Easter Bunnies and chicks

Totally out of order, So not in the mood to switch them around.After hunt, checkin out their bootie.


The hunt is on.



Calvy and Ellie egg.
Peeled aggs for our annual "Eggs Benedict" The Passey version. Delish!

Coloring eggs on Easter Eve.

This is our new Easter table cloth in all it's colored glory. I have this great idea that every year we will use this table cloth for coloring eggs and every year we will get a new "spot" on it and when the kids are old we will have this greatly colorful table cloth for Easter dinner/breakfast. I love tradition.

Chocolate bunnies.

haha!

This was our nest last week! Aren't they beautiful? Look how small they are too.

This is Easter morning.

Easter Bunny left us a note. He told the children all about our Savior and His gift to us, and the reason we celebrate the egg on Easter. It was a great note that Daddy read, he may have ad-libbed a bit for me. Haha!

(Yes, that is ranch...Alan's idea. Calvin tried to tell him that bunnies don't like ranch.)

Calvy found his special egg from Easter Bunny.

Juice sippies!

Life here is gloomy and a bit drizzly. We are having a lot of crummy weather, but not as bad as some in the South. I am grateful for my blessings. The Sun did actually come out for a little while this morning, it got me started on my day and I'd like to say that a little sunshine has been in my heart ever since. I LOVE sunshine, I love when it streams in through the binds decorating my house is beautiful stripes. I love when it peaks in after a rainy day or week. ;0) I do however miss the warmth of the sun. Our furnace is still runnin strong.

Life is good, we are making plans for when we move on to the next step in our life. We are discussing our different options for associateships and preceptorship . Life here is comfortable, I love our friends and neighbors and our beautiful house we have made a home. I will miss everything about Iowa, except maybe the winters. Hehehe. I'm sure I will always consider Iowa as my home.

Though I am already starting to miss Iowa, and I am also having visions of On the Boarder and Bahama Bucks and Palm trees. There are always steps to life and this one is a big one, one that I know will change us forever. We look forward to being extremely successful and enjoying every minute of it.

Our Easter was GREAT! The children left some carrots out for the Easter Bunny.

"So how does he get up here(on the table)? Does he just jump?"-Calvy

We had to explain to him that the Easter Bunny is not like regular bunnies, he's a little different, he's special.

We heard a peep on Easter morning and when we went to check out the nest we found these.

Aren't they just precious?!

This is them today. Ugh! So cute.

-Keara

Best Day Ever!

My Best Day Ever.

This note came with a bouquet of white daisies, my favorite.

XOXOX

Happy Conference Weekend!

Another nest....I am choosing to enjoy it though, there is something beautiful about the whole thing. It also helps that one of my besties posted this. I am pretty excited to see some eggs in there soon. Okay, you can stay. But I'm kicking you out once those babies are out'n flyin.

Caleb makes the best faces, When people try to talk to him, he does this face and then sticks out his tongue. He's a little stinker, but a super lover boy!

Today Ellie was a handful, to say the least, I lost my cool a few times and she may have shed a few tears on my account. It was a quick bed time and bed time ritual, quick family prayer, 2 verses from The Book of Mormon, quick stories, quick personal prayers and kisses good night, no drinks of water.

"but my tongue says it's thirsty"-Calvy

Alan is off to Priesthood Session of Conference. I find great comfort in conference weekend. I LOVE Saturday session, the more I can get out of Conference weekend the better. I am so grateful to a husband who taught me that Conference is a weekend, not just Sunday. Saturday sessions hold so much that I would be so sad if I missed any of it.

We had snacks during first session, then Alan and I Skyped(greatest thing EVER) with our awesome friends who have left us....haha! Then Alan played with the children outside while I grabbed some groceries before 2nd session. We had bugers and tuna salad(my FAVE) for dinner. The older kids wouldn't eat, but they each got a bit of Caleb's delicious applesauce. Today Calvy asked what "this" was, I told him they were organic raisins. Then Ellie came in a few minutes later and asked for some "ganic waisims". ;0)

I hope you are having a GREAT weekend. I am looking forward to this next week, I have kind of a fun surprise.

~Keara

P.S. Kelsey call me!

Too many funny things I can not forget.

During dinner the other night Alan was telling Calvy that if he could not stop burping at the table we were going to have to sell him to the Orphanage and get a new little boy.

M: Maybe this new little boy won't burp so much.

C: But he will.

A: How much do you think you would sell for, how much could we get for you?

C: Stare

A: Could we get a lot for you?

C: Ya, like 5 dollars.

A: Wow, that's a lot. How much for me?

C: Like 7.

A: How much for Ellie?

C: Like 8.

A: How much for cute Caleb?

C: Like 9.

A: How much for Mommy?

C: Like 20, 000.

Huge hug

I love that little boy of mine.

M: Will you go put these dirty clothes down the chute?

E: "did my bad guys never have a dream?"

We really like Tangled in our house, as I am sure you do in yours. All day everyday Ellie throws little quotes from that movie into our daily lives.

"best day ever!"

"You are never leaving this tower ever!"

While going throw Calvy's closet I told him we had to get rid of some shirts, and told him he could pick out 10 that he would like to keep. After picking the shirts he wanted I asked him if he'd like to keep one that was his favorite, but didn't pick. He said he would, so we traded one of the other ones. Then when we were done I asked if he was sure he didn't want to trade another because he didn't get to keep one that he really liked, he replied, "I know, but I'm still happy" How do you get cuter than that?

M: "Are you sure you don't want to wear your Peter Pan Jammies?"

C: "No I just don't want to, I still love him, he's just not my favorite."

just in

"Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, thank you for this food, thank you for my Mommy and Daddy. Please help me to grow up and tell my kids to be quiet while I'm on the phone."

-Calvy