Happy Easter!!!

This weekend was a lot of fun celebrating both the Bunny side of Easter and the important message of our Savior's triumphant Resurrection. Estin was a lot of fun this year looking for Easter eggs Saturday morning in Grandma's back yard. "GG" (Great Grandma Nelson) watched us from her window. Coloring eggs with "GG". Estin had green and purple hands for 2 days! It was pretty special spending time with Grandma Nelson. She painstakingly wrote on her egg... GG loves Estin. Estin with the creepy Easter bunny from Walmart (apparently Estin thought he was creepy too!) Outside with dad at the park... Grandma and Grandpa Oswald drove up from Utah and we had a picnic in the sun along with Mike, Liisa and Christine Easter morning giving his bunny (from Gwamma) "kishes" Easter morning How grateful I am for my Savior, Jesus Christ. For his sacrifice of pain and death that He might overcome the grave and come forth as a triumphant resurrected being. I know He lives and it is through Him that our families can be forever. how grateful I am for this knowledge.

Happy 30th Justin!!! (and Jordan)

Justin hit the big 30 as of yesterday! Wow! Where does it go? We went to Utah for the weekend. Friday night I was able to reserve a table for 20 at Chili's and we had an "adult only" dinner. That was nice. Afterward, Justin and I went over to Jordan's for "cake & ice cream." While there, Tiara mentioned she had Jordan's birthday present in the garage and asked if we all (Jordan included) wanted to see it. What Justin didn't know was that I had sectretly transported HIS present down from Idaho the month before. He has been wanting a chop saw since before I knew him. It's about $650-$700 and completely out of our budget, but I had been saving for awhile & with the help of some $ from a side job he did (which he thought went to bills) I was able to pull it off & get him his dream gift as a special reminder of his 30th birthday. Seeing his face alone was worth it! He knew it was a physical and financial impossibility for years to come... so that made it an even better surprise!

Every year, since we were friends, I've given him a T-shirt for his birthday. This year, due to lack of ideas, he got this COOL Pinto shirt from Kohls.

Yesterday, (his actual birthday) he worked until noon, then we dropped Estin off at Grandma's and went to Idaho Falls for lunch at Red Robin. Their strawberry lemonade and onion rings are to DIE for! Justin got all embarassed when they brought out an ice cream sundae and made him wear balloons on his head. It was pretty funny.

Afterward, we went and saw Monsters vs. Aliens. It was pretty good, although we won't own it. Last night we had about 15-20 friends over from the ward for cake & ice cream.

Fun in Utah...

While in Utah this weekend, we took Estin and met a few cousins at the Legacy Center in Lehi to swim. What a FUN time!

Estin and His Toddler Bed...

Estin is now officially in his toddler bed. He gave up his bottle on his own, all we had to do was tell him his binkey was broken, and now he's on night 4 of his toddler bed without a fuss. I hope potty training is this easy. :) We got back from Utah Sunday night a little earlier than planned. I had taken down his crib before we left (we needed the room) thinking that when we got back it would be late & he'd already be asleep... an easy transport. Well, we were home by 6pm and we just knew it was going to be a LONG night. We went through our bedtime routine (bath, pacorn (Popcorn Popping), Noman (Once there was a Snowman) and Jesus (Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam), had our family prayer and he crawled into bed without another word! Wow! It was that easy!

The Innocence of a Child...

Estin's new FAVORITE show is "Jesus Show" (Finding Faith in Christ). We watch it at least 2 times a day. How can you say no when he asks for the "Jesus Show?" Monday night we had a FHE lesson on General Conference. I cut out pictures of the First Presidency, the Conference Center, the Temple and Jesus. We talked about them for awhile & then I hung them up low where he could see. The next day the very first thing he did was run in the living room and point and say "Ookborf!" It was pretty cute.