Easter

Friday night Lexi started asking us all sorts of questions about the Easter Bunny.

How does he get into our house?
Who puts the candy in the eggs?
Will he wake me up?
She was so curious.
Saturday morning they woke up to find their Easter baskets outside their room.
Then in the living room they found plastic eggs hidden all over the place.
They quickly ran and filled up their baskets and began eating candy instantly.
They also found a Tinker Bell movie.
They had a great day filled with lots and lots of sugar.

Lexi gave her first talk in Primary on Sunday.

She did great.
I was a little nervous when I realized that the microphone wasn't hooked up
but Sean in the very back said her could still hear her most of the time.
...
Here is her talk:

(Holding up a picture of Sean's mom.)
This is my Grammy.
She got cancer and lost her hair.
Now she's in Heaven.
We miss her.

(Now holding up a picture of Christ.)
This is Jesus Christ.
He's our Savior.
He died and was resurrected.
Now He lives again.

So we will all live again.
I know that I will see my Grammy again.
And this is why we celebrate Easter.

Easter Weekend

Easter was the weekend before Avery's birthday.

It was also the weekend my parents flew in from Seattle.

That Saturday we were invited to a Easter party/ egg hunt.

It didn't take Lexi long to remember what egg hunting was all about.

That Saturday we also went to a birthday party of one of Avery's friends,

Zac, who was turning one.

This next picture is of Lexi and her friend Jaylen, who is only 5 months older than her

but easily has 10 lbs and half a foot on her.

Lexi is really petite.

After the party we took my parents to go see the temple.

It got really windy and overcast all of a sudden but

we still had a good time walking around the temple grounds.

Easter Sunday, we woke up and gave the girls their baskets...

This is typical Avery hair in the morning.

Lexi got the Rapunzel Barbie from us and dress from my parents.

She was so excited!!!

Pictures before church...

We had a special conference on Easter Sunday.

Elder Cook of the Quorum of the 12 Apostle came and spoke to us.
After church Lexi got to paint eggs.

Then we headed to the temple.

We did our family Easter egg hunt there.

The girls had a lot of fun.

Avery really got excited about crawling around in the grass and picking up eggs.

After Lexi found all her eggs we just walked around the temple grounds.

When she wasn't looking, Sean would grab an egg out of her basket and

hide it right where we were walking.

Lexi got really excited that she was finding more eggs.

It was hilarious.

Eventually she started suspecting that Sean was taking some of her eggs.

Once he grabbed one and she asked him what he had in his hands,

he said nothing and then threw the egg in front of us on the grass.

Lexi saw the egg flying and said that the wind was hiding her eggs.

We all just laughed.

It was a really great Easter weekend.

Our Easter Activities

The week before Easter Lexi and I went to her first Primary activity (well for our ward it's basically nursery). She had a ton of fun and it was neat for me to see her interact with all the kids she plays with on Sundays. There were several stations set up for the kids: a cake walk, bean bag toss, pin the tail on the Easter bunny, coloring, and more. Lexi's favorite was frosting cookies though. That is something she has never done before. After she put the frosting and sprinkles on she would just lick them off. Here are the cookies she brought home to daddy...

And here is a picture some of the kids in Lexi's primary...

Lexi got this dress in a package from my mom (there was also a matching one for her sister). I tried to get a good picture of Lexi in it for my mom but someone didn't feel like cooperating before church...

Our Easter weekend was crazy because of me and our baby (that is another post in the making) but we did manage to do a few things for Lexi. Saturday was Easter for us. Lexi woke up to this Easter basket that her daddy prepared for her...

And Saturday afternoon, Sean hid a bunch of Easter eggs in our living and dinning room. Sean wasn't prepared for how fast Lexi would pick them all up. Next year, he will be hiding them a little better.

Her eggs were full of gold fish crackers, Captain Crunch berries, animal crackers, marsh mellows, Swedish fish and a few other things.

And here is Lexi Easter morning eating eggs, of course. She really love scrambled eggs, especially with ketchup. I just posted this picture because I think it's funny.

Sean was so great this weekend (well he always is). He made our Easter Sunday dinner- Ham and potatoes and even made our cake. It may not look like a professional made it but it tasted good.

During the Sunday afternoon session of general conference we all fell asleep, expect for Sean.

Lexi's First Airplane Ride, Our Spring Break in Washington, Easter and Anniversary

Last week Lexi and I took the Salt Lake Express from Rexburg to SLC. We flew out of Salt Lake to Seattle. We spent a week in Washington with my parents. We had so much fun. Lexi got spoiled and was the center of attention. She was able to see both sets of grandparents which was fanastic. I was also able to see some friends. We went last week because it was finals week for Sean. He did well, he still has over a 3.9 GPA. We are so proud of him. Here are a few pictures from our trip. I uploaded like 400 pictures on my Picasa if you want to see more...

Kristi, Sean's step-mom picked me up from the airport and we went out to lunch with his dad. Lexi's hair is a little crazy in this picture because she just woke up but I love it anyway.

My parents live down the street from this place called Flower World. We walked there one day (It was like the only day it wasn't raining). They have a petting zoo type area there too. Lexi loved seeing the goats, sheep, picocks, ducks, chickens and other birds. We also walked her around and showed her all the plants. This is a picture of her in front of the lake there. She was talking while I took the picture but I still like it.

One of my favorite things on our trip was seeing how much my "little" brother Ryan loves Lexi. He adores her even though he said he wanted me to have a boy instead.

Lexi got her first eye exam. We just went to the office that my mom works at (both of my parents are opticans). Good news: Lexi has healthy eyes and she tracks things really well. She is slightly far sighted, but babies are born that way.

I always try to go see my friend Nancy from high school when I go home. She and her sisters and mom adored Lexi. They were so willing to keep her.

Whenever we go to Washington we always go visit our friends David and Chelsi and their daughter Madisyn.Lexi wasn't so excited to see David first thing when she woke up but he wanted to hold her.

It was fun to see our girls play together. Madisyn just turned one last month and Lexi is 9 months.


Here is Lexi first thing Easter morning with her basket. I had to wake her up in order to get her ready and to church on time. She is a little tired and confused in this picture. I love her new duck PJs I got her at Costco.

Here is my family all dressed up in our Easter Sunday Best.

Here is Lexi in her Easter dress. I love the whole outfit but the shoes are really amazing. The picture doesn't do them justice.

Here is a picture of Lexi on the plane ride back to Utah. We had three seats to ourselves which was great. On the way to Washington though, our plane was full.

Yesterday Sean picked us up from the airport. He finished his finals a few days ago and since then has been at his sister Michelle's house here in Utah. Yesterday, was our second wedding anniversary. It was so special that we were able to spend it together. We really didn't do anything too amazing. We just wanted to be together and of course Sean wanted to be with Lexi.