Graduation Dinner

The night before Graduation, Friday, we had an awesome dinner with the 4 graduates, Josh, Andy, Rhett & Daren, and all of the family that was there to support them. It was about 50 people. We had hawaiian haystacks, watched a reminiscing video of pics from the past 3 years, and then took pics, which i have to post later.

Some of our fam that was there

It's hard to tell, but I made little signs for the cupcakes that said Class of 2011, and Congrats Grads. I think they turned out pretty cute

Some of the other decos there. I was in charge of the dinner and so I organized most of it and was a lot of work, but so worth it to get together with all of our friends and family and get to celebrate the boys

Packing Up

It has been a long couple of weeks preparing for the big move to Utah. Packing is one of my least favorite things to do, but good thing I had this wonderful little packing "helper" to get me through it.

She loved getting in and out, and climbing on top of all the boxes. She also thought that I was putting everything IN the box, just for her pleasure of taking it OUT.

Mother's Day

I woke up to breakfast in bed, lucky me! It was strawberry-cheesecake pancakes and delicious bacon

Went to church, spoke on Charity, it went pretty good, then that afternoon we headed off to Manito, my favorite park, for one last look at the beautiful flowers before we move and Lyla got to check out the ducks which she loved

I am so lucky to be a mother of this sweet little girl. I love her so much and can't imagine life without her. She is getting a stronger personality every day and does the cutest and sometimes most sassy little things.

Mischief

I love it when Lyla gets really quiet and I go to check on her and she's doing this......

Instead of this....

Easter

We had a super busy Easter weekend, but was a lot of fun too!

Dyed eggs on Friday evening

Saturday morning was the ward party, and had an easter egg hunt at the end.

Then a nap squeezed in and then another hunt at the park with just our friends

Lyla loved getting the eggs, and once she saw stuff was inside, she only wanted them opened asap of course

Easter Sunday we gave out our baskets. Lyla got Play-Doh and some crayons since she is really loving to draw right now. Josh got me ladderball which i'm excited to try out this summer!

Easter Dinner

The yummy food, with our dyed eggs from Friday in a "bouquet" as a decoration

Made my first carrot cake, turned out pretty good, and was fun to use my new decorating skills to make the carrots on top

Our place cards for dinner, inspired by Jenn Hoff! :)

Photo shoot with Lyla's easter dress. I just couldn't resist, she looked too cute