Happy Easter and 3 Months Old

Happy Easter!! As with a lot of holidays these days they seem to last longer than just one day. Yesterday our ward did an Easter egg hunt for the primary. We were all so excited to go that we left our house with a hour to spare, oops!! Porter's age group just ran around and picked up eggs off of the floor. He loved it! He ran around the room grabbing as many eggs as he possibly could yelling "oh my gosh! Oh wow! Look at all of these eggs!" While sucking his bottom lip in and out (what he does when he's moving fast and is excited.)

Logan's age group which was the older kids had to do an obstacle course and then go put eggs in other people's baskets. He had fun, but I don't think he quite got the challenge of it. Once he made it into the middle to get the eggs he pretty much hung around there the rest of the time. All in all though they got a lot of candy, that I had to inspect:) It was all good.

After the primary activity I took the boys over to Walmart to take pictures with the Easter Bunny. They both were super excited until they saw the Easter Bunny, he obviously was a guy in a costume and Logan had no problem telling him he was a phony. He said, "you're not the Easter Bunny. You're just a guy in a suit." Luckily there weren't any other kids there so he didn't dash the excitment of the other kids. They begrudgingly took a picture and I haven't picked it up yet, but I don't think it will be super great. I also told him that they guy was the Easter Bunny's helper and that they lived in Easter Land. I can't ruin the fun yet. Some day he'll know the cold dark truth.

Then today they went on a scavenger hunt after church and found their baskets. They kept saying, "where'd that sneaky bunny hide our baskets?" They had fun and loved getting a treat. We dyed eggs once Brandon came home. Unfortunately he's been on call all weekend and missed out on the fun. That's the down side of his job though.

We've tried talking a lot this week about why we celebrated Easter and trying to put the main focus on our Savior throughout the week. Some things went better than others, but I at least think they now know that Easter is about our Savior and not candy. We'll keep working on it though.

Olivia's 3 Months Old

I look at this sweet baby girl and I can't believe that she is already 3 months, where does the time go. She has such a fun, sweet personality and we love having her in our family. Some things she loves right now are, her bouncer, baby einstein, her brothers, her daddy's arms, her tongue and she's starting to love her bumbo, (I'm really starting to love this.)

She absolutely hates being on her stomach but I put this picture in to show off her 80's leg warmers and rolls, and to show off her little mullet. Too cute!

This is one of her regular faces she pulls. She pushes our her lips and gets a huge pile of spit bubbles going. It's definately one of my favorite faces. You can't really tell that the spit bubbles are there, but trust me they are.

I do feel blessed with my 3 kids, they are so much fun, a lot of work, but a lot of fun. I was able to go to the General Young Women's broadcast a few weeks ago and loved all of the talks that were given. As a lot of you know they added on Virtue as a new value and talked a lot about what Virtue is and why they did it. Some of things that stuck out to me were, "TGhe path of virtue is less traveled but the view is SPECTACULAR." "A Virtuous life will give you the confidence and strength you need." "Have the courage to stand alone if need be." President Monson gave the Young Women 3 different goals they were, 1. To have the courage to refrain from judging others. 2. Courage to be chaste and virtuous, to maintain a proper perspective on life. 3. Courage to stand for truth and righteousness, a testimony that is nourished will keep you safe. I would encourage everyone to read these talks that were given, they were amazing. I was impressed that when the time comes that I need to make it a point to take Olivia to these meetings every time and make it an important date, just like the priesthood session is for the boys. I have loved working with the Young Women and have loved getting to know them and knowing that through all the bad stuff in the world there are good, righteous young women out there who want to be good and do strive to do what is right.