Easter

So, I am a little slow, I guess, in getting our Easter pictures up. A few reasons for the delay would include: ear infections for both kids, ear, nose and throat leakage for both parents, and talk preparations and delivery for Easter Sunday at our church. Never fear, we didn't let sickness prevent us from enjoying the holiday! We colored our eggs on Saturday, had a small hunt in our house and Sunday after church, we went to Grandpa and Grandma Petrick's house for dinner and another egg hunt! Good times!

Here are the little monkeys before church in their Easter outfits.




Katelee participated by falling to the ground and observing the chaos....Grant was a great hunter and has shown a great strength in follow through as he has eaten nearly every morsel of candy he received!

Lucky Lady!

Our little lady turned one yesterday! I thought there would be no better tribute to our little Irish gal than a limerick and a photo shoot! Enjoy!

Birthday Limerick

Our baby turned one on St. Patty's day,
We sang, ate some cake and said hooray.
She's made it a year;
With a brother she fears
She's certainly lucky, oh wouldn't you say?

No pinching this cute girl!
She loved her new baby and stroller, but didn't get to play with it the entire time, because Grant also decided he likes to run it around...ah the joys of sharing!
The lucky shamrock cake before (above) and after (below!)

Here Comes the Sun...

Well, we had a couple of beautiful days last week, and you can bet we were outside to enjoy the sunshine. Here is Katelee taking in the rays!


Those days were short lived...it is spring and we have the fun roller coaster weather here in Utah. So, it was back to chilly in no time. We work very hard at keeping ourselves (mostly Mr Grant) busy, to avoid disaster that accompanies his boredom. This week our adventure was to tour Sweet's Candy Factory. It was a lot of fun! I told Grant we were going to the candy factory and he said, "No mom, you go to the candy factory. I go to Candyland!" (Side note: until last week Grant held the undefeated title for Candyland champion...however, I made it through the gumdrop forest, chocolate swamp and all other obstacles before he did for the first time! He still has a better record.) Anyway, here are some picts after the tour:
Notice the fetching caps we wore as to not contaminate the precious goods! Keeping the hairnet on Katelee was not a fun task, luckily she fell asleep in the stroller. We saw them make taffy, orange sticks and cinnamon bears...and we sampled of course, too!

The kids give the candy factory THUMBS UP! Tanner, Grant's friend may just be admiring Grant's side beret style cap, and Anna wanted to give thumbs up...just to herself! We anxiously await more sunny days, but are still having fun in the meantime!