Easter

I love this top picture of Macy. She is litening to Jas read to her the letter from the Easter bunny. We started this tradition this year. She wanted to leave the Easter bunny carrots and water and added a picture as well!
This look has become the typical look for Kate in every photo. This "deer in the headlights" look is because I have to just take the picture as soon as she looks at me before she has the chance to give me attitude.
Her favorite...bubblegum!

Easter was great! I was really touched by the speakers and music at church. I even made it to Sunday school and was able to follow the lesson (my ADD didn't even kick in once)! Young Womens was great partly because I didn't have to teach but mostly because the bishop gave a great lesson to the youth.

Everything that was Easter was great. We came home from church and I tried getting some pictures of the girls. They would cooperate if they had their Easter candy but it was pretty difficult getting both of them to look at me. I can't really blame them, it was noon and the sun was right in their eyes!

We got together with a group of our friends, had an egg hunt and ate a wonderful dinner! When it came down to it, the pictures didn't really matter, we had a great Easter!

Coloring Easter eggs!

We have had a fun and busy week with Easter approaching. On Saturday we went to the park down the street to color eggs and have a BB-Q with several of our friends. We all had a lot of fun (thanks Ty for teaching us indian baseball)!

After we got home, I decided I still wanted to color some eggs and so we did some more! Kate got very in to it. Obviously she doesn't understand the meaning of gentle yet. We ended up with a few cracked eggs.

(I promise I really do Kater's hair! Most of the pictures I take she has either just woken up or it's evening. This one had been a LONG day)!

Am I overreacting?

Am I overreacting? You guys tell me what you would do...or not do. So, like I mentioned in my earlier post, I LOVE this time of year. One of the reasons is because of Easter and all that comes with it. I think that may have all changed yesterday! Let me just start at the beginning and try to make this short.

Yesterday was Kate's first Easter Egg hunt. We had taken Macy to this same Easter egg hunts several years ago (when she was Kate's age now) and had such a fun time and thought we would try it again. Well, things were a little different this year, nothing huge and not a big deal but just...different. (I am trying to make this short and so I won't go in to the details). Anyway, Macy's age group went before Kate's and she wanted me to help her and so we decided Jas would take pictures and do the camera thing while we went out. Mind you that before the hunt I had a little talk with Macy about how it's not about how many eggs you get but that you just have fun doing it. I wish that someone would have had this same talk with half the moms there! When they said GO I felt like a contestant in the Amazing Race! You would have thought there was a million dollars hidden in one of the eggs. I felt like I was going to be trampled! That's when I knew the game was on! Now my eyes are peeled for anything resembling egg. We start heading for a couple of eggs and right as we get there a mom who has broken away from her child snatches up the egg that Macy was about to grab. "Are you kidding me?" I say to myself (but loud enough she can hear) "Huh, I thought this egg hunt was for the kids!" We take off again in search of any area that hasn't been found by all the mothers who have apparently gone MAD. There is literally no time to loose...people everywhere running and grabbing for anything that they can see in the grass. I drag Macy to some eggs and she gets a couple. We head to a section a little further ahead and once again, right as she is going to get a couple of eggs another mom who has left her toddler somewhere (I didn't even see any kid) grabs 2 of the eggs in the spot Macy was heading towards. At this point you don't even want to know what I am thinking! Once again I get a little vocal: "I think this hunt is for the kids, let's let them get some! O.K.?!" I could tell she felt dumb and I was glad. So...the hunt finally ends and I feel like I have just ran the running of the bulls. I was so worn out.

I head back over to Jas and he starts to tell me how we didn't "discuss the strategy"! Strategy? It's an Easter egg hunt!? To sum it up: I didn't even get a single picture of my Katers first Easter egg hunt because I was sitting on the side lines trying to get over the sheer shock and trauma of the first one. I just don't get it! I have seen it before at parades, parents who practically do everything but tackle the kid next to them just so that there kid gets that extra piece of taffy! What is it? I am not one of these parents and it drives me absolutely nuts to sit and watch this kind of parent! Will someone please explain? Am I overreacting or was I justified in saying something to these moms? (I felt really good after I did!) Let me know what you would do!(Notice I have not pictures to post on this one!)

Thanks Grace!

I am fortunate enough to have a friend who is not only a wonderful friend but an awesome photographer as well. Grace is one of the first friends I made here in Las Vegas. I met her my first day at church and we hit it off right there at the drinking fountain! I could tell she would be one of those people that I would just click with and she has been a great friend ever since! She has taken my girls pictures several times and I always LOVE her work. Here are just a few of the many I have to choose from! Thanks so much Grace, I miss you already!

We're back!

The girls and I headed to my sisters house in Springville almost 2 weeks ago and had so much fun. We went up for my nephews baptism and decided to stay a week and play. My girls always love going to visit their cousins and I always love hanging with my sisters. While we were in Utah we played (of course) shopped, went out to eat, watched movies and had lots of good laughs. I always have so much fun with my big sis Alecia. We act like a bunch of teenagers and are just big dorks! The girls were so excited to have Jas fly in to get us 9 days after we left Vegas. They really missed him and were so anxious to have there daddy back. It was so cute when we went to get him at the airport, I wish I would have had my camera handy. Kate just kept staring at him up and down and touching his face to make sure he was real. After picking up daddy we headed up to Logan to visit with our families for a couple of days before making the trip back. While in Logan we went to Hardware Ranch to visit the elk and enjoy the sleigh ride that we don't get to experience here in L.V. Grandma and Grandpa Wilcock had an Easter egg hunt for the girls on Monday before we left and as you can see in the pictures they really enjoyed the icky peeps! It was such a fun, relaxing trip that I am already planning another one! Here are some pictures from our trip.

I LOVE spring!

I LOVE this time of year, especially in Las Vegas! We really don't get to enjoy the other 3 seasons but we do get spring! I have always loved this time of year because it is a time of new beginnings, it means summer is almost here, it is my B-day (although that isn't an exciting thing anymore) but with my birthday comes new clothes which I am always so anxious to purchase as soon as the weather warms up, and it's Easter and spring General Conference. I love that here in Vegas Spring starts in February. The only down side to this is that it also means swimuit season starts even sooner which means I should probably stop eating Easter candy like I only get it once a year...oh wait, I do! Never mind! We have been taking advantage of our 80 degree weather and hit the park everyday since coming back from Utah (I had to throw that in for all you Utahns) You all know you are welcome to come visit us and our nice warm weather!