hiPity HoPity, HapPy Easter!

Sorry picture overload...thought I would share our easter with everyone...
The easter bunny left lots of goodies for Kaden...

The very difficult easter egg hunt...Kaden was all set he knew what to do and found all the eggs even the hard ones!

Kaden's easter egg creations...Notice that there are not many stickers on the eggs he found better uses for the stickers!

On the hunt...he needed a few more hands he was too excited to stop and put them in the basket he would wait till he had 3 or 4 eggs and was dropping them...

I should win mother or the year award with this breakfast...

Ready for church...

Happy Easter everyone...

Egg Hunt...

Chris had as much fun if not more than Kaden during this hunt, they got lots of egg with hard carmels and tootsie rolls & the Blue ray DVD bolt...they almost had a wrestling match with another mom and two year old who were also after the DVD...

I was suprised by how quickly Kaden picked this up and was right in there after all the eggs...it was fun to watch.

Kaden and James could hardly wait for the egg hunt to begin...

Best buddies

Kaden has made new little friends! It is so cute he just loves his friends and is always asking and talking about them. Every time we get ready to go somewhere he says "Tate, Bames (which is James)?" He is always sad when we leave the park and he has to say good bye to his friends.
Yesterday we went with James to the park. Kaden and James rode the horses on the carousel. Last time I took Kaden on one of these he cried, but it was much more fun with James!

The two little buddies on their white stallions...I am grateful that Kaden has such cute little friends the added bonus is that their moms are fun and amazing and I enjoy spending time with them as much as Kaden likes his little friends!

After the ride the boys were able to play in the park have an easter egg hunt and then we all went out to lunch it was a fun afternoon...the best part about it was that dad wasn't at the library he was able to come play too!

No wardrobe malfunction...

Kaden loved coloring easter eggs! We were worried about what a mess it would make so put him in his diaper which I was grateful for because it was a little messy he however had different things in mind than putting the stickers on the eggs he was more interested in putting them on himself and us. Kaden putting stickers on himself...Just in case of a wardrobe malfunction...

Our big helper he was wanting to do it all by himself just like everything else. It was hard to contain him and help him. He loved doing this after we were done all night he kept asking eggs? Eggs?

I love the face in this picture. It is the ooohhh face. Dyeing eggs was so much more fun with Kaden helping (rather running the show)!

Eat eat eat...

Spring is finally here! At least for a couple days. It was fun in between sessions to get out and enjoy the sun. I felt like every picture I caught of Kaden he was eating...
Probably because thats all we did ALL weekend. My OB is not going to be happy with me he is strict about only gaining a pound a week (may have overdone that slightly in the past two days!!!)

I love conference weekend. We went to the park with friends... Had friends over for dinner...saw Chris for more than a half hour of the day it was wonderful! We missed being with family at conference time but feel so grateful to have such great friends that we have met this past year. Is it only me or does conference weekend feel like another holiday weekend that we add to the calender?

Birthday celebration

I was in charge of the Relief Society enrichment activity in my ward. It was a lot of work but I think it went really well and we had a good time. I did a purse theme...made little purse invitations everyone to Home, family and "purse"onal enrichment. I found cute little purse bags to decorate with and a poem that talked about purses being like friends we had dinner and a service auction. It is nice to be done with and onto the next project, but it was fun! Here are some of the pics from the night of the event...

Surprisingly good...

I always feel like I am trying to find better snack options for Kaden. He absolutely will not touch any leafy green vegetable, which is hard because I know how important they are. Well the other day a friend of mine suggested to try a spinach shake. I thought yuck!!! Well I had a lot of spinach in my fridge that was going to go bad so I gave it a whirl and to my surprise Kaden love love loved it he kept asking for more and I didn't think it was half bad either. If you make this though you need a heavy duty bib or old shirt if you are feeding it to a toddler.

1 cup frozen berries
1 frozen banana
fill the blender with spinach (I used about 2-3 cups)
And a little whole milk (my friend said you have to use whole milk or it isn't good.) I just used enough to get it to blend well.

Yum yum, seriously try it you will be surprised and it is a tricky way to get your toddlers to eat their greens. I didn't take a picture but it comes out a pretty purple color!!!