Easter Egg-stravaganza

One of my girlfriends put together an Easter Egg hunt with just our friends so we didn't have to deal with all the mass crowds. We met at a nearby school Saturday morning and the men took the kids to the other side of the school while the mom's hid the eggs all over the playground.  P.S. Thank you Sara, it was fun!

 The kids impatiently waiting for the OK to go

 And they're off!

 It didn't take long for them to find all the eggs we had hidden

 Gavin with his loot

 We went straight from that Easter Egg hunt to one that my niece and some other young women had put together. We were in such a hurry because we were running late that Gavin accidentally shut his thumb in the car door! He missed most of the Easter egg hunt, but at least he was OK.

 My nieces and nephews

Madi, Alex, Treysen, Maycee, Kessler, Taiya, Isaiah, Drake, Luke and Gavin

 Maycee's first Easter

 We went from the church to my Grandma's, then to a baby shower and finally to my mom's were she had an Easter egg hunt for the grandkids. These are my nieces and nephews (for now*) on my side.

Taylor, Faith, Gavin and Madisen

*Karen & Chet are expecting  baby #2  in October and Paul & Erin 

are having TWINS in August, one boy and one girl!

 This was Gavin's 3rd (and thankfully last) Easter egg hunt for the day

 He's a pro at finding eggs now

 Madisen getting some eggs of her own

 This isn't a very good picture of Taylor, but he was moving so fast it was hard to catch him

 Faith with all her eggs

 Gavin found his Easter basket from G&G in the back of G-pa's truck

 Madisen discovering what's inside the eggs....CANDY!!!

 After the hunt. G & G sure spoil them!

 Easter Dinner

Gavin mostly ate olives and rolls

 Taylor, Gavin & Faith in the Easter outfits G & G bought them

 The eggs

 Madisen coloring eggs

If you look real close you can see her sibling-to-be under the pink shirt in the background : )

 Gavin colored ALL of his eggs blue

 The little kids lost interest after a while and then the BIG kids finished the rest. We ended up coloring eggs longer than they did! I love having an excuse to color eggs and do other kid stuff!

 Karen with one of her FABULOUS eggs!

 My BEAUTIFUL sister!

 One of my eggs that turned out pretty weird

 Chet and Sponge Bob Egg Pants

 Mom heard that if you tap both ends of a boiled egg and then blow on one end the egg comes out so Cody and Chet decided to try it out. Chet got it to work, but Cody...not so much!

 Gavin playing with a lady bug he found

 My little munchkin Easter morning. He was so spoiled by G & G that the "Easter Bunny" didn't have to bring him much

 I had been planning on having an Easter egg hunt for Gavin before I found out about the other 3 we went to so Sunday before church I hid a bunch of eggs in the back yard and Batman went and found them all.

 Gavin aka Batman

Gavin and Bud

I was telling Gavin the real reason we celebrate Easter and I was trying to teach him how to say resurrection, but he kept saying "I can't say that word", then he heard it at church during sacrament meeting and repeated it and then wouldn't stop saying it. Little stinker!

The Rock

 

No, I am not talking about Dwayne Johnson aka "The Rock". It's an actual rock.

A few years ago I needed to add some weight to my sisters Christmas present to throw her off. I drew a smiley face on it just for fun too. Well that was the beginning of "The Rock". It makes it's way back and forth a few times a year with most of it's traveling happening Oct-Dec because all 4 of our birthdays are in those months and Christmas in December. Every time it gets passed it also gets something new written on it. I'm not sure what is going to happen when we run out of writing room, I guess paint it and start over, but now we have an picture of the "original".  I would share some of what it says, but most of them are inside jokes and wouldn't make sense to anyone else but us, so I'll skip it.

Cress Creek Nature Trail

This was our first real hike ever with the three of us.

 Gavin & I

  My Boys

 Taking a break in the rain! Even though it was raining Gavin said "I want to stay here forever!"

 The Snake River

 If you look really close there is a red barn and a red brick house in the middle of the picture. 

That's were I spent my entire childhood. We had a HUGE backyard!!!

And last but not least............

(Warning: You are about to get mooned!)

 At least he didn't pee on the trail, right?

 Gavin kept saying "I like hyping. It's so much fun" I tired to 

catch it on camera, but then of course he said it the right way.

Bud's First Outing

 We found out that not only does Bud fetch...

 ...but he can swim too!

 Gavin had so much fun

Time for a shower! I love the smell of wet dog! j/k

Zumba Fever!!

For months I have kept hearing Zumba this, Zumba that, Zumba, Zumba Zumbaaaahhhhhhhhhhh! For the live of me I couldn't figure out what the fuss was all about. Well last week my sister-in-law Cassie took me with her, and guess what...I LOVED IT!! Guess what else? I went to the next class. And guess what else? I'm going again! I can totally see what the fuss is all about. The music is LOUD, the atmosphere is FUN and the best part is it is the fasted hour of your life and you feel so good afterward, everywhere! Much better than running or riding your bike in my opinion.
This is one of the dances/workouts (with some extra weird people in between) that we do.  Everyone should totally come!!!

Gavin's New Best Friend

Gavin has been wanting a pet (mostly a BLACK dog) for quite awhile now. Cody took him to the pet store to pick out a black fish and he had absolutely no interest at all he wanted to look at the BLACK puppies. They looked at them and then came home.

I came home from mutual Tuesday night and the boys (Cody and Gavin) weren't home so I called to see where they were. Out of the corner of my eye I saw something in the sliding glass doors while I was on the phone with Cody.
Teri: Umm, there's a big black dog in our back yard
Cody: (chuckles) Did he come with a dog house?
Teri: (looking into the back yard) ....yes!?!?
Cody: Keep a smile on your face I'll be home in a minute

P.S. He's a GREAT dog and Gavin loves him, he spends almost all day outside with him. He plays fetch, sits, begs, lays down, doesn't jump on anyone and I haven't heard him bark and it's almost been a week. He will also stay in the back of the truck until you put the tailgate down, so I can't complain, but wait until Cody sees what I bring home without asking!!!!! (insert evil laugh)

Gavin's Big Boy Room

Before

After

Before

After

Before

After

 

 We paint something every spring while we listen to conference, this year it was Gavin's bedroom (and the bathroom that I don't have pictures of yet). 

When I originally painted Gavin's room I made it match his crib bedding that he has now been out of for over 2 years so a new paint job has been a long time coming! Now instead of it looking like a baby's room, it actually looks like a Big Boy room and it's a color that he can grown into instead of out of.  The after pictures look darker because I took them at night, but you get the idea.