Happy Easter

We had a great Easter this year! Malea was at such a fun age this year with all the festivities.

We started out our week by making Easter cookies. Malea was a great helper :)

Doing a fun little Easter bunny craft

On the Saturday before Easter we had a little egg hunt with the neighbors in our complex, it was really fun! The weather was kind of stinky but that didn't stop us!

Malea's loot

Can't be Easter without dyeing eggs!

Malea & Isaac's Easter baskets this year

Isaac's 1st Easter!

Every year at this time I get so wrapped up in what I'm going to do for Easter baskets, what treats I'm going to make, and what we are having for Easter dinner, so this year I wanted to make sure that we focused on the real purpose of Easter, which is Christ's resurrection. I came across this cool thing that I want to make a tradition in our family, and I found it HERE. Each egg has a different scripture reference and item that represents that scripture inside, and it tells the story of Christ's death and resurrection.

On Easter Sunday we went to church for the last Sunday in our student ward. :( The Church decided to do away with student wards, so that included us. We are going to miss our ward but we're excited to start going to our local family ward and get to know new people.

After church we went to my Dad's for our first Easter dinner. Then after coming home for naps we went and did round two at my mom's. After dinner we did a little egg hunt in my mom's backyard with all the cousins. It was really fun!

My mom made these darling little rice krispy treat bunnies for everyone! You make rice krispy treats, and then dip them in white chocolate and coconut with green food coloring in it, and then you stick a peep marshmallow on the front. She is so creative :)

Happy Easter!

Viva Las Vegas

We decided to take a little family vacay to Vegas! It was so fun and the weather was great! The kids did so well on the drive, I was pleasantly surprised. :)

The view from behind me in the car....what a stinkin' cutie!

Malea did great, she pretty much just watched "Tangled" the whole way there! Thank heavens for portable DVD players!

Our hotel: Tahiti Village Resort & Spa

It was so nice, we loved it! It didn't have a casino (which was great) and it was really geared towards families. There were a lot of families there with kids on their spring breaks. We will definitely stay there again!

About 2 minutes after we got there and got the car unloaded, Malea had her swimming suit on and was ready to get to the pool!

I absolutely love this picture of Isaac! This kid is such a monkey...about 2 seconds after I took the picture he just about fell right off the chair on to his head on to the hard concrete! I grabbed his legs just in time!

The pool had a section with sand that went in to the water, Malea was in heaven! It was like a little mini beach. They had sand toys that you could make sand castles out of. It was so fun!

The first day we were there we went and visited a good friend of Keith's from high school. I wish I would have gotten pictures with them! It was so fun to catch up and meet their cute family.

The second day we went to see the Hoover Dam. What a cool sight to see!

What a smiley kid! He was such a good sport.

The Nevada/Arizona State Line

The third day I took the kids to a cool mall close to our hotel called Town Square. They had this really fun section for kids in the center of the mall that had big tree houses with slides, ropes, and ladders coming out of it. It also had a splash pad where water squirted up. It was so fun! I wish we had a mall like that in Utah!

That same day we spent a couple of hours on the strip. I didn't want to spend a whole lot of time on the strip just because of how yucky it is, but we did go to the M&M World, Coca Cola Factory, and we went to see the fountain show at the Bellagio.

Overall it was a great trip!
We had fun but we were ready to get home and sleep in our own beds :)

Malea Update

Random little fun things Malea is saying/doing:

She is in a challenging but fun stage....it reminds me of like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde kind of thing. One minute she is saying the cutest, most grown up things and she is just so sweet and pleasant, and one minute it she throws a fit and its a major power struggle. She is in the "I wanna do it" stage. She is really helpful, especially with Isaac.

The other day Malea was sitting on a balloon with it between her legs and she said, "I'm sitting on a baby penguin egg!"

Lately she loves taking pictures with our camera. They are so random and funny and off center, but she thinks its so fun! Thank goodness for digital cameras :)

Malea looking at our pansies starting to sprout. She loves anything to do with nature. We will be driving and she will say things like "look at that beautiful tree mommy!"

Malea has had a problem with night terrors/bad dreams for a few months now. The night terrors are especially bad right now. She wakes up almost every single night between 11pm and 1am screaming and crying. She is so out of it and doesn't really even know I'm there, I feel so helpless :( I hope she grows out of it soon.

The other day we had plans to have a play date with a friend, and as we were getting her ready for bed she said, "I just have one more sleep and I can play with my friend!"

Malea loves the movie "Tangled" and watches it almost everyday! She can sing the song that makes her hair glow ("Flower gleam and glow, let your power shine, make the clock reverse...."). She will be sitting there watching the movie and will sing along, word for word. She also loves the "I've got a dream" song :)

Malea in her Tangled shirt :)

Malea also makes up words....one of her favorite is "chumped"....(used in a sentence: I "chumped" it)....the definition is still kind of iffy (lol)

Another cute thing Malea says lately is she will suggest something and then say "that's a good idea?" hee hee

My little girl is growing up too fast :( She is going to start pre-school in the fall, she can't wait!