Easter 2013

We kicked off the Easter season with some good ol' egg dying!  At B.B.'s we got a huge box of assorted easter stuff for $5.  There were lots and lots of dye kits, plastic eggs, etc.  So we went to town!!!  It wasn't till halfway through boiling the eggs that I realized we only had brown eggs.  Oh well, we still did it.  The color's were not near as vibrant but it was still fun!

 Sadie just looked on the whole evening.  We kept her stocked with lots of snacks!!

 These two kits were in our box from B.B.'s and I had a blast doing these!!!!  Peyton was chomping at the bit to play with them after I was done.  But I'm telling you..... funnest egg dying session ever!!

 Finally I finished my masterpieces and he had a blast playing pretend with all the "kings" and bad guys! 

 Nothing beats a good egg dying session like a follow up bath!!!  These two could play and play in the tub all day.  Sadie a bit more so than Peyton.  And they don't really like baths alone.... but when together they just play and play. 

 We got to go to Grandma Caufman's house for a fun Easter celebration!  Fun times with cousins, egg hunts, and good food!

 Little Koi is just sooo cute for his own good!  I wanted to eat him all day.... he's that cute!

 Grandma Caufman sets up such a fun egg hunt every year.  Each child gets a certain number of eggs, and there are 4 different ziploc baggies with different things in them so they make sure to get one of each. 

 We're still working on sharing around here.  Peyton had a blast playing with everyone though.  We ended the evening visiting Grandma Hess in the nursing home.  Peyton was getting a little crazy by then and was having a little too much fun with wheelchairs and walkers.  So our stay there was considerable short!!! 

 The day before Easter we spent the day cleaning and getting our car to smell fresh again.  The plague hit us last week, throwup and all.  The worst to clean out of cars.  Good thing I've got a good husband to pretty much head up that effort!!

 I don't know why those three pictures are out of order but anywho.  We love 4 generation pictures!!!!

 Peyton was over the moon about finally being able to play outside!!  The weather has been soooo crazy lately!  He just went to town with his golf set!!

 Concentration face!!!

 Just having fun practicing photography and different settings on my camera!!!  Sadie had gone down for a nap a few minutes previous but not before she got to play in the yard for a bit too.  Peyton had hated playing in the grass the first little while.  He didn't like the feel of hte grass on his legs and feet.  I'm tellin gyou though, that is def not teh case with Sadie.  She kept sinking her little toes deep into the grass.  Then taking her little hands and plunging them in the grass and pulling up handfulls of dirt and such.  She would then proceed by sticking them all in her mouth.  *sigh.....* We are currently calling moments like that, "free immunizations."  Making em' tougher. Ha

 Easter Sunday the kids looked so adorbs!!!  Eric had to work that morning so I texted him and told him we were about to call him and he needed to change his voice and be the easter bunny.  Well........ apparently my husband has never done pretend voices because he stinks at it.  I put the phone on speaker and after teh first couple words out of Eric's mouth Peyton yells, "It's the easter bunny daddy!!!!!!!!!!!"  As soon as Eric got home from work, Peyton met him at the door and explained how he was the easter bunny earlier.  Ha.  Obviously if we do any calls to the easter bunny from now on, I will be the bunny. 

 Peyton had found our stash earlier in the week so we didn't really make a big deal of the easter bunny bringing his basket this year.  To be honest, I just really wanted to concentrate on the real reason for Easter so I didn't go to any effort that morning with the bunny thing.  Definitely in the future, we will do the whole basket thing on Saturday I think. 

 I had totally wanted to go all out with brand new easter clothes for them this year but the truth is, they have so many cute clothes already!!!  We are sooooo blessed with hand me downs!!!!

 After church that day we had a few families over to our house.  We had a potluck and an indoor egg hunt.... raining outside.  We had so much fun with everyone.  Our house was quite crowded and it looked like a bomb had gone off after everyone left but I'm so glad we did it.  I love to be around the ones I love, especially around holidays.  Eric's family is always milking in the evenings so they don't have time to do stuff with us very much which makes me even more grateful for our ward family!  There are sooo many wonderful people in our life!! 

It was such a wonderful week preceding Easter this year.  I was supposed to give the Easter lesson in Young Women's so I was just preparing for that.  On Sunday, Sis. Peiffer realized that teh RS, Priesthood, YM, and YW were combined so I didn't need to teach after all.  But I was soooooo very grateful that I'd prepared anyway! 
I'm sooooo incredibly grateful for our Savior Jesus Christ!!  During the week, I had a really low moment.  As I was sitting in my rocking chair I just prayed and prayed for comfort and a little peace.  As I sat there, the words came to my heart, "This is why I sent my Son." 
He loves us..... the atonement is our bridge home.  It's our greatest hope!  Because of Christ, we can return to our loving Heavenly Father.  We not only can repent of our sins but the atonement provides us peace and comfort when we need it.  Jesus Christ felt all we will ever feel in that garden of Gethsamane!!!  I'm sooooooooo grateful!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Makeovers

Last week I got to do makeovers for 4 awesome ladies!  My friend Joy gets together with a group of her friends from college one week a year.  A couple years ago they went on a cruise, and this year they all flew out here to Pennsylvania and did stuff in Baltimore, Virginia and D.C.  Well, for one of the days, Joy asked me to come makeover everyone!  We had a blast!  They were all so much fun!  This was no run of the mill makeovers either.  We did crazy, wild colors.  Blue, red, purple tips on one lady.  Another one wanted to hot red highlights.  We did hair, makeup, and then some pictures.  Here's the results.

 This was Hillary!  She was such a fun gal!  She does eyelash extensions back in Idaho.  I just thought she was beautiful!

 Can you say model??  This is Stephanie.  She's from West Virginia.  She has five children and is a super woman i think!  She was so much fun to talk to and probably one of the biggest doses of self esteem boosters I've had in a long time!  She was so generous with compliments all day long.... as the day was ending she wanted to know if she could adopt me.  Seriously, yes.... yes you can!  You can be my fourth sister.

 This is Tina.  She has the prettiest naturally curly hair ever.  Even though you can't see it as well because of her dark brown hair, she's the one with purple, blue, and red tips.  This lady here was the biggest transformation though.  She NEVER wears makeup, only plucked her brows once but seriously such a natural beauty.  I was sooooo happy she let me get my hands on her to pluck and makeup her up!!!  Not that she needs it but still!

 This be my friend Joy!  She's a pill!  Ha.  She'd gotten a perm recently so we just did a haircut!  She never wears makeup either so I went to town on her as well. 

These four met each other in Maryland 16 years ago.  They were all employed as nannies and were led into each other's paths.  I just think it's the coolest thing that they do these girl weekends/weeks!  I need to start something like that!!!  You all look hott, hott, hott!

My kids

Oh, boy I love these two!  Despite the messes, the tantrums, and the juggling of two little ones... they really are my world!!!  Peyton is expanding his vocabulary daily.  Lots of times he'll say something that surprises me.  I ask him where he learned it and he will 100% of the time reply, "Nursery wit Sister Golden."  He just loves nursery now, which is such a blessing!  It's funny though, how alike Sadie and Peyton are.  Peyton started becoming very attached to me all of sudden when he was about Sadie's age.  He didn't grow out of it till just a couple months ago when we were finally able to leave him in nursery alone.  Well, looks like Sadie is following in his footsteps.  She HATES other people holding her.  I daresay that Peyton didn't like it either but Sadie is a little drama queen about it.  She tries to launch herself out of their arms, she'll wail like the world is ending.  Then the minute she's put into my arms, she'll stop instantly and turn bright and cheery.  What a pill!  So here goes another couple years of never being able to leave my babie's side.  haha.  The wonderful part of it is..... when Peyton was like this I would worry so much about it and really hope and pray he wouldn't be like that forever.  I loved that he needed me but I wanted him to be independent as well.  I wanted him to feel the richness of friendships, the good times with babysitters, the snacks in nursery, be able to converse with others, and on and on.  He's doing it all, it just took some time.  I definitely know I"m a little worrisome when it comes to my children, I just want to do my very best at raising them. 

 Peyton loves to snuggle in blankets first thing in the morning while he's waiting for the house to heat up after I turn on the heater.  This little guy is such a ball of joy!  He's really stubborn, a tender heart, mess maker, curious, smart, handsome, social, etc etc.  Now that he's talking in full sentences, there are times that he'll get so excited about what he's telling Eric and I that it's very difficult for him to get it all out.  He starts stuttering like crazy.  Some days I worry about that too but i know he'll grow out of it so most of the time I just think it's adorable.  Half the time he's telling me how the world is supposed to go and teh other half of the time he's asking questions.  The other day we were reading books and there was a picture of a mouse by a pot of honey.  Peyton got very adamant and said, "Only bears, and pooh eat honey. Not mouse." A different day he had a huge booger hanging out his nose........  come on, as a mom you just can't let it hang there.  So I pick it off and wiped it on his pants.  He says, "Mommy, why you putting booger on my pants?"  I told him because I didn't want it on me. And he says, "NOOO, mommy it goes in the booger cave."  huh?  ha

Sadie is just a sweet little peanut!!!  She's definitely got some sass!  I'm so excited because everyday she seems to be getting more and more personality.  Well, she's prolly had the personality all along but she's just getting old enough to show it!  Everytime we say, "night, night."  She'll wave her little hand back and forth saying bye to everyone.  She does the most hilarious faces.  When I was feeding her some cinnamon roll she would scrunch up her little face everytime the roll would get near her.  She also fake coughs all the time.  It cracks us up.  She currently doesn't liek baby food but will eat table food like it's going out of style.  We've finally got her convinced that a bottle isn't half bad.  It makes it 100% easier on Eric when I'm gone to Young women's on wednesdays and at zumba class.  She's a really easy baby to get to sleep but poor little thing is teething the last couple days.  I can see her top two coming down.  Ouch!  She's super independent at home.  She'll just dissapear crawling around everywhere.  The other day she dissapeared and I found her halfway up the stairs.  AAhhhhh, really?  Why do they grow up so fast!!!  We were lying in bed the other night and Eric starts freaking out.  He says, "Bre, shhhhhh, I hear someone coming up our stairs!!"  It was just Sadie.  When we put her down in her travel pen to sleep she'll kick as hard as she can over and over.  Thump, thump, thump.   Apparently that was the first time Eric had heard it. 

 Prepare yourself for a billion pictures!  Because I jsut think they're that cute!!!  Can't just choose a couple!

 He's not supposed to jump ON his bed, so he jumps off it.  Sometimes he'll forget and I'll remind him so he says, "Peyton not gonna jump on my bed, just on mattress."  So we take the mattress off and away he goes.  Did I mention that Peyton always talks in third person.  Haha.