Because Of Him

Happy Easter!
I am so thankful for this Easter Season.
I am especially thankful to my Savior, Jesus Christ.

Because of Him I can live again.
Because of Him death has no sting, the grave no victory.
Because of Him, I can start again, and again, and again.
Because of Him I have second chances and new beginnings.

Andrew's 1st Birthday

Our sweet little Andrew is ONE!!

I can hardly believe a whole year has gone by.

I love this little boy so much!  

He is so FUN!!

We had a sock monkey birthday party for him.

We started with a little lunch.

Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches

Bananas

Banana pudding and cupcakes

Monkey Bread

Andrew being a "monkey" and climbing on the table during lunch.

And did you see his cute sweatshirt?

I knew I wanted to do a sock monkey theme before Andrew was born,
and my sister, Heather, bought him this and gave it to him at the hospital.

Then we made little sock monkey puppets.

(My darling friend Lindsay was in town and stopped by with her mom and son Jack).

And had a puppet show in the puppet theater.

We opened gifts!

And Andrew had his cake!

He got pretty messy so we took his sweatshirt on...and added the tie for fun!

We ended the party by watching this little slideshow I made.

Happy Birthday Andrew!!  

We love you!!           

Happy Easter!

On Saturday we found out that our neighbors got some new cute baby chicks.

When we went over to see them, we also saw that they had three cute bunnies.

How could I pass up baby chicks and a bunny the week of Easter?

I just HAD to do a mini photo shoot with my kids!

It was a quick session because it was cold and windy and Andrew kept squishing the animals, 

but I do think they came out pretty cute!

Happy Easter!!

Alphabet Dates--D Date

Darin planned our "D" date.

We went to Liberty park and ate a DELICIOUS DINNER (a homemade picnic) 

and fed the DUCKS.

Then we went on a walk to DISCOVER new DESTINATIONS.

While we were at the park a guy let us hold his hedgehog.  

I have never seen one in real life, so it was extra fun to hold one!

On the DRIVE home we watched the sun DESCEND.  

It really was the most beautiful sunset I have ever seen.

Alphabet Dates—Letter C

I had big plans for our “C” date. 

We drove to our CABIN, but when we got there the road was CLOSED, so we had to CANCEL the date and COME back home.  Although, on our ride in the CAR we did see some CATTLE.

The next day, we played CROQUET and looked at Heavenly Father’s CREATIONS.
For lunch we had CHILI, CORNBREAD, and salad with CABBAGE, CARROTS, CELERY, CUCUMBER, and CHUNKY bleu CHEESE dressing.