Happy Easter!

Today we had our Easter Egg hunt since we will be in France for Easter. Grace has been a garland making machine and let me help her make the egg garland above (we are already working on the 4th of July garland!).

Next to stocking stuffers, the Easter egg hunt and baskets are one of my favorite things about being a mom. I love finding places to hide the candy, like the Tiki mouth and all over the corners and shelves in the main part of the house.

Grace is on a Hello Kitty kick right now and there is SO much HK stuff out there, that I had to oblige since soon enough she is going to be too cool for HK.  Grace told me I did a good job this year - both on the baskets and hiding and the treats. Yay!

After going through the baskets, Jon was chomping at the bit to get started on the hunt. He had no competition this year since he was going for all the Reeses eggs, Grace was going for the Skittles, Ems and Sean didn't come and/because Collin had been throwing up all morning and was in no mood for anything. 

Collin got up to get one or two things . . .

And then flopped down again. I have never seen him so sick. He threw up the water he had drunk about 30 seconds after this picture. 

We are going to France and Finland for 2 weeks so I don't know if I'll have any time to blog between eating croissants and site seeing. If not, I'm sure I'll have a bunch of good stuff to post when we get back.
Au revoir!!

Looooooong Time No Post

Happy St Paddy's Day! I've decided I need to start blogging again, for the 2 people who still read this blog and for Bybees in Africa. Hopefully I'll be able to be more consistent. This is the St. Patricks Day garland that Grace made for our "boring" house. I love the pot of gold in the middle:

This weekend the kids didn't have school on Friday so we took a day trip up to Salt Lake. Grace had called her auntie Boochie to see if she could sleep over and she didn't have school either so she got to come with us. We started by eating at Moochies. Mmmmmmmmmm . . . . 

The girls loved making rhymes of Boochie (aka Cathay) eating at Moochies.

Collin was too cool for a lot of the pictures, but I caught him off guard in this one:

Next we went to the Natural History Museum of Utah - no Collin in this pic. I love the architecture of this building!

The roof had a great view of the city

Collin finally perked up (meaning his soda induced headache went away) and he enjoyed filling the valley up with Lake Bonneville with the girls. . . 

He would NOT be excited about pictures. But there is the faintest upturn of the mouth in this one:

But would not deign to acknowledge the girls and their sissy ways of being scared of walking across the glass.  

 Yesterday we went to my moms for the annual tradition of Pysanska eggs. Jon and his matching shirt and egg:

Collin working on his less traditional egg (can you feel the love in that look?):

And Grace with a broken heart from a broken "master piece". 

Yesterday's work: I'll let you see if you can pick out who did what:

Happy Easter!