Happy Easter!

Here are some pictures from our Easter morning before church:

Me and my sweet baby T --he's getting so big!!! And can you see my beautiful pink tree out the window? I love it!

I made Grayson's and Thatcher's bow ties -- they were pretty cute, if I do say so myself!

Daddy and his boys (Gray is always wanting me to take pictures of Ellie -- ha!)

Aw I love my boys!

This was right after I made Gray wear his nice corduroy pants when he wanted to wear his "blue pants" -- aka his jeans. He's getting quite oppinionated abouteverything, wardrobe included, so he was really mad at me.  He had to have his new elephant (on his right), and Thatcher's new rhino (his left) to make him stop screaming/crying. (Thatcher is very nice to share his rhino with Gray). My mom got those for the boys for their Easter presents -- they're adorable!!!

We had Easter dinner at my parents' house on Sunday, and I didn't take any pictures. But it was delicious as always, and we had a lot of fun.

On Monday night, we went over to Steve's parents' house for dinner and Easter baskets -- so fun!

Gray with his basket

He found Thatcher's basket, too

Thatcher got this soft, fuzzy horse, which he very kindly shared with Grayson :)

Grayson got this super fun Thomas play set! He loves it, and played with it all night

"choo chooooo!"

Gram got Thatcher snuggles :) 

 Steve and I got some fun goodies in our baskets, too -- which again I didn't take pictures of.  Gray also got some new books that he loves, especiall a "5 Green and Speckled Frogs" book that he made Grandpa sing about 10 times for him -- and made Steve and me sing another 3 times at home.  We have a new favorite :)

Thank you to everyone that made our Easter so festive! We love you all!

Happy Easter!

How STINKIN' CUTE is my little guy?! :) Here he is in his cute Easter outfit!! Gray was in LOVE with these ducklings -- they were so cute! He didn't want to touch them, but he got WAY upset if you tried to put them away. He told everyone he saw about the "DUCKS! QUACK QUACK!" for DAYS after this!! :)











Awesome pictures by my friend Amy Call -- http://amycallphotography.blogspot.com

We had our own little Easter egg hunt/Easter baskets on Saturday. Here is Gray's stash:


I made him some little chick friends. Here's how they start out:

Then off comes the top:

And here they are all the way hatched!! :)


Here is Steve being all excited with his basket :) Hehe -- I threatened him that this would go on the blog -- I make good on my threats! Bwa ha ha ha haaaaa!


Steve's basket/my basket -- without Steve's fat head in the way ;)


Here is Gray when he found his basket after his nap.


He loved his little airplane and train! And his Pez dispenser Buzz Lightyear!


He wasn't too interested in finding eggs, but he found a few of em -- and loved the treats inside.


He was giving the egg a hug :)


Here are a few of the eggs we dyed for our family -- my "Mom" one bled, but the "Dad" and "Grayson" ones are very cute still


I didn't take pictures today, but I will document what we did. It was quite the fun-filled day!! We started out the day by going to my parents' house for breakfast (YUMMY french toast, deviled eggs, bacon, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries! Mmmmmmmm); then we watched/listened to conference and kept Grayson and Rowan entertained with their new Easter toys/treats; we kept Trent entertained by talking about Samoa cookies.
During the break, we went to Steve's Grandma's house for lunch (ham, seafood salad, veggies, fruit, dutch-oven chicken, and apple-Snickers salad), the annual Easter egg scavenger race (I SO kicked trash at it this year -- I came in like 3rd I think! I have done this race for 5 years, and I have ALWAYS come in dead last -- allow me to gloat a bit over my relative victory). Don't worry, Lincoln -- someday (like in 5 years), you too will come in 3rd.
The rest of the fam headed out for the egg roll (someone tell me who won!), while we loaded up to get Gray home in time to take a nap (he was fading fast -- it was 2 hrs past his nap-time). We got home, Gray took a nap, Steve and I listened to more conference.
When Gray woke up, we went to Steve's parents' house -- we ate, we played, we had lots of fun! :) Gray got spoiled AGAIN, and got some fun new toys. We now have amassed enough Easter candy to put a small country into a sugar coma. As I post this, I am even now eating a delicious mini KitKat. Yum yum yum! I love Easter!

Lest you think Easter is all about the candy for me, I will also point out that our FHE last Monday was all about the resurrection, and we will repeat the story again tomorrow (all about the repetition with the 2-yr-old). We also said special prayers together, and talked frequently of Christ throughout our Easter celebrations. We are infinitely grateful for Christ, and his atonement and resurrection!

Happy Easter, everyone!

Easter post #2

Here are som more pictures from Easter! :) Here are some more of his cutest outfit -- with the hat this time.








These ones are from the Oka family egg hunt! So fun!!
Grandma Jeanne helping Gray "find" the eggs.

He loved the big blue egg he found.

I don't know why he always thinks he needs to eat the eggs. Guess he thought the plastic ones might taste better than the dyed ones :)

Hunting :)

Bradley helped Grayson find the eggs -- mostly by bringing them right to him :) He was so helpful and cute!

Gray and his stash

I love the tongue -- always sticks out!! Hehe so cute!

Grandpa Scott pushing Gray in the swing.

Easter

Well, amid all the new-baby-Rowan excitement, I haven't posted pictures of our Easter activities yet! Here are some (ok, a LOT) of the cutest ones! What fun times with out little Gray!

The Easter Bunny came!!!! Here are our Easter baskets, hiding behind the festive "Spring" sign.

first egg-dye experience. I thought my face in this pic was hilarious, so I had to post it! Gray immediately had to smash the egg into the table! We had quite a few cracked eggs...

He also tried to eat them --

-- decided it didn't taste very good --

-- tried AGAIN --

-- and decided it REALLY didn't taste very good!

What a silly boy!

Here are our fun eggs!

The "Grayson" egg -- just for him! And yes, it got VERY smashed.

Here are some pics of the actual egg finding! He was so excited to find the "balls" and tried to hold all of them -- he didn't want to put any of them down!

Look at that concentration!!

His favorite was the red one my mom made! He held on to that one the whole morning!

Smashing the egg on the table after finding it :)

Declaring he found another "ball"!

After he found each egg, he'd say "BALL!!" and hold it over his head! So cute!

Found another one!

Sitting with his stash of eggs and trying to eat them.



Contemplating the beautiful blueness..

I think this pic is so fun with all the eggs everywhere -- he had to roll them and spin them across the floor, because you know, they're balls.

Then he found his easter books, so we had to sit down and read them for a while.

I love the look on his face here -- so surprised at something he sees in the book!

He loves his easter basket -- carried it around all day.

I had to make deviled eggs pretty quickly after the egg hunt -- because of all the cracked and smashed eggs! And I thought they turned out pretty :) so I had to take a picture!

My handsome stud doing his GQ pose.

I love little boys in sweater vests! Don't you?!

I tried to take the binki away for the photo shoot, and this is what I got. Straining and reaching so hard for the bink, all the while begging for his "bee-bee" -- so I had to give it back, of course! Therefore, all the pictures have the bink in his mouth. Little stinker.

But with a face like that, how could anyone be mad at him?! :)

My handsome boys!!
Aren't they so cute?!

Me and my little Gray! Such a cute little guy!




These are baby Gray eating the Easter cookie his Nana gave him -- he LOVED it!!

Well, I think that's enough for tonight. I have more easter pics, and I will post them later!!!