Adventures in Babysitting

I guess technically it's not babysitting when it is your own kid but Auntie Merra was babysitting Russell and we thought we would tag along with them to the park. What an adventure it was!

Huntley got over a lot of fears and actually played on the toys. She was so proud of herself she would stop and clap every few minutes.
Russell he has no fear. Not only does he dare go down the slide by himself, he even goes up it too.

Huntley still needs help going down slides but when you have Auntie Merra to hold you they aren't so scary.
Since Russell is so brave he thought it would also be a good idea to build some muscle.

A poor kitty decided to come play with us as well. It didn't last through very much of Huntley and Russell's love. Luckily it could also run faster than they could.

After all that fun it was time to walk home.

It was a fun day at the park!

Easter x's 4

We celebrated Easter on four separate occasions at our house this year. To start off the festivities we went to the Nelson's for their neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt. Huntley was in to those eggs. She took off like a champ and picked up 5 eggs, double from the 2 I put in her basket last year which she promptly removed. Russell on the other hand, he wasn't really into the whole egg finding thing.

He decided he'd much rather play on a Squirrell then pick up pieces of plastic.

Huntley followed him over to the toys but spent the whole time staring at everything. Yep she takes after her momma and is a wimpy girl but there is nothing wrong with being cautious.

Chris on the other hand jumped right on the toys and could have stayed at the park all night.

Afterwards we went back to Russell's house and discovered that there is stuff inside the eggs and we better hurry up and eat it all as quick as we can. Kristi made us a wonderful dinner that was interrupted by the down side of a sugar rush and if we would have taken a picture it would have been similar to Russell looking for eggs. Overall it was a blast and we are glad they invited us!

Friday the Easter Bunny sent us a package all the way from California. It was full of all sorts of goodies and things to love.

Saturday we woke up and the Easter Bunny had came again. He hid eggs all over our house that Huntley never bothered to find, maybe they weren't hidden hard enough? She was distracted by the legos and firetruck in her basket.

That afternoon we went to Grandma and Grandpa's for another egg hunt and to roast hot dogs. The below picture is pretty crappy of the fam but I love Joshy's face and Huntley's little bum in the background.

Huntley again found 5 eggs and then quit so she could play in the dirt.

Last but not least was the actual Easter day. We spent the day relaxing and listening to Conference and of course eating our favorite dinner of the year. Conference is my favorite Sunday, yes I love the spiritual uplift, but also because it's the only Sunday my dad doesn't have meetings and spends the day cooking. Conference dinner is bigger and better than Thanksgiving at our house and this year it definitley didn't disappoint, thanks Dad!

Fears

Chris and I share one of the same fears, amusement parks. We hate them, they scare us. Creepy guys trying to get you to play rigged games, any kind of food you can imagine deep fried, and last but not least ROLLERCOASTERS!!! They scare the crap out of us. Well Chris says they don't scare him but just make him sick. Me on the other hand, I'm just a wimp. It was a sad day when I no longer could ride the green dragon at Lagoon and was expected to ride "fun" rides.

When Huntley was born our families both felt bad for her and started making plans of who and when she would be taken to have some thrills in her life. Unfortunately for all of them and lucky for us, she has inherited our fears. We hiked the "G" last week and it was a traumatic experience for her. The trail is a little on the steep side and being perched in a backpack must exaggerate the effect. She cried the COMPLETE 30 minutes it took to hike up and down. There will definitley be no Lagoon for us.

Just to make sure it really was the steepness and not an aversion to hiking (which would be a tragedy to us!) we spent Saturday roaming around Mahogany looking for sheds. She was as happy as could be and enjoyed pointing out the deer that say "woof" and elk that say "moo." Maybe we should practice our animal sounds some more.

Big Boots To Fill

Life has been pretty busy around our house lately. Chris has left us for 19 other wannabe firefighters and an engine. We've been managing as well as two little girls can on their own. I take care of bringing in the money and Huntley is now taking over sending it out. She's very confident in her abilites to fill those shoes. Five weeks down 10 more to go!

Lips

When Huntley was born, the first thing the doctor proclaimed was "Wow, look at those lips!" She definitely took after Chris in that matter and had a big beautiful mouth. Well she has kept that mouth but last night decided to enhance it. I walked in from work and started to play with her only to literally watch her lips start growing.

We decided to take her to the instacare and by the time we got there she looked like she'd stole Angelina Jolie's lips, they were huge! I was freaking out inside and it didn't help that the receptionist saw us and immediately got a nurse to check her out. Luckily all is well and she just had an allergic reaction. As soon as she had allergy medication they started to deflate just as fast as they grew. By the time we got home and I was able to take pictures they were half the size they had been but still pretty big. As for the culprit, the only thing different she's been eating was Jelly Bellies but what kind of a weird allergy would that be.

Traditions

As Huntley is getting older, Chris and I thought is would be a good idea to start some family traditions of our own around the holidays. Chris really wanted to go sledding and make that a traditions we would do every year. On Christmas Eve we bundled Huntley up and headed out to a little sledding hill excited to start our very own tradition.

We may be postponing this tradition until Huntley is a little older.

No Pictures

Yesterday was our ward breakfast with Santa, along with the Davis family Christmas party. Of course Santa was at both events and I've been looking forward to putting Huntley through the joys of sitting on Santa's lap and taking pictures of her in tears. Well I don't have pictures of this event that every parent participates in each year. Why?

Chicken Pox!!!

Huntley has picked the most exciting week of the year to be quarantined to the house. No pictures on Santa's lap, no pictures of rolling around in the balls at the Davis family Christmas party, no pictures experiencing the joy of the holidays with Russell. The only pictures we have are of a poor red spotted little girl but since they are immodest I can't even share them on the blog. I guess we still have plenty of years to come to take lots of pictures.