He is Risen

Easter morning!  A great time to reflect on our many blessings and the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his atonement and resurrection.
And then to hunt for eggs.

 

 

 

 

It is a little sad that this is our last Easter (and last weekend) in this house.  We plan to move next weekend and it's a little sad to leave.  I can't believe we've been here 8 1/2 years.  I just have to keep reminding myself that we are going to create all kinds of new and wonderful memories at our new house.

And then it's time to get all dressed up for church.  The babies love the nursery at church and they have the best nursery leaders ever.  Seriously, the nursery leader is totally spectacular!

 

 

 

Happy Easter!

"Egg"stravaganza

It's that time of year again.  Gotta decorate the Easter eggs.  Ben, Emma, and Hannah joined us.

Ausitn and Kadence wanted to dip every egg in every color over and over.  I tried to get them to color the eggs with crayons or markers, but they just wanted to dip.

 Bryson was working on a top-secret egg scene.

 We ended up with a bunch of really great eggs including the traditional watermelon, jack 'o lantern, stripes, and rubberband masked ones.

Oh, and an egg mob that was shaking down the Easter Bunny.

 Bryson!  

Easter Egg Hunt

Most years we are able to go to an Easter egg hunt that a lady in our ward puts on.  Austin and Kadence had a great time collecting eggs with Hannah's help.

 Austin was making the ducks kiss.

And they got to pet the dog.

There has been an interesting development in Kadence's facial expressions - she can raise one eyebrow.  It's usually looks a little grotesque and really cute at the same time.

 Below is a cuter (and seldom seen) version of the eyebrow lift.

Then on to dying eggs...

I love babies in diapers

I know, I know, they're hardly babies anymore.  But I couldn't resist snapping a picture of them playing in the sink (a favorite past time).
 

New House!

Ok, ok, here are some pictures of the outside of our new house.

The view from the driveway (Austin running down the driveway).

A view of the front door (yes this house is loaded with skylights, the maximum allowed to still be an energy-star-rated house)

This next picture is a view from up above the front of the house. The banks of windows you see on the left side of the house are 1st floor and 2nd floor 3-season rooms (one of my favorite features of the home - yay! David's favorite features are the 40 acres including 3/4 miles of riverfront and an island!)

And the picture below is the view from the back.  The top three windows are all the kids rooms.  The middle level windows from the far left is the garage window out the end of the house, then there is a sliding glass door off the master bedroom, the 4 vertical windows are the dining room off the kitchen, then there are 2 sliding glass doors that are off the family room.  The lower level windows are a sliding glass door for the guest room on left, and the rest is family room area.  It's fantastic!

You don't get to see the inside of the house until I have some before and after pictures.  I'll give you a preview, though.  {WALLPAPER}!!!

There's snowman I'd rather be with!

We got outside for some snowy fun.


Austin is a good helper!

So is Kadence.

Our little snow princess.

She named her snowman Kadence.

 

 

 

Snowmuch fun!

Sick Day

My poor little guy isn't feeling well today.  He's been fighting a fever for the last 24 hours.  So we set him up on the "sick couch" and he's watching his favorite show, Dora The Exporer.  This is the first time in his life he's had the benefit of having mom's full attention to his illness because usually Kadence is sick at the same time and mom gets split between the two.

Feel better soon, little guy!

A day out with Mom and Dad

The babies love everything Elmo, so we decided to take them to see Sesame Street Live since it came to Albany.
Pre-show popcorn.
 

 

 

Intermission

 

 

Mom and Dad tolerated it, but Austin and Kadence loved it!