Little Peeper

Reilyn thinks she has to take showers now. When she does, Kedric loves to spy on her, and she just splashes him with water! Here's a few shots I captured the other day...

a white Easter?

Yes! We woke up on Easter morning with a couple inches of snow on the ground!! It's been snowing all week, and still snowing today! Reilyn told me that the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause are confused! We have gotten more snow this week, than we did all winter! Crazy!! Here's some pictures of our Easter Day... and Kedric's first haircut with the clippers!

The candy trail from their bedrooms...Finding the hidden eggs...

Yay! Kedric found his basket in his high chair!
Reilyn excited that she got a Hannah Montana CD to dance to!
Wearing their springtime Easter outfits in the SNOW!

My little model...

I love Easter and how it helps us reflect more fully on the Atonement and Resurrection. We were a little frustrated that it snowed when it was such nice weather in February, but the whiteness and purity of the snow made me think of how we are able to be perfected in Christ. For my lesson in Young Women's we talked about how dark the Friday of the Crucifixion was, and then how bright the Sunday of the Resurrection was and how we all have "Dark Fridays" but with the Resurrection, we can look forward to that "Bright Sunday."

Easter Eggs!

London!

When my mom was here, we were able to make a quick trip to London. We took the kids and had our backpacks and everything with us everywhere we went, but I'm glad we went. We had fun seeing all the sights and how HUGE London is. I really liked it, and would love to go back. There's so much to do and see. It was really cool to see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. There were several tourists and a group of Japanese girls standing by us. I think they thought that my kids were a tourist attraction (they took more pictures of them, than they did of the British Soldiers!) My mom and I had fun trying to talk like the British, and Reilyn soon joined the fun! We saw many different types of people, just like in any big city. The business men were very well put together, and the people there were very nice. The architecture was awesome! There were some really cool buildings and so fun to see the old with the modern right next to each other. Kedric learned to say "cool" when we saw the big Tower Bridge and that's all he would say over and over again. We've been watching Peter Pan the past couple of days, and Reilyn thinks it's pretty cool that she's seen Big Ben and the London Bridge (the Tower Bridge) that she sees on Peter Pan. Here's a slide show of some of the pictures we took there. Enjoy!
London Slideshow

Samuel the Lamanite

James came up with a really fun Family Home Evening on Monday. We learned about Samuel the Lamanite. After reading about him, we acted it out! Kedric was Samuel the Lamanite and Reilyn was the Nephites throwing rocks (marshmallows). We had plexy glass protecting Samuel (Kedric). It was funny!

Kedric thought it was pretty funny that Reilyn couldn't hit him with the marshmallows!

Eating the marshmallows...
We had S'mores for our treat-- this is the fam watching them in the oven.

Good job James! You're awesome! We had a great family night!!

Paris...

My parents and my little sister, Jadeyn, came to Europe for a couple of weeks. We played really hard and traveled lots! We picked them up from the airport and drove straight to Paris! Paris was a beautiful city with a lot to see. We LOVED the Eifel Tower, and I'm sure we could've stayed at the Louvre for the entire day-- actually I think we did. The people were all beautiful, and well put together. The pastries were unforgetable, and the macaroons were awesome! We went to several fun places in Germany the following week. My Dad served his mission over here, so it was fun to go to some of the places he served in. We actually found the very apartment where he lived in Regensburg. I'm so glad they came! We loved having them here. Reilyn loves my mom to pieces and she would wake up with a huge smile on her face everyday they were here. Kedric, however was a little hesitant and when he would wake up and see my mom, he'd look at her like, "why are you still here?" It was funny, but I think he finally warmed up to her the day she was leaving!

I've put some of the Paris pictures on a slideshow, and I'll get the London pictures up soon.
www.designedphotography.com/ParisSlideshow