Friday, April 13, 2012

 The day after my brother's wedding was Easter. Normally we would have taken a low key/ relaxed day. But since it was Easter it turned into another busy day, a bit low key for Easter, but....
  We got up and got ready for church, luckily it wasn't til 10:30. Then we headed over to my parent's house for Easter festivities, which consisted of roasting hot dogs at the fire pit (with lots of bugs), and then an Easter egg hunt for the kids, which was a bunch of empty eggs, which they didn't seem to care one bit that there wasn't anything in them. And then my nephews birthdays were the week before so we celebrated with leftover wedding cake (they got their own cupcakes that their mom made) and presents.

Before church I made sure to get some pics of Darci and Jarret in their church clothes, we got Darci a dress, more a "Spring dress" rather than an "Easter dress", she had already worn it multiple times, and I didn't get anything for Jarret, his outfit was a Christmas present! ;)


 Easter pictures on our bedroom floor ;)



The kids patiently waiting for their Easter egg hunt

Racing to get that egg

Her legs couldn't keep up and she fell


She stepped in the water trying to get that one

Happy kids and their Easter baskets

 


Yay! Easter!


Singing Happy Birthday to Easton and Wyatt

We had a fun day! And after that busy weekend, Darci was SOO tired, she fell asleep on the way home from Grandma and Grandpa's house, before we were even half way, and we only live 2 miles away ;)

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Cory and Cheryl

 Last Saturday, April 7th, My baby brother got married. They were sealed in the Portland Oregon Temple for Time and All Eternity. It was such a great day, Also the only nice day (not raining) all week! They are so happy, and we are all so excited to have Cheryl join our family!

Introducing Mr and Mrs Bird!





Soo Pretty! Love her dress! 


It was in the morning and a bit cold, Darci was a little clingy and just wanted to be held the whole time. Other than that, both Kids were amazing the whole day, hardly a fuss out of either one! :)



Kids running around at the reception. They pretty much did this the whole time.

 ....Even during the Bride and Groom's first dance!



Daddy dancing with his little girl!
 


The Bride with the cutest little boy!


Congrats Cory and Cheryl!

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Grandma and Grandpa Larsen Visit

 Apparently I didn't take as many pictures of the week as I thought that I did. Either that, or they got deleted. The rest of the week we pretty much just stayed around the house. Merrill and Eric went out and did some things the couple days that Merrill had off. And Saturday while Don was here, the boys went to the air museum and to Priesthood session of General Conference. And the Girls, including my mom and future sisters-in-law went out to dinner.
 I introduced Susan to Pinterest and showed her the many awesome recipes I have collected. I made a few of them for dinner during the week, and we picked out 3 desserts and made them, 2 of which we took to my families house for a big get together to watch conference, they were YUMMY!


Darci picked Uncle Eric to read her bedtime stories. She picked him over Mommy and Grandma. She had fun with her Uncle Eric.

 Eating the Marshmallow cream from the measuring cup
Of course it got everywhere


While they were here, Jarret learned to push himself up to sitting position. He doesn't crawl yet, and wasn't to sturdy sitting up on his own, but he learned quickly how to sit up on his own.
This is him getting into sitting position


Grandma with her Grandkids

Grandma and Grandpa Larsen Day 2

 The 2nd day, which was raining all day, we went to Pietro's Pizza. It's a big Pizza place with an arcade, mini golf and Laser Tag. We were going to play mini golf, but we decided not to, plus apparently it was black light mini golf or something like that, I don't think the kids would have liked it that much. Instead we played a few arcade games, which Darci loves! She got enough tickets to get a flashlight key chain and 2 suckers!


After pizza and arcade games, we went to the Carousel at the park (one of Darci's favorite things).


 Grandma and Jarret in the wagon on the Carousel



She LOVES riding the horses



 Darci and Mommy



Silly Uncle Eric


So tired after a long fun day







Monday, April 9, 2012

Grandma and Grandpa Larsen - Day 1

The last week in March, Merrill's parents and brother came to visit for spring break. Don had to work during the week, so Susan and Eric came Monday and Don came on Friday. Merrill had to work the first couple days that they were here. Luckily had I the time off. We didn't get to do too much, cause it rained the whole time :(
On Tuesday it looked like there was a few hours where it wasn't raining. I had some free passes to Enchanted Forest, so we went. It rained a tiny bit, but not bad. There wasn't many people there. Darci had a blast. It was a pretty fun day! Here are some pics:


Grandma Larsen with Jarret!


Coming out of the "rabbit hole"

Darci wasn't so sure about going in there, but we told her it was the way to the slide. ;)


Coming down the slide


Just chillin' in his stroller


The crooked house


Haha

The cutest kids ever!

The shoe slide


Darci and I racing Eric


Jarret and I racing Darci 


Darci had fun with her Uncle Eric


She loved this little train



We watched the water light show. Darci thought it was SOO cool! Jarret loved it to, He just starred at it the whole time. Such a fun day for them!