Easter Egg Hunt #2...

I am FINALLY getting around to going through all of our Easter pictures. I am so far behind in going through our personal pictures; and add these to all of the family photo shoots I've been doing lately for other families, I am all pictured out by the time I get to our own! :) I'm not complaining though, I've loved taking pictures and having the opportunity to get out at shoot other families and do fun things.

Anyhoo...the week of Easter, my friends and I decided to have a little Easter egg hunt of our own at a little park nearby. It was so much fun. The weather was perfect and we had a great turn out. There were a ton of kids. Tucker had a blast running around the park finding the eggs. It is so much fun to watch him get into things like this now.

Here are all the kids (well, most of them)...

Tucker sometimes just randomly falls to the ground and rolls-on purpose! He loves it. Crazy kid! :)

Tucker and Carly finding eggs. (You can see that they were very well hidden eggs!) :)

Tucker and Carter...best buddies. These two couldn't be any cuter.

Tucker and his other bff..Carly. Yes, she is like a foot taller than him-I swear she grows like 5 inches every time we see her!!!

The three of them eating their goods...

Tucker really wanted Carly to go down the slide with him....Carly, wasn't so into it. :)

And I love this face...so Carly! :)

All in all, the egg hunt was a success...we will definitely be doing this next year. :) I'm all about an excuse to get my hands on more candy! :)

What the spring time means to us...

Beautiful freshly picked flowers...straight from our backyard!

Freshly painted toe-nails...excited to have a reason to show off the toes again! :)

Freshly cut summer 'do! (It only took me three hours to cut his hair amidst all of the crying and jerking of his head.)

And these two busting out the harmonicas to sing some summer time blues...

We are SO ready for the spring!

Utah for springbreak part II

{this is broken into alot of little posts...keep on scrolling down and reading for more...}

I have finally gone through the rest of my pictures from Utah. The rest of our week was just as great as the first. It seems like it was two totally separate trips. :) My dad flew in on Thursday and that night we stayed with Jason & Kayla in Provo. They have the cutest little one bedroom apartment. Its perfect for them now, but add 3 extra people and it gets a little crammed. We were grateful that they let us crash on their aero-bed that filled up their entire living room! :) We had a great time though. I'm all about cozy quarters. :)

Running laps in their little apartment.

Aunt Kayla gave Tucker these little decks of cards, and he loves them. We play with them seriously, every day. Still. He has no idea how to play the games, but he holds up the cards or he matches them up. He loves them! Thanks Aunt Kayla!

No trip with my dad would be complete without a stop to a Harley shop. Yeah. :) We stopped and ate lunch. The food was delicious! I was pretty shocked. I, at first, laughed at the idea of eating lunch at the Harley shop. But I would most definitely go again! It was just the beginning of the grand adventures with Papa, Uncle Jason and Aunt Kayla...

Tucker loves motorcycles.

We loved getting to spend time with them in Utah. Too bad they will be moving even farther away this summer...bummer.... We love you guys! Thanks for the great time!

Children's museums...

We had a great day on Friday just hanging out with Jason, Kayla & my dad. First up, the planetarium. Tucker sure is one lucky little guy...

Then it was the children's museum...it was pretty cool. It was almost TOO much to handle in such a short amount of time. We could have spent all day there, but we only had an hour or so. It was a lot of fun though!

Anything that involves throwing balls, Tucker loves!

And anything that involves water...

or driving....

or grocery shopping...

or helicopters...

or building things...

So, actually, the place was perfect! :)

I love these next ones!

Making a silly face...

flexing our muscles...

and just loving on the little man...

Who knew that I could have saved $10 and entertained him with a drinking fountain the whole time? He had just as much fun there and anywhere! :)

It was just a good time hanging out with Aunt Kayla & Uncle Jason for the day since we don't get to do that often. We are so lucky that we have so many people to love on our Tucker man!

Reasons #451-455 for going to Utah...

Many of you know of my fondness of a good meal. There is nothing better in my book! One of the many reasons I was so excited to go to Utah was for the plethora of Brazilian chohasquerrias. Spokane doesn't even have one. Salt Lake City alone boasts 3, I believe! Anyway, it wouldn't be a Utah trip without a visit to one. This one was especially fun because Ben surprised us there! He had called me a few days before and told me he didn't think he could make it to Utah. That he had already called Southwest to see if he could transfer the ticket to credit blah blah blah. I was bummed. I was looking forward to a few days with Ben and especially a driving partner for the ride home! :) While we were at the children's museum my dad had told us he was going to take a look at a trailer he had found on craigslist. Which wasn't totally out there, because he had been looking for trailers for his Harley's, and it is just a my dad type of thing to do. We were to meet up with him at Tucanos at Gateway at around 5 ish. We walk in and my sister asks me to go to the bathroom with her, and who do I bump into on my way back there, but my sneaky handsome husband! :) Tucker and I were both excited to see him! :)

Tucker eating some sushi!

A few other reasons that we were SO looking forward to this trip was to see President & Sister Norton. Our mission president and his wife. You know, he had a HUGE hand in bringing Ben and I together and we both love them both very much! Our mission reunion was Friday night, and despite getting lost on the way there and missing most of the actual reunion, it was SO great to see these two!!! It was fun for them to meet Tucker for the first time. (they, of course, loved him!) :) I only wish that we would have had more time to catch up! These two are awesome!

Probert & Rassmussen were there, too. It was just like the old days in Chicago! :) (with a few extra chitlin's) Probert hasn't changed a lick, so it was fun picking up just where we left off in Chicago--giving her a hard time! :) Love ya Probert! :)

I was shocked that there weren't more people there. There were more English elders whom I didn't know, but the Spanish missionaries really disappointed! :) We were glad to see the ones we did though! And just seeing Pres & Sister Norton was well worth the drive up to Centerville. (wherever that is!) :)

Sarurday Conference...

One of the other reasons that we decided to head to Utah for Spring Break was for conference. My dad had gotten tickets to the Saturday Morning Session. We found out the day before that kids under the age of 8 aren't allowed in during conference. bummer. I volunteered to stay back with Tucker thinking that we could just hang out at temple square and then meet up afterwards and do the temple square thing. It was pouring rain that day. Tucker and I were stuck at the hotel because we thought that Ben had accidentally taken the car keys with him to conference. Tucker wanted to see the temple soooooo bad that finally I told him we could walk there. I figured if he wanted to go that bad, I would do all that I could to take him to the temple. Our hotel was only a few blocks from temple square. Yeah....bad idea. It was so dang cold! Tucker fell and scrapped up his knee before we were even out of the hotel parking lot. I turned right around and used that as a good excuse to stay warm and dry during conference. 15 minutes later I got a text from Ben telling me that the keys were in his pants pocket in his bag. I changed Tucker, hopped in the car and drove us to the Joseph Smith Memorial building. We had a great morning exploring the Joseph Smith Memorial building and trying to get as much out of conference as we could. After the morning session, it was so wet and rainy, we decided to just meet up back at the hotel and grab some lunch before heading back down to Provo. Tucker and I had quite the adventurous morning, to say the least. It was fun just hanging out with my little man! :)

SLC has these flags at some of the intersections. I think my dad enjoyed having the power to stop on-coming traffic while we passed! :) Gotta love my dad! :)

The rest of the day was spent in Provo just hanging out at the hotel. We were all due for a good nap after the busy few days we had had. The boys had to gear up for Priesthood session. :)

Who is this handsome man waiting to go to Priesthood session??? :)

This is what we did while the boys were away...

headed straight down to the pool! :)

The boys did meet up with us when they were done and we had a nice and relaxing time hanging out in the pool and hot tub all night!

Of course, when Ben is around, there is always some sort of 'feats of strength' contest! :) This time, a race.

Tucker just chillin' by the pool.

These two boys have so much fun together:

At the end of the night, we had to say good-bye. It wasn't so easy! I can't believe how fast a week flew by!