Easter Morning

The Easter Bunny made it to our house, and we had a Hoppy Easter.

Somebody knew exactly which pile was his!  He discovered the goods 1st and made a bee line for it.

Porter went searching for eggs and never came back.  This was where we found him.  Pretty excited, too, can't you tell?

Shhh!  Don't tell, Tyson helped the Easter Bunny pick out his gift.

Easter Package

Porter and Tyson got an Easter package from Grandma and Papa yesterday.  Porter was so excited to open it, I had him pounding down my bedroom door while I hurried and wrapped up the gifts inside.  "Are you done yet? Are you done yet?"  he kept asking.  There are a couple videos, mainly for Grandma and Papa's viewing pleasure!  The first is them opening their package.  The second video is Porter playing with his new goodies and singing a song he made up.  Thanks Grandma and Papa!  Between the phone call and the package, all he wants to do now is go to your house.  :)  Miss you and love you guys!  Thanks again!

Tyson's favorite part

What they will do when I am not looking.

Tyson will eat markers

Porter will make a hot breakfast successfully all by himself.

Don't know if I should look away more often or not?

Porter will not let weather effect his day.  (I did know he was going outside, I just didn't know what he had planned.)

watching my boys play tag

is pretty much the cutest thing ever.  or maybe it's their giggles?  cutest. thing. ever.

snow day

strollers and bikes.  we played out in the snow today and the boys loved it.

Thanks, Mom & Dad

We recently put ourselves on a tight budget, and are not spending any $$ on fun/frivolous things.  One thing I enjoy buying is clothes for my kids, especially a cute Easter/Christmas outfit.  Lucky for me, my mom brought these darling Christmas outfits for my boys when Tyson was born, so I still got to enjoy the luxury of dressing my boys up for church today in new Christmas clothes, and I have to say, they looked so cute.  Especially Porter, he looked like such a stud.  I didn't even change him out of his clothes until bedtime because I was having to much fun admiring him.  Thanks so much mom for the Christmas outfits.  I'm so glad I didn't miss out on that tradition!  I had to take some pictures, because I thought you would have fun seeing the kids in them.  I have even been tempted to take them down to Sears Portrait and buy a $4.99 holiday portrait package, but I think that falls under fun/frivolous. Haha.  My pictures will just have to do.

Oh yeah, another Christmas activity-- last Monday for FHE we talked about Christmas and why we celebrate.  Then we talked about how Christmas isn't just about getting presents but about giving to others and making them happy.  Our plan was to do something nice and spread some holiday cheer the next week for Family Night.  But since we are going to Temple Square Monday, we did our FHE Sunday night.  We made homemade bread and jam, and bundled up in our coats and walked them to people in our ward.  We brought it to the girl who babysits for us because I thought it would be fun to do someone Porter knew; we also went to an elderly couple who were tickled to death to have our darling little boy delivering treats and saying Merry Christmas to them.  It was fun, my kids loved it too.

Porter insisted they hold hands.

Ahhh

Just a couple more weeks, and Porter will start Sunbeams.

My little stud muffin, doesn't he look like he's 10 or something? He looked so old to me today.

Let the fun times begin!

Now that Tyson can sit up on his own, Porter loves having a playmate!  Everyday he brings me a big blanket and asks me to lay it out.  After doing so, he gathers a bunch of toys and lays them on the blanket.  Then he says, "Tyson, want to play with me?"  and then he turns to me "Mom, he wants to play."  They sit together on their blanket and play with toys.  When Tyson was born my mom got Porter a book about being a big brother, and it talks about how the baby couldn't play with him but he kept getting bigger and bigger, he began to sit, and then crawl, and at the end of the book he is able to finally play with the baby.  Anyway, every time they play like this, Porter tells me "Mom, Tyson is getting bigger and bigger."  It is pretty cute.  (Side note, there has already been a meltdown because Tyson knocked over his barn.)

Watching Cartoons Together

Nothing quite as sweet as seeing your two little boys snuggled up together watching cartoons.  They sat like this for a good 20 minutes, both as content as could be.  By the way, Tyson is getting big, can you tell?