A Quick Trip to Salt Lake

On May 25th my sweet Mormor (Danish for Grandma) passed away. My parents, Emily and I made the long trip to Salt Lake to attend the funeral and to get some of the things settled with their possessions and work on getting the house ready to go on the market. The funeral turned out really nice and it was wonderful to hear about her life and the memories that her children had of her. It was so nice to be around the family and to see what they have all been up to. It was such a hot day, but it was nice that it was not raining. We had a wonderful luncheon of soup and salad. The two munchkins Emily and Ezekiel did such a wonderful job during the funeral and didn't fuss too much.

The rest of the time we spent there we had a fun time going to temple square where we were able to have lunch with Matt and Tiffany, and see all of the fun sites including playing in the water features. Such a long, fun, hot day and thanks to Matt and Tiffany for running after the kiddos all day.

We were able to spend a day shopping with stops at Tai Pan, Hobby Lobby and Seagull Book. We were also able to stop and spend time with some of my cousins- Kirsten and Jessica.

Easter

I had such a fun time getting things put together for Easter. Even though Emily doesn't really know what is going on, she had a really fun time- makes everything worth it!

The night before Easter we put a carrot out for the Easter bunny by the front door.

The next morning I said to Emily, "Did the Easter bunny come?" She got so excited and ran straight to the door where the bunny had left her a basket full of goodies and a baby doll.

We had such a fun time getting ready for church. Emily got a beautiful new Easter dress, and she loved wearing it. She is such a girl and loves to look at herself in the mirror. We only stayed for Sacrament meeting (Emily needed a nap before we headed up to the Easter festivities). Sacrament meeting was so much fun the program was a musical one about the life of the Savior. Emily loves music and sat on  her Daddy's lap the  entire time just listening.

It was such a gorgeous day and made for a really fun Easter egg hunt. Megan and Quinten hid all the eggs, and Emily knew just what to do. She found all of the eggs and wanted to find even more. I don't think I have had so much fun on Easter in a long time.

Egg Dying

Emily loved loved loved to dye eggs. She loved to put them in each color. We had to watch her carefully because she would throw the eggs into the dye. She would say, "I throw rocks!" She wouldn't even bother with coloring them with crayons and just wanted to dip them in the dye as fast as she could get her hands on them.

We were lucky enough to get to dye eggs twice. We had a family home evening activity with the Grays coloring eggs and then that following Friday we had a pre-Easter activity with my parents where we made sugar cookies, and colored eggs. Emily was a pro by now with the eggs and she learned how to balance them on the loop and place them in the dye. She had such a fun time, and so i stocked up on lots of half price egg dying kits to do through out the year.

The Friday before Easter we had my parents over for a pre-Easter ham dinner, and a little activity of making sugar cookies and dying more eggs. Emily had a blast doing both as you can tell from her little facial expressions in all of the pictures. Having a little one around sure does make the holidays a little more special.

Toe Picker

Emily and her Daddy are a little more like each other than just looks. Around April and May Emily discovered that she has toe jam. She would sit there picking it out from between her toes until there wasn't anything left. Apparently her daddy around that same age would pick the lint from between his toes and he wouldn't go to bed until it was all gone. It is so funny for me to see just how much these two are two peas in a pod.

 

I haven't really had the energy or the desire to post any blogs the past few months. I will be playing catch up the next little while with the major things we have been doing as a family.