Baby Mia

Isn't she precious? I love photographing newborns! And yay, they finally cancelled the tornado watch so I can sleep in my own bed tonight!

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Happy Easter!

It was a very rainy Easter weekend here. We decorated eggs and had our hunt indoors but the boys still had lots of fun. Grant wasn't interested at all in collecting eggs once he figured out there were goodies inside...

  

  

I made this delicious roasted chicken (my first one ever!)

But of course the most important thing was celebrating Jesus's resurrection.

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100

Ethan enjoys working on his math every day, we are using the Math U See books which we absolutely love. His exercises this week was to skip count by tens and write from 1 to 100. He was so proud of himself when he finished writing each number from 1 to 100 (and I was too). Not bad for a 4 1/2 year old!

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Easter Countdown

I found this adorable Easter countdown idea and just love it! The cards are available as a printable .pdf from Chocolate on my Cranium. They include scriptures and questions to discuss for each day which are great to include in your daily devotional/scripture study or could also be a great Family Home Evening lesson. If you follow her blog you'll also get a fun object lesson to go along with each one. A great way to feel the spirit of Easter!

And speaking of chocolate... I just posted these yummy double chocolate cookies on my food blog. They are soooo yummy!

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Schmutz Family

I got to take this family's pictures over the weekend. They have two gorgeous little girls!

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Conference weekend cont...

Just realized I hadn't posted these pictures from Sunday. We went to the church for the morning session of conference and Joshua and Grant started holding hands in the car, and now do so every time they're in the car, it's so cute.

 They painted some birdhouses that we got earlier in the week and were excited to hang them up.

 

 And this is how we kept them occupied most of the time. The only way to watch in peace and quiet...(we traded our lush grass for lumpy dirt, but the boys don't seem to mind a bit)

Conference weekend

I love conference weekend! It's so nice spend an entire weekend together without any meetings or other obligations (including Sunday)! We started some herb seeds in the morning, shot off the boys' new rocket and of course listened to conference. I particularly enjoyed the talks by Elder Cook and Elder Maynes. Loved the poem quoted in Elder Maynes talk about the importance of parents leading and teaching children. Can't wait for tomorrow's talks!

Twas a sheep not a lamb that strayed away

In the parable Jesus told,

A grown-up sheep that strayed away

From the ninety and nine in the fold.

And why for the sheep should we seek

And earnestly hope and pray?

Because there is danger when sheep go wrong;

They lead the lambs astray.

Lambs will follow the sheep, you know,
Wherever the sheep may stray.
When sheep go wrong, it won’t take long

Til the lambs are as wrong as they.

And so with the sheep we earnestly plead

For the sake of the lambs today,

For when sheep are lost, what a terrible cost

The lambs will have to pay!

-C. C. Miller

April Fools!

I played a few tricks on the boys...and an accidental trick on myself...

Joshua has been oreo cookie snatching all week so I took the remaining two cookies, scooped out the filling and replaced it with toothpaste. He snatched one before I even got up this morning and didn't seem to mind the toothpaste flavor, so it kind of backfired... I bumped my clock last night and didn't think much of it until I was awakened at 5:30 this morning to something slightly resembling a fire alarm. I guess I deserved it...

I put two bowls of cereal in the freezer last night and put them at the table this morning and put colored water in their cups. Ethan kept saying "why is this so hard?" as he tried to pull his spoon up, Joshua's came completely out of the bowl and he had this perplexed look on his face as he held it up in the air.

For dinner I made "cupcakes" which were really meatloaf with mashed potatoes. I have to get in all the tricks I can before they're old enough to play them on me...

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