What the snow?

Alright, Utah. Is it April or is it Christmas?

This is what we woke up to this morning:

We did an Easter Egg hunt the morning after Easter with the other kids in our 4-plex. Better late than never, right?

Anyone who knows Tyler knows he loves putting things in baskets, and also balls. Well, he kept calling the eggs "balls," and loved collecting them in his basket. Of course, he also loved throwing them. Good thing we just dice them up anyways for sandwiches!

Tyler and his best friend, Adam Warren. When we go running in the morning, and they see each other, they just point and yell. Adam actually calls Tyler "Ty-Ty."

Blowing bubbles.

Tyler did not feel the need for a group shot. We had a fabulous Easter, even if it did snow a few days after. Luckily, Tyler and I get to escape it for a few days in California this weekend!

Living Scriptures

Last year, my parents gave us their collection of VHS Living Scriptures movies. We have a little TV/VCR combo, so one day I popped a movie in for Tyler to keep him busy while I did dishes, and he LOVED it! It is now a daily thing for him to watch one. Because the tape pops out when it is finished playing and rewinding, Tyler can just run up to the TV and push it in to start it up. He climbs up in our big papasan chair and he's ready to rock.

His favorites are the Joseph Smith Story and Nephi and the Brass Plates. I never would have thought he would like it so much. It's sort of random, but it's good way to start him loving the scripture stories while he's young, huh?

You can see Laman and Lemuel on the screen here. It's sort of funny to hear these movies on in the background because I can remember watching them when I was little, and you just remember all the funny parts of the movie that have no scriptural basis (like Lemuel's whiny voice, or Zoram's commentary on "leaving the city").

Unfortunately, Nephi wasn't enough to keep Tyler up after church today.

Yard Sale Junkie Update: I hit up a rockin' yard sale yesterday, and got three really cute dresses (I wore one for Easter today), a cute shirt, a pair of American Eagle jeans, Moulin Rouge and You've Got Mail, all for $10. I can't stop!

Hurricane (hûr-ri-kin)

We spent conference weekend at my beautiful sister Robin's home in Hurricane. Not only did it snow for most of the trip down, Tyler got sick ten minutes before we arrived. In spite of all this, we had a great weekend! My whole family except Kim was there, even Lauren, who made a surprise appearance the next morning with her nicely growing belly! Kristen and Robin share my obsession with yard-saling, so the three of us plus Daddy were out bright and early Saturday morning to all two of Hurricane's yard sales. I slacked on picture taking duty, but we managed to snag a few:Me and Lauren, who was doing a Little Mermaid pose to show off her tummy.

We had a hard time getting a good picture. Sorry, Lauren!

We went to the movies to see Knowing, and it seriously took all three of us (me, Lauren and Kristen) to decide on a candy.

Robin made these amazing cinnamon rolls on Sunday morning. I was especially impressed because I have never made cinnamon rolls that turned out well. So once we got home, I decided to give Robin's recipe a try. After an entire afternoon spent baking and several frantic phone calls to Hurricane, I am pleased to present these beauties:

We smothered these with obscene amounts of cream cheese frosting, and they were heavenly. Thanks, Robin!

Come Back to Texas

With all this snow and yucky weather and lots of our friends graduating and moving away, this video pretty much sums up what I've been feeling lately. Texas-haters, avert your eyes!




(It's about 0:39 that the video makes its point if you're getting bored during the first part.)

I was amused and homesick at the same time. I hope the whole state would sign a "Come Back" petition for me, although I don't think I would need it!