Easter Fun!

This post is not really in order but that's ok. I'll see if I can still make sense out of it. Here's my three cuties on Easter morning in their new duds. We tried hard to get a good picture but this is the best we got.

Me and my girls. Doug got a new tie and looked really nice too but we forgot to take a picture.

We were lucky enough to have my parents join us for dinner last night. My mom brought the yummy ham and our meal also included bunny rolls (family tradition)and yummy parfaits.

My mom also brought these gorgeous daffodils from her house. These things are huge! One of them is seriously the size of my hand. Beautiful!

On Saturday we had fun celebrating Easter with an hunt at my mom's house.

Mabel was excited to have her own basket!

She especially loved dragging it through the mud

Sophia's haul.I think we all did pretty good! (BTW we headed up to city creek this week - which was awesome and had a little too much fun at H&M. I got the girls matching dresses for $5 a piece! That's almost cheaper than DI!)

Afterward we took some pictures of cousins together before they had to go back home.

The Sandy Millers joined us as well and it was so fun!

My mom and dad with Stu and Hiromi and their cute girls.

Afterward we headed to Doug's mom's for another Easter party.

Here's everyone getting ready to take their turn at the pinata.

Here's Sophia taking a swing.

Bridger hit it open and the kids were excited to dig in!

We let the older kids take a turn at the head and Kaleen hit it into the tree. It was pretty funny.

After all that fun we put the girls in bed and then helped the Easter Bunny get their baskets ready. Sophia got a kite (and I had to keep the tradition of chocolate eggs with their names on them - my mom always did this growing up and I loved it!)Mabel got a Peter Rabbit book and some doggy bath toys

and Lilly was spoiled as well with bath stuff. They also got these dresses (that were on clearance at Crazy 8's. Love that store!)They also got these giant coloring books. Funny story about these. I bought them a few weeks ago and hid them in a place that I thought was pretty good. Sophia of course discovered them and asked what they were for and so I told her the Easter Bunny asked to hide them there for Easter. I forgot to put them out with their baskets though so after they opened their baskets Sophia said, "can I get those coloring books out now?" Oops! Thank goodness she was there to save the Easter Bunny's mistake!

Later that night we did our Symbols of Easter eggs (thanks again Katie) and talked about why we have Easter. Overall it was a great day!

Fun with Cousins!

We had such a blast with our South Carolina cousins this week! It was so fun to see them and we are going through with drawls! One one of the days we had fun at the dinosaur museum. Is this girl not the cutest ever?! She's just a few months older than Mabel but she can talk so much! I loved hearing her go back and forth between Japanese and English and hearing all the cute little Japanese songs she would sing. Cute cousins in front of the dinos.

Side note: after one of our days of fun I took Mabel to the after hours doctor because her eyes had been kind of goopy. Turns out she had a double ear and eye infection. Oops! After seeing this picture again, maybe she was trying to tell me something was wrong with her ears.The girls worked really hard to build a cool dinosaur.

This one contributed too. Here's how their 3 headed dinosaur turned out. They did a pretty good job!

We also had fun at the sand and water table.

Silly girls.

I love Sophia acting fake scared.

We ended the trip with some digging.

Another fun thing we did was we went to see grandpa and his pigeons at BYU.

Grandpa even let them feed them. They were in heaven!

We also were able to have some fun in the snow! Karen and Erin were so excited to see snow and even more excited that they got to play in it!

Thanks for coming to visit and for letting us have so much fun with you! We loved every minute of it!

As of late...

Get ready for an explosion of pictures! Here's what we've been up to lately.

The other morning I made pancakes using coconut oil. They were so yummy! I think it's safe to say that others would agree with that (side note-do you love the slightly angled look of Sophia's bangs? That would be a result of her taking matters into her own hands).The other morning while I was away the girls had fun making food color rainbows with dad. Sophia has been really into wanting to learn how to sew lately. These were her first attempts at pillows. I think she did a good job. Here's a shot of Mabel pitching in with the cleaning around here. She actually did sweep these dried cherries up and did a pretty good job.Because Doug has been working so many late nights lately and well, because I'm lazy I've been letting the girls fall asleep in our bed. I loved how they fell asleep the other night.
To help keep the girls quiet during conference we decided to pull out the white board. It was fun to see the creations they came up with.During the priesthood session we headed up with my mom to play with cousins that are in town. It was so fun! One of the things we did with them was color eggs. We also made some yummy nest treats to share. They turned out pretty yummy if I do say so myself!Here's how the eggs turned out. These ones were Karen's. and Sam's (he decided to color them in a pattern and I think he did a good job!) Here's Sophia's and Lilly's. Last night we went up to my brother's house to celebrate my brother and his family being in town and to celebrate the anniversary of these cuties (sorry I didn't get a better shot - they always look great though!)!My sister-in-law picked up these yummy cakes to celebrate the occasion.Here's Doug and Mabel relaxing to The Muppets before dinner.We also enjoyed a pre-dinner show of Karen's tricks.Here's Mabel and Erin. These two are only about 3 months apart. We tried to get Erin to teach Mabel how to talk. That girl can talk! She seriously knows a lot of words. It was so cute!Here's some of the amazing Japanese food my brother made for the occasion. Assorted ramens.Chicken Terriyaki and potsickers. Everything was amazing and I left in a food coma. I'm pretty sure I woke up with a food hangover this morning too.Because Karen lives in South Carolina she doesn't see much snow. She was pretty excited about the little skiff that was in their backyard. She built this cute little snowman family. The tallest one was about a foot tall. I love them!Lilly built this one too.

Here's a little prespective on it's actual size. I love it.

Here's Karen and Erin in front of the cherry blossoms at my brothers house. They are both so priceless. I love them!After dinner we decided to let the kids play with these that my sister Melissa had sent. They loved them and it made quite the mess (thanks again Tonya!) Mabel preferred to pick out each piece of confetti one by one.After we got home this girl lost another tooth right before heading to bed. So fun!