Easter!

We had such a nice Easter this year. It was a little cold, but sunny and beautiful. The boys were finally both old enough to understand what was going on, so they had lots of fun Easter morning. We always hide their baskets, so first they had to find them. Once they found them, they went on a hunt for all their eggs and goodies. Austin would find a piece of candy and just sit down and start eating instead of finding more eggs. So Ethan would run and find eggs and throw them in Austin's basket for him.
The boys looked so cute in their new clothes for church. Ethan's beautiful linen suit already has grass stains on the knees, typical boy. We ate a delicious dinner that night at the Winn's.



Ethan got a big golf club and balls (so that Adam can have a new golfing partner a few years down the line) and some squirt guns (which we've already gone outside and used, despite the cold weather. Notice how Ethan is wearing Halloween pj's and Austin's wearing Christmas pj's? Not very Eastery, but those were what they picked out the night before...

Austin got a wagon that he's been pulling all around the house ever since.

Winn Easter Egg Hunt

Adam's parents planned an Easter Egg hunt for their grandkids Saturday. Since the weather was cold and rainy, we had to have the festivities inside. First we ate Papa Murphy's Pizza (Ethan's fave). Then we headed to the basement to see what the Easter Bunny had left. The boys got tons of candy, some money, some toys, and new spring outfits. Next we dyed Easter eggs. Austin didn't get a nap, so he was grumpy and wanted nothing to do with dying Easter eggs. Ethan and Nick had a grand time dying them and covering them in stickers. Thanks for all the fun, Grandma and Grandpa Winn!

Ethan getting ready for the hunt





Trying to get the boys to pose for a picture together...


Whenever I try to get the boys to hug or pose for a picture together, it usually ends with them pulling eachother to the floor and wrestling. Boys will be boys.


Austin finding an egg


Cousin Nick dying eggs


Ethan dying eggs

Fire Station and McDonalds

This week, Austin and Ethan got to go on a tour of the fire station with a group of kids from church. They first watched a video inside the fire station, then one of the firemen talked about fire saftey. Then we got to go outside and see all their fire trucks. Ethan sat inside one of them, but Austin was too scared. Then the firemen gave each child a sucker and their own fire hat.




After we finished at the firestation, we went with some friends to McDonalds for lunch to celebrate Ethan's friend Cohen's 4th birthday.

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to our annual neighborhood Easter egg hunt this past Saturday. It's been freezing and snowy here for the past week or so, but we got really lucky and had sun and (kind of) warm weather that day. There were tons of kids there this year, but the boys still got a lot of candy. Austin found a sucker on the ground right when the hunt started, so he picked it up, opened it, put his basket down and just enjoyed the sucker instead of looking for more candy. So I had to look around and pick up a few pieces for him. Ethan had so much fun and asks me every day how many more days until the real Easter so he can find more candy. Unfortunately for him, most Easter candy either has peanuts/nuts in it or is cross-contaminated for peanuts/nuts, so Adam and I got to eat all his nutty candy. I bought him some candy from the store that I knew was safe so he still has tons of candy.

Disney on Ice

Adam has been in Las Vegas for the Mountain West Conference basketball tournament this weekend, so my mom and I took Ethan and Austin to see Disney on Ice yesterday. I was hesitant to bring Austin since he's so young, but he actually ended up enjoying it much more than Ethan did. Austin sat perfectly still in Grandma's lap and watched the whole thing. He clapped, snapped his fingers, and danced throughout the whole thing. Ethan enjoyed it, but he has a pretty short attention span for stuff like that. He kept telling me he wanted to go down and walk on the ice, and everytime the crocodile that was trying to eat Captain Hook came on the ice, Ethan would tell me what he would do if the crocodile came up into the stands and attacked him ("I would hit him! I would grab him and throw him!"). Overall it was a lot of fun; nothing like paying $10 for cotton candy



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Playing in the snow and hoping for spring...

The boys got a sled for Christmas, but sadly, we haven't had a chance to use it since Christmas. We got lots of snow for about a month after Christmas, but during that month there was always someone sick in our house, so we didn't venture out into the frigid snow. Once we finally got better, we didn't have any more snow storms. All that was left was icey, hard snow, so we didn't play in that either. Yesterday afternoon it started snowing, and Ethan begged and begged to go outside and play. But since it was so windy that the snow was blowing sideways, I told him we'd have to wait. So this morning it was bright and sunny, and even though there was only an inch of snow, we went outside and played in it. Austin was really excited to play outside, until he realized he had to wear snow pants, mittens, hat, boots, sweatshirt, and a huge jacket. He screamed and cried until I just took off all the clothes and let him stand at our back door and watch. Ethan had me pull him around on the sled all around the backyard. Wow, what a workout. Finally, just when we were ready to come inside, Austin ventured out the back door with no shoes or socks on. I told him he could only come out if he put boots and his coat on. So with about half as many clothes as he should've been wearing, he came out and played for a few minutes. Until he discovered that it's not too fun to play in the snow without mittens, so we headed inside for lunch. The snow was fun, but we're ready for spring!!

Cool Shades

At the beginning of the week, I really felt like we were on our way to spring. The weather was in the high 50's and low 60's. I was wrong though, because it snowed a little last night. Luckily, while it was still warm, we got to play outside a little. Austin found a pair of his sunglasses from last summer (that he refused to wear) and put them on and would not take them off. He pushed his huge dump truck up and down our street with his sunglasses on even though it was very cloudy. And Ethan pulled out his old tricyle and did some off-roading in the empty lot next door to our house.

Austin's home photo shoot

I just had to post these adorable pictures I took today of little Austin. My mother-in-law needed a recent photo of Austin to send to Adam's brother, Landon, who is serving a church mission in the Philippines. I decided to take a few, because I haven't gotten a chance to use my new lens very much. So here's a few of the many I took. Some of them aren't perfectly in focus, but they were too cute to not include.