"A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small"

Saturday I took Savannah and Xander to see the movie "Horton Hears a Hoo". What a cute movie with such a great message. I would highly encourage you all to take your little ones to see it. At the end of the movie people started clapping including Xander, who jumped out of his seat, pumped his arms up and down, and then started clapping and shouting "I love that movie! Can we see it again?" It was obviously quite a hit with him. The new little saying in our house has been a line from the movie, "A person's a person, no matter how small."

Fun with Friends

The big Easter Egg hunt that we were supposed to go to last week at Savannah's friend Gavin's house got rescheduled for yesterday. So, although it was almost a week after Easter, we headed over to his house for some lunch and a really fun egg hunt. The kids had a blast. Gavin's mom had littered their front and back yard with hundreds of eggs and the kids did a thorough job of picking them all up.


Even Noah found an egg that kept him busy for awhile.



Savannah and her friend Tianna and two really full baskets.


After the egg hunt the kids headed to the back yard to have some more fun!


Noah found this little chair in the middle of the yard and was so proud of himself when he climbed up into it all by himself. He sat there like a big kid and clapped at his great accomplishment.


The kids enjoyed pulling Noah around in this tractor and he even seemed to know what he was supposed to be doing in it...he kept steering the wheel and laughing!

A Beautiful Day!

Wednesday was an absolutely beautiful day so we headed to the park to have some fun and enjoy the sunshine!
Noah kept squealing with joy as he enjoyed his time on the swing!




Savannah always takes such good care of her little brother Noah.



When we got home, as soon as I opened the car door, I could hear the buzzing! There were literally hundreds of bees in our tree enjoying the pollen. The kids were really nervous so I sent them running to the front door. I then tried to snap a picture but of course you can't see any of the bees in the picture. The tree sure is beautiful, though.

We headed out to a Chuck E. Cheese birthday party later that evening. The party was for Tianna, a friend of Savannah's from her preschool days so we had a lot of fun meeting up with old friends.

The Tooth Fairy

Monday night Xander knocked out Savannah's loose tooth while they were wrestling (no, I was not home at the time). Apparently Savannah didn't even realize that the tooth was out until she saw some blood and asked David if she was bleeding. He didn't notice where the blood was coming from and then Savannah spotted something small and white on the floor. She asked, "What's this?" as she picked up her small tooth. She was very excited about losing her first tooth and refused to put it under her pillow that night because she wanted to show it to me. So, the tooth fairy came Tuesday night and left Savannah $3.00...not bad for a teeny tiny, useless tooth!

It's hard to even see where Savannah lost her tooth because her adult tooth had already started growing in behind the baby one. (Yeah, David and I know that braces will be in Savannah's future.)

Savannah with her tooth in a baggie and a note and picture for the tooth fairy.

Savannah with the money the tooth fairy left her.

Happy Easter!

Saturday morning the kids woke up to find that the Easter Bunny had indeed visited our house. He left Savannah some Barbies that she had been wishing for and Xander received a small pirate skiff.


It was then time for the Easter egg hunt. The bunny did a great job hiding lots of eggs for the kids and they did find most of them. One egg alluded them for a little bit but thank goodness it wasn't one of the real eggs.





The last egg is found!

Noah wasn't that impressed by the whole Easter Bunny thing. He got a toy car in his basket but just pushed it aside.

Noah then spotted the plate with the leftover carrots that the Easter Bunny didn't eat...
The carrots looked good, much better than a toy car, so in his mouth they went.

And then he spotted the candy in the kids' baskets.

These are even better than the carrots!

One cute bunny!!!

Another cute bunny!!!!

Do I have egg on my face?


Saturday night we gathered as a family to talk about the true meaning of Easter. We watched the wonderful video "Finding Faith in Christ" and then we made Resurrection Cookies. With each ingredient David read scriptures that talked about Christ and what he went through during the crucifixtion. The kids really enjoyed this activity.



The kids sealed the cookies in the oven just as Jesus was sealed in the tomb.

Overall it was a very special night as we remembered our Savior and all the many wonderful things he has done for each of us.

Coloring Eggs

In our house the Easter Bunny comes on Friday night so it was very important that we got our eggs colored. The kids really enjoyed it, especially when they realized that it was okay to dip an egg in several different colors. David and I also joined in the fun; one is never too old to color Easter eggs.





Savannah's dragon egg.

The kids also wrote notes to the Easter Bunny on some cookies. They turned out really cute!


Setting out our plate of eggs, cookie notes, and, of course, carrots!