just keep swimming!

We decided to have some fun at the pool and bring G with us. Its was quite an adventure! Tanman and bro in law had a blast on the diving board, and baby W loved shoving his face in the water.

Everyone was having so much fun, so we thought G might like playing too! I'll let the pictures do the talking.

First off, He was too small for the swimmer diaper so we had to use a little bit of duct tape to secure those bad boys on!

And so it begins:

Chillin'...

...getting uneasy...

...not so happy...

...freaking out...

...calming down...

...starting to relax...

...out.

california dreamin'

We celebrated the day of memories at my parent's house celebrating mine and little sis's birthdays! It was much fun.

-Sidenote- G is an amazing traveler. He slept almost the entire 6 hour drive, still slept 12 hours that night and kept up with his normal schedule...amazing-

Anyway. Our fam grew up with birthday breakfasts. It is by far one of my favorite memories as a child. Sometime we would wake up for breakfast at 5:30 or 6 before we all left for church before school. Growing up with all girls, we were so excited to open up our birthday outfit at breakfast and wear it to school. We still keep up the tradition, but not as religiously. This year we had a joint breakfast for the two of us. It was outrageous. If there ever was a breakfast of champions, this is obviously it:

(Strawberries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Whipped Cream, Bacon, Vegan Bacon, Syrup, Waffles, Crepes, M&M's, Peanut Butter M&M's, Reese's minis, Orange Juice... and Powdered Sugar)

Can you believe that we girls grew up on this food and still turned out MOSTLY normal?! Later on, we took G to the beach and soaked up the California sun. It was quite nice to not be dripping sweat after being outside for more than 5 minutes! Can you tell he loved it?!

look out tucson... here we come!

Anyone know that quote? I will give a solid "high-five" to whoever can name that movie! (Smell, you better know this) Any who, we finally journeyed south to spend the day with Tanman's friend that he hadn't seen for almost three years!

We decided to spend the sticky hot day at a museum and as we pulled into the parking lot, we realized that we left G's stroller two hours north. So we improvised:

suprisingly it was quite sturdy

The museum was quite facsinating! We got to see all the wildlife of Arizona like lions and bears and we even hung out with bats in the caves.

We decided to keep the party going on our way back home so we went to dinner and bowling with these fine people.

and I beat them all in the first game! I guess 8th grade bowling class really payed off! The babies obviously had a blast:

welcome to the Gun show

A few weeks ago when my family was over at our house, we were trying to think of some good nicknames for G man. My sister started calling him Guns and we all thought it was super cute until she was talking to baby W and said "Come on honey. Let's go play with Guns!". We all laughed pretty hard and from that moment on baby G was stuck with a new nickname.

Well, this weekend I turned my child into a pun:

......and took baby G to go shooting with us. We have collected quite a number of guns over the years and have loved practicing with them, but as soon as we found out there was a little guy in my belly we had to call it quits for a while. On Saturday, the weather was perfect and we packed up my car and headed to "the desert"......who are they kidding? We are IN the desert!

G was quite the trooper. He stayed in the car the whole time and played or slept while we took turns shooting and hanging out with him. He wasn't really a fan of the ear covers that's for sure! It's a good thing the air conditioner in the car totally muffled the sound. He obviously had a blast!

For the peace lovers out there (Smelly) I put him in a "peace" sign onesie on Sunday to make up for it!

All grown up!

This is what losing a bet looks like!

Photoshoot!

I cant believe this little boy is three months already! I fall more in love with him everyday!

I got a little camera happy, but he took it like champ!

Easters

This year we dedicated our entire weekend to Easter festivities. On friday we colored eggs at our house with my cousins, sisters-in-law and all of our kids. It was a very fun, very busy afternoon. The boys of course got bored and went into the other room and watched Tangled. Needless to say as soon as it got quiet or we heard a noise we weren't quite familiar with all the moms woud run in to see what was going on... most of the time it was a false alarm. It was entertaining for sure!

upfront is supposed to be  'chick egg' and a "dino egg"... not my best :)

After the party, we headed to the Easter pageant at the Mormon Temple. It was amazing. I have never seen so many people in my life! I had never even heard of it before I moved here, but it is obviously a pretty big deal! On saturday we went to my in-laws for a basket search and BBQ. Tanman's brother hid our basket and said it was the hardest. Of course my witty mind found it in a jiffy. So Tanman and I decided to hide his in our spot and pretend like we never found ours. It sure was fun watching him search all over! At one point I started eating some candy from our basket and he caught me! I told him I snuck it out of our nephew's basket! He believed me. It was a little like stealing candy from a baby... (ok bad joke, but I had to)

The Easter bunny was pretty sneaky at our house. On sunday, it took Tanman half an hour to find his basket! The eggs were no walk in the park either. That shifty bunny color coordinated the eggs to all the hiding spots! These were my two favorite spots:

This is just a small part of the "looking" Tanman did. All this mess and it still took almost an hour to find everything in just two rooms!

Baby G loved all the fun so much that he took a four hour nap just to recoup! When he woke up he was ready to play and show off his cute easter outfit.

He is quite handsome if I do say so myself!

For dinner, we headed to my family's house. We had dinner outside on blankets watching the kids play and then we went inside and had an Easter program. It was so nice to end the crazy weekend reflecting on what it all really is about.