4.15.2012
Grandma Lorie has been busy, busy, and after making Audrey's baptism dress, she made Hallie this cute little Spring dress! She loves it, and told everyone at church that her Grandma made it for her. It was darling!
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Monday, April 23, 2012
Little Girls Sleepover
4.8.2012
All the grandkids in school had Spring Break starting the day after Easter, so they all got to take turns sleeping over at Grandma and Grandpa's house. The little girls got to sleep over Easter night, and I think Hallie may have been more excited about that then Easter itself.
Luckily, they all slept pretty good I'm told. Though it was kind of weird to wake up to a quiet/empty house, but it was nice to have a morning to myself too.
The next day these girls played and played, and did all sorts of projects. Here they are painting.
What fun they had! Thank you Grandma & Grandpa!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Easter 2012
4.8.2012
Hallie has definitely figured this holiday thing out, and what is coming next and so on. So it makes each holiday a little more exciting. Easter though she was counting down too, from before St. Patrick's Day, so she was thrilled when the day came! She had it down, "First Patrick's Day, then Grandpa's Birthday, then Easter, then my baby." (I think it's funny that she always says "my baby")
Her Easter basket. Hallie is seriously in love with Robin Hood right now. Kind of random, but it's been fun. But the Easter Bunny had to do some searching to find him, I guess Robin Hood isn't in high demand right now.
But look how happy this little girl was. It made all the searching worth it.
She also still loves Ariel, I think it's a red head thing. :)
An Easter breakfast of "colorful cereal," what a happy camper we had!
We don't have church til one o'clock, so it was nice to have some time to get ready and not be so rushed on Easter.
So we took some pictures in Hallie's Easter dress even though she was being pretty silly.
Though because we have one o'clock church we hustled home and up to my parents to be with my family for our big Easter gathering.
Here is everyone receiving their instructions for the Easter Egg Hunt.
Lined up by age, and who got to start first.
And off they went.
Everyone gathered around after making sure everyone had one of each color, so that they could get their prize to go with it.
I wish we had a picture of this little girl's face about 2 seconds earlier, when she realized it was money she was ecstatic! She is saving it to go to Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake.
Picking Prizes
One of the prizes everyone got was a new book! Hallie got the new Fancy Nancy book, and needed to read it right then!
Miss Whitney
Emi & Alisa both read the story with us. (I'm not quite 36 weeks here, and kind of feel huge)
Audrey reading her new book
And Hallie was enthralled with this leaf for quite a while.
We had a great Easter, and had a lot of fun. We hope yours was great too!
12 More Days...
4.2.2012
Our second Little Miss on 3D Ultrasound.
(I can't decide how I feel about the 3D)
(I can't decide how I feel about the 3D)
As of April 2nd, they figured she was 6 lbs 14 oz, had a head full of hair, and is looking just like her big sister, and was trying to suck on her hand/fingers/thumb like her sister. We may just have a mini Hallie! We will have to wait and see I guess. Because of her size they have me scheduled for an induction on May 2nd...only 12 more days!
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Macey's Easter Hunt
4.6.2012
A couple of days before Easter, my mom called and said that Macey's Grocery Store was having a big Easter Hunt until 3 that afternoon. So even though it was pretty close to Hallie's naptime, we headed over, and we were glad we did!
They met you at the door with a BINGO sheet with 9 different animals to find with either a prize, or something to do at each animal.
But first, everyone needed their bunny ears and noses! Hallie really was excited I promise. :)
At each animal you had to make the animal sound to get to do the activity or get an egg with at treat. This was probably Hallie's favorite stop...decorating cookies!
And of course she chose pink frosting!
It reallly was a fun little thing to go do. Plus, we must have hit people's lunch time because it wasn't even that crazy, which is always an extra bonus!
April General Conference
3.31.2012
Last Fall we really liked how well Hallie did with General Conference by using her Conference basket. This time I even let her go with me to the store to pick out a few things. Her favorites that she looked forward to were her hula hoop, and new butterfly wings. But we love that even though she may not get a lot out of listening to conference, it kept her engaged and looking for the apostles.
I made these lacing cards with foam and church pictures, that she loved! I may need to make a few more. (Thank you Pinterest!)
Our Old Park
3.30.2012
When we asked what park Hallie wanted to go play at, she responded "just our old one." So off we went to play at our "old park." It's the park we used to go to all the time at our old apartment as it was just around the corner. At the time it was a little bit to big of a park for our Hallie Girl, but it was just right this time around. Even though she was still a little anxious about climbing, and such, (yes she gets that from me) she had a great time.
As long as she wasn't rushed she did great. Though as soon as someone came up behind her to climb up, she'd get a little nervous.
Thumbs up! This is her latest thing and it cracks me up everytime.
I know it's blurry, but look at that little face! :)
Thumbs up again!
Hallie made a little friend while she was there, who was a little bit more adventurous than her. But it was great. Hallie tried some things that she wouldn't have otherwise. Like sliding/hanging onto the pole.
It was fun to go back to "our old park."
Walk to the Duck Pond
3.25.2012
Since moving we are very close to the Provo Parkway Trail, so from time to time we walk down the trail to feed the ducks and play at one of the many parks.
Hallie has discovered how much she LOVES the wagon even more now!
60!
On March 22nd my dady turned 60! A few months before I had seen this fun idea on Pinterest to get 60 cards together for a gift. I thought that would be a super fun gift, especially because he did not want a party. So after some debating we got to work on it. It was fun to think of all the people through the years who would want to be involved. We kept trying to keep it a secret but my dad kept coming in at the most inopportune moments, and so he knew something was coming. But it was still a fun thing to do, and made it far more exciting to go get the mail and see who had responded by sending a card.
3.17.2012
On St. Patrick's Day Hallie and I finally sat down to do our cards. Hallie drew a picture, and wrote a note to Grandpa (her first ever, to anyone!), and put stickers on it. Then I asked her what she loved about Grandpa, and wrote those down and glued them to the back of her card. She came up with some fun, and some really sweet things.
If you zoom in you can read what she said. I think my favorite is, "I love to give Granpa loves. Grandma and Grandpa REALLY love me." She was just so cute about it, and it is oh so true!
The inside that she wrote all by herself!
3.24.2012
The original plan was to wait until the whole family was together to give them to him, but since he already knew, and some people had asked him about it or called or visited on his birthday, we gave up on it being a surprise. Oh well.
So I got the ones I had all stacked and tied together and ready to go.
And the little girls gave them to him on the Saturday after his birthday while they were there to play.
I think at this point there were 64 cards, letters and emails...and I'd say around 10 more came after that.
Then after that the girls played in the sand, while we all sat at the fire ring and talked.
Looking at who all had sent cards.
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