Easter Weekend

I had a pretty incredible Easter weekend. I was able to spend 26 hours in Washington DC (unbelievable flight problems-what should have taken just over 6 hours to get to DC took 12--I arrived in DC at 4:15AM!!!!!! Then flew out at 6 Sunday morning) But I got there, and my sister, Abby, went to the temple for her endowments. It was so great being there. I got to see my newest nephews, Cole and Asher, shop at my favorite store for the kids (H&M), and just spend time with the fam. It was a really, really, really good weekend. I loved every minute I was there. Family picture to be added soon, but here is one of the temple I took with my phone. (This was my absolute favorite temple when I was a little girl.)

Then I got home from a smooth, uneventful plane ride home, and after church the Easter bunny came to our house.
(The Easter bunny found these glasses at H&M!!)
Here are a couple more pictures. We forgot about the Easter present from Grandma and Grandpa Boise, but they were so excited to get to celebrate Easter twice! :)

Easter Eggs

For the first time with the kids we did some easter egg coloring this year. Colby and Eva were so excited, they wanted to do it all day! But we had to wait until Aunt Leslie and Tio Alex got here. We all had a blast, but wish Mom was here to share in the fun. Here are some pictures.

She's a Pro

I can't believe I haven't put up a video before now, but here's Lilia walking around today. It's now her main mode of trasportation. You might want to turn down your volume, I'm so loud! I'm going to try to get a video of me not talking so much and switch it out.

Colby's New 'do

We were having problems with Colby's hair. I'm always in a rush in the morning to get to the gym in time for my class, and the girls are lucky if they get their hair done. Colby's hair....it never even crosses my mind. He usually has the matted down, sleepy hair. And just in the past few days it's started to look staight because it's so crushed and never combed. So it was time for a haircut and a haircut did he get! Check him out. I had a few people (including Jason) tell me they didn't recognize him at church. It's always sad to see the curls go. I'm a little worried that they might not come back because it was looking so straight, hopefully I'm worrying over nothing.

The other night when I was at class Jason took some pictures of Colby and Eva playing. Eva was Sleeping Beauty and Colby was Spiderman/Prince Charming. He was waking her up with a kiss.....sometimes I can't believe how cute they are.

Kids, Kids, Kids.....

Today Colby and Eva decided it would be super fun to dump two bags half full of crushed up tortilla chips onto the carpet in our front room. That was a pain to get out, let me tell you...in fact, I'm pretty sure it's not all out and we'll be vacuuming up little bits of chips for months. Later today, Eva and Lilia were sleeping, Colby was playing the play room for quiet time, so I went to take a shower (it was like 2:30, don't judge me). After that I went to check on Colby. He wasn't in the play room. I tell him multiple times a day, "For quiet time you need to be in the play room or in your room." So I go check in is room and here's what I found. This happened within about 10 minutes.

I'll just add this on to this post. We had a fun ward activity at a place called Baseball City. Someone in our ward owns it actually. Batting cages, baseball bowling, tee-ball, hot dogs, chips, soda...Colby and Eva had a blast. (And I guess I should add Jason in too, he had a blast.)

Road Tunes

I recently got some new job duties that require me to travel 63 miles to Austin TX 3 times a week. With Trafic it is usually about an hour and 15 minutes. It has only been a week, but I already need some new music to listen to. If you got any hot new albums, or old ones that a music has been hasn't heard, let me know. Dana suggested I get Twilight on CD to listen to. Not going to happen.
Jason

Kitchen Remodel done....well, almost

It only took us 8 months, but we have completed the majority of our remodel work in our kitchen. With only a few minor details left to be done. Here is our before and after shots, followed by some of the process. Thanks to My Dad and David for all your help when you were here visiting, and to Dana and the Grandma's for letting me work on the project while they entertained the kids....Now lets get going on those bathrooms! Not.
Jason
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