General Conference

As always, General Conference was a treat! We are so privileged to receive prophetic counsel every 6 months. One talk stuck out to me, but I didn't know why because I didn't need it when I heard it. But less than a week later, some things came up and it was just the talk that I needed.

PE pulls out special toys for General Conference. They are toys he played with as a kid. The kids really enjoy this, and P1 has a good enough memory that when we told him we were going to listen to the prophets on TV, he asked if we were going to pull out the special toys.

I love P2's progression in the following pictures:

New Home

Life has been super busy over the past couple months, mostly due to the fact that we just bought our first home!!!

We are super excited about it! It is in a great neighborhood with lots of kids. And we have a park just a few houses down the street! The yard is great, with beautiful trees and flowers. We love the layout on the inside, because it's nice and open! And it's all one level, yay! And it came with a free lawn mower, which we discovered in our shed!

Buying a home has been quite the adventure. I have definitely seen the hand of the Lord in it. We felt impressed to start looking for a home 2+ years ago, but never found anything that worked. But we did discover that my credit information wasn't being reported to the credit bureaus. So we were able to get that fixed, and I believe that is why we felt like we needed to look for a house then.

A couple of months ago, a really cute house popped up that I just loved! (It's is actually also in the same neighborhood.) I felt strongly that we needed to go see it. Well, it wasn't the one for us, but that's where we met our mortgage lender. We had been shopping around for the best mortgage lender, and this guy ended up being the one we felt best about.

When our house popped up, it was when my husband and I were both sitting at the computer. I flipped through the pictures, and we both really loved it. We saw it the next day, and put an offer in that night. We were 1 of 4 offers before it had been listed for 24 hours. Our offer was chosen, on the condition that we move up some of the deadlines. So as soon as we were under contract, we had to hurry and get the home inspection and appraisal done. So we have been busy, busy!

There really has been some divine timing in all of this. Another example of this is that you are not supposed to change jobs while buying a house, or your loan might get denied. Well, the day after we closed on the home, PE was contacted by someone that wanted to offer him a job. A job that he was offered 6 months ago, and we have regretted not taking. So PE will start a new job at the end of this month! Lot's of exciting new things for our family!

Discovery Gateway

Our pass to Discovery Gateway expired at the end of this month. So we made sure to go one last time! The kids had a lot of fun!

This was new in the ball area, and the kids loved it!

Happy Easter!

The week leading up to Easter, we watched bible videos everyday. The first one was the Triumphal Entry on Palm Sunday. Both the kids really like watching the Jesus videos.

I am so grateful for my Savior, Jesus Christ. He is the source of peace, joy, and hope. His atoning sacrifice makes our heavy burdens bearable. It brings healing and comfort when everything else falls short. His resurrection brings the ultimate hope. That we will all live again, in perfected bodies! No more pain or suffering!

 We had a fun neighborhood Easter Egg hunt on Saturday morning. P1 was excited to find the Darth Vader eggs that we had contributed.

It was a little chilly, so P2 got to snuggle with dad in his jacket.

 

The kids got an Easter basket. It had Book of Mormon coloring books, the Bible Videos, Meet the Mormons video, pictures of Christ, and dad made sure to provide a few toys. They each got a little pokemon. P1 also got a little Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, and P2 got a My Little Pony.

Dressed and ready for church!

After church, we went to Grandma's house and the kids played "Hungry Hippos".

Happy Easter!

St. Patrick's Day and Blue Day

For St. Patrick's day, we had fun eating green food. P1 really liked having his milk turn green. P2 enjoyed the green eggs. For dinner we had green noodles and green pesto sauce.

We had pulled out all of P1's green clothes and asked him which one he wanted to wear. He ran to the closet and pulled out his blue Thomas shirt. I told him he had to wear green so that no one would pinch him. He just said that he would run really fast so no one would pinch him. We finally convinced him to wear a green shirt.

However, the next day, P1 informed me that is was Blue Day (his favorite color) and that we had to wear blue clothes and eat blue food. I colored their milk and yogurt blue, but that's as far as the blue food went. We did all wear blue that day though.

The next day, P1 wanted to have red milk. I finally had to put a stop to it, or we would be having different colored milk every day!

March Pictures

P1 loves to color pictures of Pokemon. We finally got a binder to put all the pictures in, and he likes to show it to people and tell them about all the different pokemon.

P2 likes to sleep with blankets and stuffed animals. This is her taking a nap at Grandma's house.

P2 cuddling with her aunt, and P1 showing off his giraffe. Almost every day, he picks out a new toy and demands that we go to Grandma's house so that he can show her the toy.

When we walk around the block, the kids love to stop at this little tree.

One day I asked P1 to read P2 a book because she was driving me crazy. He was sweet and read her "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

Playing in boxes.

 Ready for summer in her new swimsuit!

And one day, P1 fell asleep in his chair while eating lunch. His elbow was the only thing keeping him upright. He was out cold and didn't walk up when his sister ran into his chair with a bike! Unfortunately, he did walk up when I tried to move him to his bed.

Visit to Dad's Office

We don't visit Dad's office very much because of the distance. But P2 had never been before, so we decided to visit him! The kids had fun coloring on his white board.

There is a cafeteria in the building, and we ate lunch there. P1 picked out Raisin Bran, and P2 picked out Apple Jacks. P1 ignored everyone that tried to talk to him. And P2 successfully drenched herself in milk. She had been using the straw just fine for 20 minutes, when she suddenly decided to lift it up and drink like mom and dad. Unfortunately, she still had the straw in her mouth, so all the milk just dumped out onto her face. It was pretty hilarious!