::easters 2::

On Easter afternoon we had a little get together for a shared Easter dinner. I was pretty proud of myself because we cooked a ham and cheesy potatoes. I haven't cooked much lately because we're just so busy. So we fed friends.
And of course we had to have an Easter egg hunt for the kiddos. It's just too fun. Some of my fondest memories from my childhood are the big egg hunts my mom would throw for us. SO so fun. So any Easter that goes by without a kid egg hunt is a wasted year.
Dads hiding eggs.



The kids were having such a hard time waiting, and we have so many windows out to the yards that they could see the dads' every move. It was torture.


At one point Sandy escaped, basket in hand and went running into the courtyard. He got two eggs before I caught him. "Why does Sandy get to go out!??"

And, GO! And in the searching of course I followed Sandy the most. I can't help it. He almost had it all figured out, though he was so slow at picking up the eggs he was lucky that there were any left to find after the first one!



Helpful brother.

I think the kids were having lots of fun.





Watch out for the tulips Sandy!
And what is little Molly looking up at in the previous photo?

Oh of course, it's just Brother Wilson, up where he's not supposed to be, defying rules as usual.

And finally, success. All eggs were found.

It was a really fun get together and I was so glad we did it. The weekend was so busy that I really hesitated to add more, but it's so nice to spend time with friends. We just don't get to do enough hanging out with nice people.
And plus, when you can't have your family come over, gotta have ward family instead.
Last photo--I just really liked this one. I love dad and kid in the foreground and the moms in the background.

We're just so lucky to have great people as friends out here. Happy Easter!

::easters 1::

Boys had to wait until after church for their goodies because they slept in. It was torture. We were all glad to get home. Luckily Sultan didn't get in and eat everything while we were gone!

::the easter portraits::

There are a zillion of these, but some of them are too funny not to post! Enjoy and don't get worn out of looking at us!























THE END!!

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Sandy running away from Easter pictures last year:

Sandy running away from Easter pictures this year:

Yeah, he's bigger. BIGGER.

::a bit of easter::

A lot of the family already saw these few on the FacePage, but I wanted to at least post something really quickly--before I run utterly out of energy!
Boys in matching ties. Except Dad this time.

We can only keep the little one in place for so long before he slips away.

Is Max's suit just a little too big? Or is it Max that's too big? He's growing fast.

The face on the right is the same one that cranked and whined (loudly, I might add) all through sacrament meeting. Don't let him fool you into thinking he's happy or anything.

Love my boys!

::instagram & phone march::

Since I've been doing such a bad job blogging, here's a little instagram from during March. Just for fun.

Cutest thing ever hanging on the wall at Max's school. The little characters he's been drawing are so cute!

Cheery outfit without Sandy in it.

Cheery outfit on cheery morning Sandy.

Santa Fe sunset when Kris and I were lucky enough to be out on a date.

Max's group at school working on some serious chemistry. Love the little guy at the bottom left in the aviator "safety glasses."

Easter party at church:



Don't get your finger in between his mounth and a chocolate doughnut.

Max will wear the ears but Sandy refuses.

Taking turns.

That's one impressive squeeze.

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Max has really been expressing his artistic side the last few weeks. I'm loving it. He's churning out the coolest stuff. Here's one of my latest favorites:

Sorry about the line through Phineas's head, that's my scanner, not the artwork itself. Perry KILLS me he's so cute. And I love the Max style, still so little kid, but also the characters are all really themselves. At least to me. Here's the other side of that one:

The Pizza Catchers are little cartoon characters that a friend of Max's made up one day at school. That friend has since gifted the rights to the characters to Max and now they are totally Max's. There are now about 15 of them too, grown from three. I'll have to show more of them later. There are whole comic books where they are featured. These two pages I'm showing you now are a bit unique becuase they have been colored, mostly we get just line drawings. I love them with color--again especially Perry.

That's my boy--goofy glamour shots self pose and all!