Happy Easter

Happy Easter!!!

Oh what a great day!

I know that my Redeemer lives! What comfort this sweet sentence gives!

I am so grateful that Christ overcame the grave and allows me the opportunity to be with my beloved family forever. I stand in awe that he would think of me as He sank to the depths of despair. He did for me what I could never do for myself. He saved me, but also the most important little precious people in my life. They are not to a maturity level to understand much about the Atonement yet. I hope that I can teach them so that they will desire to know Him and want to walk with Him.

We want this day to stand out.

These little kiddos had a visit from the bunny.

 These kids had an amazing egg hunt at Grandma Cathy's. They came away with SO much candy

Nativity Cuteness

Talk like a pirate

Thank you Krispy Kreme giving us a excuse for getting dressed up, making it cool to say Argh and matey, giggling after cardboard sword fights and pretend walking the planks.

Oh yeah, and of course the free donuts!

Leaving on a jet plane

Me and McKay are hopping on an airplane.

Cathy, Stephen's mom, had an old outfit of Stephens as a baby.

Very fittingly, it had airplanes and was the perfect fit for this little 2 month old.

He was such a champ on these flights.

The first flight I remember be squeezed next the man next to me. I couldn't find an arm rest to rest my arm on while I held him. After an hour flight my arm was so achy. But, my baby hadn't cried at all and I considered myself very lucky (and the other passengers)

My little fly boy!

Twins....not really but....

Don't you just love it when you're pregnant the same time your sister is?

If you're a man, you probably don't agree.

BUT

I love it. These two kiddos are just a couple days apart. I think like 5 really.

I love this picture (I look deceptively skinny. Well placed baby for the win!) But, my sister is my best friend. She gets me. Like really gets me! I love raising my babies with hers! 

The New Old House

This is the house we bought.

Since I am writing about this SO much latter (practically a year)

I know how many hardships we have had with it. 

This means that I have lost all the "We bought a fixer upper and we will make this house beautiful. We can do anything!!!! Flowers, rainbows and butterflies, blah, blah (That's me being grossly naive about how this process would go) I am not exaggerating when I say. Just about everything has gone wrong.

So this is our old kitchen. It has been completely gutted. 

 This is part of the original house (There was an extension built in 1978)

We took down the wall paper and ripped up the carpets. I actually liked the wallpaper. Stephen hated it and it was in super rough condition so it left us)

 This is the blue orange bathroom. Why anyone in their right mind would choose that color combination is beyond my comprehension. (Yeah, I'm looking at you too Auburn)

This bathroom was gutted and redone except for the bathtub and closet. 

 This is the den. You can't see this in the picture. But it was closed off to the kitchen. We made a case opening to the kitchen and refinished the floors. 

 The den opened up to the dinning room.

 So bummed I can't find more pictures. But, if you visited us, this is the part you would visit. We also redid the other bathroom in the front of the house. The master bath, built an additional room where a koi pond once was and changed one of the rooms into a laundry room.

Three months of awesomeness

All my babies (except Sarah) were born in the winter time. They always had to wear clothes.

But boy, naked babies sure are cute.