them up with cheetos.

It was a fun day! And Lorelei hasn’t put away her pinwheel yet! 🙂

Thanks for coming down Grams and Nora!

Random thoughts about this video:
Oh Laundry, how is it that you multiply in the night, and NEVER can be completed!?!?!?

Lorelei has learned how to pull her brothers hair, and things it’s hilarious, but they don’t. So we’ve been working on being soft.

This time, Elliot didn’t even seem to notice his hair being pulled, because Diego is his best friend right now, and he goes around saving animals all day long after watching an episode.

And Lorelei found this hat, and didn’t want to take it off, even though it was like 75 degrees outside.

Who would have ever thought afternoons like this would be my highlight of the week? 🙂

Again, I didn’t get the camera out as much as I intended to do, whilst at the cabin, infact I didn’t take ONE picture. Thank heavens Toph grabbed the camera and caught the joy of children in the hot tub…especially when there was a little polar bear action going on! 🙂 Silly kids.




And I’m also ENORMOUSLY grateful for technology, so I can re-listen to the talks, wisdom and knowledge given to us through our leaders. Because as a parent, I need this wisdom (and can’t always hear and understand the wisdom the first time with all the kids around!)! I love being able to listen, and relisten and re-read the words we have been taught!

It was such a great conference weekend at the cabin. It was just the Greene’s clan (Without Amy, we missed you Amys!) and the Great Hunsakers, and it was just plain great. The boys loved playing in the creek, and their new clubhouse they set up with the Greene cousins, and it was so enjoyable.

If only life could be that simple and wonderful, with family, and conference goodness more often! Already looking forward to the next conference!

Joy.

Especially because I walk past it like 300 times a day. 🙂

is finding pictures of ‘head standing’ kids on your phone.

And laughing out loud!

LOVE THESE KIDS AND THIS CRAZY LIFE!!!

Grams and Gramps brought back a little Hawaii for all of us.
This little girls outfit was by far the cutest thing ever though.

Made me want to pack up and drive to the beach (if we lived close,i’d be there!), And LONG for the summer months of sunshine! 🙂
Thanks Grams and Gramps! 🙂