Utah/Easter

We headed to Utah for Spring Break and Easter this year.  My parents were nice enough to drive down to Vegas and then drive back with me.  It made traveling so much easier.  Leila and Greydon loved playing outside on the swing set, especially if there was someone to push them on the swings.  We spent most of our time in Utah playing with cousins and just hanging out with family. 

 On Thursday we got together with Paul's mom, sister and brother's family to dye Easter eggs.  Greydon was into it for about 10 seconds.  He mostly wanted to throw the eggs and touch the dye. 

 Leila was the first and last to participate with the egg dying.  She loved it, and was quite upset when we ran out of eggs even though we colored 4 or 5 dozen eggs. 

On Friday we dyed eggs again at my mom's house.  Leila got a whole carton all to herself and had a blast being creative. 

 Greydon just watched this time, and played peek-a-boo and ate some food. 

On Saturday we got together with Paul's mom and family for an Easter egg hunt.  Leila loved the hunt and was so sweet to make sure she helped Greydon find eggs too.

 He found a couple eggs but then he became more interested in the power wheels.

 The grass was super long so even the eggs just out on the grass were hard to find, the hunt lasted for quite some time.

 Checking out all their finds! Greydon thoroughly enjoyed his peeps!

 Later that day all the kids were trying to help out with the dishes, and surprise, surprise mine is the one who is completely naked.

Sunday morning the Easter bunny hid some eggs and Easter baskets for the kids.  Greydon was much more into this egg hunt.

 Leila finding her Easter basket

 Greydon finding his Easter basket

That morning as we were trying to get ready for church, Leila had a massive meltdown that lasted over an hour long.  As I was trying to deal with her I found Greydon had climbed up on the dining room table and was helping himself to jelly beans, M&M's and peeps.  I was frantically trying to get ready so I just left him to enjoy himself (I know great parenting?).  I'm still surprised we made it to church.

That night we had an Easter egg hunt at my parents house.  By the end we had way too much candy!



Another!

We'll be hatching another egg this November!

Update

Just a quick update on us, Paul has now been gone for about a week and a half and so far we are surviving but we sure miss him.  Luckily we have some great friends who have helped us out, provided me breaks and meals.  Evenings are the hardest and loneliest but hopefully the rest of the month will fly by.  Paul is loving the rotation but is super busy, he is working crazy hours like 5am-9 or 10 pm and then he still has to study. 

The picture below is of Leila in timeout in the corner, her tantrum was so exhausting that she just fell asleep. 

 When Greydon woke up from his nap, he immediately went searching for his sister and woke her up with a giant hug.

 Just love his stinkn' cute face!

 Greydon loves to wear our shoes around the house and always seems to have someone's shoes on

 Sunday was an adventure, man it's tiring getting both kids ready for church but we still managed to make it on time and get our normal bench, even with several meltdowns that morning.  And church ended up being pretty nice, all the kids in my class were absent and since we've been sending Greydon to nursery for about a month now I was able to enjoy sunday school and relief society.