Easter Eggs with Grandma...

Grandma came into town to visit and, among other things, we dyed some Easter eggs.

This little boy was, of course, VERY into all the action and wanted to dye all the eggs himself.

i love this little girl!

One of her favorite things to do is to play with her big brother. She is such a fun playful little girl!

The babies weren't sure what to think of the whole egg dyeing thing at first. :)

Here is Taylor dipping her animal cracker in the dye! :) And no, we did not let her eat it after that! :)

Carter wasn't so sure about it at first, either.

He decided he better check the dye with his fingers. Ya know, just to make sure. :)

Yup, looks good! :)

And grandma and her grandbabies with their finished works of art! :) Not too shabby for 2 babies and a pre-schooler! :)

We always love it when grandma comes to town and this visit was no different!

A little bit of grandma is good for the soul!

Thanks for everything, Grandma, we love you!

conference...

My favorite weekends of the year happen in April & October; General Conference! We went up to my dads house to watch it and eat delicious food. We were fed both physically and spiritually! :) It was perfect!

Taylor had chocolate and was happy for the rest of the day!

We had fun putting Taylors bottle in Jon's mouth while he was sleeping! he he, we are so sneaky!

And Taylor getting comfy with Kathryn! :) Love this girl!

A day in the life...

With the weather so crappy lately, here's a little glimpse as to what we've been up to:

These next three photos were by Tucker.

Here is what our basement looks like most of the time. Disaster zone!

family portraits by Tucker...

And we wonder where our kids get their craziness from!

You obviously don't want to let a Pyper get a hold of your expensive technical device. You saw what I did to our net book. Now here is Taylor eating her taco soup off of a cell phone. (an old cell phone that is now a toy phone, but still...)

Here's Tuckers crazy face...

And speaking of my cute boy, let me just brag a minute or two. This little boy is so smart! He came to me the other day and told me that he had written this sentence:

"The rocket blasted off"

He is totally reading three and four letter words and writing words all the time! I am one proud mama!

We've been going to Mobius a lot. I loved this picture of Taylor and her whale spout! :)

This little one loves to play in the drawers in the kitchen while she is at my feet while I'm trying to cook ALL THE TIME!

Farm animal bowling with Tuckers backugan. It's always really exciting around here!

Taylor loves to play in Tuckers room. This is a pretty typical face for this little drama queen!

Making cookies has been a big hit these days. Yes Tucker is indeed licking THREE utensils covered in cookie batter.

This little girl was just happy to have some chocolate chips. :)

If you notice, she has quite a few bruises on her head and face, its because this little girl is finally standing on her own and is falling and bumping her head all the time! I'm hoping she starts walking soon!

Anyway, the moral of our story here is this:

please, please, PLEASE hurry and get here summer, we need to get out of this house!

The Agurkis family comes to town...

The Agurkis family came into town a few weekends ago and, as usual, we had a fantastic time together. We are so lucky to have such great friends. Taylor was happy to have a play mate more her age. The got into some glitter Christmas tree ball decorations I had; and had a ball (ha!) playing with them.

{oh by the way, the next day Taylor was pooping glitter! Like a true princess should!} :)

The reason they came was for Doug's birthday. It was no Dirty thirty, but thirty-two aint so bad either. :) We made him a delicious sea food dinner and gave him a tub of jelly beans (he loves them!) and he seemed content! :)

We went to play at river front park one day and had to take a ride on the gondola.

Girls in one car...

Boys in the other...

The beautiful (green?) falls... :)

This is a pretty common face for Taylor right now. She is the funniest little girl I have ever met! She has so much personality at this young age. Makes me nervous for what's to come!

Next up on the docket, was to feed the ducks.

No, Jacob you can't go into the water!

No, Taylor you can't eat the bread, it's for the ducks!

{They hadn't quite grasped the concept of feeding ducks yet!} :)

{Beautiful Spokane!}

Had to get a family picture on the garbage goat! :) HA!

This is why we love our Agurkis family!

Tucker takes after his dad in so many ways. He saw this rock wall as we were passing under the underpass and had to climb it. He got most of the way up before Ben went up to help him. Such boys!

And of course, the big red wagon! :) Taylors first ride down, I believe!

And Jacob's as well! I love that cute little smile! :)

No trip downtown is complete without riding the carousel. Well, I don't ride it. I can't ride it! Just looking at the thing go around and around makes me queasy. But I'm just he photographer anyway! :)

Finally the big dinner was here. The feast was grand. The company was delightful and the satisfaction was complete! :) (yes, we had to bring in some of our patio chairs from the back porch- our families are growing!) :)

And Tuckers favorite moment of the weekend. The ice-cream cake. OK, it was mine too! :) Thanks for having a birthday Doug, so I could have an excuse to consume the deliciousness that is the DQ ice-cream cake! :)

OH, and congrats on becoming a MASTER! We are so proud of you. It's about freakin' time! :) And thanks for being Ben's best friend! We love you!

March...

I am convinced that I have the cutest kids on the planet. I may (or may not) be a little biased. :) How can Taylor turn EVERYTHING she does into something cute?

Eating popcorn for example...

She loves the stuff and we love her! She now has two words in her vocabulary: Dada & Uh-Oh. I love hearing her say both of them. She always grabs my phone and puts it to her ear and says Dada dada dada over and over again! :) And whenever she trows or drops something she says Uh-oh. I think I could listen to her say Uh-oh forever, it is so cute! :)

Take TC Two-face for example.

Who is TC Two-face you ask? He is the newest member of our family. On Sunday after church after getting dressed into our lounge clothes for the rest of the day(and after the daily discussion of weather or not it's warm enough for Tucker to wear a tank top or not) Tucker decided he was a rock star and needed a rock star name. It was like the heavens opened and I looked down upon the back of the box of Resses Puff cereal in front of me and it said, I kid you not: 'How to figure out your DJ name' (or rock star, in our case) And it said: 'First take the name of your favorite super hero villain; Then put the first letter of your middle name in front of it.' I asked Tucker who is favorite villain was and he first said Joker, so we tried out C Joker and it just didn't have the right ring to it. So I suggested we added his middle AND first name initials. TC Joker. Getting better. Then he decided he wanted a different villain. I told him all the villains I could think of and he chose Two-face. So, TC Two-face was born and all day Sunday graced us with his presence. :)

And here he is in all his glory:

Mean (eh...Ugly) bowling faces, yeah...we got 'em! Who knew Tucker was such a rock star bowler, he got 63 points. I think that is about what I get when I bowl! :)

St. Patricks day came and you can be sure we were NOT getting pinched! Green pancakes and green milk for breakfast. (although you can't tell in this picture!)

Here is a better picture of our green food! :)

And a fabulous lunch with friends to celebrate the impending arrival of baby girl Mortensen! :) My good friend is due to have her last baby on April 7th! :) I love that we are all wearing green! :)

Oh, and if your computer screen looks like this, it looks like you're in the market for a new laptop! I dropped our net book and completely shattered the screen! I am SO mad at myself! I always try and balance too many things in my hand at once. This time the net book got it! In related news though, I am a better mother for not always being tempted by this thing sitting right at my kitchen table. :) We actually went on a walk today and took advantage of this gorgeous weather we have been having!

Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful weather outside like we are! :) yipeee for spring!

da Lakers...

We thought that we were the only people in Spokane who liked the Lakers. I say we, but I guess I should say Ben. The rest of us are Lakers fans just by default! :) But some of our good friends are actually from the LA area and love the Lakers just as much as Ben does! So the Lakers games have just been good excuses for us to get together for yummy food!

I couldn't resist when I saw this tee-shirt at Old Navy! Now Ben has his very own Lakers girl!

Looks like Taylor inherited my love of dogs! :)