::sand cam: the new house::

From the little man's perspective.


Good thing we have some interesting ceilings out here, since Mr Sandy gets to look at them an awful lot.


And as a special bonus, the man himself, reaching for the camera as I tried to get the world from his perspective.

He's so cute.

::easter final part or even more bunny ears::

You won't believe how long they kept the bunny ears on for me.

Max actually likes his, and I don't think the baby had any idea he had his on.

I love how these two get along. They really do both adore each other. I hope it can continue that way.




Kris came up with an amazing baby breakthrough while we were in UT waiting to have our family picture taken. He has a secret phrase. (Shhhh, it goes like this: "Eat the pig, eat the pig. Ziggy, ziggy, ziggy zig." Have you ever watched Bill & Ted's excellent adventure?) Anyway, whenever he says this secret phrase to the baby, the baby cracks up. He thinks it's so funny. It can even sometimes bring him out of a screaming fit. Max and I use it too, all the time.
So these pictures were taken by way of the secret phrase.

So cute. Happy Easter, one and all. We're always glad to celebrate this wonderful holiday, and so much more glad this year as the idea of the atonement and resurrection becomes more and real and important to us. Love you all.

::eggs::

The second to the last of the easter posts...

We decorated some eggs saturday afternoon. I'm pretty impressed with myself that we even did it considering all that was going on. But since Kathy was here and she helped me get all packed, moved and unpacked in a really short period of time, we were able to pull off some egg boiling and decorating.
Max made some of the coolest eggs ever.

He got out his Atlas of the Universe that he earned by reading books at school and made some moons.

Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. And maybe the biggest moon of all, we're just not sure.

Pluto. Not a planet anymore, but instead an awesome easter egg.

I love them!

Hunting for them was fun, but I just enjoyed the moment and took no photos. I'm allowed to do that once in a while, right?

::happy easter pt 3::

We couldn't seem to get one where everybody looked good at once. But that's the beauty of having little kiddos, right?




Little kids making bunny faces that is....
I can't believe the baby put up with the bunny ears for so long. That's pretty amazing.
Thanks for taking the pictures Kathy. At least one of us looked cute in each, and we can't ask for much more than that!

::Happy Easter pt 2::

With Kris's mom. It was so fun to get to spend Easter with her.




I had to post this last one because of Max's face. Evidently he was working hard on making a "bunny face" with his longest front tooth stuck out over his bottom lip. It seems to have been a lot of hard work.

::happy easter pt 1::

Obviously I should've used a different f stop setting so both of my boys would've been in focus, but oh well. They're cute anyway. I can't get enough of the bunny ears.
Happy Easter day!!

::dinner & kris::

Kathy made us a delicious pizza a couple of nights ago. It had ricotta cheese, artichokes, tomatoes and some delicious shredded cheeses that I don't remember.

She even made me a couple of non-tomatoed pieces which I thought was so sweet.

Anyway I was trying to take a picture of the cute people at the table, and somebody was giving me some trouble. It's not necessarily the guy you'd expect.


He just refused to behave.


I do appreciate him setting such a good example for his crazy son, of course.

Oy.

::yikes::

Sand doesn't like bathing right now. I mean REALLY doesn't like it. He only starts crying after the first nanosecond his littlest toe hits the water.
Grandma was bathing him today. He was mad. He got even more mad when I came in with the camera and took pictures instead of saving him.


Poor little mad dude.

::basket::

Max came out of school today with a treasure--a basket full of grass.
You just don't see lush green grass around here much. I think the kids planted the seeds about two weeks ago.
His sweet teacher is a pastor's wife. She was pretty excited to sneak some easter basketing in at school under the guise of "spring baskets."

Yay for spring (and Easter) and baskets and treats and eggs.

Now if only that patch of grass was big enough I could squish my feet around in it.....

::comparison::

Nov 2010:

Jan 2011:

March 2011:

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Kris's Aunt Becky and Uncle Richard took an impromptu trip out here to Santa Fe to see if it might be someplace they could move too in a couple of years. They're living in Germany right now on the military base.
We tried to show them all our favorite things and make them fall in love with the city. We'll see how it all turns out in the end. But in the meantime we had a blast hanging out with them. They're so much fun.

Here they are in front of our new house--in their lovely matching parkas.

We'd like to have them as neighbors someday. We'll keep wishing!

::while in UT::

When we were in UT for the funeral and the week after I hardly took a single picture. I was just too busy trying to survive--I got a bad cold and the baby woke up about 10 times per night every night we were there. But we had a really nice time, and it was so great to be there with everyone. I wouldn't have traded it for anything.
The last day we were there was conference sunday and it was a nice peaceful day. I pulled out my camera at the very end of the day and snapped a few shots of cousins and grandmas and aunts and uncles.

Max and cousin KC having some fun together.


New cousin Quinn.

It took a little coaxing to get a smile out of Parker.

Cousin Clayton.



We're just all so lucky to have each other.
And if you want to see pictures of MY side of the family go here. It was really nice to get to spend some time with them too, and also get to hug and chat with Laura, Murphy's fiance!!!!