We’ve had a fun Easter and a great week leading up to it. Hayden was able to participate in three different Easter egg hunts that he really enjoyed. We played Easter games at preschool and sang Easter songs at music class. It was a lot of fun. We talked about the silly reasons for Easter and the “special” reasons that he learned about in primary. One night we went for a walk together and he just seemed so grown up as he started to ask me about the marks in Jesus’ hands.

Today we woke up and discovered that the Easter bunny had hidden baskets for Hayden and Danica so Hayden searched them out. He also discovered a HUGE stuffed bunny!! The Easter Bunny put it with Hayden’s Easter basket so he could find them together. (I actually won the bunny in a drawing at the Children’s Museum, they called yesterday to announce I had won so I ran down there to pick it up so I could surprise Hayden with it.) Needless to say he loves it and has been wrestling with, hugging it and trying to give it piggy-back rides. It’s hilarious… but now I have to find somewhere to keep it!
We had Stake Conference today out in Kirtland and then had some friends over for Easter dinner. Tom is really anti-traditions so I have adopted some of the traditions that I grew up with and made the same meal that mom used to make. It all turned out pretty well but nothing close to as good as when my mom makes it. Oh well, I have several more years to learn it.

Last night we watched King Kong, Hayden loved it!!! He has been obsessed with King Kong since last fall but we didn’t want to take him to the theater because it’s so long and I didn’t know how violent it would be. Anyway, he loves to pretend he is King Kong!

Danica rolled over the other day. She was playing on her stomach while I did the laundry and I turned away for a minute and when I looked back she was on her back!! She hasn’t done it since but hopefully soon! She is getting pretty good at holding her toys and is giggling more often!

Tomorrow we are getting family pictures taken. We spent Saturday buying matching white polo shirts; hopefully it will turn out cute. Barb, what size should we send you? So I am starting to feel like Tom because I have gotten an idea of something that I may want to buy and now I can’t get it off my mind. I am thinking of getting a double jogger. Adina, I know I talked to about this a little bit but remind me again what kind you have what you think are the pros and cons. Brooke, what kind do you have? What should I look for? I figure I want to get a nice one or else it’s not worth it but I can’t decide if I would really run with it or if it would just be so heavy and hard to handle I won’t be motivated to get out there with it… I’d love any advice you have. Also, what are the details for camping over Memorial Day. I’m so excited but we actually on Memorial Day so I hope that doesn’t mess things up to badly.

We’d don’t have any big plans this week. The weather should be nice all week so we will hopefully get out a lot. Sounds like you’re all having a great time! I’ll post more later on! We're going to put our Easter pictures and video on the imac sight tomorrow show watch for it!

Tracey