We Love You Amee!!!

We were soo lucky to have Kristian's Mom from Boston stay with us for a few weeks while the kids were on spring break!! She is the greatest Grandma to my kids and they just adore her! She goes by "Amee" if you were wondering. We had soo much fun while she was here...

We spent the day walking around La Jolla Cove and even stopped to gaze at all of the cute seals that were just "kickin it" on the beach. They were soo cute..and fat and lazy. haha.

She was also able to be here to watch Fischer turn into a big 7 year old!! This is the cool Tony Hawk bike that she got him...He was soo excited as that is all he kept asking for!! Thanks Amee!We got to go to Old Town San Diego and have a great mexican lunch with musical sernades and all!! Then we took a tour of The Mormon Battalion and the Sister Missionaries dressed the kids up like Pioneers, it was so cute.
They would've never made it as pioneers...bless their hearts!! But they sure look cute dressed as one!Thanks again Judy for coming to spend time with our family!! We love you and can't wait to play with you again...xoxo

Easter Sunday...

I LOVE EASTER TIME....I love the candy (you know the kind...haha), I love the colors, I love dying eggs with my kids, I love the time of year it falls on...Spring flowers etc...I love all of the Easter Egg hunts I get to take my kids to, I love that my kids still "BELIEVE", and I especially love teaching them the true meaning of Easter and that it's not all about how full your easter basket is!!I hosted Easter dinner this year and we all had sooo much fun! I got to make these cute little birds nest place settings for everyone and they were tasty too!Here is Grandma Diane baking her yummy orange rolls with Merrick and Taylor....And here are the boys eating those yummy orange rolls the second they got out of the oven....This is my most delicious Carrot Cake that everyone was dying over....It was my first time trying out this recipe and it definately won't be my last!! Yummy....OUR ANNUAL EASTER EGG ROLL....Kristian, Rob and Bart made this awesome egg roll course with PVC pipes and all. They did such a great job!!Dad passing out the Eggs to all the cousins...Fischer looking intense as he watches to see if his egg will beat the other...Maddie and Campbell ended up in the Final Round against each other and Maddie's egg took the prize of an easter egg filled with $MONEY$....Great Job Maddie....The last thing on our Easter Sunday agenda was of course our annual Easter Egg Hunt that my mom always puts on!! They had a blast this year!! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Riding!!

The Easter Bunny Hopped to Our House....

More Easter Pics....

WANTED: HOUSEKEEPER....

Ok...So this is quite embarrassing to even be posting these type of pictures, because I'm really not that bad at keeping a tidy, clean house but leave it to my cute neighbor to point out that I was that day...however she was not trying to critisize me about my lack of dusting, but rather pointing out how cute she thought it was that I purpously was putting it off so that I could see how long I would be able to "showcase" this sweet little handprint that she saw imprinted in the 3 months worth of DUST!!! And I admit I obviously hadn't step foot into that room enough lately to even catch a glimpse of that table! But thanks to Teri she made me look at this old dusty table in a brand new light!!! So I had to take a picture of my Cami's little handprint, because she is growing up soo fast and this picture just reminds me at how I need to cherish this time with my kids!! Thanks Teri...Oh and by the way if you are wondering I have finally dusted that table....haha

Our Annual Easter Bunny Picture....

So every year I follow in my Mother's footsteps and her crazy traditions of taking pictures with the Easter Bunny and Santa....and honestly I don't really know why I torture myself and my kids...but somehow I musture up the energy and get them dressed and do their hair for us to get to the mall and realize that we have to wait for a freaking hour and a half just to have them sit on this creepy looking Bunny's lap!! Seriously the things we do....

Caitlin's B-Day Pool Party!!

My cute niece Caitlin had her birthday party at the YMCA and the kids had soo much fun swimming for the first time this year!! Caitlin is soo awesome and has such a sweet personality!! She is growing up way too fast!! We love living so close to them and the cousins always have soo much fun when they get together!! Thanks for a great time Caitlin!! We love you....

The 1st of many EGG HUNTS...

I can't even count how many Easter Egg Hunts my kids went to this year....but it was rediculous!! They got soooo much candy and at this particular egg hunt if you found a "golden ticket" in any of your collected eggs you get to turn them in for prizes!! They each had 2-3 tix, so they made out!! It was great!